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I bought one of my favorite star trek items from Morgan Gendel, the writer of Inner Light and Starship Mine from TNG at a convention one year. He hand made replica flutes from The Inner Light and was selling signed ones. It was cool to have not only the flute but the fact it was hand made by the guy who wrote the episode is so cool

90% of the media I consume is off of reccomendation (so basically based on the ethos of a specific knowledgable person), especially when it comes to books. Find someone in your circle that knows their stuff, for example I got classical lit reccomendations from my HS english teacher, graphic novel recs from my fandom friends, and philosophy reads from my pastor. Most of the books I love were reccomended to me by a friend. If you trust the person's taste, they usually supply you with good reads, and then you can talk about it with them later as a bonus

Cookbooks are a great option if you have a bit of time and like reading. I started out this way, simply reading books and watching YouTube for fun. I've found many books at my local bookstore and thrift shops for very cheap (like $1 - $10). I would keep an eye out for these specifically, especially older editions that are cheaper:

The Professional Chef, Culinary Institute of America
Professional Baking, Wayne Gisslen
What's a Chef to Do?, Anthony Bourdain
Gear, Alton Brown
On Food and Cooking, Harold McGee
Basics with Babish, Andrew Rea
The Flavor Matrix, James Briscone
The Flavor Equation, Nik Sharma

All of these go over essential principles and skills that every cook needs; if you read and understood even just one or two of these cover to cover, you could easily master cooking essentials in just a couple days/weeks accompanied with some practice

Your problem might be not pre-heating the pan long enough (this goes for cast iron, stainless, and carbon steel). For eggs made in pans with these materials, you need to let it sit on the heat for a bit; not too hot to obliterate the egg, but hot enough to evenly heat the pan. The pan should have some oil/fat in it as well.

In layman's terms, the science behind this is that these metals have little microscopic "pores" that open wider when heated. When the pan is cold, they are smaller and latch onto the food. Heating up the metal opens up these "pores" and allows the oil to lubricate the metal much better.

You might want to invest in a 3-ply stainless steel pan ( which basically means aluminum encased in steel). The steel protects the aluminum, and the aluminum distributes heat evenly to the whole pan to facilitate the above process. As long as you pre-heat the pan and add enough oil or butter, not even eggs will stick. I personally use a Viking stainless steel pan, but I've also heard that Made-In makes some good ones too. Cuisinart also is a cheaper option

This being lemmy, you might want to try the open-source alternative, Grana Padano

Can confirm, I tried doing exfat for a Steam install on an external drive, and it just didn't work at all. Ext4 and btrfs both have simlinks (although simlinks in btrfs are kinda weird) and work with Steam and emulation. Ext4 is the tried and true stable filesystem, and btrfs supports more modern features. I've always prefered stability to bleeding edge, so I use ext4, but it really is up to personal preference and what you need.

I always like to pose this analogy for that argument. You get to choose 1 option:
a) die in a painful fire,
b) die in your sleep, or
c) catch a cold.

Two scenarios result in death (one is beter than the other), the third you live. (c) is obviously the best option, but politicians use the rhetoric of "if you vote for (c), what if the (a) voters win and you die a painful death?!" Obviously, everyone wants option (c), but then they buy into the political rhetoric, and everyone dies in their sleep as a result. They could have had the choice to live if everyone just picked (c) initially instead of second guessing.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. -John Quincy Adams

Maybe instead of voting red vote... for the actual Libertarian party? Libertarian ≠ RightWing/Red

Reminds me of the German Baroque composer Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm

I wrote/played an instrumental for my mom and she didn't like it, despite it being high quality and well practiced. Not in a mean way or anything, I just don't think it's a good gift in retrospect and it wasn't her thing. And if you generate it with AI, it might seem effortless/cheap on top of that.

Everyone is different, but I think people like having something in their hands, like a work of art, or a written letter, while a song is more abstract than that.

I personally use Lemmy for 2 things really, tech/foss/privacy news & discussion, and as a social media replacement (memes). When I used to be on the crappy socials, I would only really use them for memes, and left when I started to care more about privacy rights. The very first community I followed was 196 when they migrated away from reddit, so it was essentially what I came here for initially, and then found that the whole platform was miles better for discussion as well.

I love doing this in my TRPGs. Nine out of ten times an event was memorable was because of a horrible failure rather than a successful win. My table eats it up. I wish more games did this too