I don't own an EV yet, but if I ever do, I don't want a single screen. I don't even want electric windows.

You may be interested in Slate truck/SUV

https://www.slate.auto/

It's not for sale yet

Electric seats and windows are always the first thing to go in an old car. And they're so unnecessary.

I thought I remembered using this in the 90s when it was Ask Jeeves.

Nice, I guess nobody is going to bother my Ask Alko side project now.

This is going to make it more difficult for non-open source projects to get a foothold in the future because people are not going to trust a promise any more. Like, I have this thing called a smart phone. Is it open source? No? Oh well.

That would be good, but somehow didn't work all the other times.

The power of meditation :P

I used to love my Sayers sausage roll as a kid. I haven't lived in Liverpool for 25 years now, but sad to hear Sayers is no more.

Obligatory dad joke.

How do you make a sausage roll?

Push it down a hill.

> I haven't lived in Liverpool for 25 years now, but sad to hear Sayers is no more.

Same, except it's just over 50 years for me.

This story was quite a nostalgia trip for me – I immediately remembered trips to Sayers bakeries with my mum when I was little, although as a little lad I was more interested in the cakes than the sausage rolls myself.

Well, not sure if it's classed as a cake, but my favourite desert there was the egg custard tart.

Oh, yes, me too!

Something I really missed in a decade living in Czechia.

It's odd how in other countries it is mostly baked goods that have deep differences and leave whole much-loved categories missing. For me: pasties, mince pies, egg custard tarts, Jamaican-style patties.

The Slavs love this stuff called tvaroh: it's the curds that, given more work and time, can be made into cheese. It's a semisolid sour-tasting milky stuff. They put it in all kinds of foods, especially cakes and pastries. I first tasted it at 46 years old and I hate the stuff. Every visit to a bakery is a lottery: will it be all right, and maybe even good, or will it have tvaroh in it and taste like it was made with extract of very old gym sock?

I taught English for a while and many students wanted to know the English word for Tvaroh as it's not in the dictionary. I told them we don't eat it and so don't have a word for it. It blew their minds.

It is not cottage cheese. It is nothing even vaguely similar to lemon curd. It's sort of similar to cheese curd but you can't buy cheese curd, whereas every supermarket has a dozen types of tvaroh.

Is it a cake? Is a tart a pie? I always went for the little custard tarts too.

Makes me think of the cake vs. biscuit philosophical arguments:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes#Classification_and...

I find these stories fascinating. Since it mentioned the orange originally came from China, I wonder if there are varieties that are resistant while still tasting good.

Wikipedia suggests that there are no naturally resistant strains, although there is some genetically modified work ongoing.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_greening_disease#Contro...]

More interesting was a suggestion that a more holistic approach may have merit, i.e. improving overall soil/grove health with less intensive methods. [https://citrusindustry.net/2019/04/02/citrus-grower-sees-suc...]

Nice, I made a cotton slip for my seat, which worked the same way I guess.

This was happening to a colleague's monitor. As it happened frequently when either of us got up, I suspected it was the fabric of the chair, which was probably some kind of acrylic. I made slips for the ass part of the chair from 100% cotton, and to my amazement it fixed the problem.

I wonder if I could use this to write browser test cases.