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Cake day: January 9th, 2024

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  • A year or so ago I bought a nice handbag that came with a smaller removable bag on the inside that I keep everything in. It sure makes changing bags easier since every handbag I own can accommodate that smaller bag 🤣

    Forgot to mention that inside the wallet there is also a few doses of paracetamol and ibuprofen for headaches as well as cetirizine for allergies. My partner loves the fact that I have her covered in case of emergency ☺️


  • Hairbrush, zipper wallet with cards and a little bit of cash for emergencies, a small bottle of perfume (Victoria’s Secret Coconut Passion, my partner got it as a gift in 2013 and never used it lol), phone cable and sometimes a battery bank, pack of travel tissues, a pill bottle with 2 days of my ADHD meds in case I forgot to take them, a few cotton buds for if my eyeliner transfers to the lower lid, a few cotton pads for cleaning up any cakey looking makeup or runs from being too warm, tinted lip balm, lip gloss, a reusable shopping bag, a travel umbrella, and the apartment keys.

    Might need a Bag of Holding tbh.




  • Great article, I have been subscribed to that feed for a while and have had the Gemini site bookmarked - sadly I forget that Gemini exists. This post reminded me to jump back on when I get home :)

    Unrelated but @[email protected] I think I’ve been subscribed to your feed for a while as well. Did you have a blog on SDF previously called Tinkering Down Under? If so, it’s nice to see a familiar name!


  • How often do you buy clothes?

    More than I care to admit — at least one thing per month. I started transition a few years ago and have lost nearly 20kg since this past December. Almost everything I wore last spring is far too large and it’s been a struggle to replace many pieces with thrifted ones since I’m quite a bit outside of the body norms in my city. I can get Bershka and Pull&Bear trousers and jeans at work for less than €20 while they are nearly €30 elsewhere so it has been tempting!

    For me, the most important is that everyday items and expensive items are European: food, softwares, fuel, car, etc.

    This makes me feel a bit better as my partner and I have been buying European for almost everything (other than games, and most of them are indie these days) for years. Thank you :3





  • XXL Nutrition, from The Netherlands.

    The vanilla whey isolate is my favourite, and I put 25-30g of it in my overnight oats for breakfast almost every morning. My partner makes banana pancakes with it in place of sugar for a sweetener and they’re fabulous!

    The chocolate whey isolate is yummy and can be gritty at times. Sometimes I’ll toss it in a blender with cold coffee. Warm coffee just makes it clumpy.

    The frozen fit meals are also great and I can find them at my local grocery store. They’ve been great for dinners when I don’t feel like cooking. The only one I haven’t tried yet is the pulled curry.


    Someone else in the comments mentioned Bulk. I can vouch that it’s pretty good. The apple and blackberry electrolyte powder is just lovely to have while at the gym. The tropical clear whey isolate is my go-to drink immediately after a workout, it keeps the sore factor down especially after leg day :3


  • Is it because developers are often using dependencies that are ahead of release versions?

    That has been my experience recently. I had the same mindset as you until a critical piece of software I use shat the bed on Arch (LiveCaptions) that affected my being able to watch training videos for work.

    Because it was time critical and I didn’t feel like possibly breaking other things for one package, I grabbed the flatpak. It came with its own nvidia driver package (mine was newer) and it worked out of the box without having to mess with anything and that was enough to change my hardline view on that.

    Now it’s just another tool to use in an emergency when important things randomly break.


  • That’s fair, thanks for expanding on the criteria! Serif is indeed still located in the UK, I had a look before commenting. The address of the company headquarters matters, for sure.

    for example publicly traded companies are usually owned by several investors and might even be hold in majority by foreign investors - but the company itself has to follow regional laws which is what we focus on.

    Absolutely. Ubisoft is a great example of that. Last time I checked, Tencent owns a bunch of shares there - not enough for a majority, yet it’s still a concern for the future.

    The site is bookmarked and I’m looking forward to watching it develop!