Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software Date: 30 Dec 2024 03:57:26 GMT Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <9OCcnRW7grqkbPT6nZ2dnZfqnPUAAAAA@earthlink.com> <6771a693$0$3620713$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net qmQyBXvddiOYTh/zlVBBpw/Kbij5ghnbbb8oiiztFPD2xzPtDj Cancel-Lock: sha1:Kp4ZEEUDUdxE6wuVe7yLIGRyysQ= sha256:uWxnnDK2T+OjCCbeS9c2N8xop8eY+sKiyHBj7nsykos= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 23:14:48 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote: > On 2024-12-29 22:05, rbowman wrote: >> On 29 Dec 2024 19:44:19 GMT, Mark Lloyd wrote: >> >>> On 29 Dec 2024 00:53:43 GMT, rbowman wrote: >>> >>> [snip] >>> >>>> Is that progress? Beat's me. I was at a museum that had a display of >>>> the development of household labor saving devices. It noted that when >>>> housewives received all these new time savers they tended to find new >>>> things to spend the saved time on. >>> >>> Including ridiculous standards for "clean". >> >> The need to instantly refrigerate everything is the one that gets me. >> For one reason or the other I've had periods without a refrigerator. A >> dozen eggs sitting on the counter won't hatch or go bad for a week or >> two. > > If you wash the eggs you have to refrigerate them; otherwise, ambient > temperature is just fine (for a shorter time than refrigerated, of > course). afaik, all commercial eggs in the US are washed during the grading process. I haven't had a problem although I do refrigerate them when home.