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Cake day: October 8th, 2026

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  • I think this is getting at a deeper lesson. We need to make waging war painful.

    When war becomes painless to rage it allowed nations to wage it with impunity. There must be costs for doing so. If one nation attacks another the global community should come together to make them suffer for it as a nation. Economically punish them. If this was done consistently then war would be much less common.

    So that is to say… BDS.


  • You need to keep in mind that most laptops are not going to have 2 ethernet ports(or even 1 these days). You will need 1 port to connect to your modem and 1 port to provide the network to an AP. All ports aren’t created equal. If you want good speeds you want to find something with 2 good ethernet ports. Your internet speed will determine what is good enough for you port wise. If you are fine with pretty slow speeds then a laptop can work and you can use a usb to ethernet adapter but that’s a bit janky. If you intend to use the built in wifi card for the AP just know it won’t be nearly as good as a dedicated AP. Check out the Lenovo ThinkCentre line. It has some good options with decent ports. As for a UPS you can sometimes find something better by looking at “Solar Power Generators” instead. They’re basically just batteries with an inverter and outlets on them. And they can recharge from solar which is why they have the name. But a lot of times they’re the better bang for your buck than a normal UPS. And if you got a few solar panels you could hook them up to it. Which it sounds like might be useful to you in general.






  • I’m not really a strict recipe person. I have like general things I’ll do but I mix it up and just kinda use what I have laying around. The Chinese chilli sauce i mentioned I’m just realizing is Thai not Chinese. Since I checked the back lol. It’s Ox Brand Ground Red Chili Sauce. It’s like ground up chilis and still has the seeds. I just let it bake into a crust on the chicken since all the water evaporates. If you were doing like a chicken thigh for example I’d get the sauce under the skin before baking it. Then on the skin just add a tad more. Like a glaze. The sweet and sour sauce depends if your big on sweetness or not. It’s more like an on the side at the end thing. So like I’ll do that stuff but then I’m also just kinda tossing whatever spices I have around on there too.

    Another thing you can do that is really good is go to an asian foods market and see if you can find fresh red chilis. They will sell big bags of them. Then you can freeze those and cut them up as needed. Then toss them into some hot oil (like a neutral oil) to make a nice hot chili oil. Which can be used on lots of stuff. Try to find things that look like this:

    If you want the Thai Red Curry powder I mentioned you can try this. It’s very good.

    Basically any of these spices/sauces will make chicken taste great. But be aware I’m a big fan of spicy so some of this stuff is too spicy for a lot of people. I’m not really able to gauge what is super spicy and what isn’t. I will eat something and not even think its spicy then someone else is acting like they’re gonna die. And even to me the fresh chinese red chilis are noticably spicy. The others not so much.

    Edit to say I looked it up and I think the Chilis I get are called Thai Bird’s Eye Chilis.



  • Hey, I’m Gen Z. Not everyone here is older. I do cook. Quite well. I can be a bit lazy tho and I’m poor. So it’s simple cheap stuff usually. I like to get chicken or pork, put some chinese chilli sauce on it, and bake it until its crispy. Then maybe some sweet and sour on top. Another good simple sauce is soy sauce mixed with peanut butter and heated and stirred a bit. Rice with some yellow curry powder, msg, and dried onion/carrots while its cooking, then adding the juices from whatever meat you cooked at the end is pretty good. Red Thai Curry powder is also great and can go on almost anything. A lot of my diet is just whatever meat cuts are dirt cheap (usually chicken quarters or pork half loin), rice, potatoes, beans, and other dirt cheap stuff.

    Edit: Also, for the time aspect. It’s good to find meals that you can just let cook and don’t need to be watched. Like I can throw chicken thighs in the oven with a potato, leave it at 375F for 1.5 hours then come back and they’re both done and ready to eat. Not need to check on it. I can do other things in the mean time. Like chores. Altho, that specific one only works if you enjoy your chicken cooked to shit which I personally do. I like it cooked so much it falls off the bone.




  • I know you asked about thinkpads but I think you should consider a Latitude 7400. The non 2 in 1 model. It’s got 1 m.2 slot, 2 Sodimm slots, and the back panel comes off in one piece and is easy to get at everything. The downside is the keyboard is hard to replace. It’s one of those built in ones.

    I run Debian on it and lock the CPU to 2.5Ghz and below and keep cooling pads in it and its passive. never runs the fan. Has amazing battery life and linux support. (shipped with ubuntu as an option). They’re cheap too. The build quality is really good. It has the barrel charging port, usb c/thunderbolt port, hdmi, 2 USB A, headphone jack, micro usb reader, sim card slot, smart card reader for ports. Plus the trackpad actually has buttons which I like. I don’t like the tapping that’s become common now. The webcam has a physical shutter you can slide over it too. Overall a nice little laptop once you tweak it a bit.