Pure conjure: stich it, but leave the stitches extremely loose until you turn it right side out.

That was absolutely the case until very recently. Qualcomm bought Nuvia, a start-up that was stacked with former Apple engineers, a few years ago. These processors are just now coming to market. Laptops with these processors are benchmarking around MacBook levels (slightly behind single core, slightly ahead in multi core).

It’s very hard to argue against Apple hardware and battery life. Maybe with windows moving slowly toward ARM they’ll catch up some. It’s going to be very tough though - Apple has full control over their hardware, which meat they can optimize their OS for it.

I really hope the snapdragon x laptops gain some traction. I recently went laptop shopping and what I wanted (good to great display, stays cold, good battery life) line up really well with a MacBook/MB air. I just couldn’t stomach the stupid mark-ups for memory and storage. I wound up with a Lenovo 7x slim. Upgrading to 32 GB memory and 1 TB storage was around $115. The non-emulated performance on windows is solid. Emulated is generally ok for my usage. I’m probably going to try Linux on it when I have a light week, but I’m somewhat wary of the impact that will have on battery life.

My electric chainsaws and weed whacker always start. Eventually our lawn tractor will kick the bucket and I’ll either convert it to electric or buy one.

Depending where you live, it can be really hard to find ethonal free gas. As an added bonus, carburators hate having ethonal sit in them. They’ll develop a varnish. Carbs also don’t like sitting partially dry and getting all the fuel out of them is a massive pain. Yay lawn equipment.

Both. Ethonal is still corrosive and the majority of fuel systems these days are compatible with E15. That said, check your owners manual.

Subscribed to the second and link. I like to lurk/sort by subscribed and new and will try to comment when I have something to contribute. Niche communities are hard to form without a decent user base, but a general recommends community seems like a great idea.

This isn’t about imperial vs metric, it’s about measuring by mass vs volume. A good example here is flour. Weighing out 30 grams (or about 1 ounce) of flour will always result in the same amount. On the other hand, you can densely pack flour into a 1/4 cup measuring cup, you can gingerly spoon it in little by little, or you can scoop and level. When you do this you’ll get three different amounts of flour, even though they all fill that 1/4 cup. Good luck consistently measuring from scoop to scoop even if you use the same method for each scoop.

Cheers, thanks. Very nice work!

Ugly link due to being mobile, but you should cross post to: https://lemmy.ca/c/woodworking

I dug through your post history to see if I could unearth clues regarding your process. No dice, but I recognize the vast majority of your posts and have commented on a few of them over the past 6 months or so. I didn’t realize they all came from the same person, impressive!

I still have my original question (how did you go about forging this), but now I have another one: what do you do for a living? It’s obvious that you enjoy working across a variety of media and your level of competence suggests that you’ve been doing this type of thing for a while. I am a… very low output hobbiest maker. It’s nice to see what others are able to accomplish with more time input, but it’s never been clear to me just how large (or not) that time input was.

Here’s a list. Note that there’s a decent amount of fragmentation due to multiple communities filling the same niche in different instances, as well as sub communities (see: functional printing and fix my print vs 3D Printing and birding and travel photography vs photography)

• !woodworking@lemmy.ca (2.02k subscribed, 70 users/month)
• !luthier@lemmy.world (174 subscribed, 2 users/month)
• !3dprinting@lemmy.world (I made a lot of my own designs and post some there) (13k.7 subscribed, 338 users/month)
• !3dprinting@lemmy.ml (842 subscribed, 44 users/month)
• !functionalprint@kbin.social (1k subscribed, 10 users/month)
• !vorondesign@lemmy.world (make your own 3D printer and modify it to there and back (271 subscribed, 2 users/month)
• !diyaudio@sh.itjust.works (65 subscribed, 1 user/month)

Not so much “I made”, but related:

• !gardening@lemmy.world (2.27k subscribed, 14 users/month)
• !photography@lemmy.world (3.81k subscribed, 49 users/month)
• !photography@lemmy.ml (925 subscribed, 32 users/month)
• !birding@lemmy.world (2.81k subscribed, 94 users/month)
• !travelphotography@lemmy.world (1.68k, 2 users/month)
• !sonyalpha@lemmy.world (145 subscribed, 1 user/month)

How about you? Always looking for communities for things I’m interested in. My default sort is subscribed + new.

That’s fair. I have reasonably mainstream hobbies when it comes to making things, so most of them have a dedicated community. Not all those communities are very active though. I try to nurture some of them with content and am personally not a big fan of posting the same content in multiple spots. Maybe I should give up on some of the smaller communities for now.

I agree with you completely. That said, part of the thing this community will struggle with is that there are “primary” communities for most of the things people make (woodworking, leather making, luther, 3D printing, quilting, etc). It’s kind of nice to have a community that looks across other communities, but what should be posted here? Is this a best-of things people made or is this a repost repository? I’m not sure what a good answer is.

Samsung phones are largely assembled in Vietnam. It looks like they’re one of the few phone companies not relying on China though.

Haha, I was trying to post a summary vs rehashing one of the million recipes you can find on the Internet. Let me try restating them a bit more explicitly:

1. Start softening your desire amount of butter in the bottom of the stand mixer. If you don’t have a stand mixer, put the butter in the bottom of a large bowl. Set aside
2. Optional: add minced rosemary and/or roasted garlic and such to the bowl
3. Add cold water to the pot you’re going to boil your potatoes in. Large pot = good. Add salt to this water if desired
4. Get a cutting board, a potato peeler (optional), and a knife. Chef knife = good
5. Peel potatoes with a knife or a potato peeler. The only exception I make for this is for red potatoes, but even then I peel half
6. Dice the peeled potatoes using the knife and cutting board. Add to the pot from step #2
7. Put pot on stove and bring to a boil using high heat
8. Boil the potatoes until they cleve cleanly with a fork. You’re not going for mush/butter soft, but you also don’t want a crunch as you slice them
9. Drain the potatoes and dump them in the bowl from step 1. Let rest a few minutes to soften the butter.
10. Mash some to make sure the butter is melted
11. Add milk as necessary and mash. Don’t overdo the mashing!

It looks like I’m the odd person out: I cut my potatoes before boiling and use a KitchenAid stand mixer for the mashing. My mashed taters are usually soft/fluffy/yummy.

For mashing, less is more. If you know this going in, there’s no harm to using a stand mixer.

Put your desire amount of butter in the bottom of the stand mixer. Peel, slice and add to cold water. Salt if desired. Boil until they cleve cleanly with a fork. Drain, dump on butter, let rest a few minutes to soften the butter. Mix and add milk as necessary. A little minced rosemary with the potatoes when they go into the stand mixer is 👌

Nice work, I like the texture and the overall vibe this throws off. It’s very pleasant.

We have a similar vintage 55" Toshiba TV. It would be nice to upgrade, but it’s hard to argue with something that’s worked so reliably. It’s also nice to have a decidedly dumb TV…