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sdifox

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This is a solution to a dumb problem I've been dealing with my entire life: how to easily & effectively get chopped ingredients from the cutting board into a pot! The solution is a flexible kitchen ingredient scoop!


The "Scooper Duper" from Amazon is $18. Little bit pricey, but worth the money for people like me who are easily aggravated! lol. The procedure:

1. Chop up your ingredients on your cutting board
2. Use your knife to slide them onto the flexible scoop
3. Press the soft part in the middle to bend the scoop & then tilt into your Instapot so that stuff doesn't fall off the sides! BRILLIANT!

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or just pick up the cutting board and dump content in pot using knife to corral ingredients /manly man
 

Kaido

Elite Member & Kitchen Overlord
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then why do you need a flashlight? wait, I don't want to know.

I hate that I watch these videos and I'm like lol who would spend hundreds of dollars on a flashlight & why on earth would you need one that shoots a mile...

...and then I'm like dang that's kinda cool now I want one LOL
 
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Kaido

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or just pick up the cutting board and dump content in pot using knife to corral ingredients /manly man

I have manual dexterity issues stemming from my ADHD, so I tend to get a little wobbly sometimes. I also get easily frustrated & want to yeet the cutting board out the window when I can't funnel stuff in perfectly LOL. I loooooooove items like this that make the cooking process more convenient for me!

I also 100% disagree with Alton Brown on unitaskers; I will take a worthy unitasker over a crappy multi-use tool any day of the week! My goal is to expand my Kingdom of Kitchen Gadgets like I'm Genghis Khan haha!
 

sdifox

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I have manual dexterity issues stemming from my ADHD, so I tend to get a little wobbly sometimes. I also get easily frustrated & want to yeet the cutting board out the window when I can't funnel stuff in perfectly LOL. I loooooooove items like this that make the cooking process more convenient for me!

I also 100% disagree with Alton Brown on unitaskers; I will take a worthy unitasker over a crappy multi-use tool any day of the week! My goal is to expand my Kingdom of Kitchen Gadgets like I'm Genghis Khan haha!

or just use your hands lol.
 

IronWing

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My current spotlight is dead. I need a flashlight to check the bottom of mine shafts for bodies before we fill them in (yes, that really is part of the job ). This might work though the videos make the light look monochromatic which might be bad for the use. I wonder if the light is as green/yellow in real life as it is in the videos? "Boss, I need a $300 flashlight" will be a bit of a sell.
 

sdifox

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My current spotlight is dead. I need a flashlight to check the bottom of mine shafts for bodies before we fill them in (yes, that really is part of the job ). This might work though the videos make the light look monochromatic which might be bad for the use. I wonder if the light is as green/yellow in real life as it is in the videos? "Boss, I need a $300 flashlight" will be a bit of a sell.

that's what shovels are for!
 

IronWing

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that's what shovels are for!
No, no, no. We have to check for bodies so we can risk life and limb to extract the bodies and, um, bury them someplace else before filling in the shafts. And we need to do this because of reasons. So far, I haven't found one.
 

sdifox

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Sep 30, 2005
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No, no, no. We have to check for bodies so we can risk life and limb to extract the bodies and, um, bury them someplace else before filling in the shafts. And we need to do this because of reasons. So far, I haven't found one.

bury the body in situ, problem solved.

also, shouldn't drones be ideal for this ?
 
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Tsinni Dave

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I recently bought an LG Dualup monitor (LG 28MQ780-B) and it is a damn fine display. Basically 2@22" 10 bit 16:9 1440p quantum dot IPS screens stacked vertically into one 16:18 monitor, Great image quality, and pretty versatile as it can display from two sources at different resolutions as if there are 2 monitors or as one single screen at 2560 x 2880. So far I've used it with Photoshop and Reason and even my old Wacom graphic tablet figured out how to deal with it and my MSI Mag27 quantum dot IPS monitor together. I'm so impressed it could be difficult not to buy another later this year. Colour calibration seems spot on and the Ergo stand is a great step up from the usual monitor stand.
I've only had it for a few days so it's a bit early for a rating, but so far it's a 5/5 for me. I do tend to sit 3 feet or so away from my monitor with a cat in my lap so the extra height doesn't bother me at all, and actually made me raise my other monitor up so it's centered with the LG. This was one of those purchases where I wanted it as soon as I saw it and haven't regretted it. It just looked like a great painting canvas and it only took a couple days of thinking about it before I figured I could justify it.
I don't know if anyone else here uses the Propellorhead Reason DAW for example, but the extra vertical space really makes wiring the virtual rack much easier and seeing twice as many synths and effects at once is way more informative and gets rid of much of the scrolling through multiple identical instances of any particular instrument. It also just looks cool.
Windows 10 and Wolfenstein - The New Colossus work well, and in the outdoor / destroyed city level I'm at look great but probably won't be the monitor I play on. Windows XP, which is what all my recording interfaces still use will probably never understand it other than as two monitors stacked which isn't a problem really as I have an old Matrox videowall card that supports 4@2560x1440 monitors in WinXP, but I'll have to install that later, currently I am limited to 1920x1080 with the ATI onboard.
Stock photo of the monitor:

Basically a great idea built well that I hope sells well enough for the form factor to continue. It will be amazing to see a dual 24" OLED version someday. This would be a great work monitor for partspeople, coders, spreadsheets as well as for the more artsy stuff I bought mine for.
 
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Red Squirrel

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My new snowblower came in today. Will do a video review next time we get a snow fall but the weather is weird lately and we're not getting much snow. Hoping for a nice good storm again like the last one. Sorry to say. Tried it out to widen the driveway and it works great but with the recent snow melt everything is all ice and crap so it was not really a good test given I had to break up everything first and it was only like a foot or so of snow/ice chunks so not really a good enough test, but it did power through all that no issue. A good test is going to be the snow plow drift.



Also the price just went up by a few hundred on the Greenworks site, I got a good deal on this at 2k. Still on sale though as regular price is 3k. Even gas ones have gone up, looking at around 3k for a comparable Ariens now days. I have a friend looking into getting one but wants to stick to gas so we were looking at the the other day.

The crate alone probably has like $200 of metal in it, I'm surprised it was this overbuilt. The 3 4ah batteries is maybe like $900 of batteries if I were to buy separate. The more I think about it the more I realize this snowblower was a steal at 2k. I'm not too sure how it uses the 3 batteries together, like if it tries to use them all in parallel or just cycles through one at a time. I don't think it puts them in series as it will in fact run with just one battery. I even tried a combination of 2ah batteries and 5ah. It did not run very long with the 2ah ones though. Makes sense to just put all 3 in there anyway but good any combination seems to work fine. If for whatever reason I don't have all 3 charged batteries I can at least put them on the charger and go start a snow blowing job with whatever other battery I might have on hand.

When I tried it with the 3 4ah batteries I played around with it for at least 15 minutes and I didn't lose a single bar so I'm fairly confident this will do the whole driveway in one charge. The key is to keep the batteries indoors though. Thing is swapping batteries out is a 2 second thing anyway so if I had a huge driveway I would just have a rotation going.


I just put out a video on the snow blower, it ended up kind of long but if you just want to see it run you can skip to that part, it's split up in the description. I was hoping to get a good snow storm to test it in but we're just not getting any good snow falls this year.

 

Red Squirrel

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Hey, you can make extra money on the side clearing people's driveways with that!

I sometimes toy with starting a small yard care company on the side actually. Get like maybe 10 or so clients only but it would bring in some extra cash to try to keep up with inflation. Could do lawns in summer and driveways in winter. Go all electric for everything, my cost to operate would be rather low.

Lawns only would be easier though as it's a bit less time sensitive than driveways, so I could fit it better around my work schedule. For driveways people kind of expect it done the same day as the snow fall. But if I stuck to only doing a few clients on my own street it at least saves me the trouble of loading/unloading it and it's not far to go.
 
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sportage

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A new iMac, the 2021 colored ones, orange. I like orange.
Plus, a Chevy Bolt EV. I certainly do not need an EV, but just could not resist. Definitely the nerd in me, definitely. Just had to experience owning and driving an EV, and personally I like the Chevy's. Now I think in terms of kilowatts instead of gallons, and everyone in my family, the Q's, are waiting for my car to explode. I gave my sister a ride and she was freaking out "is the battery going to go dead? How much battery is left?" No. It's ok. The battery shows 217 miles remaining and we've only driven 2 miles so far.

I've heard of range anxiety with these EV's, but back seat driver range anxiety?
I especially like stopping at a stop light. That dead silence, and that very faint electronic oscillating sound in the background. And the massive, tilted, 10" display screen. All I need now is Capital Kirk in the back seat yelling WARP SPEED MAN, WARP SPEED.
 

MrSquished

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I have this model for my work binoculars. They work pretty well for the size and weight.

Oh nice. That testimonial gives me more confidence in my choice. Yes size and weight was definitely a part of the calculation here - they seemed on paper like you said, good value for size/weight, glad it translates to real world usage.
 
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Pohemi

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I got two new but faulty NUC units in a row and said screw it, I'll just build another box. Everything but the HSF arrived today (that should be here Monday).
I picked out a higher wattage PSU so that I don't have to worry about power if I add a GPU later. Besides, the 750W was only $10 more than the same 550W haha.

EDIT: I ordered a cheap GPU today, AsRock Challenger Intel ARC a380 6GB, it should be here next week. Not planning on gaming, but pushing dual 4K HDR displays, one of them being the TV. It'll be overkill for that use but I figured the iGPU might struggle with that if playing high bitrate video, etc.

Had some credit at an etailer, and bought a pair of binocs that were on sale for hiking and this summer's trip to yellowstone and big sky
I had been thinking about shopping out a pair, but I only have one useable eye so I've been hesitant. Selection of available monoculars in my price range is far slimmer, heh.
 
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