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Tinkeringbell

06:38

@Luuklag There's other noodles?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

06:53

@Luuklag good choice, it's yummy :D

@Bart ask @Journeyman to send you every day then. ;)

@M.A.R. hehe, well, blame the chef not the food.

@Luuklag yay! But saw you bumped into more walls...

@Luuklag autorice, as in rice being cooked automatically?

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Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell You're obviously not the chef of your family ;)

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag Nope. Most of what I cook is just vegetable, meat, potato :P

Luuklag

@ShadowTheKidWizard I'm slowly getting there. Now asking the customer what their prefered fix is, so that I can wrestle with that.

@Tinkeringbell ah typical dutch "prakje"

@tripleee poof

Shadow The Kid Wizard

07:34

@tripleee both gone

@Luuklag what are the options?

Luuklag

07:45

@ShadowTheKidWizard change either the API response, or the XSD that's used to verify the response

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag Mostly, though I have been doing some variations. This past week, I threw everything in the oven with some garlic, salt and pepper, and bits of brie.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Luuklag I see. Hope you get it resolved quickly. :)

Is it just me, or are those hands really creepy?

Tinkeringbell

08:03

@ShadowTheKidWizard The whole poster looks like an invite to a demon summoning.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Tinkeringbell rofl

Well it's invitation for a live show titled "Night Train to Izmir" (city in Turkey)

It's actually word play of a very famous old song, called "Night Train to Cairo", lol.

But can't see the purpose of those hands, or the overall demonic look.

They just stare at me, with those sharp pink nails...

:P

Journeyman Geek

lol

and the hand eyes...

and bracelets of teeeeeeeeeth

Shadow The Kid Wizard

And it's not even cheap! 200 NIS, which are about $60

Journeyman Geek

Cheaper than...

YOUR IMMORTAL SOUL

Actually

For this

𝖄𝕺𝖀𝕽 𝕴𝕸𝕸𝕺𝕽𝕿𝕬𝕷 𝕾𝕺𝖀𝕷!

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek hehe thought @SPA popped in to post it. :D

Journeyman Geek

08:14

@ShadowTheKidWizard In this case. TRUE horror

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek I think I know that symbol, it's to ward of evil looks or something

Journeyman Geek

and honestly that looks like "Your immoral goul" to me

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek True Blood is a good TV show. ;)

@JourneymanGeek first glance is Gibberish for me lol

Journeyman Geek

lol

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Tinkeringbell ohh, let me see...

Journeyman Geek

08:16

You just have to squint at it

Hard...

Shadow The Kid Wizard

Evil eye

The evil eye (Turkish: Nazar boncuğu ; Greek: μάτι ; Hebrew: עַיִן הָרָע; Romanian: Deochi; Italian: malocchio; Spanish: mal de ojo; Arabic: عين الحسد, ayn al-hasad; Persian: چشم زخم, Cheshm Zakhm; Kazakh: Көз) is a supernatural belief in a curse, brought about by a malevolent glare, usually given to a person when one is unaware. The evil eye dates back about 5,000 years. This iconic symbol is present across various religions and cultures, but most significantly in the Jewish, Muslim, and Christian faiths. The earliest known belief in the power of the evil eye predates ancient Roman and Greek...

This? ^

Tinkeringbell

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamsa < That

Journeyman Geek

Then this you do this

Same fingernails too

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Tinkeringbell oh, you're probably right. ;)

@JourneymanGeek wrong color :D

Journeyman Geek

Maybe it was night!

Shadow The Kid Wizard

08:22

Wonder what pizza he prefers?

Eye Pizza?

Tinkeringbell

"Waiter! There's a hair on my pizza"

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Tinkeringbell You mean the eye lashes? Not sure they're considered as hair. Maybe they do? hmm

Easy fix though: put inside an oven, no more eye lashes. :P

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tripleee

09:48

@tripleee still still up, others above are gone except for the recent Magento one

SPArcheon

@JourneymanGeek oh, yes, another movie on my "someday you will be old enough to read fairy tales again" list. Sadly, it didn't manage to dethrone the horrible message in "Bridge to Terabithia" so that one still holds first place.

tripleee

oh the still still up one is no longer up, thanks (-:

Shadow The Kid Wizard

10:14

What goes up, goes down...

Luuklag

10:34

@Tinkeringbell sounds delicious

@ShadowTheKidWizard The customer even said, change this line into that. Now to get the XSD file downloaded from the website :/

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag It wasn't too bad, I used just a little too much salt for my taste. projectgezond.nl/… if you want to try.

Luuklag

10:50

@Tinkeringbell maybe someday when I'm having dinner alone. My wife doesn't like brie, and the kids don't like mushrooms

Shadow The Kid Wizard

12:04

@Luuklag sounds like a good customer! :)

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag Heh. That sounds a bit like how my mom had to cook dinners (and why I picked up the habit of mostly just cooking potato/vegetable/meat dinners). Hard to cook something for 5 that everyone likes or at least doesn't hate

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Tinkeringbell heh, I don't follow recipes. Might use them as reference, but always making food with my own quantities and spices. Sadly, result is usually only I find it edible. :P

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowTheKidWizard I like the recipes from this particular website. They are specifically made to be easy, to be made with commonly available ingredients, and the instructions are very clear. (Though I still find things like 'dash of oil' too subjective :P)

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Tinkeringbell yep, sounds ideal. ;)

Tinkeringbell

This website is part of a larger thing, it's translated as 'project healthy'. They also offer 'diet plans' and cookbooks. I have one of their recipe books at home too, with dishes that aren't on the site.

You can either follow the 8 week meal plan in that book, or just cook your own things. For me, it's mostly about getting a bit more variation in my diet and basically having some built in calorie/portion control in my dinners.

Luuklag

12:39

@Tinkeringbell You need to practice more. Then you'll come to understand the intricate details of a dash

@ShadowTheKidWizard yeah, found a coworker that had an FTP program running, so managed to fix it quite quickly in the end.

@Tinkeringbell Thats also what killed me during my student times, when cooking for myself. Most meat come packaged as two cuts per tray, most pre-pealed potatoes came in 400g bags

Thats a pretty hefty meal when you don't have a lot of physical excersise

Tinkeringbell

Yeah, for me it's more the lack of physical exercise.

And mostly too much meat/'unhealthy meat' (Spekkies,mmmmm) into stuff XD

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell yeah I love those too. Really need to stop myself from picking some from the pan when I'm cooking those to go with stamppot

Tinkeringbell

13:00

Heh. The recipe I linked, the one with brie, uses 75gr of 'lean' bacon bits for two people. If I make e.g. a stamppot or beetroot, I dump in 150/300 gr. of the non-lean stuff for two portions.

It's something I do without thinking too much about it, because 'that's how mom always did it'.

Mom followed one of their meal plans for a while, and I actually lost weight just having my usual breakfast, lunch, and then the dinners from that meal plan. Granted, I got my threadmill at the same time so my activity also slightly increased... but I'm hoping that cooking more of those recipes/dinners helps.

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell I usually get those packages that you can separate into 2 pieces, but always end up dumping the whole pack into it. But on the other hand for a family of 5 that isn't too bad. I do try to eat less meat though.

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag Yeah, I get those too. One half is 150gr, both is 300gr :)

Luuklag

I used to follow a no-carb diet for a while, that did help, but as soon as I stopped the weight came back pretty quickly

The only thing that stayed was having Yoghurt for breakfast

Tinkeringbell

I don't really try to eat less meat, mostly because I don't like other sources of protein like beans or vegetarian 'meat'.

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell You can also just skip protein for dinner some days, not that big of a deal. The general Dutch diet has way too much protein anyways

Journeyman Geek

13:03

@Tinkeringbell hm, are you a weight or volume person? :D

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag Yeah. The whole idea of that 'project gezond' is that it isn't a diet, they are all sorts of recipes that you can always eat for the rest of your life... so no bouncing back if you just keep them integrated into your lifestyle

@JourneymanGeek Probably both. My weight makes that I have quite a bit of volume too :D

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Journeyman Geek

Cause I realised there's 3 kinds of cooking culture, and mixes of it, weight, volume and by eye. My mom does stuff by volume in 'bulk' and by eye when actually cooking

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell yeah my wife follows this "lazyfitgirl" thing on instagram, those things are also quite helpful sometimes

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell .....

Not what I meant ._.

for cooking

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag Yeah, I know. It's just that I don't like most recipes that try to replace meat, but I do sometimes eat fries without a frikandel ;)

Luuklag

13:05

@Tinkeringbell You take a kaassoufle instead?

Spevacus

Ayo garlic mushrooms with brie, potatoes, and bacon?

Sign me up

Luuklag

@Spevacus they left quite a while ago, Ayo

Spevacus

lol

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek I'm still both ;) Stuff like vegetables and meat and such, I prefer to do by weight. But I also have measuring tools for volume, liquids go by volume and most spices and dried herbs too. Fresh herbs go by weight though.

Spevacus

The Google translate on this article has some interesting additions

> Serve this dish nicely? Put it with baking paper and all in a shallow baking dish.

Tinkeringbell

13:07

Garlic goes in cloves, which is another thing... some cloves are much bigger than others at times, so ...

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell ah, but not by eye

Tinkeringbell

I try to average them out XD

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell "looks right" is a measurement

Tinkeringbell

I guess the garlic is 'by eye' then?

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell and you can hardly have too much garlic anyways

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Tinkeringbell

13:08

@Spevacus If translate botches the recipe and you want me to translate it more properly, lemme know :)

Journeyman Geek

snort

I once used half a clove for a single serving of pasta...

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag Ehh, I'm only just starting. I need to get used to it.

@JourneymanGeek Do I have a recipe for you :D projectgezond.nl/penne-met-romige-knoflooksaus takes six cloves.

For two servings. And the tip sections mentions 8 is good too :P

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell ... I mean half a head :D

@Tinkeringbell a late Mr Ash felt it was too much garlic to let me eat by myself

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell sounds good, but why set everything aside after you did something. Make sure everything is cooked at the same time, so you can combine all at aonce

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek That's about six cloves, right? :P And if you added quite a bit of paste, that's about the same as that recipe :P

@Luuklag Probably for simplicity. One step at a time ;)

I know I struggle if I have to juggle three things at once, sometimes :)

And if you misjudge, it becomes easy to e.g. burn your garlic because the pasta is done, or your sauce...

Journeyman Geek

13:12

lol

@Tinkeringbell I think around there

Tinkeringbell

Or have your sauce ready but not the pasta, and then overcook the sauce (let too much moisture evaporate).

These recipes are really made to be 'fool-proof'

If you're a true kitchen prince, of course you're free to just do everything at once :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

that's why you keep pasta water around

Tinkeringbell

Letting the pasta cool down before mixing it in may also help prevent overcooking? I dunno.

Anyhow, it's just a recipe. If you want to do things differently you certainly can :)

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell you rinse off the starch, so you prevent the pasta from sticking to each other. You could also add a dash of oil and mix well

Tinkeringbell

Ah. To be honest the times I've made it so far, I skipped the rinsing step XD

Just put it in a sieve in the sink and continue with the rest XD By the time I've managed to mince six cloves of garlic, the pasta is cold XD

My usual order is 'boil water, add pasta, let cook' and while cooking I start cleaning and mincing the garlic, making the bouillion, and grating the cheese. Only after I have everything cut and portioned, I continue XD

I often already have the kip marinaded, yesterday I made this and let the chicken sit for an afternoon, I found it more tasty that way.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

13:30

Poor chicken.

:D

At least let it watch TV! ;)

Tinkeringbell

It had company of other things in the refrigerator.

DavidPostill

@Tinkeringbell You are supposed to do the prep before you start cooking XD

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Tinkeringbell oh, thought you let it sit outside, so inside the refrigerator is fine. This way it won't get hungry too. :D

Tinkeringbell

@DavidPostill Yeah, mostly true :P

But since the pasta needs to sit/cool anyways, might as well start boiling straight away like the recipe says ;)

DavidPostill

@Tinkeringbell No it doesn't. You drain it and then serve straight away.

Journeyman Geek

13:43

also, I make pasta in a frying pan with very little water :D

also I cook pasta from cold water. Like a barbarian >_>

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, I do that with left over cooked pasta - fry it that is - yummy.

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill Oh I mean from dry :D

DavidPostill

How to Cook Pasta (Because You’re Probably Doing It Wrong).

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill >_>

Basically everyone in my family does it differently wrong

I use the 'modern' low water pasta heats in the water method

and my parents overcook it

lifehacker.com/…

also there's no wrong way other than how my parents do it :D

(tho they think I undercook pasta ._.)

Shadow The Kid Wizard

I just boil the pasta in water, that's it... Keep It Simple. :D

Though kids eat mainly rice.

Luuklag

13:48

@ShadowTheKidWizard Israel is asia after all ;)

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowTheKidWizard rice is another thing people have religious wars about :D

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Luuklag lol yeah, didn't think of that! :P

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek how often do you wash yours before cooking?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek that's why I make two kinds of rice every time: plain, and "yellow". Really! :)

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag until it runs clear

Luuklag

13:51

@JourneymanGeek thats infinite more times then I do xD

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek I only use just enough water to cover the pasta anyway.

Tinkeringbell

@DavidPostill In that case, yeah, do all the prep first. :P

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Luuklag same, I just buy rice that's already rinsed and washed.

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag I read in the west the rice is 'cleaned' more so you don't need to

or you're a absolute barbarian and get the stuff you boil in a bag

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek hey Israel isn't West. Or are we? :D

West Asia

Tinkeringbell

13:53

I just buy my rice in single portioned bags. Throw bag in boiling water, let boil for 10 minutes, take little baggy from water, let drain (bag has holes), cut open and dump on a plate

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowTheKidWizard I was referring to @Luuklag actually

@Tinkeringbell My mom would never let me live it down

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Tinkeringbell that's... genius! :D

Journeyman Geek

I use a rice cooker

DavidPostill

I only use fusilli wholewheat pasta which cooks a bit differently to the the long sticks.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

I usually put one cup of rice and two cups of water.

Luuklag

13:54

@JourneymanGeek I honestly have no clue, perhaps we need to rinse it if we buy those 20kg bags form the toko, but most food here has very strict hygene rules, so no place for filth inside your rise

@JourneymanGeek I just use a pot with water

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag oh its not for dirt

its to remove excess starch

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Luuklag funny, here we have chunks of mice, birds, and snails in our frozen vegetables.

Luuklag

@ShadowTheKidWizard wtf

Journeyman Geek

especially if you're using a rice cooker, I think its less an issue with the absorption method

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek I never noticed my rice having too much starch. Then again I usually don't use white rice, so they didn't polish that.

Tinkeringbell

13:55

@ShadowTheKidWizard lassie.nl/producten/builtjes-toverrijst :P It's also a lot more expensive than just buying rice, but well...

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Luuklag ynetnews.com/business/article/byj11ytxyi It was like that always, just the media never paid much attention until that case.

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag that could be it

@Tinkeringbell that too

tho it makes sense if you're cooking for yourself

same reason I'll likely buy 1kg bags rather than 5 kg ones

Tinkeringbell

Just as much as just using a scale to measure out a single portion :P

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek I usually get this: ah.nl/producten/product/wi124189/ah-zilvervlies-rijst

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Tinkeringbell well yes, you pay for luxury. :D

Luuklag

13:57

or risotto rice, which is something completely different ofcourse

Tinkeringbell

There's really no other reason to buy one than laziness, and 'it saves using a sieve'

Journeyman Geek

access denied :D

@Luuklag ya

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek my link?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Luuklag Persian for me

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell I dump a cup into a rice cooker. wash and drain it in the container, add enough water to cover + one finger joint height... and press the button

DavidPostill

13:58

@Tinkeringbell Prep starts when I remember to take the mince out of the freezer. I make my own sauces.

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek which finger, they differ greatly in length

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek rice cooker? Nice, I just use ordinary pot.

@Luuklag you should see a doctor.

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag it roughly evens out

Shadow The Kid Wizard

:D

Journeyman Geek

uhh

Tinkeringbell

13:59

@DavidPostill Well the recipe we were discussing also is entirely self-made :) No boxes or jars involved :D

Journeyman Geek

the one next to the thumb

Tinkeringbell

Also doesn't include mince though :P

Luuklag

@DavidPostill making a nice slow cooked bolognese, delicious!

DavidPostill

@Luuklag Yeah, I start prep about 2 hours before I eat. So around 1 1/2 hours simmering. I make enough for 2/3 meals depending on how greedy I am.

Luuklag

@DavidPostill yeah I might do that in the weekends

DavidPostill

14:03

The only thing I don't make myself is the tomato sauce.

Luuklag

I'm still looking for one of those things my parents had. It was basically a plate you could put inbetween your stove and your pot, so you could reduce temperature even further, and have a bit more indirect heat to your pot, so you don't need to stir continously. Shame they were made from asbestos

DavidPostill

@Luuklag Yeah, me too. Then I have meals in the week sorted. The sauce can also be used with rice or potato dishes ;)

Journeyman Geek

._.

Luuklag

@DavidPostill make it a curry ;)

DavidPostill

Yuk no. I don't like the taste of curry.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

14:05

@DavidPostill of Stephen Curry?!

DavidPostill

@Luuklag I just stir every 15/20 mins.

But the plate sounds like a good idea.

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag uhhh,Except the asbestos

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek yeah, thats why I'm looking for a modern version

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag in theory a slow cooker would do the same thing

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek true

but such a plate takes up far less space in your kitchen cabinets

Journeyman Geek

14:07

or something with a large thermal mass

asbestos was basically stone fibers.

DavidPostill

@Luuklag One of these maybe? amazon.co.uk/simmer-plate-gas-hob/s?k=simmer+plate+for+gas+hob

They are called heat diffusers.

Luuklag

@DavidPostill yeah those look like it. Appears there are plenty of those. Might need to check out "bol.com" for some then.

DavidPostill

Make sure you get the right one for your type of stove.

Also called burner plates

@JourneymanGeek Indeed. But here electric is very expensive cf gas :/

SPArcheon

14:49

@DavidPostill funny you mentioned Amazon... whatever trust I had in them, today I've lost

DavidPostill

@SPArcheon What have they done now?

SPArcheon

well, let me sum that up in two pictures.

Luuklag

@SPArcheon they ate your parcel?

SPArcheon

"We are proud to launch the new "By Invite" feature to avoid scalping"...

they sent the "invites" today around 12:00...

about 5 minutes later....

worked GREAT!

DavidPostill

:/

Luuklag

14:53

As long as there is demand.

SPArcheon

And this is even more shady than the usual "first comes first served" because it is not even guaranteed to be based on order.

Meta Andrew T.

15:07

The scalpers automated the invitation requests?

SPArcheon

@MetaAndrewT. Amazon does not even disclose HOW the checks are made, so by now I assume there are none and it is just random.

Anyway, whatever they tried, it didn't work.

And by now I wouldn't exclude the possibility that some insiders had their work even easier now....

Why using bots when you can just decide who gets the invites?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@SPArcheon I don't understand, to be honest. Those with invitation got a discount. What is the problem or wrong-doing?

Also, the cheaper price might be for used console, the second screenshot is for brand new console only.

SPArcheon

15:28

@ShadowTheKidWizard Either you are pranking me, in which case... don't

or you haven't understand the two screens at all.

Amazon started selling the PS5 console on a "By invite" thing. You request an invite and then on some set dates they choose some users that are granted the ability to buy the actual thing.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@SPArcheon oh, never seen that, so yeah didn't understand.

Sounds almost like scam, and I'd never trust such thing anyway, so less relevant for me, but since I never liked Amazon in the first place, it doesn't reduce my non-existing trust in them. ;)

SPArcheon

This they claim is to avoid scalping - they check the requesting account to be sure it is an actual one, non bot and with a story that indicates they don't plan to resell the item (so, the fact you bought 20 Switch console limited Zelda edition should tell them you are a scalper for example)

Shadow The Kid Wizard

Also, it's a two years old product, there's no way there's suddenly "high demand". It's purely some trick of their side.

SPArcheon

Yet, minutes later the invites were sold Ebay and other similar sites got a wave of new auctions for PS5.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

Some more $$$ to Jeff pocket.

@SPArcheon duh, they gave it to people who paid them a commission.

SPArcheon

15:34

"Patrick, is that you?"
Spongebob, mistaking @ShadowTheKidWizard for his friend who lives under a rock.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

Rich people always want more, that's how they become rich and stay rich.

So... my guess now is they did all of this to find the scalpers and contact them, so they can get extra money from it.

Meta Andrew T.

Perhaps critical info: There's been a continuing low stock issue for PS5 since the first release.

SPArcheon

@ShadowTheKidWizard maybe you don't know but there have been problems with the PS5 availability since launch because Sony was "stupid" enough to push power to the point of releasing a console they can't find enough components to produce

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@SPArcheon two years? Well guess I have some reading to do.

Meta Andrew T.

That's why it's harder to get a PS5 console than a PS5 game...

SPArcheon

15:36

So... yep, there is high demand for ps5 because most people that want to buy it CAN'T

Journeyman Geek

@SPArcheon and there's was a shortage of everything

SPArcheon

courtesy of somepony who made it

Meta Andrew T.

@JourneymanGeek I heard graphic cards were affected heavily too since last few years, but then I also heard it's now under recovery

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@SPArcheon weird, I'm almost sure people here in Israel never had problem buying one, got couple of friends who got it shortly after being released, but never tried to buy myself.

@JourneymanGeek rice? ;)

Journeyman Geek

@MetaAndrewT. cause crypto crashed

SPArcheon

15:39

@JourneymanGeek sell the console from your site, ask the buyer to provide their PSN account, bind the account to the console... let's see who will be able so sell a scalped console that way....

Journeyman Geek

@SPArcheon then people can't transfer it, and no one else can sell it and they'd need to handle logistics...

Shadow The Kid Wizard

However, today coworkers here talked about how people can't even pre-order electric cars these days, now that's a huge shortage. Not only Tesla, the Chinese brands too.

SPArcheon

@JourneymanGeek I see the first two as a feature.

Less hacking too.

Meta Andrew T.

And also a shortage of internet bandwidth to SE server?

Journeyman Geek

After a few years..

Shadow The Kid Wizard

15:41

@MetaAndrewT. due to some bad people who DDoS'ing yeah :/

Journeyman Geek

@MetaAndrewT. Some day I'd love to know why

not that we ever will

Meta Andrew T.

perhaps internet is dying... way before Web3 (or whatever that is) arises...

SPArcheon

@JourneymanGeek just make the un-link process annoying enough (contact them by mail, fill form etc) that is still doable but no one wants to do it if possible

Journeyman Geek

@SPArcheon I suspect it'll normalise post covid

Meta Andrew T.

or require to wait for 1 year before unlink, sometimes time restriction helps

(not looking at you, Play Store...)

Shadow The Kid Wizard

15:43

lol

I admire Google for banning Trump, very brave considering he's still powerful, and Apple let him go wild. (talking about his "Social media" platform, Truth something)

SPArcheon

@MetaAndrewT. even 6 months would be enough... if the scalper can't be sure to sell before six month it should become far less desirableness to bet on scalping things.

or just ban the practice at law level like some countries do.

SPArcheon

16:01

Anyway, in the meantime it is quite nice to see Amazon banishing all mentions of "your invite thing don't work consoles are being sold on EBAY" to Azarath

questions and review popping out of existence constantly.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

16:51

265 messages in ~12 hours, that's nice. No tumbleweed today. :D

M.A.R.

19:01

@ShadowTheKidWizard wait, how does Google ban someone?

@ShadowTheKidWizard did you . . . Actually count them

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