do be like a stink bug sometimes
Seems to be certain times of the year here (US South). Sometimes we go months without a bunch that smells like them, and other times it’s every bunch for a month (and we almost always have a bunch in the fridge).
Fish Sauce.
Love the flavor that it brings to dishes, even to uncooked sauces, but holy crap the smell.
I’m 52 and have been playing video games since we go the Atari 2600 when I was about 6 (while they only play mobile shit these days, both of my parents actually played the Atari when we had it).
We’ve owned all but 2 of the Nintendo consoles (Wii U and the Switch 2), Numerous Xbox and Play Stations (more for my boys, but I have an XBox One that I still play a bit), and have been a PC gamer since DOS (Lemmings and Duke Nukem).
My Steam account will be 22 years old in a few months, and something gets played every week.
About to be 53, and we had an Atari when I was a little kid.
I pulled into a Dollar General store yesterday (September 2nd) and they had a bin of Christmas wrapping paper for sale on the sidewalk in front of the store.
It looked faded (like it was leftover in a warehouse from last year), and I think it was with the discounted summer close out stuff, but still.
I’m sure it’s a mixed bag, with plenty of small companies jumping in.
I own a very small company, but I also write a lot of our code, and we’re not touching anything “AI”. Not in our code, not in our products, not in any system we can keep it out of: We just migrated our last server from Azure a couple of weeks ago, we’re dumping MS Office this year, and starting the long slow migration from Windows desktop to Linux as an option for our customers (we’ve long been Linux on our servers, but have a lot of desktop software that needs to stay on the desktop).
But it’s everywhere. I had a call from our phone system vendor a couple of weeks ago. He kept trying to sell me their new AI call attendant, and couldn’t understand why I wouldn’t subject our customers to that BS. It’s been forced into our accounting software, billing software, cloud backup, everywhere you look it’s there now.
I don’t get delivery, but it’s 15 minutes drive from my house to the nearest area with restaurants / stores. There are no bike lanes, shoulders, or sidewalks between here and there.
In the US it’s generally 2.5% - 3.5% (plus a bunch of BS fees and charges added on top).
I do a lot of DD, and I’d bet that 75%+ of my restaurant orders are a single order going to a single house. I prefer grocery delivery, and it’s probably closer to 50% for those, as we often get a couple of orders at once.
Occasionally we get a single drop off with 2 stops (pick up food from a restaurant and something from a drug or grocery store, and drop them both off together).
I’ve never gotten more than 3 orders at once, and those are pretty rare.
Yea, both Pizza Hut and Papa Johns can send orders from their own systems out to Doordash when they are too busy to handle them, when they are outside of their delivery zone (or I suspect when their own drivers don’t want the order based on the tip or drive time).
The Pizza Hut in the small town near us doesn’t even have their own drivers anymore, just sending them to all to DD.
I drive for DD, and besides a ton of Dollar General and grocery store orders, we also do some Pet Smart, Pet Supermarket, Tractor Supply, Home Depot, Lowes, and Best Buy (I’m sure there are others big box retailers I’m forgetting as well).
In my area, I’m going to have to drive 15 minutes one way to the nearest place to pick anything up, so it’s not much different than having it delivered. We have never gotten delivery out here, since no one delivers but the third party ones (DD/UE), but someone delivering out here could possibly waste less fuel than I would to pick it up if they end up bring multiple orders out here.
I’m in a small city, with a lot of rural / suburban areas. I’m often delivering 15+ minutes away from the city center by car. A bicycle wouldn’t be able to get to any of these places in any reasonable amount of time, and there’s also no shoulders or bike lanes on most of these roads so it would be seriously dangerous.
We also do a lot of large grocery delivery orders (50 - 100+ items) so there’s no way those can be done via bike or motorcycle.
Been a car guy for many years, and my next project will be an ev.
Not sure what yet, but there’s a lot of classic conversions happening, and Ford sells a e crate motor now.
My last job paid 1st and 15th . And the company I own now does the same.
I find budgeting much simpler than with a bi-weekly paycheck.
Any QMK based board that supports VIA should work, since the macros and key bindings are stored on the board, and you can use a browser to configure it (even if you have to configure it on another machine, and swap back to the Steam Deck).
Alternatively, I believe that Solaar is available in Discover Store for Steam Deck, and that would allow you to configure Logi devices (but I don’t have any personal experience with this yet).
Agree completely on this. Pipe tobacco in particular always smells great (but can’t stand the smell of smoke).