It’s important to pay attention to the negative effects, too.

A vegan friend’s gums receded to the point she needed a gum graft.

The problem wasn’t being vegan, of course! The problem was she didn’t pay close enough attention to nutrition. She had to learn more about plant-based substitutes for things she used to get from animal products.

Still a happy vegan a few years later 👍

Those look fantastic.

Next project: homemade mustard!

Edit to add: I bet those would also be delicious on a tomato pie (cheeseless pizza)

Sounds like the case itself may be warped.

It’s going to be hard to fix. You may be able to sand down the area around the fan. Be sure to use fine grit paper, go slowly, and clean off any loose plastic bits afterward.

I’m guessing you already verified that everything’s aligned properly and attached snugly.

It got a bad rap because it wasn’t considered a “real” Final Fantasy. It was made to try to appeal to people who weren’t already fans of turn-based role-playing games.

It’s almost quaint to think about. After all, if anything Final Fantasy has gone further in the direction of Mystic Quest and away from its roots as a turn-based RPG.

Easy answer: because so many people are anti-AI, and so few are pro-AI.

It’s like the old joke:

You know how, when geese fly in a V shape, sometimes one side of the V is longer than the other?

This.

This.

What you want is Selaco.

https://selacogame.com/

Edit: Whoops, I missed the word “free.” I was focusing on “old-school.”

Ceramic is tried and true. It has been around for a long time, it is widely understood.

Yes, you can occasionally get more fines with ceramic than with steel. But ceramic can last a lifetime if you don’t drop it. Ceramic can be washed, so oils don’t accumulate and turn rancid. Ceramic will never heat the beans when you’re grinding. And ceramic will not go over time.

Steel is The New Thing. And it is good. But it has many flaws that get downplayed.

Porlex makes the best ceramic burr hand mills. Full stop.

I’ve tried several, but my Porlex has been my daily driver for years

I’ve looked into stainless steel grinders - but they all say to never get the steel mechanism wet. Which means they can’t regularly get scrubbed with soap and water.

So, folks who responded are conflating BIOS with UEFI. It’s a common mistake - but they are very different things that serve the same purpose.

BIOS is older technology. It usually wasn’t risky unless the board was somehow faulty, but there was always some risk because you were directly reflashing the CMOS.

UEFI is the current technology. If your board is less than 10 years old, you almost definitely have UEFI and not BIOS. It’s stored in NOR flash memory on the motherboard.

UEFI’s nature and design make it much simpler and safer to update. UEFI can be updated automatically within Linux; BIOS requires the board manufacturer’s utility to reprogram the CMOS.

I’m simplifying some of this. But this should help explain the conflicting responses of what gets updated under Linux.

Oh, honey, THAT’S not why they think you’re a loser.

I know right

This.

ham + r

That’s the joke. Those folks have sacrificed everything in their lives and their families, and in exchange they fly through space in a tin can.

The newest stuff is too complicated - because it adds touch screens, cutoff switches, and all kinds of other stuff they interferes with the base operation of the car itself.

If I need to take my eyes off the road to change the radio station? Or if signal interference prevents it from turning on, even when the key fob is right next to the steering column? And don’t even get me started on subscription services for hardware features that are already in the car.

I drive a 32-year-old Honda Accord.

It’s true, they don’t die. However, that doesn’t mean there’s nothing wrong with them!

Last year, mine had a variety of weird issues that had it in and out of the shop. Nothing too expensive on its own. Every fixed thing was one more thing that eventually would have had to get replaced, anyway.

Turns out, it was a bad replacement sensor. The initial diagnosis truly did find the cause of the problem - but the replacement part was faulty! Took us a year to figure that out, haha

So even though the car is nowhere close to dying, there’s still plenty of stuff to work on. Including the body panels.

A hot dog can be, but is not always, a sandwich.

Healthy diet and exercise.