A torque converter is part of the whole transmission system even if it’s a separate housing. When you buy a new transmission, it comes with a torque converter.
Torque converters also create the majority of heat in automatic transmissions and are why automatic transmissions get coolers in the first place. How many manuals have you seen with transmission coolers?
Apple was one of the major contributors to the USB-C standard, including the physical connectors.
The tongue design was used because it makes high speed a lot easier. If your traces are in the center of the connector, you can do a cutout of the PCB and mount a “dumb” connector housing for the socket. You can also have a ground plane right in the middle and use both sides for differential pairs, which is exactly what happened. It also means you don’t have to deal with the pain of high frequency signals leaving the board into the air like other connectors.
But yes, don’t shove screwdrivers into your USB sockets either.
Banana leaves will work fine if they’re more accessible. It’s a common substitute in other countries. You might even be able to use paper, really. It just has to keep everything contained during cooking/storage.
Masa is basically just nixtamalized cornmeal/cornflour mixed with water. You can make nixtamalized corn yourself if you’re willing to go through the effort. If you don’t, unnixtmalized cornflour works. It’s not bad, just different.
Where does milk come into tamales?! Unless you’re doing sweet tamales or trying to make cheese, tamales don’t involve milk.
Any chili will work, even thai. Add some capsicum if you want more of that pepper sweetness but all you can find for heat are small thais. Alternatively, use a recipe intended for chiltepins or pequin chilis. Mexico has hundreds of different chilis and all of them are used to make salsa. Just make sure to use white onion, not sweet or yellow. Throw everything in an oven till it’s blackened, add cilantro/coriander, blend, season, cool, eat.
Other than Apple music and iCloud, they’re generally less intrusive about popups than Microsoft. Their tactic is to completely prevent competitors from integrating with the system at all rather than nag you to use a setting. For example, there’s no way to use Google maps or Spotify in all the same ways you can use Apple music or Maps.