What do you think a homeschool diet is like? I'm imagining high in veggies, low meat, maybe organic... Maybe lots of beans.
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Yes! It totally happens to everyone, once you notice it. Best self-awareness/relationship advice I've heard is say something like "Are you looking for advice, or someone to listen?". Phrasing and tone to be adjusted by the individual user, obviously XD
Kind of.... Yoda rapping? And someone else is keeping him warm inside their coat.
We're not all near enough to pick from the same hat, don't want one person to be outside of the secrecy bubble, and if I could 'create a webapp' or 'do the backend', I probably wouldn't ask strangers on there internet for advice, but yeah I'm sure that's true too.
Since posting this I've come across www.secretsantagenerator.com , the most bare-bones and straight to the point version imaginable (holiday cheer definitely not included!), and exactly what I thought I was after. I've also remembered that one good feature of the terrible thing we used last year was being able to anonymously ask your giftee questions.
Get it to help you find 3 4-bit binary numbers each with a Hamming distance of 1 from the other two (only 1 bit changes value between them).
I wouldn't say I'm entrenched, I'm happy to learn new ways of doing things as and when appropriate.
On the other hand, although I would like to migrate to Linux, it's not one of my top priorities, and it sounds like the drawbacks in compatibility when submitting documents into university systems and working on group projects would outweigh the benefits for now, for me.
But I look forward to working towards never learning what windows 11 is like!
Thanks everyone for all the helpful replies. A lot of people mentioned the office webapps, personally I've always detested these. Things like keyboard shortcuts for sub/superscript and support for IEEE referencing were not available as far as I remember, and in general they were more minimal than the desktop version and so slower if you needed to use many features. I think the consensus is I will stick with Windows for my uni work for now, but I can try out onlyoffice, and use a bootable USB to start learning more about Linux for later on down the road. Cheers!
The longer I spend on Lemmy the more tempted I am to give Linux another try (had an old desktop with Ubuntu 10+ years ago, but never really got the hang of it fully, can't remember the exact details but not everything worked properly).
What holds me back is I'm in the middle of an engineering degree, I need to be able to collaborate easily on documents with word, share folders with OneDrive etc because that's what everyone uses. Even signing into the uni's portal-type thing is managed through your MS office account and authenticator app. And also I don't have a lot of spare time to fiddle around getting things to work and ironing out wrinkles, even if that only needs done one and it'll be fine in the long run...I need to be able to get on with my work reliably (maybe over Christmas I will have a bit more time to do setting up stuff).
Can anyone convince me ask these worries are unfounded? Can you still easily interact with the MS universe, or are there ways around this?
My poor wee laptop is already full to bursting with MATLAB, stm32 ide, etc so I don't think I'd be able to partition and dual boot...
Makes your skin feel weird how? When I was a kid I hated washing my hands because they felt 'squeaky' clean after, and it was uncomfortable to let my fingers touch each other. I've since figured out that my skin was irritated by the foaming agents in liquid soap (and most bar soap these days). Dove bars are better because they have moisturiser in them, but they are not true soap and still have foaming agents and stuff. You might find a true soap without things would feel good to you too. Searching for 'SLS-free' is a good place to start if you're interested.
Mate, you're so right, can't believe some of the takes on this! If I want to cook something a bit more involved, I nearly always make a big pot and freeze portions. People are complaining about texture, but it's easy enough to: make a base out of your protein, sauce, spices and seasoning, and the sturdier veggies (eg Bolognese, chilli, curry, random sauce for pasta, their texture won't suffer noticeably); freeze; then reheat and serve with a freshly cooked relevant carb (pasta, rice, couscous), and some kind of fresh green like salad or steamed broccoli. Or not! If you're short on time just have your defrosted meal with toast and it's still 80% as nutritious as a fresh home cooked meal This is coming from someone who worked in kitchens, including moderately fancy ones, for years, so I know how to do the opposite approach too. But now I have two kids, cooking something effortful without planning for leftovers feels like too much of a time-luxury.