southsamurai

Kinda depends on what features in sync made you like it.

Overall, boost, connect, thunder and summit each get close to parity, but only close. But, you could say that in reverse, (that sync only gets close to parity with any of them) it isn’t a slight against any of them.

Eternity is another one that I’ve had good use of, but development on that seems to be stopped as well, so I dunno if that’s a useful option.

Past those, you get less similarity in ux and ui than would make sense to compare. Like, the apps that mimic voyager (or whatever the popular iOS reddit app was called), things are laid out so different that if you used sync as a primary, you aren’t likely to enjoy that ui.

On a phone, I kinda favor connect over sync, despite it looking very unlike it compared to boost or eternity. But on a tablet, nothing else does double columns in portrait worth a damn for me, and aren’t great in landscape either. But boost and eternity come the closest to the visual ease sync has.

that’s sync

I was going to include screen shots of the ones I have on this tablet, but uploads shit the bed and are being weird after that one. So no promises that I can do them all

boost

eternity

connect

and interstellar since it does piefed better than anything else I’ve tried, and still does lemmy just fine.

Decided to install thunder and summit long enough to give a visual

thunder

annnd summit

As you can tell, everyone has a slightly different approach to the UI. But they’re even more variable in what settings are available, little niceties, etc. Theming is all over the place from a bare bones light/dark/oled to the relative broad visual options of boost and sync. None of them are bad at all. They’re reliable, work even on older devices without bogging them down, and are all easy enough to get going with.

One problem

Batteries.

I’ve used old devices as many things: security cameras, a form of intercom, digital picture frames, etc. The real problem is that the batteries eventually go bad, and become dangerous.

For the few devices that have realistically replaceable batteries, that’s no big deal, but how many of those are left now?

No thanks to the potential fire, I’ll pass. The few devices I have left that I can swap batteries out are becoming harder to find new batteries for as well, so that’s an issue beyond their anemic hardware (I’m talking really old tablets at this point)

That seems OP as hell

I may be crazy, but yeah. I think things will eventually swing back to people not being giant shit bags about things that aren’t their business.

The problem is when, and how much struggle between. I don’t think it’ll be long on the scale of things because once awareness hits a given threshold where the abstract becomes personalized, humanized, it’s a lot harder for hate to keep going.

I’m fairly confident that the us and most of Europe had hit that threshold. That should be enough to keep things from regressing totally, which means an eventual resurgence of acceptance and integration into societal mores.

Not that there is ever likely to be an absence of bigotry, and there won’t ever be an absence of ignorance, much less outright “sociopathy” where people actively seek a target they can hate and abuse.

Social progress is rarely linear. There’s fits and starts until things start chugging forward steadily. It was like that with pretty much every rights movement I know of, so I don’t see why trans rights should be an exception.

As I’ve been discovering what I strongly suspect is adhd within my own brain (undiagnosed, and likely will never pursue such), I think my analogy is that my cpu is over clocked and running hot. Plenty of ram usually, and the storage is plentiful but in need of a defragging; but that CPU is always churning, even when there’s no tasks assigned to it.

I’m also discovering that what I thought the H in adhd meant isn’t what it really means in practice. I always thought of it is translating to a physical expression, but it doesn’t, at least not for me. It’s pretty much exclusively internal for me.

I wish I could pretend to get them perfect every time, but I kinda cap out at 7/10. I’ve gotten to the point where the edges are always great, but nailing the centers isn’t as reliable.

My omelette game is amazing though! Been working on that since I was a kid. Don’t ask about the poached eggs though lol.

This recipe is pretty close to the one I use; I haven’t gotten around to digitizing some of my older recipes out of laziness.

One of the biggest factors in getting the centers crispy is the thickness factor though. After I’ve got them cut, I take a cocktail or highball glass, dip the bottom into sugar and gently flatten them a little more. Not enough the edges split, but just before they would.

If the flour is running a little more moist, I’ll decrease the amount of egg a touch by separating the yolk and decreasing it by half-ish. It’s one of those things that’s by feel though, I’ve yet to figure out a way to turn it into a precise measure because it’s all about his the flour feels before and during mixing. The difference is minor, but it seems to be the limiting factor in making sure the centers are crispy rather than crunchy or chewy.

Tbh, if I can’t get them right, I’d rather have chewy than that half-ass crumbly texture too.

Sugar cookies need to be crisp, crystalline, not crumbly. The problem is that it’s all about getting that sugar/fat ratio perfect with the flour, and that’s hard to pull off since flour hydration varies based on environmental factors.

They’re one of those super basic kind of baked good that is so hard to really nail that it could be a test. It’s like omelettes; you have to really have your techniques and knowledge nailed down tight to make them great, and they’re easy to screw up.

But damn, when they do come out perfect, and they almost dissolve on the tongue leaving behind that buttery goodness, it’s a bit of magic. Not my favorite cookies by a mile, but still.

No worries :)

As a side note, serious eats did a whole test run of options for cookies. Don’t have the link handy, but they went through various factors like type of sweetener, leavening, etc and showed what changes each makes. It’s possible to tweak any given recipe to adjust for desired results once you get that internalized.

All I know is that the doctor is going to be pissed you painted his phone box

Yeah, it can be done with any recipe usually. It does benefit when you start with more complex flavors to begin with, but even the most basic tollhouse recipe gets changed over time just by chilling.

Basically, it lets the flour fully hydrate, and the enzymes present break down sugars. You end up with layers of flavor as you eat each cookie.

There is an upper limit to how long a given recipe can go, but the “48 hour” label kinda dials in the sweet spot for most.

The absolute best cookie recipe I’ve seen that makes the best use of the method is Any version of Levain style cookies. That particular recipe is real forgiving, and they actually give a little info on what’s going on. I’ve had them stay in the fridge for a week a couple of times, and be just as good as on day 2 or 3. IIRC, they specify overnight for the rest period, but unless you’re getting started at dawn of the first day, you’ll want to give them at least 36 hours in the fridge.

The exception is recipes meant to be thin and crispy. They don’t benefit at all, and you end up losing some crispness by trying.

I’ve done pretty much every standard cookie type with the long rest, and with the possible exception of snickerdoodles, you’ll see some difference in outcome that most people enjoy. Peanut butter cookies do great with it. So do the reddit-famous murder cookies. Chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, I find I really notice more enjoyable flavors. Sugar cookies, and butter cookies, I’m on the fence with because you get a bit more chew, so the shift in complexity is kind of a side grade.

Mostly meh, but those long time cookies are amazing.

Just letting regular recipes sit in the fridge a few hours is a big shift in texture and taste that are beneficial to most palates. Obviously, preferences vary and there’s no single “best” anything food wise, but you can get significant changes in intensity and depth of flavor with the long recipes

That was fucking brilliant!

Legit, a master class in short story effectiveness.

I just wish Wheaton had gotten better scripts to work with.

He put in the work, and turned in reliable performances across the years of the show, but an actor can only do so much. Wesley was so spottily written that nobody could have made the character entirely likable to the fan base as a whole.

Turtle vagina

Legit, I’m going to positive vent, so anyone not okay with that, please do scroll on past.

I’m not diagnosed, and likely never will be because it would be another hoop to jump through when disability already does plenty. But the last couple of years make it pretty damn obvious to me that I’m in the add category to some degree or another. It explains too many things.

So, this meme really hits home for me. A lot of shit that made life hard for me is on that image.

Despite that, the last week I have somehow managed to get my insomniac, beaten and battered ass up at the ass crack of dawn, go out into the world and handle shit that took hours for each task.

Now, I had put those tasks off for a while, though one of them was not my fault in full as far as how long it got put off; it was a DMV trip, and I put it off so long because I was checking every bloody day in the hope an appointment would open up and I wouldn’t have to be in line for five hours.

So, obviously, I ended up in line for five hours. An hour and a half of that was on my feet, with my back in spasm, but unable to take pain meds or muscle relaxers because I’m not fool enough to pop pills in line at the DMV

But i didn’t leave! I didn’t put it off again.

But, most important is that not only did I manage to get myself up as early as it was, but I didn’t even find reasons to delay leaving. When you’re fucking with anxieties, add, agoraphobia (particularly when dealing with crowds of people), and chronic pain, that’s a fucking victory in my book.

I didn’t even punch anybody! Which, that may not seem like a big deal, but you didn’t have someone cut in line in front of you while you were bent over gagging and trying not to vomit from pain. I can get a wee bit irrational in extremis, so not doing anything at all was a victory in my book.

Plus, it’s the DMV right? Staff are stressed, people in line are stressed. That’s just how it is. People weren’t being nasty to each other. Nobody pulled any entitled bullshit, and there were a couple of people that we all passed up the line so they could get done faster because they were worse off than anyone else there for a three hour wait after the almost two hour wait just to get inside.

Everyone was cracking jokes, being supportive as hell, just generally being kind to each other. Yeah, there were grumbles too, but those grumbles were about the staff needing more help, better funding to help improve both staff and customer conditions, that kind of thing. Nobody said a snide word to or about the staff at all!

So, I’m in pain this entire time, dripping with sweat from southern summer heat and the pain/stress. But my fellow human beings made it bearable. Me and this one lady were chatting about nothing important just to be humans to each other, and that was happening all around.

After a while, everyone that would get to go in the back to handle what they were there for would get a cheer, and that folks leaving got applause. Yeah, it was mostly for the humor of it, but there were people smiling in the DMV because of it.

My number gets called, and I break into the chorus of “we are the champions” as I hobble up to the door. Got a good laugh too. On my way out of the building, I thanked the group for being awesome and then hobbled my way to my car as fast as possible. Which isn’t very fast, but still.

So, what was going to be a nightmare experience ended up being bad on a physical level for sure, but I’ll be damned if it wasn’t a positive mental health day in spite of that, largely because people remembered to treat each other well.

Which takes several tangents away from add/adhd, but the fact that I managed to beat that into submission twice in a week is a minor miracle

Well, in terms of relative commonness, it’s on the rarish side as a percentage. Under 10% of hrt recipients reported something akin to a period.

Since there’s people that home brew their regimen and therefore don’t necessarily get tracked, the number can’t be really precise.

Thing is, it tends to show up more similar to premenstrual issues than those that arise during menstruation. But exclusively so, but that’s where the symptoms tend to point. The difference between those two phases aren’t exactly massive though.

It’s fairly difficult to find good studies that aren’t paywalled and/or can be snagged in other ways, and those that I’ve seen didn’t really do a good job of things imo.

That being said, breast tenderness and intestinal/digestive issues seem to be the most common body perceived issues, as in things you feel physically. Mood instability is the biggest mental presentation. However, three are trans women that report an increase in dysphoria during their cycle, so be aware of it as a possibility.

There are people that report symptom that shouldn’t be present as they’re directly related to the presence of a uterus, predominantly cramping that isn’t intestinal in the subjective perception or effects. There’s no full consensus if there’s an anatomical reason for it, or if it’s psychogenic, but it does happen.

Having just freshly scanned for any updated info, I’d say that it’s within the realm of possibility for you to have effects occur, particularly within the first year or so. There’s enough data out there that it can’t be dismissed as some infinitesimal occurrence, but it also isn’t anywhere close to a majority having perceptible effects.

Fuck me running (because I do that all the damn time)

Oh hell yes! That’s what I’m talking about!

Well, I can’t say I’ve ever thought about it before. Which is kinda weird considering how huge the movies were when I was a kid and how much I loved them. I always kinda thought of them as a set; I wouldn’t have thought about picking one, it’s the synergy that made it work.

I guess I gotta go with either Obi Wan or Han though, with Leia being a close third.

Obi Wan because he was the introduction to what Jedi are supposed to be, and anyone else that came after in the movies had to live up to that because Alec Guinness’ performance was so tight. He’s still what I think of when the word Jedi pops up. “These are not the droids you’re looking for”, with a bare minimum of movement and the confidence.

Han shot first. And that’s why he’s a candidate for favorite. He’s a guy that can read what’s going on and not hesitate to trust himself. He doesn’t pretend to be perfect, but he’s got swagger and style. Then he lives up to his own hype.

Leia is not because of the picks obvious reason young men loved seeing her on a leash. Ngl, that scene was… formative. But the reason the scene happened in the first place, story wise, that’s why she’s awesome. She chain chokes a giant alien at least three times her mass while barely clothed, and she got there on purpose. She’s no delicate flower of a princess, she’s a warrior princess, a She-ra or Xena.

Look, all I know is that if it has an ussy, I’m going to stick my dick in it