I started with a few 2L off brand cola bottles.

Have a happy little accident with a salami slicer?

Land to do it on legally costs a huge amount of money. Otherwise a lot of this sort of thing would interest me in trying out.

Made nettle cordage by stealing nettles from the park. Extracted clay from soil I stole from the park and fired it in a cheap BBQ. Limited to pretty small things though.

Aren’t the teeth more of a risk to waterways during dental work than the owner of the teeth?

Yeah, I suspect I have a fair few games that could run in it but ARM doesn’t help for anything closed source stuff.

An N150 mini PC don’t cost that much more once you consider that it comes with storage as well, not looked since RAM went silly though.

The guy probably mistook them for a Balrog of Morgoth, easy mistake to make.

Only really use my phone to call family on Christmas and to receive SMS verification codes. Got a brick phone currently but thinking when I replace it I might go for a cheap second hand Android as it’s cheaper than a new nokia.

Could stick comaps on it and a few other APKs then never connect it to the internet again. Also CEX kinda give a better guarantee on second hand goods than most manufacturers do on new, pretty sure its only in store credit but it’s 5 years, just get another phone in a similar price range. Plus the store credit lasts forever. As you get it in a voucher, your replacement phones 5 years would start from when you buy it.

Been thinking of getting an N150 mini PC sometime. Stick proxmox on it and pihole. Probably a web server and host media on it too.

Not sure how well it would run dwarf fortress in a VM, play over SSH. Otherwise there is still CDDA.

That is an increasingly high risk I can see, PCs just no longer exist.

Careful, first you think you will just try 1 spool and the next think you know you are voting for Trump.

A good start but Na and Cl are both individually as you really shouldn’t, put them together and you have tasty rocks.

We have quite a big pile of chutneys we bought recently, we always have them with cheese and biscuits on Christmas day.

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It was a lot of veg in total, onions being quite a large amount of it. Even with all the vinegar, you couldn’t see it above the veg. Used a 21L stock pot although it didn’t fill it overly high, but would have been too much for any of my other saucepans.

Something like that anyway, not made it before. Perhaps a little closer to branston pickle? Less sugar than you would normally have in a chutney and sugar isn’t necessary for preservation as you get that from the vinegar.

Chopped up over a kg of onions and fried them, also added grated parsnip and carrots, then salt, pepper and a few bottles of malt vinegar. Little bit of honey too. Simmer away for a few hours, add more vinegar if it’s getting a little dry. Then store in jars.

This was 2 days ago and my kitchen still smells divine. I don’t really know how to accurately describe it. Caramelised onions but there is more to it from the vinegar. Doesn’t smell like vinegar though, more like it’s enhanced the onions.

Cheap to make as supermarkets here are competing over selling the cheapest veg. 5kg of parsnips, carrots, cabbage and swede for under £0.50, onion was a bit more, but not much. Was going to add all of it but my arm was getting tired from grating and peeling so much. I don’t own a food processor so it’s all by hand. Filled 2.5L worth of jars from the first batch.

Risky if that is illegal though which is increasingly likely in authoritarian countries like the UK.

Sure, the USSR did kill a lot of Nazis. But to claim all of the victims of communism were Nazis is bullshit

I don’t want a device that requires the manufacturer to allow me to use it.

Good point, I was more thinking of digital surveillance as so much is online now.