Rhaedas

I definitely look to see if the wheel is already invented, but I guess I started early enough when there wasn't a lot out there and had to make it work on my own. I totally enjoy having to hack together things and google answers (god, that's gotten a lot harder than it used it be), so that's also part of why I jump to DIY unless I find something that's perfect and already made.

A recent one where I stopped myself was automating backups. I was going to try to throw together something, but then ran across restic and Backrest and wow, it's so much better than what I could have done.

My suggestion already submitted was Blender, but any of these ideas require a purpose. I don't think you truly learn an application or language (even human languages!) if you don't have something you're trying to do with it. Even music (it's a language), you can learn how to play something, how to put together notes and sounds, but you really start figuring out how to do things when you have a need to accomplish.

I would say 90% of my coding and application knowledge comes from decades of having a need or inspiration to do something, and having to find the right tool and learn how to use it to make my idea become something (even if it doesn't get finished). When that purpose or desire disappears (for whatever reason) I stop wanting or caring about learning more about the tool I was using to do it with.

Your initial request seems to point to a different style of learning, wanting to do it for the journey itself. That's cool, I just wonder if you had a reason for doing it, would it make the effort more fun and worthwhile.

Alpha move.

From my deep dive back in Y2K days, potable water is no joke. It was one reason why I gave up on the pursuit of prepping then and said whatever happens happens. So the answer is simple, stop trying to keep the water fresh. It doesn't take long.

Word correctness is driven by societal use. Just like you can add a word not recognized to a spelling dictionary, there could be a way to modify the grammar rules to not correct certain things that you will be using frequently. At least it doesn't autocorrect.

As a side note, don't some gay couples call one of themselves the wife? Which interestingly doesn't seem to be allowed in legal documents in many countries where gay marriages are legal, the term has to be gender based. California seems to have the best solution for the future, "spouse1" and "spouse2" on their documents. Which technically still has one of them listed first... o.O

Someone knew what they were doing. Malicious compliance?

There's nothing much insulating the outer from the inner, so it'll get as hot as the fire, just with a small delay. Putting in some type of insulation would reduce that, but that complicates things and I have no idea what would work that wouldn't eventually become a fire hazard. Asbestos? lol (don't do that)

Me too, and the first thought was melting point. But I guess they'd have to be steel to hold the weight they do.

MAGA, if we're going back to all the other stuff, we should go back to boys wearing pink and girl blue. And both dresses until they're older.

And election manipulation like gerrymandering.

Yep, the text is great, but that's the punchline.

You can tell it's AI because the person is all distorted, and now they don't seem to have the right number of fingers and limbs.