beastlykings @ beastlykings @sh.itjust.works

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Thanks! Though I worry this is immediately out of my wheelhouse haha. I may stick to the can, for simplicity sake. We'll see

If you can't find an original adapter, I can confirm this one works. Most of the other ones I had laying around wouldn't work. I had to search for this one. It was only $15 when I got it in January 2025, not sure why it's $25 now

Nice! Care to share your biscuit recipe? I'm not sure I'm ready to give up the can, but it's on my list of things to try

That's fair. The box that held all my wiiu stuff was mysteriously missing the pad charger. I think I used a dock before too? At any rate, I didn't want another charger laying around. I've got four 6 foot USBC cables coming out of a pair of chargers under my couch that I use for everything. It only made sense to change it over 🤷‍♂️

So far it works great. Though I about to not using very often, I've got an actual steam deck, and recently got a better laptop, so I primarily use those 🤷‍♂️

If someone wants to buy it for whatever the going rate of an unmodded wiiu is, I'm game. My ADHD enjoyed the process of modding it, now is back in a box lol

Biscuits and gravy.

My friends and I try to get together once every year in a big Airbnb, where we basically just hang out all weekend or a most of a week if we can. We all take turns cooking meals for everyone. Only breakfast and dinner, lunch is a free for all. I always get breakfast for day one. It's always biscuits and gravy.

The biscuits come from a can, they were put there by a man, in a factory downtown.

But the gravy is homemade. Use a giant pot, put a few pounds of spicy ground sausage in the bottom and brown it up. Leave the grease in, lower the heat, add an amount of flour and stir it in for a few minutes to cook it and make a sort of roux. Then slowly add almost a gallon of whole milk, depending on how much sausage and therefore flour you used.

Stir it very often, gently scrape the bottom, but not aggressively, because you likely burned a little flour on there during the roux phase, too much meat to handle, I haven't solved this yet. But it'll be ok.

Once it's good and hot, almost simmering, kill the heat, let it cool a minute or two, then serve on the biscuits. The consistency should be somewhat thick, like, well, thick gravy. Not watery. When it gets cold in the fridge, you can scoop it out and it holds its shape.

It's so unhealthy, but people love it. It makes a great breakfast for 10-15 people. Sometimes I'll do a big pan of eggs simultaneously to go with it. There's always leftovers of the gravy, but it goes on anything and reheats easily, so it gets eaten over the next few days when random people are randomly hungry. It never gets thrown out.

I've tried offering to make other dishes, do dinner instead, or do a different breakfast food. But everyone always begs for the biscuits and gravy. So I oblige.

We do usually end up with a second meal, depending on how many people can make it, so I'll help my wife with whatever she decides to make for dinner.

Hey neat! I did the same thing a few months ago! Not sure how to link things on here.

Did you also swap the charger for USB C?

Edit: This is the streaming post. And this is the USB C mod.

I'm constantly trying to touch the screen on my work provided laptop, and my FW13. I spent a long time with a fancy Chromebook for my couch computing needs, when away from the desktop.

Another vote here for framework 13. Love mine.

I've had mine about 4 months, minimal issues. I got a 7840U slightly on sale when the new AI 300 series came out.

I'm also running fedora 42, but it's Bluefin, based on silverblue. Everything works out of the box.

My biggest complaint is the sleep battery drain, iirc it's something like a few percent per hour, so I just get in the habit of turning it completely off if I'm not home with it plugged in. Otherwise it's dead when I need it, which sucks.

Also the fan can be a little loud and overzealous under barely moderate load, though I've found keeping it in power saving mode helps keep things cooler. Though I've been using it for note taking during some schooling this week, and it's been stone cold and silent, lasts all day on a single charge. So it definitely depends on your load. I appreciate having the power available when I need it, but wish it was better at keeping itself underclocked (or whatever it needs to do).

And finally the stock Wi-Fi 6 card in it gives some people problems with certain routers. Though I've only ever had problems with my parents starlink router 🤷‍♂️ That's a quick $20 upgrade though, to Wi-Fi 7, I just haven't needed to 🤷‍♂️

But still I'd buy another in a heartbeat.

Keyboard is great. Screen (2.8k) looks great to my eyes, though others say it has issues. No flex in the body. Touchpad is a little funky, but still great.

Plus when I want to upgrade the platform in a few years, or any component breaks before then, I can just fix it or upgrade it.

Highly recommend.

I definitely used the wrong setup. Or at least, it wasn't easy, because I used a simple little butane stove like the brs 3000.

It's got such a hot spot, I had to keep the pan moving in a constant circle the whole time. The other guys around me said it looked like too much work lol. But I didn't want to carry any extra weight for a nicer stove.

I'm not a gram weenie, but I do believe ounces add to pound, so I keep it light where I reasonably can.

Speaking of which, are you planning on cooking with an electric stove? My back hurts already lol. Sorry, just kidding, but I am curious

You're not entirely wrong, but the ground in the panel is better for lightning strikes, and surprisingly bad at sinking actual current meant for the neutral return to the transformer.

That's part of what makes a loose neutral such a fire hazard.

Yes, it's likely safe, and I'd probably put my hand on it without much thought, same with working in a hot panel, the neutral/ground bus is probably fine.

But this is the Internet, if you start making blanket statements about things being safe, you're gonna have a bad time. And some person who doesn't know any better, might have a worse time.

Better to at least acknowledge that there are still dangers, however small.

Even though it's neutral, and very close to ground potential... Depending on how much current is flowing through the other two wires, the voltage on the neutral will be varying amounts of non zero. Probably not enough to kill you, but maybe enough to feel bad, under the right circumstances.

That's why, even though the neutral and the ground are bonded together in the breaker panel, you still need to run a separate wire to your outlet to ground your appliances. Electricity doesn't take the easiest path, it takes all paths simultaneously, relative to their resistance, favoring the easiest. Don't make yourself a path 🤷‍♂️

Still nothing to be afraid of, you shouldn't be messing with it anyway. Just steer clear and you'll be fine.

Note: I'm not an electrician.

I was thinking this might be the case, but didn't want to do the math. Thank you.

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(Real experiences)

Autobiographical raps

Things that happened to us, all true

Bring the rhyme

That's better I suppose 🤔

Wait, for real?

I've thought about doing this. In fact, if I ever own or build a house, I'll be adding 240v plugs for exactly this reason. Something like a nema 6-15 or 6-20, with a GFCI breaker in the box to make it (presumably) legal.

Same here, happened when I was young. Thankfully I wasn't holding it in my hand, it was on the counter. I didn't get burned

Jokes aside, you can microwave small smooth metal vessels. Like mixing bowls and such.

Do so at your own risk, if it doesn't specify that it's microwave safe.

But you can buy ones that specifically say they are microwave safe. It just means they're extra smooth, nowhere for charges to accumulate or concentrate. Might have something to do with it's size too, not being resonant at 2.4ghz, but don't quote me on that part.

Useful if you don't want to take leftovers out of the plastic container first, and if you've had glass explode on you before.

I'm on silverblue, well, bluefin, specifically.

So far so happy 🤷‍♂️

Oh man, I think I get points.

Edit: I win!