I’ve seen a Makita eletric brush cutter with an adapter to plug straight into a standard outlet. The person who bought the machine told me it was more expensive than a battery pack but at least it made the machine usable for longer periods of time when energy is available.

Best zombie horror story I ever read had a female lead. The kind of woman that would casually strip the pants off a corpse after putting it into permanent rest to make pads and be completely non chalant about it.

Then what is the choice?

Sounds awfully like 2 AIs talking at each other

I can’t drink…

Saves a pretty penny on refrigerating stuff but makes for a hard time to have a decent night of sleep.

And your remark on styrofoam hits hard with me.

I have an old house, nearly 100 years old, with a very poor score in thermal efficiency, that really needs some improvement but the idea of glueing highly combustible materials to the walls does not go well with me.

Ouch.

Meanwhile, in Portugal, my peak energy price will be around €.10, with the minimum at around €.06

To what degree is your house insulated already?

Yes, lets forbid people that still strive for self sustenance, with small scale farming and animal rearing, to make an independent living.

Get your head out of your ass for a moment and when the oxygen rushes back to your brain realize animals are much more than meat and are an integral part of well managed and sustainable systems.

Animals make use of crops by-products otherwise wasted, manage vegetation and provide fertilizers, just off the top of my head.

And there are regions where no suitable crops can be planted and instead animals are the only means of survival and sustenance for people.

Back off and let people live.

There are better hills to die on than to persecute traditional farming.

Thank you.

Just cutting back the subsidies would kill off a good portion of the industrial grade producers.

It would be, nonetheless, very good to actively support small scale family farms, where better practices are often used and simpler to implement and supervise.

I like so say I want someday to see my work out in the world in the form of (e)books, so I want to keep my options open.

Probably controversial on my next few words but use your phone as an ereader.

Go through a couple of apps for ebooks (FDroid as a few) until you find the app that most suits your needs.

Amazon is not your friend, so try to explore other venues; Smashwords has a pretty interesting catalog. Project Guttenberg has a good number of older texts and public domain books, all for free.

I am sure other options exist, especially if willing to navigate the high seas.

It was pretty much a junkyard special.

One computer donated the tower and optical drives, another provided RAM, CPU and one HDD and the final one provided motherboard and another HDD.

PSU I had already laying around from yet another junker.

If it works, it works!

I’ve built one working computer from the remains of three.

I’ll take my chances.

Anyone is free to gift me HDDs or SSDs.

In fact, if anyone wants to contribute to my holidays present with random computer parts, be my guest.

Not in the cards

Correct

Funny thing about that particular type of pipe is that the cup is very small and somewhat shallow, so it takes very tobbacco, plus it requires a good degree of dedication to prepare, light and keep.

For two or three pipes a year? Worth it. The ones I’ve seen are less than €30, mostly made from rose root.

The worst thing will be buying good tobbacco.

Thank you for the insight!

I’ve been keeping my eye on a pipe similar to the one used by Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings.

It’s all about the ritual.

I am not a smoker but once in a blue moon I can convince myself to either go for a cigarillo or a small cigar.

I’l sit outside, which implies this is something I do preferably in the summer months, pour myself a glass of wine, put on some music and just be by myself, existing.

I’ve been mulling about getting a pipe for some years.

I make my best to not bother anyone with my smoke and when buying tobbacco, I buy good, to keep it a ritual of self care and not an addiction.

Working with smokers, I constantly hear them complaining about vapers and vice versa and how tobacco is so expensive.

At an average €4,5 a pack, by the end of the month it adds up to a very round €135. Half of that gets me tobbacco and wine for two years.