Corporate America is operating on the Car Dealership model: there are enough rubes to fleece it’s not worth the effort to get quality customers/employees.
Yeah -_- if any of the alternatives had been as low VOC as Odie's I probably would have used them instead... But in this case, since it was indoor with kids I didn't really want something fumey.
Gotcha, good to know! Id worry about the epoxy adhering, but good to know it works.
Agree. The number of people I know who "don't" cook blows my mind. 75% of my repertoire takes less than 30 minutes of involvement to cook. It's cheaper, healthier, and a great zen thing that's totally different from my day job.
For those trying to get started, do a meal kit that involves cooking, and start there. Not having to buy ingredients or plan things out makes it less intimidating.
After asking this forum what to use on some pretty red oak wood, someone mentioned hardening wax oils as a good option. I gave Odie's a try, mainly because these banisters can't be detached and Odie's doesn't smell as strong.
End result has been great. Application was easy. Buffed in the first cost, went to buff it out and it was totally dry, so I buffed a second coat in. Then 45 min later I buffed off the excess. Took about 3 hours total.
Water beads on the resulting finish, and really compliments the grain of the wood! Already planning to use Odie's on future projects.
Tilley FTW.
I live in the desert, they are common even if unfashionable lol.
This.
I live in NM, so there are wild Neomexicanus hops (the Amalia and Multihead are that variety) but they are all up in the mountains. In the city, there are not really any male plants around.
Only issue is local nurseries sell ornamental hops that might be male... But thankfully my neighbors hopyard is all female varieties for home brewing.
I've got 4 varieties in my backyard. The one on the left is Amalia, and is on year three. Middle trellis has a year two Vista, and a new Willamette that was planted from a friend's crown. Far right is Multihead.
Looking like I should have a good sized crop this year.
I wish Apple was transparent enough to have a real comparison of their privacy.
Personal guess, Apple is generating just as much personal data, just using it less offensively than Google. That's not good but it's betterish, I guess.
Main things I'm stuck using Google for at the moment are Gmail and Maps. Gmail, because my address I've had over there since Gmail was invite only. Maps, because they are one of the only decent sources for restraunt reviews these days (why did Zomato have to kill UrbanSpoon :( )
That's part 2 of this project. We will see, the hand rails are not in great shape. May replace, or paint them. The banisters have more visual impact anyway, and are a significantly nicer wood.
No idea. Hand rial is the next project. Either going to sand down finish to match, replace with something new, or paint. Undecided.
We've been dealing with the smell of citristrip this weekend lol, we can deal with the poly smells. Our house uses evap cooling which provides a ton of options for ducting air away from where the people are.
Wish that was an option, but whatever dingaling installed this stuff put all kinds of caulk on the bottom edge and then nailed it in...
Somebody committed a series crime against wood with this lol. Just trying to come up with something reasonable.
Why would you go with a stain+poly vs a finishing oil of some sort?
I've had these banisters in my house for ages that had this really poorly done ugle brown/maroon paint. My wife got fed up with them and decided to strip and sand them.
Wonder of wonders, what's under there is some kind of dense hardwood with some great grain to it.
Now I'm trying to decide how to finish it.
My initial plan had been what I always do: basic stain plus a wipe on poly of some sort. Pretty good, pretty easy.
However, this is significantly higher quality wood than the cheap pine I usually work with. It was suggested to me I look into a Tung or Danish oil, and I've now fallen down a deep rabbit hole of wood finishing.
Any preferred finishes that emphasize grain for pretty wood in high traffic areas?
Oh awesome! I actually have a couple of recipes that would fit there I can cross post as well. Need to actually write them down rather than just continue to throw random stuff together to make it work.
A community for sharing recipes created in your own kitchen! One rule: posted recipes must be something you created in your kitchen. AKA OC only.
Here is a community I created for sharing recopies people have created themselves. This is intended to be exactly the opposite of Pinterest where everyone shares the same 10 recipes over and over again. Instead, everything in this community is intended to be original stuff come up by folks on Lemmy.
This may be too esoteric for the size of Lemmy's user base, but I've always wished that it existed... so here is my attempt.
What hops you should grow is more determined by your growing conditions than what you want to drink.
I live in NM, so I have two varieties of NeoMexicanus, plus a new drought tolerant variety called Vista.
I generally shoot for varieties that are hard to get new, so that's a good fit for me.
However, if your in Sweden I don't even know if you can grow hops outdoors. Your climate is about as opposite mine as we could get and still both be growing hops!
Yeah all fair.
That's pretty much how I feel about apple. I think at this point I'm leaning towards going to Graphene OS. I used to use custom ROMs a bunch back in the CyanogenMod days.
Yeah, I'm not trying to go full paranoia on this.
The main thing I'm worried about is Google's response to geolocation based subpoenas. That combined with the US political environment is concerning.
The second thing is the stupid advertiser tracking. That's just not cool.
Yeah, this is what concerns me.
Stock Android is neither. So for the average user, Apple iOS is probably better.
I'm on lemmy so I'm probably not the average user lol.
Pure personal preference. I've traditionally gone back and forth almost every time I get a new phone. It's really only in the last 2-3 years I've hit the point I significantly prefer android.
For me, some of the interface choices on iOS are no Bueno. Additionally, the lack of a button, or simulated button is not something I'm fond of.
I'm also not convinced they are more private. I think Apple's incentives line up more with mine than Google's, but only barely. Independent researchers are pretty mixed on whether Apple is actually blocking all apps, or just making it so Apple is the only one who can profit off of people's data.
The only reason I think they are probably more private is the giant hissy fit Facebook threw over their settings.
What are everyone's recommendations on making android more private? Given Google's recent behavior around tracking and the like, I'm not really comfortable with then having all of my data. I've even contemplated going to iOS, since apple doesn't have a vested interest in me having less privacy... But I just don't like their OS lol.
I've tried GrapheneOS, and it's not awful. For usability, I did have to add Google apps back in, but at least they are sandboxes.
For the moment though, my daily driver is a Samsung S21. What can I do to make I more private?
So far, I have:
- Switched to Samsung browser with adblock.
- Started using duckduck go.
- Installed duckduck go's app tracking protection. That was an eye opener.
- Restricted location history in Google maps.
What else? I know Graphene is typically the gold standard, but I'm trying to see what I can do short of that.
The law also limits what content minors can see online.
Url for reference.
How's this going to effect Lemmy? I was a kid online once, I would have loved something like Lemmy. With this Texas law, theoretically the people running an instance could be in trouble when some kid signs up for their server which won't have the desired parental controls...
Ingredients:
- 2 x Chicken Breasts
- 3 x Mangoes
- 1 x Can of chipotle peppers in adobo sauce (in Mexican/international food aisle)
- 2 x Limes
- 1 Tsp Lemon Pepper
- 1 Tsp Salt
- 4oz Light Sour Cream
- 1 x Onion
- 1 x Green Bell Pepper
- 1 x Can of Rotel
- ¾ Cup of Frozen Corn
- 3 x Small Avocados or 2 x Large Haas Avocados(just short of ripe is ideal)
- 1 dozen flour tortillas or 20 corn tortillas (Either works, just depends on taste preference)
- 1 Bag of white Mexican cheese
Steps:
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Boil Chicken. If Chicken is frozen, place in water as it warms up. Cook 20-25 minutes if frozen, 15-20 if defrosted.
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While chicken is defrosting, prepare sauce. Cut mangoes up over medium sauce pan, allowing excess juice to drain into sauce pan. Pulp mango into sauce pan. Remove chipotle peppers from can, chopping into fine chunks.
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Add sauce from can and diced chipotles to sauce pan. Squeeze limes into sauce pan, and add Lemon Pepper and Salt. Simmer this combination on medium for about 10 minutes.
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Add Sour Cream to sauce, continue to simmer on low until rest of ingredients are ready.
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Dice the onion and the bell pepper. Place in fry pan with a small amount of oil to prevent sticking. Cook until browned. Dump browned onion and bell peppers in large mixing bowl. Once chicken is done cooking, shred the chicken and place in the large mixing bowl with the browned onion and bell peppers. Usually, I shred the chicken by taking two forks, and tearing it apart.
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Skin and Dice the avacados into medium sized chunks. Add avocados, frozen corn, and rotel to large mixing bowl. Heat from chicken, onions, and peppers will defrost corn. Mix the contents of the bowl with a spoon until all ingriedients are evenly spread throughout.
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Take a 13x9 baking pan. Place a couple of spoonfulls of sauce into the bottom to coat.
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To form the enchiladas, take a tortilla, and fill with a couple of spoonfulls of the stuffing mixture from the large mixing bowl. Sprinkle a liberal helping of Mexican cheese, then roll the tortilla shut and place in the 13x9 pan. Repeat until pan is full.
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Take any remaining stuffing and sprinkle in pan on top of the tortillas. A lot of the times corn and onions will be the main remainder, so this gets that all in the pan.
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Pour remaining sauce over the rolled tortillas in the pan. Finish off by sprinkling any remaining cheese over the top.
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Cook in oven at 350 for 20 minutes. Remove when sauce is bubbly and cheese is melted.
Hello world!
This community is for sharing whatever cool recipes you've come up with experimenting in your own kitchen. Only rule is all OC lol.
Totally fair to have a recipe you modified into something new, just don't repost your Nana's cousin's hair dresser's recipe for ambrosia. If you post it, you need to have come up with it.
Goal is for people to learn new recipes, and provide constructive feedback on how to make them better.
Had an 20+ year old pergola falling apart on my back porch. Designed and built this 16x12' guy over the course of 2 days.
I built the whole thing using and impact driver, and a miter saw for cuts. I used joist hangers for the cross pieces as well.
It's designed to handle up to 1 ft of snow without sagging, which would be a record for this part of NM. So far seems to be holding up.
Really happy with how it turned out.
John Clowdus and Small Box Games is one of my favorite "indie" publishers on Kickstarter. Neolithic is one of my top 5 two player games, and there are just so many great designs.
This Kickstarter is both an interesting design in it's own right, as well as an opportunity to grab some of his back catalog. It's never available at retail, so I'd recommend taking a look!
- Get bored.
- Open Reddit.
- Remember I'm not using reddit today.
- Open Lemmy.
- Go do something else.
- Go to number 1.