straycatstrut

Why, you're welcome for the link to the PDF! I'm glad you enjoyed reading it and appreciate your insightful and loquacious feedback on the matter at hand. You are a true gem of the lemmyverse, evenglow.

They've done that in the research, it's just a clickbait headline with very, very light details. After following a few clicks I found the PDF [1] in which they break it apart by many groups and factors (age, race, savings plan, income, student loan debt, all sorts of stuff) and that $955 figure falls under the "workers who do not have $1 in a DC" (meaning workers with no access to a savings plan). For those with access, the number is $40,000 average.

[1] https://www.nirsonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/NIRS_2026-Retirement-in-America-FINAL.pdf

happy birthday!

Lentils are a complete protein, along with quinoa (one can be allergic to the coating on raw quinoa, wash thoroughly and test your compatibility carefully. I'm allergic.). Pea protein is great, my fave fake meat is pea protein based rather than soy. Rice balances out beans (black beans if possible) to make a complete protein, it's no accident that combo is standard in many latino dishes. Obviously tofu, it's just more work to prepare especially if it's only 1 or 2 ppl.

Slow cookers are great, most veggie dishes are ~4 hrs since no need for meat safety, you can make a billion things and Tupperware it for 6-8 meals. Celery works great as a natural salt, stands the heat and gives a dish some character (mince it). Half a jalapeno minced up brings nice fire to veggie dishes, goes well with chopped green onions which is also friendly to many dishes.

BH cheeses != meats. They don't own the cheese factories, they partner with established cheesemakers in a partner network.[1] (no comment on meats, I don't eat them)

[1] one of them was in the news recently for a recall so it's not all roses in the cheese world either :(

It's about the cheese - for example Boar's Head is $12/lb (baby swiss) to $14/lb (imported Swiss or Grueyere) and that's worth eating ramen to subsidize. :) We can't be eating any of that basic cheese oh no no no...

PieFan: “Piefed has better features and looks better.”

The thing for me is that.... piefed.social webUI looks like ass. It's the victim of "we have to look different so everyone knows we're different!" - many, many years and people who study UX to arrive at the common interface standards we see on all "clone" sites - where the vote numbers are, where the vote arrows lie, how the images work to open dynamically, etc.

The Lemmy webUI is just better UX engineering and layout which conforms to mental norms which were invented by Digg, Slashdot, Reddit, even Freshmeat back in the day or HowardForums of old. Piefed reeks of the "not invented here" syndrome of having to eschew norms to try and prove some point about "not being Lemmy" for political reasons. As a user, the visual layout and operation of the Lemmy webUI is what I want and expect to be using.

All that said, I'm a die hard F/OSS person and all competition is good, it drives innovation and progress. Best wishes to Piefed on their journey.

Conversely, I chose this instance specifically because it runs Lemmy (and doesn't use Cloudflare). I have an account on piefed.social and do not like the webUI at all, it's just janky compared to lemmy web UI. Changing this site's software stack to Piefed would simply make me leave as I specifically choose the lemmy webUI to interact with on a daily basis.

$ . /etc/os-release && echo ${NAME}
Arch Linux

Sadly, no - I run an extension called "Don't accept webp" causing that, I disabled it as soon as I saw the param to test and there's no difference with or without the param. (webdev console request headers)

Firefox webdev console request headers (minus my personal cookie), where I'm already on the page and just click the refresh button. No if-modified-since sent to the server to trigger a proper 304 response:

GET /pictrs/image/7285a9e0-5492-4461-8188-6778d7d594c7.jpeg?format=webp HTTP/2
Host: discuss.tchncs.de
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:145.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/145.0
Accept: image/avif,image/png,image/svg+xml,image/*;q=0.8,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstd
Referer: https://discuss.tchncs.de/
Sec-Fetch-Dest: image
Sec-Fetch-Mode: no-cors
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin
Connection: keep-alive
DNT: 1
Sec-GPC: 1
Priority: u=5, i
TE: trailers

Here's the basic set of response headers showing the server is sending the proper cache-control directives on the image. The problem appears to be on the Firefox side using them properly.

$ curl -I https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/7285a9e0-5492-4461-8188-6778d7d594c7.jpeg

HTTP/2 200 
server: openresty
date: Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:51:29 GMT
content-type: image/jpeg
access-control-expose-headers: content-type, accept-ranges, transfer-encoding, date, cache-control, last-modified
vary: Origin, Access-Control-Request-Method, Access-Control-Request-Headers
cache-control: max-age=31536000
last-modified: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:02:52 GMT
expires: Wed, 02 Dec 2026 12:51:29 GMT
cache-control: public
access-control-allow-origin: *
x-cache-status: HIT