I wouldn’t recommend keeping credit card limits low to only mitigate fraud risk - credit card companies generally will take the hit for unauthorized use, aka stolen information, and send you a new card. So keeping the limit low in an effort to make sure that if your info is stolen they’ll only be able to steal $1000 or $2000 isn’t really necessary, and only affects your ability to use credit and have a better credit score (because your % of utilization of your overall credit limit goes into your FICO).

Instead, review your purchases monthly and inform the card company of charges you didn’t make as soon as you see them.

DEBIT cards are a different story. They’re a direct link to your bank account funds and there’s no intermediary that is willing to take a hit, it’s your bank vs you, so if your debit card info (and pin) are exposed you’re much more vulnerable. So I wouldn’t recommend EVER using debit these days, there’s zero reason to, but if you have to then your advice in your OP is more appropriate.

I can’t speak for others, but when I joined I was definitely confused by instances, federated internet, moderation variances, and how to operate the various ~ 4 beta apps I downloaded at the same time.

I’m definitely not a tech normie, but it was still unfamiliar and I would never have migrated if I hadn’t been fed up with Reddit.

Most people don’t want to have to look up guides to figure out how a system works, they just want to download an app that their friends all use and move on with their day. Blocking instances you don’t like? Doing research to find a “home” instance? Ain’t nobody got time for that.

I raise the BS flag. A chef is responsible for creating and planning the restaurant menu, which means they have to create dishes that fit the restaurant niche and local customer base’s interest, while also fitting the recipes into the workflow of the kitchen setup, ingredient availability from suppliers, etc. They have to worry about prep capacity, yield percentages vs cost of the menu items, etc.

I studied culinary arts and worked in the restaurant industry for eight years before I got out. There is a difference between a chef and a cook and a kitchen manager. Were you a line lead, or kitchen manager? I might buy that.

The chef is not just someone who wants to break their back until they make it up the hierarchy, they’re usually the one who is passionate enough that AFTER breaking their back all day they go home and STILL COOK. I went home after 14 hour days and made cereal or whatever because I was sick of cooking.

Never once have I ever heard an actual chef call themselves a “professional chef.” Most actual chefs I’ve met are snobbishly anti-nonstick as well, but that’s not necessarily a rule. ALL of them could make a Teflon pan last more than a year or two.

Your comments stink, I don’t buy it, unless you were a glorified kitchen manager that the restaurant called a “chef” but you had no real job in making the menu or new recipes.

I have been a pro chef as well.

Doubt

I mean, if you could use the GPU exhaust as your dryer heating element that would be dope

Interesting. That’s stupid high, all the more reason to stick with ryzen for the time being.

You could make the argument that people with 5090s do run their PCs longer than 3 hours since those folk are more prone to longer bouts of gaming

I think this is what I said also, yes

Doesn’t hurt to plan for the future regarding building wiring, since most tech folk do so regarding their PC builds.

I completely agree. IMO 15A convenience circuits (normal wall circuits in residential homes) are out of date and shouldn’t be used any longer. 20A should be the minimum, but that extra copper is expensive, so it’s a balance that has to be weighed at construction.

seems that homeowners are given a special class of immunity when it comes to manifesting hazards associated with their use of electricity

No, I don’t think that’s what this is. The fact is that the NEC is for building design, not for building use. The whole reason that there’s a breaker installed that has to be matched to the correct gauge wires and the correct outlets, or whatever, is so that when the occupant does something dumb it trips long before you get enough heat to start a fire.

The NEC is not for the occupant, it’s for the architects, general contractors, and electricians. Unless you’re doing construction in your house you don’t need to worry about it at all.

Use your breakers to their capacity, but understand that the closer you get to their rating the more likely you’ll pop a breaker, or worst case start a fire if your stuff wasn’t installed well.

But you don’t have to derate your own stuff per NEC requirements, that’s not how it works.

350W CPU?? Even a 14900k is only 250W, most are 120-180.

75W of fans???

I’m sure you could find parts with that much draw, but that is not normal.

The NEC limits CONTINUOUS loads to 80%, not intermittent loads. Continuous loads are things like heaters, AC units, etc. Things plugged into the wall are generally not considered continuous loads, so your breakers in a residential home are usually not derated, and receptacles never are from what I’ve seen. (Although it could be argued that a gaming computer would be a continuous load, as it runs 3+ hours for many people, but there’s still no electrician that would treat it that way, probably ever, unless it was some kind of commercial space that rented gaming seats or something. Either way it would be planned in advance)

The rule that you’re describing is for the initial planning of the circuit. It’s for the rating of your wires and overcurrent protections, which is done at the time of installation, based on the expected continuous and intermittent loads. For residential planning nobody treats a standard branch circuit for wall receptacles as somewhere you’d derate, so your 15A circuit is a 15A circuit, you don’t need to do any more math on it and derate it further.

1000W PSU pulls max 8.3A on a 120v circuit.

Residential circuits in USA are 15-20A, very rarely are they 10 but I’ve seen some super old ones or split 20A breakers in the wild.

A single duplex outlet must be rated to the same amperage as the breaker in order to be code, so with a 5090 PC you’re around half capacity of what you’d normally find, worst case. Nice big monitors take about an amp each, and other peripherals are negligible.

You could easily pop a breaker if you’ve got a bunch of other stuff on the same circuit, but that’s true for anything.

I think the power draw on a 5090 is crazy, crazy high don’t get me wrong, but let’s be reasonable here - electricity costs yes, but we’re not getting close to the limits of a circuit/receptacle (yet).

That’s it?

Why?

Wow. Did you pull that from your dealership employee talking points guidebook?

Why is it that every other industry is able to handle recall corrections without a dealership model?

One of the advantages of going mechanical is customization. Don’t want the LEDs at all? Remove them from your build. Even without PCB hot swapping: no one will stop you desoldering LEDs from your keyboard.

Yeah OP if you want to live the ultra elite mech keyboard life you should be totally fine with just buying something and spending a ton of time desoldering a crap load of tiny components off of it. That’s the best part about mechanical keyboards, is spending hundreds of dollars on them and then also needing to invest in a bunch of soldering gear and time to make sure you can skillfully enough disassemble electronics at the component level to not damage your newly purchased expensive device.

Took me years, but yes.

This was back in the day when you could easily source stuff to mix your own juice though. I was vaping 3ml and I stepped down 0.5ml every month until I was vaping just flavor. At that point I’d carry my vape around but use it WAY less. Eventually I’d get sick of bringing it with me and just stopped using it.

Then I’d cave again, and restart the process.

Took me a few years, but my vapes are gone and I only smoke when I’m shithoused and around a bunch of smokers, which is a maybe once every couple years event now?

I’m not sure how it would work these days. Everything is packaged, can you even mix your own nic content? Fucking big tobacco fucked up the market.

Even just switching to vaping full time is better than smoking, so get your family member one and hope for the best.

Is this how you respond to people normally in person also?

I hard disagree with one of your positions; I think 0 F is cold but 100 F is insane. I assume we grew up in different climates. I say this only to make the point that it’s subjective, but 0-100 is still the range of what people generally find tolerable.

Nice incoherent rant bro

You know that people used to pay for newspapers right? Local tv news was free on maybe one or two channels, but anything else was on cable tv (paid for) or newspapers.

We WANT news to cost money. If you expect it to be free to consume, despite all the costs associated with getting and delivering journalism (let’s see, big costs just off the top of my head: competitive salaries, travel to news worthy sites, bandwidth to serve you content, all office space costs, etc), then the only way they can pay for it is to serve outrageous amounts of ads in tiny, bite sized articles that actually have no substance, because the only revenue they get is ad views and clicks.

That is NOT what we want. Paywalls aren’t bad unless we’re talking scientific research. Please get out of the mindset of everything should be free, don’t sneer at “authors need money” mf they DO if you want anything that’s worth a damn.

The fact you’re getting dunked on for this comment shows how delusional people are.

Lol

Your reading comprehension is so, so bad