Yeah, I use roasted peanuts and cashews, and they keep fine. Make peanut and cachew butter in two and a half cup batches in the food processor, which comes out to about half that once made into butter.

I don’t know how long it takes to go through, probably a few weeks each. I’ve never had any go bad.

It varies. Sometimes I use salted peanuts, other times plain.

I started with a Logitech Marble Mouse back in the day, thumb-balls were never really my thing.

It’s an Elecom Huge wired model. I’ve owned three, had two fail on me, both to left click double clicking on single touch. First time could have been a fluke and I replaced it, but the second failed inside of four months. I said hell with it, took it apart, desoldered the switch and replaced it with a Kailh GM2.0. Worked like a charm and it’s been fine since.

Ironically, my oldest Huge is still working fine. Apparently they were originally using Japanese Omron microswitches that were quality and seem to last forever (case in point, the oldest trackball is from 2019 and no issues). With the newer ones I bought, they apparently changed to using Chinese Omron switches of poor quality.

Sucks, but I have a few spare Kailhs laying around if any of the other buttons die now.

I feel you. I felt that way doing some soldering for things like fixing my trackball (bad left mouse button replacement) and my microwave (blown thyristor, easy fix).

I’m just not really good with small stuff and delicate parts like ribbon cable and thin wires. My eyes are old (hello presbyopia), and my hands were never the steadiest, even when I was younger.

I’m in awe of people who do this stuff. I’ve wrecked a DS Lite and a DSi XL trying to do reshells, I’m just not delicate or patient enough for the work.

I think people may not realize how easy it is. Or maybe a food processor isn’t a common item in every household. I only bought one last year, prior to that I was making peanut butter with a hand blender and that was a pain.

American here, I just make my own peanut butter in a food processor. The ingredients are: peanuts.

Works for me.

but we’re past the point of it being a big scary virus anymore

Just in the last 28 days, nearly 1000 people died of Covid in the US, and there have been over 7 million deaths from it over the last 6 years. And that’s only the deaths that have been reported. Doesn’t account for people who’s lives were cut short due or other complications in relation to the virus. There’s been way too many sentiments of “many of you will die, but that’s a risk I’m willing to take” around COVID-19.

My spouse and I have high risk conditions. Like, the flu nearly killed U.S. back in 2018, no way I’m risking COVID-19. Even just getting vaccinated gave me a bout of laryngitis and messed up my throat and voice for nearly two years. And my wife had worse side effects to the Moderna vaccine, to the point I was worried about potential hospitalization.

Also, I’m an IT Engineer and literally use my brain to make my living, and I’ve seen a massive drop in logical skills over the years among peers, it’s definitely affected people mentally to varying degrees.

As for social growth, I don’t care about that. I’m in my 40s and long past giving shit what random people who see me think about me. My wife is the one person who matters to me more than anyone, and I’m not putting her or us at risk for social cred.

Just a heads up, the appimage doesn’t work on Steam deck (or didn’t as of 1.0 release). Linux native and Windows version with proton work fine though.

the brain damage is already done too

Oh yeah, that part is clear.

As far as it being like regular flu… well I don’t want that either. It nearly killed my wife and I some years back a bit before the pandemic. We both have high risk conditions.

It’s 2026 and I still wear a mask when I’m out. I don’t know why people act like COVID is gone and somehow long COVID isn’t a thing anymore. It’s still mutating, and endemic now, and there are a ton of health consequences to catching it that may not be immediately obvious, including organ damage.

That makes no sense. HOAs have no say over home interior, only exterior property and maintenance.

I hope your colleague took them to court over this.

Even aside from environmental impacts, palm kernel oil is actually really bad for your cholesterol levels. It’s used as a filler in a lot of foods (many peanut butters, for example).

Honestly, 100 mil or even 50 mil is more than enough for any human to live a carefree life, without the need to work ever again and without any material want or need.

I did the math; I’m in my early 40s and I’m pretty sure I could retire comfortably literally right now with around 2.5 million and just subsist on the interest and or investments on that for the rest of my life.

100 or 50 million would just be utterly excessive for any actual needs and the majority of possible wants.

Me too, that was a Shyamalamaladoobiedoo level twist at the end.

This is utterly disgusting.

will star in the drama As Deep As the Grave.

Though at least the irony isn’t missed.

You let Trump have the entire island, he can move there and all his goons turn it into Epstein Island 2.0

A statement like this makes you sound as sociopathic as Trump. Fuck everything about this. No quarter for pedophiles.

Sadly, it’s real. Direct from Nvidia: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-dlss-5-delivers-ai-powered-breakthrough-in-visual-fidelity-for-games

Yeah. I don’t even want to get into how the writer’s strike killed Heroes and Journeyman way back in 2006-ish.