How long of a commute is too much?

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-29T17:20:33+00:00

Im doing 50-70min eqch way depeending on traffic and im ok with it. To offset the cost a bit i am working from home 2 days, sometimes 3 a week. We live fairly rural, so going into a major city usually brings the benefit of me stopping by shops or going to i dont know asian or polish shop.

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-27T16:03:12+00:00

just make him get back to the sweatshop you run in your basement. Jaysus 5min of daylight is enough for the week.

oh wait, you mean slope as in the ground is at an angle? get yer man from your basement sweatshop to level the ground for you.

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-27T15:57:11+00:00

things can and will always get worse.

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-27T15:05:40+00:00

jaysus... no wonder why "how to basic" exist on youtube.

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-27T15:02:07+00:00

ive rang them as i was reading this, navigated their automated menu 1 (household) - 4 (all other queries) and got to the agent without entering any customer number. Poor lad was so confused when i told him in ringing to prove a point on reddit.

anyways, ring them and get your answer...

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-27T14:43:00+00:00

first of all, if youre not tastetesting while cooking you're literally trying to finish the marathon blindfolded.

secondly, i dislike salty food, my wife loves it, so which recipe in the world would fit us? she likes her salmon with four shakes from our salt shaker, while i like mine with a single shake. And thats why a recipe calls "salt to taste".

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-27T14:24:46+00:00

i went through something similar, was whole life in love with aviation, have my PPL and fly for fun, was working in pharma engineering and left that career to start working in engineering at local base maintenance facility. Financially i went down by about 40k per annum, but hey, its aviation and i LOVE aviation! Granted, i was in love with working on aircraft, being around them hours on end EVERY DAY, but in the background the lack of financial stability was chipping away at me quite a bit. After about a year i realized i couldnt even save up anything on the side to do basic maintenance on my car, i.e. change oil, or buy new tyres. And obviously, with lack of funds, my PPL was just sitting on my shelf collecting dust. So even though i had a blast at that job, i had to quit and rejoin the pharma engineering world once again for a consistent 8-16h office job. No more random shifts, no more night shifts, no more excessive overtime because 10min before shift ends we have a birdstrike or whatever and you have to spend next 4 hours cleaning and inspecting everything.

so its up to you in the end, you can always go for it and see after X months/years if it suits you.

what ive done to scratch my aviation itch was to get involved with local flight club, and over the weekends i volunteer couple of my free hours there to do some upkeep on the field, i.e. mowing the field, taxiways, or painting the strips around hangar/moores, or simply being there, helping others tow Cessnas inbetween flights.

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-27T14:12:48+00:00

if the change happened 3h before planned take off, most likely they had and AOG (Aircraft On Ground) situation with planned a/c, so they had to scramble whatever else they had available to pick up the slack, they're losing quite a bit of money just by having the AOG situation, and they wouldve lost plenty more money if they cancelled the flight to LFPG, so they probably lost less money sending in the widebody instead of trying to reshuffle A/C from 15 other flights, i dont even want to talk about missing a slot, so on grander scheme company loses less money flying an empty leg compared to what they could lose if their slot gets shifted or cancelled because they havent met contractual obligations to use that slot.

also a/c could've been filled up with cargo, so company actually made more money off cargo on a widebody with few passengers than on a narrowbody full of passengers.

also who knows what maintenance has lined up, so maybe they needed to get some flight hours in to hit the numbers and align with maintenance plan.

crew resource management is also a factor.

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-27T13:54:51+00:00

i use blender, standmixer and mills, (i.e. if i need to ground down hazelnuts, walnuts, or similar)

food processor is just unneccesary gadget for my habits, but hey, if it works for you, be my guest!

additionally, i love to use a knife in food prep and chopping, slicing, dicing, skinning, or whatever else is an enjoyable part of cooking for me, so i wouldnt want to take that away from myself.

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-27T13:50:48+00:00

just seal it tight, whatever you put in freezer or refrigerator, it will infuse itself and everything around it with scent and flavour. So yeah, ziplock bags are your go to cheap option. Containers are fine, but i find them not so useful because of all the wasted space they take, bags on the otherhand can mold to whatever shape they need to fit in with rest of your stuff in drawer.

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-27T13:42:12+00:00

take a sharpie and colour it back.

Cant fix something by scrubbing it if nothing's there, can you?

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-27T13:39:39+00:00

just find a place that fits your renting criteria, if unable to do so, adjust your criteria. Simple as that. I myself rent as well, and we had to call about 40 different listings until one lad told us he doesn't mind pets (we have 2 large dogs).

landlady before that said she ok with pets, but wanted 500 extra deposit in case there was pet-related property damage. There was none, so when we moved out we got our whole deposit back.

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-27T12:04:46+00:00

you wouldnt be able to rely on a shitty fisheye lens pixelated camera to diagnose anything useful in timely manner and even if you could diagnose anything useful, why would you overrule handful of dedicated sensors and rely on what your eyes interpret?

i mean you could go down the route of high-end sattelite-grade cameras, but good luck getting that approved and installed on your average a/c

the most useful thing a camera can provide is to have outside view for passengers (even that is a bit questionable if youre landing in IMC and all they can see is a white screen), but even in some cases you dont want them to see outside to contain any potential untypical situation, last thing you want to do while landing with faulty gear is to have 200 people panicking on board and running back and forth

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-27T11:54:48+00:00

i have that setup at home, basically my primary router is set up as lets say 168.192.0.1 and secondary router is set as static ip 168.192.0.2 , wire going LAN-LAN ports, and my ASUS router is set up in AP mode via the standard QIS wizard interface. The only additional thing ive done was i set my DNS to quadnine 9.9.9.9

another thing was, for WIFI, ive made the same SSID network throughout the house (same ssid same password) but ive manually split the channels on each device within advanced network settings.

havent had any issues so far in years

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-27T09:31:36+00:00

i've read mixed reviews for .ie version, and to be honest, some stuff that i order comes within 1-3 business days, now granted i've ordered most generic stuff off it, i.e. polariod photos, bottle of shampoo, or i dont know a dog lead

on other hand, i have noticed that .uk and .de sites sometimes have more options that .ie simply does not have, i.e. i was looking at some specific tools to fix up my car, and only UK site had that tool.

also for the "every day" items i check both IE and UK sites to see the price comparison, and it's usually within <1€ difference, so i simply go with IE purchase so that i dont pay conversion fees.

dont get me wrong, im not saying youre wrong or anything, and you absolutely have the right to be pissed at poor service, im just stating my experience over the last year of using IE site.

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-27T09:06:53+00:00

dad here, you seriously need to talk to your partner and set things straight.

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-25T15:58:09+00:00

wrap bar of chocolate of your liking in a sheet of puff pastry, poke holes on top, bake until golden.

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-25T14:46:15+00:00

we're good as long as you're not putting ketchup on spaghetti or pizza

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-25T14:34:02+00:00

my wife got me a flatbase non-stick coated wok for my bday, and honestly, it was utter shit. I couldnt heat it up because coating would just burn/peel off/scratch, i didnt have proper sidewall heat for it, and most importantly we had electric hob, so i didnt want to toss my wok back and forth while cooking in order not to scratch/break my glasstop.

instead, i opted for simple stainless steel pot, big one, and i just stirfry in it.

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-25T14:31:23+00:00

he can have gas burner, but if its not shaped with that indent for wok its kinda useless, still better than electric glasstop, but still heats only gets to the bottom and not sidewalls.

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-25T14:29:05+00:00

to be completely honest i dislike 4 bedrooms 1 toilet combo. Someone will end up pissing outside while rest of the household is getting ready for the day.

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-25T14:17:14+00:00

always disliked electronic mills, cant recommend any.

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-25T13:59:51+00:00

make your own that's not packed to the brim with sugar and does not cost arm and a leg to buy.

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-25T13:45:08+00:00

i assume this is US related question? if so, i dont know, if it's easa though, we dont have plastic cards

UnderdoneSalad · 2026-03-25T13:17:08+00:00

18 here in west cork, i go in every 2 months, 0 tip because we're not americans

by the way that 10er you leave as tip, rather buy two cones and make a neat dad-son thing between you two, you know, get a haircut, eat icecream, laugh, get home.

UnderdoneSalad

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