Something that existed until the beginning of 2025.

How do I check when the last power outage was if it’s connected to a UPS?

Presbyopia is aging related farsightedness, where your eye becomes too stiff for near focus. Happens to essentially everyone as they age. It’s why you see old people who use reading glasses, even if they don’t otherwise need glasses.

Generally starts in your mid-to-late 40s, but it started becoming an issue for me around late 40, and by the time I was 42 I couldn’t ignore it anymore. I noticed I kept having to take off my glasses to read small print or see things up close, with my standard lenses I couldn’t focus on anything within 20 or so inches in front of my face.

New glasses have been a pain for me in recent years. With my astigmatism and myopia, I get chromatic aberration with high index lenses so have to pay more for Trivex.

And more recently I’ve developed presbyopia in my 40s, and full range progressives didn’t work for me at all, even with the fanciest widest view (aka - expensive) lenses. So now I juggle two pairs of glasses, a pair of single vision lenses and a pair of office lenses for just reading and computer distance.

Of course insurance only covers one pair, and partially at that, so when I need new glasses, that’s like… $750 - $800 now in total.

Heresy! The Emperor Protects!

Damned Cornites.

Are you actually repeating Trump talking points while also being angry about it?

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/09/711446917/fact-check-trump-wrongly-states-obama-administration-had-child-separation-policy

There was nothing euphemistic about my previous comment. I linked details on Obama’s record on immigration policy. He didn’t all keep his promises on immigration and his track record on it was mediocre and with a high number of deportations. That’s not the same thing as having kids in cages (again, that was Trump term 1), or anything like the atrocities we’re seeing today from ICE’s thugs.

Please, source your statements if you’re going to be this wrongly argumentative about it. Otherwise this isn’t a discussion worth continuing.

then Obama did those things AND put kids in cages

Hate to break it to you, but that was Trump.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44518942.amp

While Obama’s legacy on immigration was mixed and not exactly great, his administration did make a point to keep families together and not isolate children from their relatives.

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/president-obamas-legacy-immigration/

You and I must have lived through a very different Obama era.

The fact that we see so many people having regret is a good thing. I’d rather have people that realized they fucked up then people that are doubling down and defending everything Trump is doing.

And that’s why it’s not funny, but the suffering has to continue. The person in this article and many who support Trump will not see reality for what it is until it hits home and affects them dramatically.

It sucks, but there’s a lack of empathy in this cohort that means they’ll never understand the consequences of what they’ve done unless they’re directly impacted by it, and only for a prolonged enough duration for it to sink in and become a long term pattern instead of a “one-off” experience.

If you want to help, donate to your local food bank. Nobody can save these people from themselves, but you can at least ensure that they don’t starve long enough to maybe turn things around.

Dude, Dollar Tree was awesome back in the day. In the early 2010s I got a complete set of dishware there, plates and bowls for $1 each, and the reason they were there was that the ceramic glaze wasn’t “perfect.” I couldn’t tell, I just had some cool looking plates and bowls that lasted me nearly a decade before they finally got scratched and scuffed up enough to bother replacing. Money well spent.

You could get actual glass mugs for a dollar. Bars of Jergens soap for sensitive skin were like $0.70 a bar. All kinds of actually decent kitchenware and housewares stuff for dirt cheap. Was an absolute life saver at the time.

I just need Jellyfin to fix their subtitles issues on Apple TV and I’ll be all set. Swiftfin needs some work yet, though I’m told the fix is in the pipeline for release soon^™ (probably by Q1 next year?).

Non stick make food go hot but food no stick. Doesn’t last very long but it’s very easy to clean. If you really love eggs they’re a necessity.

Hard disagree. Eggs are the first thing I ever learned to cook, and I can make them consistently how I like them, every time… or I could, until I started using non-stick pans. For a few years I struggled to make a proper egg and couldn’t figure out why. Switched back to stainless steel pans, perfect eggs every time.

I really, really don’t like teflon/PFAS/whatever non-stick pans. Just plain steel or cast iron for me. The consistency matters, and I just can’t get that from non-stick coated pans.

Non-stick is terrible for anything that needs real frying, because the non-stick coating breaks down at high temperatures (generally manufacturer recommendations are to keep the pan under 400f / 204c. I’ve had the coating start browning and changing at lower temperatures than that.

I have cast iron pans, but I can’t be bothered to maintain them so they mostly sit in the cabinet. I need to sand and re-coat mine currently, as they’ve got some rust spots, and I don’t really use them.

I swear by steel pans. They work great on any stove type (gas, electric, induction, doesn’t matter), have enough heft but are lighter than cast iron, and they can handle high heat and even be baked so long as the handle is also steel. The trick to stainless is making sure it’s hot enough for water to dance on, and nothing will stick. I tend to use a bit of oil and then a bit of butter when cooking in them and they’re practically non-stick that way anyway, just give it a rinse and wash while it’s still hot and everything comes right off.

Plus, there are some foods you actually want to stick a bit sometimes, like when you’re searing meats and later using the glaze from the pan for a sauce.

If you’re using steel and accidentally leave it and stuff is stuck to it, no need to panic, just put some water in the pan, heat it up (preferably with a lid on), and once it’s hot, everything should come off easily.

Edit - one trick to cooking with a stainless steel pan that I’ve found specifically when cooking with oil (olive oil generally) - When the oil becomes thin and moves around the pan easily you’re generally good, but if you leave it sit on medium heat until the oil makes a sort of sine wave pattern where the edges of the pan start to curve up, you’re set, nothing will stick.

Deadpool lives here.

Sorry, not 14-17 years old and my parents are still alive. I’m obviously not a JRPG protagonist.

Nice try FBI.

It’s often an upstream issue, and I’m not keen on people who suggest men in middle age (40s, 50s) should automatically jump to supplementing testosterone. I had low T for a while and it turned out it was due to a vitamin B deficiency (I’m a T2 Diabetic and my medication basically leeches vitamin B from my body, as well as blocking absorption). Started supplementing vitamin B and eating more foods with vitamin B and the next two tests over several months went from low, to the lower end of “normal” range, and seemed to be steadily increasing back to normal.

Here you go man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L08vWPkMftQ

I watched that some time back when I was rehabbing with bands, and it’s got a ton of resistance band exercises you can do for a full body workout. Find the motions that work for you and go for it.

Consider kettlebells as well going forward. I’m in my mid-forties now, and I lifted weights a lot between 30 and 40 to the exclusion of a lot of other options, and found over time the injuries and joint pain rack up. Over the last few years I’ve leaned into more cardio and kettlebell work for explosive movements and keeping a lot of that natural motion and mobility compared to static lifting. Heck, I even got back into playing Dance Dance Revolution (via ITGMania on PC and a cheap dance mat). It’s a lot of fun, and somehow, my knees haven’t murdered me in my sleep yet. 😂

Grim Dawn was an excellent and finished game on release, and said DLCs came out years later via DLCs that acted as expansions to the campaign.

Last Epoch doesn’t even have a complete story, just some unfinished tripe with no real lore and oh here’s a bunch of alternate versions of how the unfinished thing you encountered could have happened differently.

They’re not even in the same class. It’s why I have 440 hours on Grim Dawn and would play it more still. I dropped LE at 170 hours and don’t really see any reason to play more. Hell, Last Epoch had a cash shop before the game even left Early Access. It feels like the development and costs were mismanaged out of the gate. I waited to buy it on discount.

Stargate Atlantis was bad enough.

How dare you. Atlantis was great.