Certification to be a bartender? Where at? I worked in the restaurant business for a decent amount of time when I was younger. The restaurant I worked at had a training regime for bartenders so they would learn how to pour accurately and learn the recipes for a ton of drinks, but it wasn’t mandated by the government. Front of house staff from several establishments in the area would hang out and our restaurants were far more lax.

Haha, I was trying to post a summary vs rehashing one of the million recipes you can find on the Internet. Let me try restating them a bit more explicitly:

1. Start softening your desire amount of butter in the bottom of the stand mixer. If you don’t have a stand mixer, put the butter in the bottom of a large bowl. Set aside
2. Optional: add minced rosemary and/or roasted garlic and such to the bowl
3. Add cold water to the pot you’re going to boil your potatoes in. Large pot = good. Add salt to this water if desired
4. Get a cutting board, a potato peeler (optional), and a knife. Chef knife = good
5. Peel potatoes with a knife or a potato peeler. The only exception I make for this is for red potatoes, but even then I peel half
6. Dice the peeled potatoes using the knife and cutting board. Add to the pot from step #2
7. Put pot on stove and bring to a boil using high heat
8. Boil the potatoes until they cleve cleanly with a fork. You’re not going for mush/butter soft, but you also don’t want a crunch as you slice them
9. Drain the potatoes and dump them in the bowl from step 1. Let rest a few minutes to soften the butter.
10. Mash some to make sure the butter is melted
11. Add milk as necessary and mash. Don’t overdo the mashing!

Anything you need to do beyond Rufus or the like for installation? How did activation, auto updates, etc work?

It’s also CPU generation, unless that’s changed since the last time I looked.

It looks like I’m the odd person out: I cut my potatoes before boiling and use a KitchenAid stand mixer for the mashing. My mashed taters are usually soft/fluffy/yummy.

For mashing, less is more. If you know this going in, there’s no harm to using a stand mixer.

Put your desire amount of butter in the bottom of the stand mixer. Peel, slice and add to cold water. Salt if desired. Boil until they cleve cleanly with a fork. Drain, dump on butter, let rest a few minutes to soften the butter. Mix and add milk as necessary. A little minced rosemary with the potatoes when they go into the stand mixer is 👌

Volt owner checking in. I do one pedal driving 95% of the time and you’re right. My brake disks are in rough shape because they see so little use.

What industry/retion do you work in? I’m over the Midwest and was in the office today in jeans and a graphic tee.

I subscribed to the communities I care the most about and sort by subscribed and new. That said, across 20 communities it’s probably something like 10-15 new posts per day so after I get through those and interact it’s off to all.

But I do try to engage in the communities I want to see grow.

But but but… I want the little offshoot niche community to grow! I also want content to get seen by more than 5 people.

In reality there just isn’t the user mass to make small/niche communities viable right now, so you see more general communities filling the void.

An easy example is 3D printing. There are two 3D printing communities in the lemmyverse. There’s also a ‘fix my print’ community that’s a ghost town and a few printer specific communities that are also ghost towns. Posts in these more specialized communities tend to get a consistent level of votes, but very few comments.

I’ve intentionally been trying to seed more content, but it’s hard without literally posting the same thing in two spots.

Sounds horrible for your clutch to do this for any significant period of time…

Eh, it really depends how heavy your clutch is. Exonoboxes (Saturn SL2, Sonic) or sporty cars with lower torque numbers (Miata, Celica, Fiero, Prelude, S2000) = no biggie. Higher torque (V8 Camaros and Trans Ams, Corvettes) usually have an assist spring to help you hold the petal to the floor, but engaging/disengaging take more leg effort.

/late 30s guy who only owned one auto that was converted prior to buying an RV

On a side note, modern manuals kind of suck. They hold revs when you pop the clutch for emissions reasons, which makes the 1-2 shift especially kind of suck. A lot of them also barely engine brake and dual mass flywheels on higher output engines can clunk if you unload them hard. Although regen braking isn’t super thrilling, it’s way more engaging that engine braking in basically any model year 2010+ vehicle.

Surprisingly, they’re still in the top 10 most visited websites. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-visited_websites

Man, a barefoot style boot. I had toe shoes for years and only recently discovered this style. They’re a lot more discreet, but now that it’s getting colder out I’m looking for something warmer.

The maverick and ridgeline are both unibodies, but the colorado has a frame.

That said, cafe seems to encourage larger footprints. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy#:~:text=CAFE footprint requirements are set,vehicle with a smaller footprint.

They would have made it pretty easy to catch too. I get a text from them every month when they charge my auto pay, including the amount.

See also: manual transmissions in cars. I say this as someone who, until going electric, exclusively drove three pedal cars. People just weren’t buying them, but toward the end it did seem like manufacturers were making it less appealing to buy them by only putting them in base models.

I’ve posted some variant of this a few times now, but I think there are a bunch of us lurking and commenting on some of these smaller communities. But since there aren’t many posts in them I’ve been somewhat hesitant to post content for fear of being spammy.

Add in people posting the same thing across the various “same community” on all the various instances for extra silliness.

Agree on communities over here getting created during the exodis, seeing a small surge, and then kind of withering. I’m subbed to 15ish communities that aren’t even all that niche (3D printing, photography, woodworking) and it’s rare that they all get one post per day. There are obviously people lurking because posts will get comments, but I think we’re all a little wary of being the person to post a bunch of content for fear of no one else doing so.

Which version? I don’t have any troubleshooting tips, but things have been pretty normal over here.