Oh God. This is horrible news. So incredibly frustrating to hear.

I usually go with hayberry fields.

Phillips warm glow are my favorites after watching technology connections. They last, and they look just like incandescent bulbs as you dim them.

Edit: https://youtu.be/tbvVnOxb1AI?si=ULB3yXe-UomBjMTN

Call me a hippie all you want, but I usually go back to Pink Floyd lyrics when I get confused which one to use.

“Straw you, out there in the cold…” Just doesn’t sound right.

I’ve heard good things about Tuxedo . No idea if they’re available in Switzerland.

I’m honestly looking for something with a bit more vram than either of these companies offer. I’m 99% new to Linux, I want to play games on my laptop, but I’m dead set on not getting tied down by Win 11.

Me neither. They dry themselves by the time they need clothes.

Optics.

Sooner or later someone will commit suicide while watching your show, no matter what you do. If that episode happens to contain a suicide scene, and somebody rightly or wrongly connects the dots, you want the disclaimer to be there.

2 alarms, one on the iPad, one on the phone. Full volume, spaced 10 minutes apart.

Edit: these go off almost 2 hours before I have to leave, and I’m asleep 7-8 hours before they go off. My biggest difficulty in waking up on time is not going to bed with enough time to fall asleep for 8 hours.

I have a hard-stop alarm, set 9 hours before I have to wake up, to remind myself to get ready for bed. A full sleep cycle (including morning routine) is an 11-hour time investment for me.

Certainly. Germany is an extreme example.

I’m from California, been on various trips around Spain, and France, with under a week spent in both Italy and Switzerland.

I love everywhere I’ve been. I’d be happy to live somewhere in western Europe.

I don’t know if European healthcare is better, but it’s far more civilized in its availability. I haven’t seen much difference between EU and USA for equivalent-quality grocery prices, with the exception of Zurich. I’ve found Europe to be generally safe. There seems to be more “sneaky” crime, whereas the States has more confrontational crime.

Freeway etiquette is far better in France and Spain than California. Trains, of course, are better too.

One major difference is labor laws. The EU has far more protection, but far less mobility. I remember telling a German friend that I had gotten a new job operating a fairly large power system, after working in a tangentially related field, without any additional study or licenses, and his response was “Only in America!” I hadn’t even considered that this move would be far more difficult in other countries.

You think that’s hard?

Last year my dentist/denturist asked my what I wanted my teeth to look like!

It was unreal, trying to develop an aesthetic preference for teeth. It was actually quite eye-opening. I did find that I had a very strong opinion about it. I haven’t quite gotten to the end product, but I now know what I want.

I recommend photos, but also to be careful in explaining what you like about the photo. It’s easy to latch on to one aspect of a style, not realizing that an attempt to reproduce other aspects might end up completely ignoring what drew you to it in the first place.

It just occurred to me how similar AI images are to dreams, always related to the prompt, but never quite how a conscious brain would imagine it. All the weird, illegible text, the grotesque bodies, etc. really do match up fairly well with unconsciousness.

I’ll have to check the eggs next time. Pasture raised eggs can be pretty damn expensive in the supermarket. I don’t think our farmers market could possibly be double that, but you never know.

I usually only buy fruit, veg, and sometimes cheese and beef. It’s more expensive, but not 5X or even 2X, though it might be close.

I don’t know where you live, and haven’t taken advantage of it, but farmers markets sometimes have eggs that are likely closer to what you’re missing.

Hmm.

Never really looked into it before.

Now I downloaded it.

Google’s strategy seems to have backfired, in my case.

Honestly, how to evaluate stocks for my first individual share purchases. I’ve only ever had more-or-less passive funds investments.

It’s all a bit overwhelming.

I’ve always taken life as it came, never had a goal like being a (professional?) pianist. I’m not entirely sure what that means in this day, either.

Even if you stick with regular work, make sure you keep a list of everything you could theoretically call yourself proficient at doing. These skills can often be rallied into promotions and career changes later on, if you need to move or advance.

I’ve sold a lot of pianos from my time in estate liquidation and I do know that the inconvenience of moving them means that used pianos are often sold for essentially nothing. There just isn’t an active market for anything but the absolute best instruments. If you need an inexpensive piano, they’re out there. The best strategy is to have a piano mover on your phone. If you show up to someone’s house and tell them you can have it out on Tuesday, they’re often going to be happy to see it go.

Any decent person would trash it afterwards.

Especially those at work who can’t install their own software.

Along with the obvious physical maturation, his clothes are cut much better. Those billowing shorts in the first picture make him look undersized.