I don't do much in a kitchen, if I did I'd have a chef's knife. I'm a weirdo though, so what I do and what I know are best practices frequently don't line up.
To counter your examples though:
Bread? pre-sliced.
Cheese? pre-shredded.
Butter? melt and pour it baby.
So far I didn't need a knife at all.
in my defense, I'm from oklahoma
Most of these knives are silly, A chef's knife will do 99% of all cutting, chopping and slicing tasks in a kitchen. I would go as far as to say that knife sets are a scam.
This thread is a prime example of why I don't research artists whos music I like. If I purged everything from my library that was made by assholes, I wouldn't have any music left.
if you cover your food, it won't make a mess.
that stuff is nice as an option. There's a bar I go to that I can order my food and drink to the table my friends are at, while I'm walking to the place, and everything just arrives shortly after I sit down. Other people get offended about how fast I get served, it's always amusing. I also enjoy not interacting with the staff, nothing against them, brain just doesn't brain sometimes.
But what if I didn't have a phone? or if I left home without it? 24/7 pocket rectangle is not natural.
My old apartment had gates that could only be opened with an app. They took out the card reader and made it app only. Should have gotten out of there much earlier than I did.
apps allow user tracking and advertising though. Much more valuable to the corpos than a few lost customers.
I fucking LOVE obsidian, one of my most used pieces of software.
I have two note vaults.
One is my personal "everything" not vault, Anything I might need to write down goes there. No random sticky notes, or half used notebooks for me. Game notes, such as what equipment I'm looking for, or solutions to puzzles I'll forget before I can use the information. More practically useful notes like conversion charts to use imperial measurements in blender and godot. Names of people I need to remember and what their handles are on social media, because most platforms don't help you with that. Everything can be interconnected, so some notes are just indexes of other notes.
More impressive is my lore wiki. There is a book series that I will never write, and these notes document the setting. Characters, events, locations, other authors who have helped over the years. Anything that is a proper noun or is otherwise special to the setting is a link to a note of that name.
Obsidian also has "graph view" which visually organizes notes so that things that are connected are physically closer together. I just wish I could give these notes icons on the graph view so that they'd be more visually distinct.
It's weird that a corporation is able to and continues to offer a good product at a reasonable price, do so in a way that is convenient for the customer, and somehow hasn't enshitified yet.
People like valve because valve earned that trust.
ok, yeah, kinda hard to argue with that. Not sure what a good middle ground would be.
for the bread and cheese, I'm not a foodie. I'll get medium ish quality stuff at the grocery store, and it exceeds my expectations.
for the butter, come on, its butter. butter is love, butter is life.