• Ricky Rigatoni@piefed.zipEnglish
    4·
    12 days ago

    I hope this is a fictitious example and he’s not actually paying almost $20 for a cookie.

    But I’ve talked to enough Californians to know how much some people are willing to pay for things.

  • BigBrownDog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    12 days ago

    There’s a lot of things lately that I realized that I don’t really care for now that they are expensive anyway. I haven’t paid for XBox Game Pass since it went up. I’m not missing it. I haven’t had Neflix or Spotify in 2 years. I don’t miss it. Losing Amazon Prime saved me a ton of cash and made me realize I was buying crap I didn’t need. I haven’t had McDonald’s, Chipotle, or Jimmy John’s in a long time. Don’t miss it.

    • vogi@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      What are you using instead of Spotify? Just last week I stopped paying for Qobuz and switched to Free YouTube Music it actually kind of feels like a cheat code. In the browser uBlock deals with ads and for Android there are more than enough alternative apps. I really like the library as it include everything uploaded to YouTube including. Soundtracks, Covers or Mixtapes. Also buy an album from time to time for support.

    • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      11 days ago

      I haven’t had Neflix or Spotify

      For the last few years I ask for a 1 yr gift card for Spotify premium, costs like $99 so it balances not terrible for the year.

      But especially since I have an AdGuard home DNS, I’m loving tubi. Haven’t seen an ad and the selection isn’t bad.

      • BigBrownDog@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        11 days ago

        I’ll check it out. Unfortunately I have comcast and I’m forced to use their modem/router. Could I still set up an AdGuard DNS with it?

        I had my own modem and router, but it mysteriously stopped working and comcast can’t figure out why. Happened with 2 modems, but theirs works fine.

        • couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          11 days ago

          You can set up a pfsense router behind your other router and install stuff on pfsense, including adblockers, dns, etc.

          Basically you’ll go into your Comcast router, set up a static IP to be in the DMZ, and have that IP designated to the MAC address of your pfsense box.

          There may be more to it as I haven’t messed with my routers in quite a while. I’m sure someone will correct me 😂

  • |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    12 days ago

    Wanna use this opportunity to shill an awesome cookie recipe by Adam Regusea.

    Recipe :

    Ingredients

    • 113g (1 stick) butter
    • 200g sugar (1 cup granulated or brown, but I prefer 1 2/3 cups powdered sugar)
    • 5-10g (1-2 teaspoons) molasses (optional, replicates the taste of brown sugar)
    • 1 egg
    • 10g (1 teaspoon of Morton whatever brand you want kosher) salt (use 2/3rds of that if your butter is salted)
    • 4-8g (1-2 teaspoons) vanilla extract
    • 3g (1/2 teaspoon) baking soda
    • 230g (about 1.5 cups) bread flour (1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour is OK instead)
    • 100g chocolate chips or other mix-ins

    Instructions

    1. Get the oven (convection if possible) heating to 375ºF/190ºC
    2. Melt the butter
    3. Mix in the sugar (and optional molasses) until smooth
    4. Mix in the egg until very smooth
    5. Mix in the salt (FYI, some people might not like their cookies as salty as I do), vanilla, baking soda, flour and chips

    The dough should be a little sticky — you can chill it for a few minutes to make it easier to shape.

    1. Divide the dough into six 115g portions and roll each into something like a golf ball.

    2. Space them evenly on a baking sheet — no parchment paper or grease necessary (but you can use parchment paper if wanted).

    3. Flatten each ball into something like a hockey puck and tidy up the circular shape.

    4. Turn the oven off and turn the broiler/grill on maximum.

    5. Give it a minute or two to heat up, then put in the cookies near the top.

    6. Let the broiler brown the tops of the cookies until golden — this should only take a minute, so don’t walk away or they’ll burn.

    7. If you’re doing multiple pans of cookies, brown them each one at a time.

    8. Turn the broiler off and the oven back on to 375ºF/190ºC.

    9. Give the broiler a couple minutes to cool down, then return the cookies to the oven.

    10. Bake until they spread and look done to you — mine take about eight minutes as this stage, but they’ll take longer if you don’t have a convection fan.

    For perfect “chewy” texture, take them out when they just look a hair under-baked.

    Let the cookies cool and solidify before scraping them off the baking sheet.

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      12 days ago

      If there’s one ingredient where you really don’t need to use a specific brand it’s salt.

      • Bassman1805@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        12 days ago

        True, but when measuring by volume it IS important to be clear about whether you’re using coarse or fine salt. The distinction is not important if you measure ingredients by mass like a civilized person.

        • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          11 days ago

          Let me rant about sour cream. In America, land of the free, home of the brave, we measure things by volume. Why? Because fuck you, that’s why, I guess. When you need sour cream, you look at it and see “oz”, ahh, ounces, okay, so how many fluid ounces are in a cup? Alright, let me look that up and… Wait a second. That’s “oz” not “fl oz”. That’s the weight ounce, not the volume fluid ounces!

          It was at this point in the conversation that my wife got frustrated and said it was probably the same. To which I protest, no, it’s not, they’re different! To know how much volume is in this stupid container of sour cream I need to look up the fucking density of sour cream or just guesstimate based on if I think it’s gonna fit in a measuring cup or whatever. And you know they’re playing with shrink flation and that thing where your brain has trouble with certain shapes and thinks it’s bigger than it really is.

          So imagine my frustration when writing this post that I randomly decide to look up how much a fluid ounce of water weighs, because I think at one point that was brought up and I said we shouldn’t assume water and sour cream have the same density. But apparently a fluid ounce of water weighs 1.041 ounces. And also, apparently the density of sour cream is extremely close to water. According to this god-forsaken website it is 1.0125 ounces per fluid ounce.

          Screenshot of a horrible looking website. God have mercy on who sees this. Words cannot describe it. A cacophony of images overlaps grids. Through the chaos one can see that it is 8.1 oz/US cup

          SO IMAGINE HOW STUPID I FEEL THAT AFTER WRITING ALL THIS TO VENT ABOUT IT, THAT YES, IN FACT, AN OUNCE OF SOUR CREAM IS ABOUT A FLUID OUNCE.

          I hope this brought you joy.