I saw “toast sandwich” on QI and, yes, I tried it. Added butter, salt, and pepper to the toast.

Was pretty good.

Yeah, the ice is what usually gets us here as far as power outages go.

worst comes to worst, we’ll set up the tent in the living room

Literally my emergency plan except I figured the back corner of the basement would be the most insulated place. I’ve even got a cut down memory foam mattress topper I keep with the tent to use as a “floor”. Great for not sleeping against the damp ground so should work well on the concrete floor downstairs.

It hasn’t started here yet, but I topped off the pantry at the grocery store on Tuesday and made sure to grab some stuff I could eat in case the power goes out. All my appliances are electric so that’s what I’m most preparing for.

It’s supposed to drop to single digits Sunday and Monday and with no power, I can’t run the furnace. So this is gonna be fun. I’ve been wrapping towels around pipes since Thursday afternoon and coming up with a plan to stay warm and fed. So I’ve basically been meal-prepping all morning.

S/O is with family this weekend so it’s just me and the dogs.

Technically, yeah. But with less people going to Wikipedia directly there would probably stand to be less chance of getting any new contributors. I’m not sure how the foundation gets all its money, but the more traffic they serve the more they can prove their relevance which might matter for funding

I’m such a sucker for art deco. Half of the times I die in Bioshock is because I’m just gawking around at the in-game architecture instead of watching for splicers.

Fantastic! 😆

Lol, “PatrickGPT” would be the easiest novelty chatbot to write, too.

10 INPUT "ASK ME ANYTHING>"
20 PRINT "[THINKING...]"
30 SLEEP 3
40 PRINT "THAT'S A STUPID QUESTION"
50 GOTO 10

I use the web version rather than the app, but I want to say the app can store the library on the SD card if you have one of sufficient size lying around and if the Redmi has the slot for one. But as someone else said, there are smaller versions you can download if you can’t fit the full one.

Not trying to push Kiwix on you, but I just can’t emphasize enough how handy it is to have offline Wikipedia always on hand.

• Termux has lots of possibilities
• Pair it with a Meshtastic node and make it a dedicated communicator
• I run HomeAssistant and Emby and have several old smartphones to work with, so one lives in each room and act as remotes for those
• Setup Asterisk and make a VoIP system using old smartphones and SIP clients as handsets
• Check if PostmarketOS supports it. I haven’t used it, but it basically turns your phone into a Linux machine if I understand correctly
• Use it as your “ugh, I have to use an app for [THIS]?!” phone. Basically things that require an app for setup or one-off apps you can’t avoid using.
• Make your own little portable Library of Alexandria. Install Kiwix and download a bunch of ZIMs from their library. If you’ve got at least 130 GB to work with, you can even fit the entire Wikipedia dump with images and have that locally.

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If she had simply resigned from her position when she began experiencing health issues, it would have allowed her successor to be nominated and approved under a democratic administration.

There’s no guarantee that would have happened. See Mitch McConnell and Merrick Garland

To be fair, if you’re not at least a little high at a funeral, you’re doing it wrong. Definitely takes the edge off and helps me to function without being a wreck.

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