today we are all buttholes

I thought so too, but the article really delivered. I didn’t know I was living in The Butthole Era. I suspected it, but I didn’t know it.

It will be similar but not the same. Tvarog & quark are more acidic. So it will have a tartness you may or may not like. With cottage cheese there is more rennet for curdling, the curd is cut like with cheese production, and the curd is heated and washed, producing a more firm and less sour curd. Then cream is added.

So try it and see what you think. If it is too sour you could try and find a very soft fresh cheese it might be closer to the curd you are familiar with and add cream to that.

In the end though, cottage cheese is an industrial product, with all kinds of bioengineering involved (like special bacteria strains that produce diacetyl for a buttery flavor). So any hacks will be unlikely to duplicate the flavor and texture exactly. It’s probably worth learning to love the local stuff.

Stated reasons are safety and security. They are officially still in a health quarantine, but the leadership has expressed that the security situation has been better with no migrants, and so it continues. The opposition and neighbor states disagree.

A spicy near-land entry by air is sure to lead to an even spicier exit procedure when the visa is checked!

You could, except that Azerbaijan has kept their land borders closed for entry since covid. You can depart on land, and you can arrive or depart by air, but you cannot arrive by land.

Heck yeah! It should be great in borscht. I would reserve the liquid in the cabbage and use it to add acidity and salt to taste when the soup is done.

I’ll bet a mushroom and rice or barley cabbage roll would be great, if messy. We sometimes make unrolled lazy cabbage rolls. Chopped onion, celery and carrot, cooked in a little oil, add garlic and the chopped protein. Season with salt, pepper and caraway. Add the cabbage or kraut and a splash of beer or water, cover and let steam a bit. Stir and serve when the texture is as you like it. Chopped tomatoes are good on top as a fresh addition.

Whole head of cabbage, right? Probably intended to make cabbage rolls, aka holubky, golubtsi, sarma, etc.

You could also slice it to shreds and make choucroute garnie or any other sauerkraut dish.

They already publish on F-Droid. It sounds like it was just a lot of built-up frustration from the last several years of Google blocking apps that require storage permissions and making it difficult to get restored to the Play store.

This was the bug from the last removal. They were going back and forth with Google unproductively for months. Hopefully the existing fork (which was also taken down from the Play store) can keep going on F-Droid.

Same here. Tried it out and it’s been great for a few months. I was just about to get some family members set up using it.

Nice, I’ll check it out! I remember LMS and Squeezebox. Didn’t know it would sync between rooms, and I didn’t know it had been open sourced, that’s excellent.

At the time we started in the Sonos ecosystem we wanted easy, and it provided that. Now I’ve got multiple servers running, self-hosting services for the family, slowly working on removing our cloud service dependencies. So this would fit right in.

Yeah, I get what you’re saying. Definitely. It’s not complicated for one pair of speakers in one room. For one music source. For one person controlling it.

There just haven’t been any better cost-effective solutions with multi-room, control from your any phone convenience. And that’s a big plus for how we listen to music. Today there are a few contenders, but many of them are also cloud dependent. Really the small number of good options in this space is proof of how good Sonos was for a long time. Well and also of Spotify causing people ditch the idea of a offline digital music library.

Edit: And to be clear, aside from the “any computer networks” part, this is what the original Sonos device did. It could work without a home network, but worked best with a shared music library on a PC. Didn’t need cloud anything, internet connection, account, etc. You just hooked your normal speakers to it and it played music.

8bitclassics.com seems to have some.

Or if you are feeling adventurous: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/13319/how-can-i-make-an-external-psu-for-an-apple-iic

Fermented and spicy - how about some gochujang? It’s like miso, but a Korean version with chili. Mix it with some good sesame oil and a splash of rice vinegar to lighten it up. Then put it with the tuna in your onigiri like you would the mayo. It’s already salty, so no need to add salt.

It’s not that one charging location was down. It’s that the current battery tech can’t charge in cold conditions without using some of its own power to heat the battery cells. This means people need to anticipate the cold and charge earlier and more often than they typically do.

Those who didn’t were stranded.

This is a real limitation of the current technology. Not a deal breaker for most people, but it’s a learning curve and a potential inconvenience.

Cacik! It’s a Turkish chilled soup with yogurt, cucumber, mint, garlic, etc. Very refreshing in hot weather.