Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[Zloth]

Three years? They made me come back the very next year!

 

[Frag Maniac]

Three years? They made me come back the very next year!

I'm just going by what I read, but supposedly it starts at 7-10 years if they remove less than 3 and none are bigger than 10mm, again, according to what I've read in my searching.

How many did you have removed, and how big was the largest? Also, at what age?

 

[Zloth]

How many did you have removed, and how big was the largest? Also, at what age?

Heck if I know, it was over 10 years ago. Maybe when I was 45?

 

[Frag Maniac]

Heck if I know, it was over 10 years ago. Maybe when I was 45?

Are they still having you get one every year though?

 

[Zloth]

Are they still having you get one every year though?

Oh heavens no! It's once every 5 years now.

My mail finally showed up! We got no mail service for a full week after the storm. I don't know what the story was with that. It was a pretty bad storm, but not THAT bad. I could see them missing the first day, or even two, but the roads were fairly clear by Wednesday.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Oh heavens no! It's once every 5 years now.

My mail finally showed up! We got no mail service for a full week after the storm. I don't know what the story was with that. It was a pretty bad storm, but not THAT bad. I could see them missing the first day, or even two, but the roads were fairly clear by Wednesday.

I guess the one year was a just in case precautionary thing, then they were more sure of a proper diagnosis after that?

Congrats on the mail, you're part of the real world once again!

 

[neogunhero]

Currently doing a test run of the Brave browser on my phone. I’ve been hearing a lot about it lately and liked the idea of blocking trackers a lot more aggressively. It even has built in ad-block which is super nice, but depending on how aggressive you set those settings, it can cause websites to mess up a bit. Some of the news websites I use are slightly borked, but none of my gaming and tech news sites. Funnily enough (or scarily depending on how you view it), those legacy news sites I read have the highest amount of trackers and ads. The browser gives you a menu to see how many ads and trackers you have blocked, and those sites are at the top of the list.

So far I’m loving it a whole lot more than Safari. Safari has become slow and sluggish no matter the site, even after clearing all cache, cookies and history. Ads have become intrusive and made site performance a lot worse. Brave is checking all the marks for me to switch it over to my default. Only issue I had was not being able to transfer my bookmarks, but Safari let me copy all bookmark URL’s into my clipboard, so I pasted it into a note and just clicked each link and saved to Brave’s bookmarks. A bit tedious but worth it to keep my all sites on this app.

 

[Pifanjr]

Currently doing a test run of the Brave browser on my phone. I’ve been hearing a lot about it lately and liked the idea of blocking trackers a lot more aggressively. It even has built in ad-block which is super nice, but depending on how aggressive you set those settings, it can cause websites to mess up a bit. Some of the news websites I use are slightly borked, but none of my gaming and tech news sites. Funnily enough (or scarily depending on how you view it), those legacy news sites I read have the highest amount of trackers and ads. The browser gives you a menu to see how many ads and trackers you have blocked, and those sites are at the top of the list.

So far I’m loving it a whole lot more than Safari. Safari has become slow and sluggish no matter the site, even after clearing all cache, cookies and history. Ads have become intrusive and made site performance a lot worse. Brave is checking all the marks for me to switch it over to my default. Only issue I had was not being able to transfer my bookmarks, but Safari let me copy all bookmark URL’s into my clipboard, so I pasted it into a note and just clicked each link and saved to Brave’s bookmarks. A bit tedious but worth it to keep my all sites on this app.

I used Brave for quite a while until it forced a grid-based tab view on me, at which point I switched to Firefox with an ad-block plugin.

Tabs should not be shown in a grid, they should be in a vertical list.

 

[neogunhero]

I used Brave for quite a while until it forced a grid-based tab view on me, at which point I switched to Firefox with an ad-block plugin.

Tabs should not be shown in a grid, they should be in a vertical list.

That doesn’t bother me because Safari has been doing that for a few years. Prior to that, they were stacked like cards, making you swipe left or right to get to the tab you wanted which was a lot worse. However I do wish you were given the choice to change how it is laid out.

 

[isleepinabed]

I don't browse much on my phone, usually just quick google searches. So I have stuck with Safari.

But I have noticed how PC Gamer's site is one of the worst offenders regarding ads.

They're literally left, right and centre (and often above and below).

 

[neogunhero]

I don't browse much on my phone, usually just quick google searches. So I have stuck with Safari.

But I have noticed how PC Gamer's site is one of the worst offenders regarding ads.

They're literally left, right and centre (and often above and below).

PCG is one of many sites that ran very slowly on Safari. I don’t think it’s any fault of their own, just the way Safari handles the cookies and ads makes it unusable. Browsing the site on a PC works near flawlessly, so I really think in that case it is Safari’s issue.

 

[neogunhero]

Haven’t played much games this week at all. Still in a rut and not wanting to buy anything even after going through my whole library.

Instead I’ve been messing around with FL Studio again, making little goofy tracks on there. It’s been a lot of fun. I’ve used it on and off for at least a decade, this time around it’s been a while since I actually spent some real time with it. How I approached it was I learned the basics with YouTube guides, and everything else beyond that I try to figure out myself. I like making some more abstract, experimental tracks, which is hard to do when nearly all tutorials are how to make the most generic trap beat you’ve ever heard.

I’ve also been having fun downloading new sounds and plugins for free on Reddit. There’s a plethora of music making resources on there, so I’m never running out of stuff to play around with. It’s been great to let my creativity flourish more lately.

 

[ZedClampet]

My daughter is in her fourth year of Spanish at the university, and she says she is the only non-native speaker in the class. It seems odd to me that native Spanish speakers are taking Spanish classes unless they think they need educational proof that they are bilingual. The places I worked always just asked on the application if you spoke any other languages, and if you said you knew Spanish or Italian or whatever, we didn't really question it. If you didn't speak those languages natively, we might ask you during the interview to confirm that you would feel comfortable talking to a native speaker in that language, but that was about it. Almost all of our bilingual speakers came from a non-English speaking country, though. If it weren't for immigrants, we'd have really struggled to find people who were bilingual. Our education system just doesn't teach foreign languages very well, and there's very little reason for most people to want to learn one on their own unless you have to travel to eastern Asia, where people generally don't speak English.

 

[ZedClampet]

A comment I received on my latest Flux training:

"Holy sh!t, I’m already celebrating just the sheer brilliance of coming up with such an idea! The actual execution and training of the LORA, though… well, that’s a whole different beast.

As you already pointed out in the description above, "Flux doesn’t exactly do certain things voluntarily." But the fact that—with an excessive amount of friendly persuasion (haha)—you can actually convince it to comply? That’s nothing short of impressive!

So yeah, I’m loving this. And the results? Well… let’s just say: Among other things, they are very spectacular."

I broke Flux. It's nice getting praise

 

[Pifanjr]

My daughter is in her fourth year of Spanish at the university, and she says she is the only non-native speaker in the class. It seems odd to me that native Spanish speakers are taking Spanish classes unless they think they need educational proof that they are bilingual. The places I worked always just asked on the application if you spoke any other languages, and if you said you knew Spanish or Italian or whatever, we didn't really question it. If you didn't speak those languages natively, we might ask you during the interview to confirm that you would feel comfortable talking to a native speaker in that language, but that was about it. Almost all of our bilingual speakers came from a non-English speaking country, though. If it weren't for immigrants, we'd have really struggled to find people who were bilingual. Our education system just doesn't teach foreign languages very well, and there's very little reason for most people to want to learn one on their own unless you have to travel to eastern Asia, where people generally don't speak English.

I assume native Spanish speakers studying Spanish is just like native English speakers studying English Literature or something similar. It's not about learning to speak the language.

 

[ZedClampet]

I assume native Spanish speakers studying Spanish is just like native English speakers studying English Literature or something similar. It's not about learning to speak the language.

Yeah, I wondered about that. I'm not sure how far they go in foreign languages.

 

[February's Ghost]

Yeah, I wondered about that. I'm not sure how far they go in foreign languages.

Many times it's also learning how to teach the language. Learning about it's history and construction can also make them better writers if that's what they want to do.

 

[ZedClampet]

Went to get my hair cut the other day and the beautician had a big thing of flowers on her work station. We talked about it for a minute, and she asked me if my wife ever bought me flowers.

I said the next time I get flowers will either be because I completed a magnificent ice skating performance in the Olympics or because I died, and I had my fingers crossed for the ice skating.

 

[BeardyHat]

We cracked into a fresh loaf of bread I'd made yesterday and over eggs and toast were accessing its qualities. My wife said, "We go through bread pretty fast, how long did it take us for the last two loaves?" I looked on my phone for the date on the picture I took of my last two and it has only been six days.

I guess I'm not surprised, felt like I was always buying bread, but now I'm going to have to start baking on a schedule.

 

[ZedClampet]

We cracked into a fresh loaf of bread I'd made yesterday and over eggs and toast were accessing its qualities. My wife said, "We go through bread pretty fast, how long did it take us for the last two loaves?" I looked on my phone for the date on the picture I took of my last two and it has only been six days.

I guess I'm not surprised, felt like I was always buying bread, but now I'm going to have to start baking on a schedule.

When I get loaves from a bakery, they get stale after a couple of days, so we're always in a rush to eat them.

I make pretty good Italian bread. You just use a basic bread recipe of flour, salt, water and yeast, but the key is to have the oven extremely hot for the first few minutes, and to spritz water into the oven every 5 minutes, which makes it nice and crusty like the bread you get in other countries (or New York).

 

[Pifanjr]

We cracked into a fresh loaf of bread I'd made yesterday and over eggs and toast were accessing its qualities. My wife said, "We go through bread pretty fast, how long did it take us for the last two loaves?" I looked on my phone for the date on the picture I took of my last two and it has only been six days.

I guess I'm not surprised, felt like I was always buying bread, but now I'm going to have to start baking on a schedule.

We also used to go through a bread every three days or so, but my wife stopped eating bread almost entirely and I don't eat it as often as I used to either.

When I get loaves from a bakery, they get stale after a couple of days, so we're always in a rush to eat them.

I throw my bread immediately into the freezer when I buy it. Defrosted bread is much better than even 1 day old bread.

 

[Frindis]

I put my fresh bread in linen cloth and for at least a few days to a week the bread stays tasty and has a good crust.

 

[Frag Maniac]

I used to buy Franz whole grain 24 oz loaves of bread. It was double wrapped and you could quite often get it on sale. Seems COVID affected them adversely, as it did many businesses. It was getting to the point where the inner cello wrapping was more often than not unsealed. I kept thinking, either step up your quality control, or just try to pass on the savings of not using an inner wrap. Now they don't double wrap at all, and the price isn't competitive anymore, so it's often not very fresh.

Now I buy Safeway's Nuts & Grain bread. It's cheap, always fresh, and the walnuts in it keep it that way. That said, I DO double wrap it when I freeze it AND when I store it in the fridge during use. You guys would probably hate my frugal use of it though. Since I'm single and only use it for one turkey sandwich for lunch every day, a loaf lasts me about 11 days on average.

Another thing I love about this bread is you always get 22 slices. With Franz I got 21, so I got less sandwiches and had to use a heal slice torn into strips to dip in my lunch time soup at the end of each loaf. My latest joy with bread type foods though is a lot of brands now have brioche rolls and buns. They make those hotdogs and hamburgers a bit more premium.

Lately my guilty pleasure is a German sausage dog, with half a caramelized onion cut into chunks put on the dog with BBQ sauce and honey mustard, the other half in my bean blend of Red Kidney, Black, and Pinto beans, which also gets a shot of BBQ sauce. The Germans would probably say I'm bastardizing their food, but I would just say you can't get authentic German sausage over here, especially in my price range. There's a local brand called Hills in Oregon that does a pretty good job on affordable sausages though.

The best sausage I've ever had by far though was some Elk sausage made by a biking friend of mine that hunted with a bow. He worked at Boeing and had access to their nearby bow hunting practice range that has deer and elk targets. He was telling me Elk hunting is easier, as they are bigger targets and are pretty unaware of your presence during the rut. I told him I'd be more concerned about packing out all that weight solo. He admitted that is indeed the hard part, though still feasible with a good sled.

 

[BeardyHat]

I usually freeze my breads as well.

I've got another loaf rising today and will probably bake it tonight, that one may go in the freezer since we only just started on the other one. But I'm curious to see the difference, as I made this one with Bread flour over the All-Purpose previously; I'm just getting into baking, so still learning all of this. Been cooking for almost 20 years now, but have avoided baking this whole time for some reason.

 

[ZedClampet]

I'm so short I had my photo taken for my drivers license and my feet are showing