Safety and quality? Have you never driven an American car?

Not sure if this will fit the bill, but I am a huge fan of Joplin for general note taking and to dos.

Ok, that is their choice. Don’t like it? Don’t work there and don’t buy their product.

“I refuse to do my job, but you also aren’t allowed to do my job.”

That is known as wanting to “have your cake and eat it too”. Most people learned this fact before they hit middle school, but apparently these guys missed that day.

As someone who lives in a country that formerly had a nationalized phone company in the internet age, and currently has a nationalized power company and airline. Dear God fuck no!

I’m with you. I’m so completely and utterly over working in IT. The industry used to be full of companies founded by people who loved tech, and were staffed by kids who grew up on Lego and Logo. Today these same businesses are owned by investors who don’t know the first thing about technology, and staffed by grown up kids who were told by their guidance counselor that IT was a high paying field. Nobody knows their ass from a hole in the ground anymore, and getting anyone remotely competent on the phone is like pulling teeth. If I could bail on this industry tomorrow and build picnic tables I’d never look back.

I don’t use Uber because it is cheaper, I use it because I know the fare ahead of time, I don’t need to dial a dozen different cab companies, and the vehicles are generally nicer. I don’t use streaming because it is cheaper, I use it because I don’t need to worry about time shifting, and can access much higher quality content than on cable. As for the cloud? You can pry my big iron from my cold, dead hands.

I was actually a Xubuntu user for a long time, but tried Mint with Cinnamon, and found lots of things much easier and more polished, while maintaining the lightweight feel that XFCE provided.

I find that installing things from repos you typically get something far more up to date with Ubuntu than Debian.

I’ve been a Linux user since installing Slackware from floppy discs. These days I run Mint on my desktop/laptop and Ubuntu on servers. Does this make me weak?

Not sure how long I was there, but well over ten years. Deleted my account and am done.

u/spez is a complete and utter piece of shit

Hikvision also has some serious baggage from the Chinese govt. Hanwha is really good stuff, South Korean, a spin off from Samsung.

I like to lay them out on paper towel or newspaper and salt them. Let it draw out a bunch of moisture, then I put them on a sheet pan in the oven until crispy.

This. Audi is the new BMW.

Yes, I’ve been trying to say that!

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OP will have to deal with the smell of the stain anyway, might as well do it right and use oil based poly.

I’ll agree that shellac is a joy to work with and looks great, but I’d be worried someone would attempt to clean the wood at some point in the future and damage the finish

Whatever you do, test the finish first. If you can remove the piece and do a test on the bottom, do it before you commit to the entire piece.

I’d probably do what you said, maybe use some sanding sealer first, and then stain and wipe on poly. I’ve had great success mixing poly and oil based stain 50:50 to make a wipe on finish.