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Not sure why you think that. It really depends on the performance of the new parts. If they're (pulling numbers completely out of thin air) 25% faster at the same TDP, then that's definitely more efficient. At that point it you can just use PBO to tune performance down to whichever power envelope fits your use case

I'm not trying to build smokeless necessarily. Mostly, the rocks are for even heat distribution and appearance. I worry that the rings i bought won't support flagstone, so it needs to look good without them

Either is fine, I'm trying not to break the bank on it though. The pit will be outside, below a high canopy but not covered/roofed. I'm also not sure where I'd even find some of the more esoteric rocks. Would chipped marble work here?

Usenet never really went away, it just got quieter in favor of easier to use options. I still use it pretty frequently for the couple of things is really good for.

It's a gross oversimplification, but think of usenet as a kind of early social media or proto-forums. Before websites, facebook, or anything resembling the modern internet took off, news groups were howl ike-minded people connected. You could post articles to various groups, sort of like a dead drop, and that post would be related around to all of the various providers based on who subscribed to whom. The user interface was very similar to an email client and you could look at it like sending email to a global address (with no user@ part)

The structure of usenet was based on dot syntax, with the topic scope becoming progressively more narrow as you went along. You would have things like: alt.books.scifi

alt.books.scifi.authors

alt.books.scifi.authors.asimov

or comp.software

comp.software.unix

comp.software.unix.compilers

with each of those groups focusing on more specific topics as they went down the hierarchy, and thousands of groups and subgroups.

Usenet was one of the first federated services, too. Due to how replication was managed, no one single server or host controlled it. Your server could go down, but any other server that replicated (federated) with your instance would have all the same articles unless they were marked as a "local only" group.

This is all very early in the internet, but i feel like this is the kind of thing that will save us in the end. Federated services, newsgroups, personal websites, and forums can free us from the shackles of Corp owned platforms. It's amazing how relevant it still is for a technology spun up in the early 80s. Wikipedia has a great article on usenet that everyone on a fediverse platform should read to help understand how we got here and how quirky and weird and fun the old internet used to be (and hopefully can be again)

Yeah. To be fair, those 2 cities represent the worst in yuppie suburbanism and "i got mine" mentality, so the bar for comparison is really low

Olathe and OP are two big reasons we can't have anything nice here. The streetcar is staying on the Missouri side only (at least for now) so I'm hopeful it'll stay free.

Cut off the stem end

Slice lengthwise

Drizzle with chili oil and salt

Roast at 425 for 25-30 minutes, turning once

That's literally all you need to do for an amazing crispy and spicy snack

Huh, i just looked it up and the second location in OP (off 75th and metcalf) seems to have closed in 2024.

The best donut spots in my town are all sold out of donuts by 10a under most normal circumstances. Usually they just close up whenever they sell out, but list 10a as their "official" closing time

If i were to be charitable to that place, I would say that first, the fries slap. Everything else on the menu is pretty mid. The other positive is that their sauce is more like a Carolina or Memphis style sauce rather than the St Louis style that you get at almost every other bbq joint in kc, and there are a lot of people that prefer that style and can't get it anywhere else. Now, that said, all of my information is out of date because I haven't been to either location in probably close to 10 years

For real. It's a ton of fun when you have a Linux server presenting a SMB share and you get a folder called MyFolder and one called MYFOLDER. Take a guess about what happens in that situation. I guarantee it's different

If you still have the original hardware, a flash cart might be worth looking into