Sam J Sharpe

@SamJSharpe
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@Edent the instructions are written to minimise the time, so they rush you around doing loads of prep during cooking because that's more efficient and they can then claim it's a "20m meal".

My recommendation is stay signed up until you have a bunch of recipes that you really like, then quit and just buy bulk ingredients for the favourite recipes. That's what we did with Hello Fresh.

@coldclimate hahaha I was thinking of that second one - which would be a totally normal ox tail recipe if not for one little thing
@coldclimate not the weirdest recipe you've ever posted...

Ian Dunt lays out how the Government is side-stepping Parliament to allow them to arrest anyone who they find slightly inconvenient.

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/government-mechanism-sidestep-parliament-altogether-2335840?ito=twitter_share_article-top

The Government is using a chilling mechanism to sidestep Parliament altogether

Very quietly, the Home Office has used a ministerial power to directly overrule parliament. It's a chilling development

inews.co.uk
@major why would you need this? Mine is smoke grey and if you drink coffee right (as black as my heart) you can easily see it through the smoke grey plastic.
@nickstenning 62 minutes for a reboot certainly seems like a Microsoft product 😛
@ScaredyCat @neil I'm in the other camp - I want a thin phone, I want reasonable battery life, I don't care so much for screen resolution or performance. It's a phone, I want it to disappear into the background of my life until I absolutely need to speak to someone and can't do it any other way. I have a Samsung S10e - it's a "normal" S10, but with Samsung's Exynos instead of a Snapdragon CPU so was supposed to be lower powered and longer lasting (and cheaper)

@neil yeah, I think this 2016 MPB is probably the peak of Apple anti-repair asshattery, it's when they were cramming as much as possible in (inc touchbar) and before Right to Repair got critical mass.

I'll be using it plugged in until it dies some other death because it's quad-core 2.9GHz i7 with 16GB RAM and is more than enough for pretty much anything I would be doing.

@neil I hear what you are saying, but I present as rebuttal the 65 step guide I would be following *just to get the battery in* to my laptop https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+15-Inch+Touch+Bar+Late+2016+Battery+Replacement/112876 and contrast it to the "only" 22 step guide to do the same on my phone https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Samsung+Galaxy+S10e+Battery+Replacement/121285
MacBook Pro 15" Touch Bar Late 2016 Battery Replacement

Use this guide to safely remove the glued-in...

iFixit
@neil laptops tend to be plugged in a lot of the time. Not as many full drain cycles on the battery and usually more surface area to average wear over, so those last longer. I have a 3yr old phone and a 7yr old MBP that are both starting to show battery issues but no other problems. Replacing the battery on either is within my competence, but not something I want to spend time doing.