In case anybody was wondering, AFAIK the fastest non-compromised PC ever made was a dual-socket Opteron 63xx system with an Asus KGPE-D16 running Libreboot.

(Some people might quibble about which 63xx CPUs are best, as there’s a clock speed vs. core count tradeoff to be made.)

IMO a PSU that refuses to charge at 5V without a negotiation fails at complying with plain old USB itself, let alone USB-PD.

If you’re trying to be true to the “solarpunk ethos,” do you really think this is the last repair you’ll ever do?

I, for one, have never regretted letting a ‘one time’ project be an excuse to get a new type of tool.

(Just don’t get the disposable UV light another reply mentioned; that really is a bit wasteful. If you decide to go the UV glue route, get an inexpensive but proper standalone UV flashlight.)

In general, my advice would be to just buy what America’s Test Kitchen and/or Alton Brown tell you to buy.

But since you mentioned “abuse by housemates,” you should go for the cheaper Tramontina instead of the All-Clad.

If you have smoke problems cooking burgers inside, your priority should be improving your hood vent, not getting a grill.

Aside from that, I’m inclined to agree with the GP that cooking on natural gas might as well be done inside and that you should get a charcoal/wood-burning offset smoker.

I was thinking of custom-painting it (like Alton Brown did to his mixer) and keeping it.

I know, right?!

It doesn’t run, but I haven’t dug into it yet to figure out what’s actually wrong with it. (First world problems: we’ve already got a Kitchen Aid stand mixer, so getting it working isn’t particularly urgent. This bowl-lift one would be a slight upgrade from our Artisan, though.)

Still, I’m pretty sure these things are a holdover from back when things were designed for repairability instead of planned obsolescence, so I have little doubt that it’s fixable for a lot less than the cost to replace it.

• utility biking
• repairing stuff instead of throwing it out
• using stuff found on the curb that other people threw out (my wife rescued a $500 Kitchen Aid stand mixer the other day – it’s wild what people throw out around here!)
• DIY renovations with careful deconstruction so materials can be reused

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My last pair of lenses cost me 300€.

Ah, see, that’s what I was afraid of: Zenni is stupid cheap; the glasses I’m trying to replace were about $70. Granted, that was more years ago than glasses are supposed to go between prescriptions, but still, I was hoping for approximately an order of magnitude less cost for these DIY-cut lenses.

Hehe sorry, I’m addicted to that shape - not for the style, but because small, round glasses are the type of glasses that sit closest to your face, so you get a huge field of vision with small lenses, and you can rest your head on a pillow without breaking the temples. No other style of glasses gives you that.

I like the idea of pillow-compatible glasses, but I already have a bit of resemblance to Harry Pottery that I’m not exactly looking to enhance. I tend to go for rectangular lenses.

I’m curious about what your costs are in actual dollars, although Trivex isn’t right for me because my R_x is so strong that I need a higher refractive index. I also appreciate that your 3D printed glasses link included a video about how the lens edging machine works.

Do you know of any other 3D printed frames that look… less Harry Potter-y?

I haven’t asked a brick-and-mortar shop yet because I had found out that I couldn’t just buy identical new ones minutes before writing the post. I’ll try that, although I’ll have to do some searching to find an optician around here that isn’t a chain.

How does the process change when they’re rimless glasses (so the only things I need to be concerned about are getting the pupillary distance and axis right, and then drilling a few holes in the correct spots – the edge is just flat-ground instead of a V-bevel and can be whatever arbitrary shape I want)? Surely that reduces the need for a fancy shape-copying machine, right?

Clothing with a UPF rating just means its level of protection has been measured; it doesn’t necessarily imply unrated clothing doesn’t protect also. That is to say, I don’t think sun protective clothing has any high-tech coatings or other special sauce the way waterproof/breathable clothing does.

Just wear something made of synthetic fiber and/or with a dense weave, colored a dark color, and that covers as much skin as possible. And most importantly, a wide-brimmed hat.

Sources:

• https://www.skincancer.org/skin-cancer-prevention/sun-protection/sun-protective-clothing/
• https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/sun-protection.html

I mean, I could’ve gotten a better deal if I’d been shopping around intentionally…

At least the way the auto parts store does it, you get charged the full price of a tool if you fail to return it.

(Source: I accidentally bought a vacuum pump.)

So you’re saying we need to do some selective breeding before they make a commercially-viable crop, got it.

Scientists: <discover new plant related to food crops>

Humanity:

…but seriously though, is it? 😋

But drivers must love having cyclists share the lane with them: obviously, they oppose bike lanes because they can’t bear to be separated from us!

I agree with the sentiment, but friendly reminder: there is no such thing as a “car lane.” There are bus-only lanes and there are bike-only lanes, where cars are not allowed, but the other lanes are “general-purpose lanes” and are not for the exclusive use of cars. Buses and bikes are welcome there too.

It’s an easy slip to make because it’s conveniently short, but “car lane” is car-centric loaded language and we shouldn’t cede that framing of the debate to the car-brains.