bluGill

If by bots you mean computer programs or AI, they are not people and should be ignored/blocked. If you mean (as seems to be common) people with a different opinion, then you need to be more careful lest you get the faults of an echo chamber.

You are both right and wrong there.

You need different opinions in your life, otherwise your echo chamber will tend to move to more extremist. Pretty soon you think those “others” are evil and so you are willing for anti-democracy coups by your side, or to fight wars to kill those infidels or other evil things. You need a steady input of other opinions to remind yourself that reasonable people can disagree and that is okay.

Also sometimes you are wrong. Few people have the guts to read a well reasoned opinion and admit they are wrong, but it is one you should be willing for.

Of course there is far more possible opinions than you have time to read. So eventually you have to say I don’t have time to deal with this subject and shut it out. So long as you avoid the problems of an echo chamber they are fine. Be aware of them though and make sure you are not falling into those traps anytime you shut something out.

18650 batteries are easy to source and cheap. You need a battery welder (either expensive or lively to burn out in one use - there seems to be no middle ground) chargers are also available. The hard problem is everything is marketd at electrical engineers who understand details of how to put circuits together. There are no trustworthy sources of do this or but this kit (at least not that I have found)

beware that mistakes will burn your house down and insurance won’t cover it. That risk is why even though this should be easy I have not done it.

Second this. I was at camp (with my kids) this summer and able to keep my phone charged just by leaving my power bank charging at the tent while I was hiking. No more trying to find a free outlet in the dining hall, just recharge while sleeping. My power bank would have made maybe 3 days, but I was able to be gone for the whole week.

We got green bonus points at the camp inspections because I had that outside my tent as well.

A friend with a good set of tools. Who you can trade labor with. Many car tasks need 2 people so if you can hang out with someone else working on their car and they return the favor you are greatly ahead. Not only that but you will teach each other (well at the start that person will teach you - do plenty of work to pay them for their effort to teach you).

After that tool do you need for the current job that either your friend doesn’t have or you use so often it is worth having your own. Every car has its own set of special tools that are not used for any other car you will ever have but you need it to do some job. You will need several torque wrenches as they have different ranges, but you won’t need them all for the first project.

Better than the Haynes manual, buy the factory service manual - they are generally $200 or so, but they are so much better than Haynes that it is worth the cost.

Good companies also know who is generating value and ensure they won’t leave.

Note that I specified GOOD there. A lot of companies are not good.

Good companies will notice and ensure you get a larger raise.

Finding a good company is a hard problem though.

Contribute to some other game that already exists if possible. that is the power of open source - when many people over many years come together to work on all the tedious details to make a complex polished game free from market pressure. When you do many choices have already been made for you, so they can tell you where to start. Want to add a new puzzle, put a picture on some wall, or whatever - they will tell you how to do that.

If nothing is like your idea you can start from scratch. Likewise sometimes the existing people involved in the game are jerks and you need to start over or fork - but are you sure it is them and not you. These are not ideal cases though and should be avoided. Much better to work with others if possible.

If you start from scratch you should be thinking about what game engine to write in. You can write a game from scratch in raw code, but in general step one is picking your engine and then living with the limits of that engine.

I suspect he would never mash potatoes.

According to Wikipedia there are 2,338 Aldi’s in the US, and 614 Costcos. Aldi also has some other brands though I’m not sure how they compare. Of course location matters, depending on where you live you will have access to different stores.

Eggs have gotten expensive lately. Still worth getting if you can find/afford them, but probably not as useful today as a few years ago, or in a few years.

The food shelf I volunteered at a couple weeks ago says peanut butter is one of the hardest things for them to get (I assume something like caviar would be harder but that isn’t something most people eat so who cars) . So might not be good advice. Nuts tend to be very expensive in general so probably not the best advice, but might be useful for variety when OP can get it. (technically peanuts are not nuts, but in this case lumping them together makes sense). You can make your own nut butter fairly easially in a minimal kitchen if you can get any nuts (including at a local park where they are often ignored)

Try different types of potatoes. The common “Russets are rejects from the french fry industry”. (direct quote from a Potato farmer I met a few years ago - I’m guessing he doesn’t grow Russets and always take the quote with some salt). Different types of potatoes work well with different cooking styles.

(everything else I have to say has been well covered by others)

Aldi is just as cheap as Costco and no membership needed. Plus the potions are much smaller which means less waste if you are not a large family. Aldi is likely to be nearby as well unlike costco which tends to be only a couple locations in a large city. Only downside to Aldi is less selection, we use regular grocery stores for things we can’t get at Aldi.

You are thinking of a fitness treadmill which is commonly used as a clothes rack. I’m thinking of a treadmill for use at a desk which lacks those side rails to hang clothes on (and also goes a lot slower) . Some people walk on them all day while typing, and it sounds great, but I don’t know if I really could use one all day while working.

I suspect it is too little too late. Most small users of VMWare are likely in the final stages of rolling out the replacement. They have chosen the replacement, scoped out what needs to move and what needs to change in processes to move, and are in the final stages of testing before rolling things out. At this point stopping the rollout is even more risky - companies have already figured out they can’t trust Broadcomm and so they won’t go back even if they can measure VMWare as better, it isn’t enough better.

You should be asking for Houston things, not American. Though you can fly to other cities, but the US is big. Texas is 695,660 km2, France is 543,941. Different states do have very different cultures - even in Texas you will find several different cultures. You cannot do it all, and I suspect your treatment will limit how far you can travel. Fortunately Houston is a big city with plenty to do and the public transit isn’t impossible to use. search for your city and tour and you will find plenty of interesting things - https://www.visithoustontexas.com/ is what I came up with though I don’t know if it is good.

Most mines are underground so for most this can’t work, but where it does they are sure to use it.

I’ve always wanted a treadmill but hard to say I would use it enough to be worth it.

Stop putting on water and chemicals. grass is not very fragil so if it belongs it will survive. all the wildiflowers that will move in and make the who more diverse. If it dosn’t survive it shoudn’t be there anyway