I managed to do this once on mbin - but I have no clue how. This is a commonly requested feature.

Depends - what don’t you like about your current instance? The ui will be different on each but that isn’t good or bad so much as what you like. (No project has a real ui designer)

They are really hard to find ripe. They don’t ripen until picked - but unfortunatly there is at best one day between ripe and rotten. That is at best, if they bruise at all while handling they will got rotten fast.

Not really worth buying if you don’t live where they grow - about half of the ones I buy are rotten before we can eat them - and I pay 5 times the cost as they go for in a tropical location.

Money is easy to ship anywhere. Things are much harder. Thus everything worth doing is going to be local. Various options have been mentioned. Your local food shelf may have a place for this as well.

Your odds of finding the winning ticket on the sidewalk about about the same as buying it. So I walk around once in a while looking for winning tickets. I haven’t found one yet, but who knows. Bonus - I get some much needed exercise in the process.

one will close - but everyone will go to the other 3 on the intersection thus saving them for a few years. Then another… and soon the one across town closing helps those left.

the average car is 12 years old so there is a lot of life left in gas stations even after all new cars are ev. once you have a station a lot of the costs are sunk costs so you won’t close just because demand drops a little. Chains will build less as the numbers stop working but they will build in places for a while while closing other locations.

There are still a few stations without that, but it has been the norm for new or remodled stations for decades in the us.

Gas makes money. The margins are low - but the volumes are high. Most people are not buying what is inside so while margins are higher the profit is about the same

If you get too picky you will never find anyone. Loneliness can be worse than setteling for good enough. There is of course too bad, and this is all personal, but there are too many different things to look at to demand perfection in more than a couple places. Which things you demand is up to you of cousre.

“you’ll settle for whoever’s around” is a compelling argument - if whoever is around happens to be good enough. Sometimes she is (I’m assuming she for discussion) good enough and so it doesn’t matter. Also we have established living in the sticks is important (otherwise move to the city), and so you need to settle for someone who is willing to live in the sticks - that someone is likely already living in the sticks. Beware, I know more than one person who was burned on a relationship where she (in the cases I personally know it was she, but no reason it couldn’t be he) was excited to move to the sticks - until she discovered how far it was to everything she liked about the city and the relationship wasn’t worth that cost to her.

There are few places where the waitress sets you up. However that is more likely to happen in a rural area: everyone knows everyone, and they “want” to help each other. In cities everyone knows you also know people they don’t and so they are somewhat less likely to do this (it still happens)

Remember out in the sticks there is only a few people - but they have less options and so they are more likely to discover you. Have lunch at the local cafe and the waitress will try to set you up with the one single person in town. In a city that won’t happen. Of course if that one single person is worth your time isn’t something I can answer, but your odds of getting a first date are higher anyway.

You are starting from the wrong side - what do you want to do? Where are the problems in your life? Is there someplace/thing where a small screen or camera would help if only you had it? Lights/devices you want to control from a location where this is no switch?

I put a weather station on my home assistant dashboard - but it turns it is never the forecast I need so I google the weather anyway. So from my experience the mini weather isn’t worth it. (I do use my dashboard for other things worth it, but it is a 20 inch monitor visible). Reports are other people in the world have and love their weather station display, ymmv.

Don’t forget to ask your family/roomates. They may have an issue that you don’t see.

I use grocy for chore /task management. Then home assistant to put it on a dashboard that looks nice. I’m not totally happy but it is the best I’ve found.

It has been around long as I can remember, and I’m in my 50s…

The shoes part is because if someone breaks some glass and are in process of cleaning it up when you walk in they are worried they could get sued for you stepping on it. It isn’t clear how realistic this worry is. Anyone can sue for anything though, and even if the law/facts are such that they would clearly win they can still spend millions on lawyers to win that case. No shoes is a bypass - if you drop your case we won’t press criminal trespassing charges against you.

I don’t know what the shirt thing is about. The US culture allows topless men in public, but not topless women in general, but some people are still offended by topless men so I guess. I do recall back when I worked in retail a few people did come in without a shirt and we asked them to put it on (when it was obviously tied around their waist) or told them to take their order to go - it wasn’t a big deal.

The hard part is putting in the time to practice every day. You can’t learn music without many many hours of practice. This is something only you can figure out, so while your question is good, I can’t answer it for you.

Don’t overlook lessons. They are generally fairly cheap. Lessons give you a set of songs to learn that you have a chance at (many songs are too complex to play at an acceptable level - there is a reason everyone starts with Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: Mozart wrote it to be an easy first song), choosing good songs is often hard at your level. Lessons also give you half an hour of practice a week (at the lesson) and generally the embarrassment of having to tell your teacher you didn’t practice gets you another half hour! Lessons also force you to admit you did really bad in some section and go back and redo it instead of moving on. There is nothing about lessons you can’t teach yourself - but most people will not do the above things and it greatly limits their progress.

Before choosing an instrument, remember one of the fun things is to play with others. Thus finding a group you can play with is a useful thing. This can be hard - some groups are jerks to anyone who isn’t a master (if you practice 8 hours a day you can join them in as little as 3 years, but most of us will never be good enough) - but others are very nice to beginners. If you find such a group ask them what they need, sometimes they will know that some sound is missing and so you have reason to learn that, and since the sound is missing they will be even more welcoming of you because even when bad you can have enough good moments that add to the group sound.

https://acoup.blog/2019/06/28/collections-oaths-how-do-they-work/ has a very interesting discussion and you should read it all. Not everything applies to modern world but the majority does

It works if you believe your religion. If you are a roman swearing by Jupiter you are asking Jupiter to strike you with lightening if you lie - and as a believer you honestly think that will happen. since most people are christians they swear on the bible knowing they are asking to go to hell if they lie - even if otherwise they are good enough to be forgiven. Muslins generally swear of the quarn - to similar reasons (i’m not clear on what muslins believe happens if they lie, but they believe in it which matters)

of course a large number of people are not religious these days - so this is often pointless.

Depends one where you live. In the US where I live until you get to $50/person or more all restaurant meals are exactly as your parents say - reheated in some way. Even at that high price level many of the meals are the same reheated things the cheaper ones are serving with better arrangement, but at least then some things are cooked yourself.

You live in Europe - there are some great restaurants there that are cheaper. However there are also a number of reheated garbage just like we have in the US.

It isn’t hard to learn to cook for yourself, and once you do it is hard to see why people pay so much money for just garbage food. But people do all the time and don’t see anything wrong with it - some even call it good.

Fad. Someone started doing it, and it caught on so no everyone does. The iPod started the iEverything phase. A local car dealer near me uses NameTube.com because they decided they needed a website about the time youtube got a lot press. There are many more things over the years that became a fad for a while, and there will be more.

Unions work depending on how ‘in it together’ you feel.

If you resent the people standing around doing nothing they start to fail. If you resent the people who do worse work than you for the same pay they start to fail. note that on an assembly line the above isn’t possible in the first place - which is why they work great there. (Bus drivers and police are also not really measureable like that)