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Nope no other suggestions. Lard and bacon fat are the most common around here (Texas). Olive oil will often appear on menus ostensibly for health reasons. Avocado oil use is growing. I, too, have used ghee but I found the flavor off-putting. (EDIT: However, there are very similar Indian lentil- and bean-based recipes to refried beans where the ghee is perfect, of course. <shrug!>)

Really, what's most important is getting the generous-but-right amount of fat into the beans to emulsify them. Too little and they're chalky and paste-like. Too much and they're overbearingly rich and greasy. Just right and the beans are silky and soft (EDIT: almost but not quite runny when the plate is tilted). That is where I come down strongly and die on that hill. But the particular fat used to achieve this? I have my preferences which I think I can defend, but I am not religious about it.

(This makes me think of a complete side note, Hummus-bit-Tahini needs the same attention to emulsifying the bean with a proper amount of fat. Too many hummus recipes on the internet have far too little oil in them...)

That's better. :-)

The following is not direct criticism, as I have used butter to make refried beans and it is easily available - but, butter should be the low down the fat choice list as it has a strong flavor that competes with the beans. The first and most obvious/traditional fat to use is pig lard, but a neutral oil or shortening works perfectly well, too. My grandmother would use saved, rendered bacon fat from a Folgers coffee can she kept near the stove (because she always had bacon fat, grandaddy had to have bacon for every breakfast). I have also used olive oil, but only if making black beans (which can stand up to the flavor). Avocado oil works well, too.

I am surprised no one yet has posted the infuriatingly worthless expression of affectless sympathy:

thoughts and prayers

You lost me at the lack of added fat, a critical component for refried beans. Yes, there's a little butter called for with the onion, but not nearly enough fat (ie, none) added to the beans.

Call me a pedantic purist gatekeeper who grew up eating these almost daily, but you posted mashed beans, not refried beans.

All great advice, but I personally cannot urge people towards pCloud. I have one of the permanent tiers, but I found the service frustratingly buggy and, when contacted, support was rude and unhelpful. There are so many little odd limitations on the pCloud file system it was frustrating. I also worry that their buy-once business model is not sustainable.

Sync.com provides an even more secure service (zero-knowledge across the board) with similar (better than US anyway) privacy protections in the host country (Canada) that has been, so far for 2 years of use, rock solid (I couldn't go a week without pCloud farting out some error). The subscription model is affordable and generous and the customer-facing pages for sharing files are very professional looking (important to me, because I professionally share files and pCloud looked like a hobbyist page in this regard AND leaked private information).

EDIT: Regarding iCloud. Not only is iCloud end-to-end, but you may turn on zero-knowledge encryption now, as well (Advanced Data Protection I think is what they call it) so that Apple doesn't even have the keys to decrypt your data, making it quite similar to sync.com now.

Does Forbidden Lands count as "rules light"? I feel it does (apart from Index Card RPG it's probably the most rules-light game on my bookshelf). Its cousin game, Dragonbane releases soon (and it is a lovely little game, artistically) and it's pretty damn light.

I miss Usenet.

Hugo is opinionated, but fun, yes.

I have made several sites (and maintain one) with RWC. However, I found that using Hugo (installed with Homebrew) for static sites was worth the effort learning Hugo. It’s just more fun to me to actually write HTML (et al) and watch Hugo compile everything into a site that sit so high and remote in RWC (plus, if I can pass the site off easily to anyone).

If I have understood your question correctly: First, in the Finder, if you view by list instead of icon, you can then use the up/down arrow keys in the Quick Look to navigate backwards/forwards through the images. Second, you can also use the Preview or Gallery mode (I forget what it is exactly called) in the Finder on image directories to quickly create fast scrolling gallery views of image directories.

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Yes, but.

Overall, yes, leverage the Apple Ecosystem as far as you can - and you can quite far before "needing" alternatives. I have several Apple devices are various stripes and the integration between them is very good/nice. I have a PC (strictly for gaming) and I made some efforts to integrate it with my Apple devices, but as I don't use it much except as a launch pad into Steam, it really doesn't matter much.

• I use Apple Mail and probably always will. I have tried several options, but find Apple Mail works very well "for me".
• I use Apple Calendar and probably always will. Works fine "for me".
• I use Apple Notes for quick jots of generally disconnected information. I have tried many other Notes apps, and so many are just "too much" (Obsidian, for example, is an operating system masquerading as a note app :-) /s). I am happy that Bear recently upgraded to the long-awaited Version 2 and for my heavy-duty note lifting and writing, it's now my go-to.
• I use Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. I have used Keynote to build mid-5-figure and low-6-figure productions (I charged) for large events. It never broke on me during a run, it never crashed, and I made some good dough with it.
• I have used Final Cut Pro X and Motion to edit and release a feature length film. I actually migrated from pre-FCPX (8? 9?) to Adobe Premiere in 2010, used Adobe's terrible products diligently for almost a decadebecause I thought I had to, but finally ditched that shit for alternatives (Final Cut Pro, Motion, Blender, Logic Pro, Affinity Suite, primarily). I just last month finally cut off our Adobe CC subs for the production company, although we kept the Adobe Stock sub.
• I use 1Password for cross-platform password management, but more-often-than-not I don't actually use it and rely on iCloud passwords, which work perfectly fine "for me", to the point that I am wondering if when the next rev of the OS comes out if I can ditch 1Password...
• I have iCloud+/AppleOne because 1. I wanted 2TB of iCloud storage 2. I wanted Hide My Email and VPN 3. I wanted unfettered access to AppleTV (which is great, and I am in the business anyway) and Apple Arcade (which is pretty good, awkually).
• I used to use Dropbox for professional file sharing, but after some privacy snafus on their part, I flirted with pCloud for a while (until I learned that you couldn't "ln -s aName aNotherName" in the pCloud file system). We now have Sync.com as a non-US-based, zero-knowledge encrypted professional file sharing service and I couldn't be happier with it. It is cheaper and more secure than Dropbox.
• I travel extensively and I use Apple Maps almost to exclusion. I also use apps like inRoute and Scenic (I ride motorcycle long-distances sometimes). I have Google Maps on my devices, but never use it (I have de-Googled myself in general, though incompletely).
• I use iMessage and FaceTime extensively and have never had a problem sending or receiving messages (that I am aware of). I especially like handing off phone calls to my other devices (for example, sitting at my laptop or desktop and my phone in the other room rings and I can call or answer on my computer).
• I use Nova (and its sister app, Transmit) for website creation (using Hugo+Bootstrap) and other low-level programming/text operations. I did use VSCode previously, but I am quite satisfied with Nova and happy to support small MacOS developers with $.
• I use Safari almost to exclusion, but Firefox in a pinch and exclusively on Windows.

I have used Linux (at one time I would build my own boxes), Windows (professionally), and macOS for decades relatively interchangeably, but in my dotage I am more and more becoming a MacOS-only user.