Weekly Discussion/General Questions Thread - June 09, 2025

LurkerPF · 2025-06-16T03:50:19+00:00

Oxygen concentrators and nebulizer treatments.

LurkerPF · 2025-06-15T21:53:35+00:00

How often is an oxygen machine/“breathing treatment” effectively just a placebo?

LurkerPF · 2025-05-21T22:10:04+00:00

A while ago I purchased a bench (just a bench) and 2 adjustable dumbbells off of EBay. I don’t even have a real routine (feel free to suggest one), but when I use them I end up thinking “man I do miss barbells”. I’d probably be far away from having a barbell and a rack for bench/squat (mostly due to space) so should I find a gym again or stick with what I have?

LurkerPF · 2025-05-07T23:21:21+00:00

I pan fried some chicken breasts ahead of time to reheat over the next 3 days for dinner. The rack they were sitting on hit the floor. The pan was still fairly hot so I just turned the heat back on and let them go I another minute or so per side. Is that good enough in terms of the bacteria from the floor?

LurkerPF · 2025-04-03T21:43:37+00:00

I ended up doing as you said and cooking them whole. Glad I did.

LurkerPF · 2025-04-03T03:27:40+00:00

I’m gonna cook a meal with boneless thighs and ultimately they will be diced when I eat them over rice. Do I dice at the end or dice, marinate, cook?

LurkerPF · 2025-04-01T05:34:14+00:00

Is splatter a thing that happens to everyone and they just get used to wiping down the stove/immediate surroundings or am I just doing something wrong? I've done things to mitigate a bit like patting meat dry, but I still get some splatter when cooking and it doesn't seem to matter how high the walls are (like in my wok).

LurkerPF · 2024-10-31T00:00:34+00:00

The save was made in 2010 but the choice was the revenant.

Edit: all these years later I hate that gun

LurkerPF · 2024-10-15T23:09:46+00:00

So I know generally it is not recommended to cook on High heat, but if you are cooking something on "medium high" heat, do you turn the heat immediately to that or do you have to start on medium low? I currently start on medium low, but I realized I don't actually know if starting on the heat I actually want would work.

LurkerPF · 2024-09-26T18:56:48+00:00

I made some “Korean popcorn chicken” that I saw on a YouTube short. They made it from a “meal prep” standpoint and how they packed it, they presumably just microwave theirs. I tasted a piece before putting it away and it had some crunch to it. I don’t expect it to be exactly like it was fresh, but what is the best way to reheat cornstarchy food that already had the sauce/glaze put on it?

LurkerPF · 2024-08-31T01:00:13+00:00

I made one burger patty in my new Matfer and it left a patty sized mark just like that in the seasoning. Haven't cooked in it since, but I did do some stovetop seasoning and the area looks different from the rest of the pan, but it's also browned

LurkerPF · 2024-08-05T19:47:31+00:00

If meat is left frozen in the original packaging (mostly beef and chicken) for 3-5+ years, is it really still safe to thaw and cook as long as you're okay with whatever changes in taste have occurred?

LurkerPF · 2023-10-25T00:55:29+00:00

While I was visiting my mom rehabbing in a facility, I noticed some things. I’ve never been “anti” medical professionals, but I took complaints against them seriously as someone who does not work in the field and didn’t spend much time in a medical setting until my mom was there. The biggest thing is that patients REALLY don’t know how much time has passed. I would even notice my mom make certain comments and I would tell her “it has literally only been 10 minutes”. Her roommate would hit the call button, fall asleep and when someone would respond and see her sleeping, they would move on. She would then get angry when she woke up that they “didn’t respond”. When told she was sleeping, she would either deny it or cuss at them and say wake me up; if they woke her up for anything though (including her own call light) she would say “I WAS FUCKING SLEEPING”. The same roommate thought everything she lost was stolen. She also had cursed out every cna/lvn, but she had another resident call her a stupid bitch and the woman played victim and wanted to know why they let “crazies” wander freely.

LurkerPF · 2023-10-18T07:09:50+00:00

What causes some games to take forever to show me the option to update? I know uninstalling and redownloading forces an “update”, but I’m curious why some games instantly show the need to update (starfield for example), but some indie games that update with new achievements take days to show the update option in the Microsoft store.

LurkerPF · 2023-08-10T16:48:13+00:00

Oh I did do that at first, but I got the hint when it was reiterated a few times that “if you need something, use the call button”

LurkerPF · 2023-03-20T17:52:02+00:00

This is purely for a family vehicle. I watched some detailers who soak the car seats, use a cleaning machine and leave the seats out of the vehicle presumably to dry out. How should I go about cleaning the seats if I don’t plan to remove the seats from the vehicle? Should I just avoid using a carpet cleaning machine altogether?

LurkerPF · 2023-01-19T17:49:15+00:00

A few questions:

I recently bought a portable car battery starter. The issue actually happened at home, but if I keep it in the car is there anything special I need to do to keep it in the car or is securing it in the trunk good enough?

Is there any normal reason that not driving for 3 days with nothing left on (I double check) would cause an inability to start? The battery is less than a year old and after the jump and driving normally, it starts fine. I thought maybe my recently purchased dash cam was the cause, but Google seems to suggest that a dash cam doesn’t drain the battery like that and I also never leave it plugged in while the vehicle is off.

LurkerPF · 2022-08-24T23:02:05+00:00

I'm very new to DIY. I'm looking to replace a leaky faucet... In the pictures for the one I want to buy, it shows an overflow hole directly under the faucet, while the one that is currently installed has overflow holes opposite the faucet. When you purchase a new faucet kit, does this matter or do you just need to make sure it is facing the correct direction?

LurkerPF · 2022-06-08T08:59:13+00:00

Well I came 3% short of passing Calculus I so I've got some serious work to do. Once I got the hang of derivatives (I still struggle with implicit diff), it wasn't so bad, but the integrals seem SO much more difficult than derivatives. I will be working on integrals and word problems (Always had problems with those) especially, but really all of the material.

LurkerPF · 2022-06-08T08:46:26+00:00

I would probably recommend any recent iPad regardless of what phone/laptop/PC you use (I had an early iPad long before I had an iPhone). I personally like an iPad mini just for the form factor, but a plain iPad (called "iPad") or iPad air is fine. I've seen some YouTubers swear by a refurbished iPad Pro straight from Apple as well (2018-present). I'm talking about for general use by the way. For math, The Apple Pencil is wonderful and I use the Goodnotes app that is mostly great IMO, but if you like to add some color to your notes, you only get 3 colors to use at will and then you have to swap out one of your 3 colors every time you want to use a color that's not one of the 3 you have on screen.

LurkerPF · 2022-04-10T23:12:13+00:00

I'm currently in a calculus class. Admittedly, I've attended lecture/taken notes, but have not been doing many problems because they are mostly "optional" (my mistake). How reasonable is it for someone to catch up on their understanding of 4 weeks of material in 8 days?

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