I don’t see EVs ever becoming good for everywhere. Here it usually gets as low as -20 to -45 degrees in Celcius during winter so you’d need a heated garage at your home and another at your workplace to have an EV work well, or hell, even start. With an older car, you can just take the battery indoors for the night and pop it back in the morning and be on your way. And having a heated garage (and the cost of building EV’s battery, building the car, shipping it) is already worse for the environment, so no, it will never work here.

Just developt the gas (gas as in gas, not benzin or diesel) and use them here, EV’s where it’s warmer all year around.

And no, fuck them Chinese spyware cars. And other spyware cars. Put the cameras up your ass.

I think fewer bands/artists are making even full length albums these days, thematic or not… At least in my country. The one big recording studio also owns the radio channels, tv channels and news sites, so they got the whole package. No point in wasting money doing an album… Singles here and there. It’s changed a lot, the whole culture.

I think the store tomato sauce is perfectly fine, especially since it saves time. I do it from scratch, or from scratch-er really, just to save few more cents hah. I should learn to use olives and capers… Maybe for the next one! Pressure cooker would be handy too, but I already have a blender and an airfryer and there is only so much closet space, you know?

Thanks also! :)

I’m bad at recipes, I usually just throw some stuff in and add some spices, more if needed after tasting. This is fast in terms of cooking time, but takes some chopping. For two people, this makes 2-3 dinners or 2 dinners and 1 set of leftover oven breads. (Put the leftover sauve over bread slices, add some cheese, throw into oven until they look delish.)

Recent favorite; pasta with tomato sauce (Bolognese-type)

• 1 onion (whatever color, I like red)
• 2-3 carrots (more if tiny, less if huge)
• 2-6 garlic cloves (more if tiny, less if huge)
• about 15-20 cm of celery stalk (the green thing, not the yellow block growing underground)
• 2-3 tablespoons of tomato puree
• 2,5 dl of soy TVP (or about 300-400 grams of minced meat)
• 1 boullion cube (veggie, meat, chicken, idc)
• (1-2 tablespoons of nutritional yeast flakes)
• 2 cans of diced tomatoes (á 400 g, so about 800 g)
• 1 can on lentils (whatever color, I like red and also a can being~390 g)
• (2-3 frozen spinach cubes because is healthy)
• splash of soy sauce
• bigger splash of mild vinegar (whatever color, I use what I happen to have)
• 1 tablespoon of sugar
• all them herbs and pepper (oregano, basil, marjoram, black pepper, etc.)

Instructions:

1. Dice onion, put into big pan or pot with a plenty of oil. You might need to add more oil later on.
2. Dice all the other veggies and add them in once the onions brown a bit. Spinach too, if you’re feeling strong.
3. Add in the tomato puree. Let it all heat up.
4. Add in the TVP (or if meat, maybe cook meat in another pan so it can brown too?) Add the boullion cube and mix it all well. Now is time for the nutritional yeast flakes too.
5. Rinse the lentils properly and add them in. Same for diced tomatoes and add some water into the cans and then the water to the pan/bot aswell. (About half a can of water per can.)
6. Splash the soy and the mild vinegar, then add the sugar, herbs and peppers. Taste, add more if needed. Possibly might need some salt too, don’t know how much salt anyone likes.
7. Boil some pasta (choose whatever shape you like or happen to have at hand) and taste the sauce again before eating.
8. If you let the sauce simmer longer it’ll be better but sometimes you just gotta eat.

My grammar might suck, I can barely do understandable recipes in my own language. I won’t take offense in further questions.

Depends a bit on headphones too! Mine can be turned on while they’re also connected by the aux so the ANC and such can be on, or they can be used off with the aux which still does sound great, but obviously doesn’t actively cancel any noises.

This here. My stepfather was a chef so I got used to very good food and he was kind enough to teach me the basics. I wouldn’t call myself a good cook, but I can do maths and I can make way better food for so, so much cheaper than eating in a restaurant.

Absolutely, there is an psychological factor in this too. I’m listening way more carefully and listening the whole album in one go which is good because I’m enjoying the same tunes a whole lot more. And I agree on both the dedicated players and theatres… My attention span will do it’s tricks unless I keep in a short leash.

With the MP3 player yes, there is aux. But on PC it’s the same Bluetooth earphones or soundbar. // Edited for grammar lol

I didn’t, but I am biased with how much I love my “own” collection.

Welding is quite handy skill in life, cars or no cars!

Nope, neither. Actually listening much more quieter and the headset/soundbar is the same. :D

Thank you for your tips, I’ll look into these. :)

Great answer! Thank you. :)

I do know that some of the albums I like have been not even remastered, but remade when the band changed record studios, so the album has been quietly “swapped” from the crunchy original to the clean and safe new version, so yeah, I’m careful when hunting the CDs. So with some bands (/recording studios) that can be huge and tbh, gross, factor too. (I personally prefer the first few albums and ditch the bands once they learn to play with each other…)

Uh-huh, uh-huh, taking some notes…

I’m getting good tips for my next PC build here, thanks!

Not asshole-y at all, I’m real grateful and learning a lot today! :) I have never really even thought about these things.

I haven’t really listened to my songs in FLAC, but the MP3 already sounds very, very good and it takes such a tiny space, so it could be enough for me. For now…?

Thanks to you too! This seems to be a combination of so many factors, but the most important thing is that my tunes are banging. :) I didn’t plan on learning this much today hah!

Very good add, thank you! And possibly an idea for my next PC build…

Yeah, I was suspecting some “normalization” trickery from the streaming services… I absolutely wouldn’t have noticed this if I had just continued using them.

Nice to know other couples spend quality time the same way we do! :)

… Welp, that’s a whole lot more! Thanks for this correction!