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Microsoft Teams is dog shit
  • I'll die on the hill that classic outlook is far better than Gmail and similar web interfaces for email especially if you have long threads or lots of emails.

    Also somehow Google's email search sucks so bad compared to searching in outlook.

  • [QUESTION] Does non-alcoholic wine work as well as regular wine as an ingredient and pan deglazer?
  • Generally consider what an ingredient is bringing to a dish when considering alternatives.

    Deglazing is simply using a liquid to remove fond from the pan, any liquid will do.

    Wine brings a few flavours to a dish, primarily sour and umami. Add a bit of vinegar or other acid for the sour. Tomato paste, fish sauce, soy sauce, and stock will all add umami, but you may have to be careful about the amounts to avoid other flavours you may not like (I'll sometimes mix small amounts of multiple umami boosters to avoid a specific flavour from standing out).

    The main thing you won't be able to replicate is the aromas carried by the alcohol.

  • Do I *need* to learn a 3D modeling software?
  • This post turned out to be a bit of a rant about what drives me to model my own designs most of the time. In short, it isn't required, but I highly recommend it.

    I'd say that most people who own 3D printers have little to no skill in modelling and are happy printing whatever they can download online. Maybe they hit a point where they want more, but until then learning modelling isn't a useful skill for them.

    Personally, I'm a designer at the end of the day. 3D modelling is a crucial tool in taking my ideas and bringing them to life in a way that can be passed to a manufacturing process and made into a physical object. 3D printing just happens to be the manufacturing tool I use most often for personal projects because it is what I have the easiest access to. If I had a machine shop, I'd use that too. When working on high volume products I'll design for injection molding, die casting, sheet metal, compression molding, etc.

    I'm not against utilizing models people have already put online that solve the problem I want, that is just efficient use of resources. But I agree, most models out there are very poor quality so I pretty rarely use downloaded models. Heck, I just re-modelled Gridfinity bins because I couldn't find a parametrically adjustable model for SolidWorks that I was happy with (on that note, the dimensional documentation for Gridfinity is straight garbage and I'm still not sure I have it right) and those are some of the most widely available models out there.

    I also absolutely despise STL and other non-parametric file formats for sharing designs. They are terrible, inefficient formats that make files very hard to edit. Most people don't export them in high enough resolution resulting in horrible looking faceted models. The community needs to fully accept STEP as the file format of choice now that any slicer worth using can import them properly.

  • Why the NDP’s Tax Cut Promises Will Hurt BC
  • Yeah, but unfortunately tax cuts are popular with people who don't understand that their tax dollars provide many services that they use even if they get far more utility out of them than they put in. You may as well be throwing away your chances of getting elected if you say you will increase taxes to fix housing, healthcare and infrastructure which have been neglected for decades by every government.

  • UK will have removed China’s Hikvision surveillance cameras from sensitive sites by April 2025 as further risks through connected cars, EVs are addressed, report says
  • Mostly better safe than sorry, but not over compensating IMO. All these large companies in China are partially government owned and many of them have known bad security and backdoors that have been exploited (e.g. to create botnets) and could potentially be exploited by the Chinese government who is less friendly with the West these days.

  • What word or term annonys you?
  • Seriously, my bank used to have a password requirement that was 6 characters exactly, no more or less. Plus symbols were completely banned. The reason, it was also your phone password, so in reality it was a 6 digit numeric password where they interpreted the T9 letters as numbers.

  • New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers
  • I went with a Boox device recently and like it. Since it is just android you can load up all sorts of apps. I use it for various things other than reading books, for example with the Paprika app in the kitchen as a recipe display.

  • Customers accuse Rogers of price gouging after increased fee for TV boxes
  • That doesn't really help because the TV devices can't be configured to use the non-gateway wifi network.

    The only solution I can come up with is to add a wifi network like that, but then also get a chromecast for each TV and use a device with the app to cast the TV they want to watch.

  • Customers accuse Rogers of price gouging after increased fee for TV boxes
  • Their TV boxes are garbage too, my parents cannot get reliable 5GHz WiFi from the "gateway" and the devices cannot be configured to 2.4GHz only which works fine until it thinks the 5GHz signal is strong enough and automatically switches before dropping again. The only "solutions" Rogers provides are to move the router or to buy their overpriced "pod" repeaters.

  • Former B.C. premier Christy Clark interested in replacing Trudeau if PM steps down
  • God no, Christy Clark needs to go away and never be seen again. Even Poilievre is preferable to that horrible person.

    Also, she isn't a Liberal by any stretch, does she just want to jump in wherever might take her? The BC Liberals were a conservative party.

  • Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
  • I've got one each of the USB-C and USB-A versions. The USB-A is actually the one that lives on my keychain as the connector is more robust against debris and I was able to find an adapter that is on a lanyard.