On bare-metal or base VPS servers, it's a Good Idea™ to set swappiness to 1 and have only a tiny amount of swap (say 512 MiB) in order to measure memory utilization pressure and OOM via swap usage trends in monitoring/alert tools. (Any sizable swap usage indicates heavy memory usage and likely things breaking.) Having giant swap files hides problems, slows servers and wears SSDs. Excessive memory usage is rarely addressed unless memory metrics are time-series monitored. Also, if running a production DBMS, as with most server programs, monitor major metrics from both outside of it and those metrics it offers.
News media dramatize situations for views. There is, in life and in business, always a current problem(s) of one sort or another... it's when existential emergencies are vigilantly remediated and replaced by trivial "first-world" annoyances that life or business is good.
Physicians and psychiatrists often omit or forget to disclose the long-term permanent damage medications can cause... such medications can literallly age your brain with cognitive decline, tremors, dysfunctions similar to advanced age.
Yeah, that's fairly standard. Another trick is to boil it in the sieve and just lift the pasta out of the water.
Even simpler: don't boil water or bother with a sieve for a single serving. Just place pasta in a cup, add hot water to just barely cover it and place the serving plate over it. After 15 minutes, invert the cup and serving plate as a "sieve." It's possible to get FrenchGuyCooking-approved consistency without wasting energy boiling gallons of water that will be washed down the drain.
I'll earn a hippie badge someday: rubber tramp in a VW to save rent and 32 oz. bottles of the OCD miracle. A few drops on a microfibre towel first since it acts as a surfactant, otherwise water goes everywhere. Able to get sniff-test and actual clean using around 240 ml of water; with hair-washing, around 720 ml. Works great for shaving. It seems strongly concentrated as it can irritate the skin (or I'm a wimp). Suggest 10:1 - 50:1 dilution for hygiene. If someone is extra funky, also add 10:1 hand-sanitizer... there's a tiny risk of using EtOH but it would seem less than legacy EtOH mouthwashes.
I tried using this stuff as general purpose shampoo and it destroyed my hair. I was only washing my hair once every two weeks (natural oils, you know) and I thought it'd be good to clear up the scalp of extra oils but instead it sucked me dry.
How much did you use? I've used it as a shampoo almost every day for months on end with great results, although I only use a dime-sized amount and I add water with it.
No, just making sure that the hair is wet enough to distribute the smallest possible amount of soap. The trick is to figure out the minimum amount of soap you need to get all of your hair and scalp sudsy. I've used a shampoo-sized dose of Bronner's and had basically the same bad experience you described.
