My mom has been squatting in my apartment for a year and a half. I’m really looking forward to having my own space again. Neither of us chose this and it’s clearly affecting us mentally.

And yet, I wouldn’t go that far.

Is he trying to radicalize people? Damn, that’s just comic book evil.

That’s a giant asterisk. My mom regularly oversalts her soup and I wish she didn’t. Some restaurants (especially fancy restaurants) salt their food so much it’s borderline inedible. There’s no good reason for them to do that. Arrogance perhaps.

Even my own tastes in salt vary greatly from day to day. So I wouldn’t even trust myself with getting the salt amount right for myself if I cooked for myself alone. As soon as any other human is implied, it just gets riskier.

I meant even I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo. DDG asks you about whether and how often you want AI answers

Just decline more. Then you can’t concern yourself with that stuff!

Oh my god. They’re serious.

I caved and switched when Google started giving me a full large chat window (not even just a small AI overview) by default when I ran a search.

Honestly I’ve tried salting a few times and for the little difference it makes… I don’t feel it’s worth the trouble.

But thanks for the info, I honestly hadn’t thought about the details.

I can just salt it in my plate. Feels wasteful to put a ton of salt in the water and dump 99% of the salt in the sink anyway.

Plus, sometimes, I just feel like keeping it unsalted entirely. Depends on the sauce etc. You taste the subtle sweetness of the noodles more that way.

Just use whole wheat pasta.

Stir literally once. No salt, no oil, no additional stirring.

What. Why. That makes no sense.

Linux is the most widely used OS in the world, if you include servers.

If servers’ OSes can’t be legally used in California anymore, that would be funny.

Linux distributions should react by asking users to confirm they’re not in California. They’ll backpedal fast.

He’s only 66?! Damn, he looks 80.

Instructions unclear. Threw handful of basil at wall.

What kind of nonstick coating? Surely not Teflon?

Well there’s a focus on American events, American billionaires, and the distinctly American flavour of extreme policing

A lot of people are against it because they see it as the first step towards evil, but I still think we should have some sort of recommendation algorithm. New content discovery on Lemmy is way too manual for normies like me.

The sign-up process should be streamlined. It’s really intimidating to have to choose an instance when you don’t even understand what the heck that is. And then there’s the manual account validation. I’m not sure what the solution is but we might want to find one.

And we need to do something about the extremists. They have a right to exist, but the abnormally high prevalence of American-coded communist/anarcho-communist content that just casually talks about executing the rich and the like is weird and intimidating even to me, a decidedly left-wing person. Americans, who are famously doubtful of communism, probably run away from the platform seeing that. And as for non-Americans… Well the proportion of content that’s specifically about American politics is even higher than on Reddit, which is saying something.

More focus on open-world titles and games as a service? Every time I think they’ve hit the bottom, they manage to dig deeper.

Oh, you don’t need the music to need to shout. The high ceiling achieves that by itself. Echo, space to fill, or something. Not to knowledgeable about acoustics.

I really wish they made restaurants with low ceilings. You take the tallest people who are likely to come, you add maybe 30 cm, and that’s more than high enough, right? No, they’ve gotta have ceilings so high they could genuinely fit two floors in the one they have. It’s a waste of space, too.