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- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 14 hours ago:
Probably less, yeah. Do you get them from the hopper style that drops from the bottom, or bins you scoop from?
If hopper I’d expect you to catch some sometimes because they settle down to the bottom, but if you scoop them from the top of bins I think it’s pretty unlikely you’d ever find any.
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 1 day ago:
Your day may come. Be vigilant! Best to find them on the counter than in your mouth. Some brands, or bean types, have a lot more than others. Black and red beans have had the most for me, in that order. It sucks because it’s harder to spot the rocks in the black beans, too.
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 1 day ago:
Yeah I find them more often in brands from foreign foods sections. Often times they’re better quality beans for a lot cheaper though!
I’ll take the couple minutes to scan for rocks if it means I’m getting better beans any day of the week. Fucking love beans, haven’t ever met one I don’t like.
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 1 day ago:
Nice! Maybe I’ll try that. What else did you have in the pot?
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 1 day ago:
Sure!
TLDR: mirepoix, garlic, ground mustard, ground thyme, basil, salt, pepper, bacon
I cut a pack of decent quality bacon into strips and start it a sizzlin
Then, dice equal parts carrot, onion, and celery (mirepoix) while the bacon is cooking
I crank the heat and sautee the mirepoix in the pan with the bacon, then I add the beans with the soak water and some salt (don’t go crazy, the bacon has salt too, and I add cheese at serving also)
Bring to boil and then reduce to simmer until the beans are mostly cooked, stirring and adding water as needed.
When things are cooked pretty well throw in a diced tomato (or a can), a bulb of crushed garlic, ground mustard, dried basil, and ground thyme. Let it cook a bit until the flavors develop, then adjust seasoning, salt, pepper etc. Sorry I don’t have measurements, I eyeball everything. I cook the soup a long time so by the end it will stick if you don’t stir fairly frequently because the lentils and some beans have dissolved. I like the soup thicc so that also contributes to it sticking.
The thyme and basil are the stars here, the thyme especially.
I usually eat it with some rice and some grated Monterey Jack cheese on top.
I use jasmine rice and put a small amount of olive oil in the pan, then crush a garlic clove per cup of rice I’m cooking and sautee gently (don’t burn it!) as soon as the garlic has cooked a bit I add a cup of dry rice to the pan and stir it around real good, add the water, and salt it. Rice should not be bland, motherfuckers!
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 1 day ago:
I think it was more of an issue when I was younger for sure, but I still find them occasionally. I eat a ton of beans though.
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 1 day ago:
Lots of bags of dry beans have rocks. Little black pebbles usually, like coarse sand.
Some brands have them more often than others but you can easily break a tooth on them so I always toss them on the counter and scoot them around to check.
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 2 days ago:
I fucking love these.
I just throw the seasoning packet away, never used it at all. Just use the bean mix itself, it’s really good, HOWEVER be aware that some of the “beans” are actually lentils, and they break down into a mush faster than others.
If you cook the beans a long time in your soup as I do then it gets REALLY bad looking. We call it “ugly soup” because it’s ugly AF but DELICIOUS.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 3 days ago:
Depending on what you’re running on it or how you connect it to the Internet or your home network, you’re going to be at more and more risk as time goes on.
What’s the harm in upgrading now, especially if you barely ever use it?
I hate win 11 and there’s a lot of downsides to running it, but they’re going to quickly become a minor issue when compared to the risks of running an unpatched OS that is that huge of a target for exploits. Just trust me on that, the risks are going to get more and more real because attackers KNOW there’s a huuuuge number of businesses and consumers that just won’t upgrade and they’re frothing at the mouth to take advantage of the next few years of opportunity.
There’s a version of Windows 10 called LTSC (long term servicing channel) that will continue to receive patches, just no new features, that you can stay on for probably the length of time you’ll have that laptop. Since you barely use the laptop it’s probably perfect for you. You can easily find out how to obtain and activate it for free, securely, with a simple search - I won’t link to it here. One of my servers is running it because it’s old hardware and runs software that requires windows. It’s a really good option for people that don’t want to or don’t have hardware that supports 11, but want something secure and functional.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 | Review Thread 4 days ago:
Butt stallion says hello
- Comment on Nintendo wins $2 Million settlement against Switch modchip seller who previously denied wrongdoing 6 days ago:
I also do not buy Nintendo products for the same reason, but I think you overestimate the general public’s knowledge of their crazy litigant aggressiveness.
Ask any 12 year old what they want for Xmas and it’s a Switch 2, which means that parents are going to keep buying them for their kids, and it’s a massive pain to tell your kid that you’re not going to buy them their desired toy because the company that makes it is a scourge of hostile control freaks.
Most people just don’t care. So, keep up the fight because it matters but Nintendo’s brand image is mostly family safe game consoles, Mario, etc. despite what the very small subset of the world that is on Lemmy thinks.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’d recommend using unifi/ubiquiti switches. They’re a bit pricey but they’re incredibly solid and you can manage them with a self hosted container of unifi controller software.
A good place to start is one of their 8port POE switches. I have a couple and they’re L3 switches (so you can do VLAN stuff like you want), and I’ve never ever had a problem with any of them. Even with the inexpensive ones their POE budget is pretty good, and great to power other switches or APs. They don’t power some cameras so you might need injectors for some thirsty gear.
The controller software is pretty good, and will let you manage the switches without getting into command line config at first (which can be a crutch so be cautious of that, especially if you want to branch out into other cheaper switches or take advantage of good 2nd hand gear deals you find).
But for your network I think an 8 port and a WAP are a good place to start. Get away from using your combo router as your wireless AP (or use both) and get some VLANs set up, and work on inter-VLAN routing and firewall rules.
How do you want to segment your network?
I recommend you have the following to start:
-management VLAN
-trusted devices
-guest/IoT devices
Just getting those three set up correctly will teach you a lot and let you environment. Firewall/routing rules to allow connections through in certain directions and not others is… fun to get the hang of if you’re new.
What are you planning on using as your router? Your combo router might tie your hands if that’s what you plan to use for everything. Combo routers generally suck at everything. You can get a cheap router also, edgerouter er-x is a fine choice but it’s not the best, but it’ll still outdo whatever you currently have, I’m sure. Put it behind your modem at your network edge and you can manage your vlan routing and your firewall on one device.
Additionally you can set up a VPN server on one of your PCs and set up static routes to allow you to tunnel in and access your network when you’re out (wireguard for the win).
Good luck on your journey! There’s a lot to learn so don’t get frustrated then your stuff doesn’t work. Back up your configs so you can revert back and be REALLY careful because it’s easy enough to make your stuff insecure by trying to make stuff work. Yeah it’ll function but next thing you know you’ve got a ransomware virus on your entire network… Not fun, I hear.
As you set up your VLANs look into VLAN traversal, it’s a means of network attack that allows attackers to cross over from one VLAN to another when you set up trunk/switch ports and VLAN tagging incorrectly. Again, your stuff will work but it’ll be vulnerable (not really a problem at home as long as your firewall works fine but still).
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
The slider you’re mentioning is specifically for cloud sync, correct. But as far as I know Word still does the thingy where it will periodically snapshot and allow you to recover previous versions.
I’m not 100% sure because I don’t use it at home anymore but I still do at work.
- Comment on Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones 3 weeks ago:
Supernotes are my preference. They are e-ink, and have an option for a smaller size than remarkables. Constant great software/firmware development, durable, and e-ink. Downside, if you care (I do not) is they’re b+w only.
Can side load android apps, they sync fine, work as e-reader, etc. Good stuff.
Remarkables are good I think but they have one foot in the digital artist niche and one in the note niche, whereas a supernote is firmly in the business/meeting/note niche.
- Comment on Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones 3 weeks ago:
Studying, in its base form, follows the following steps:
-take in the information
-record the information
-review the information you’ve recorded in chunks. Best practice is to review your newly recorded information at the session, and at the start of the next session review old information. If you can review ALL your recorded information on a subject at the start of a new session that’s best - at first it’s slow but as you review a couple times you’re skimming or skipping most of it and only focus on the parts that you have trouble retaining.
With that being said, the ways we prefer to TAKE IN and RECORD information vary between people, but the overall concept does not.
In terms of flash cards, they’re great for memorization. That has not changed - it’s a base way to record and review information.
A modern version of this applies the base method but digitizes it. Anki is a very good and popular modern flash card app/program
-you can make flash cards with text, but also audio, images, and video
-you can save decks and sync them across all devices and share/upload decks
-it’s “smart.” If you spend more time struggling to answer a card, or get it wrong, it’ll show it to you more frequently. The reverse is true if you get it right every time quickly, you see it much less frequently
-it can nag you to study. You can set it up to notify you every hour, day, whatever and thrust 10-1000 cards in your face, whatever you set it to.
-tons of ways to configure it so it meets your specific needs.
So, that’s how things have modernized, for flash cards at least. But plenty of people still buy 3x5 index cards and keep a physical deck if that’s what they prefer. Again, the method isn’t as important as the process of receive/record/review.
Personally I like to use an e-ink handwriting tablet for in person note taking (all the benefits of paper/handwriting without the fuss of paper, plus lots of other features like cut/paste, linking/bookmarking items, etc) and I prefer typing into a word document when I’m studying from a book. The word document is very clean and I can use structured outlining formatting as well as a quick Ctrl+f to find terms I’ve written about. But whether it’s e-ink tablet or word doc, the base method is the same as when I was younger and it was all paper.
I think phones have their uses but they are awful for note taking. The fastest texter is much slower than writing by hand or typing, and you are so, so much more limited in underlining, highlighting, little symbols, positioning text in weird ways to symbolize things, etc. I don’t advocate that people use them unless they’re in a bind and have nothing else, but a lot of kids grow up these days and that’s their go to method because of familiarity, and we shouldn’t encourage that because it’s flat worse. However, phones can do great things such as record/transcribe, photos, videos etc - so they’re a great addition to the toolbox, but they’re not a NOTE TAKING replacement unless they’re a stylus/handwriting type, and even those are a poor cousin to a dedicated device for the purpose, but they can be a more affordable/versatile/portable version. My note writer was about $500 and that’s a lot of cheese but it was worth every penny to me because of how I use it.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 3 weeks ago:
I think the biggest systemic issue in most places is that most people don’t actually know how to train people, including most senior staff. Very few people are actually natural trainers/instructors, so they have to be trained in how to train, and the expectations that they do so has to be part of company culture as well as time baked into the workday to do it, because it DOES take time. It pays off huge in the long run but it can be hard to see the forest through the trees if the management themselves don’t know or understand the value.
As much as I hate corporate jobs they’re generally better than small companies about having a formalized training program. It’s a shame because there’s so much garbage in corporate culture that a lot of small businesses don’t want to implement the good with the bad.
One thing I’ve seen over the years is that a TON of businesses have NO IDEA how to be functional. It’s a person that started in their garage and managed to grow and they just do stuff, and keep just doing stuff and hiring more people to do stuff and quickly outgrow the garage but don’t introduce sound business practices that you need to run things effectively. It’s crazy how many businesses are like that.
- Comment on Valheim: Call To Arms major update announced with new combat mechanics and lots of new items 3 weeks ago:
Dang of everything you just said turning down greydwarfs sounds amaaaaazing.
Other major inconvenience is definitely metals through portals, but I’m not sure if I’d click that one off. It is really annoying to constantly be running through biomes that I have no interest in grinding just for giggles, but part of me wonders if that’s part of the charm.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 3 weeks ago:
It can be both. Jobs should invest in their people, but individuals should also take some ownership of their own skills.
The apprentice/journeyman dynamic was a lot better suited to a time when a) people left their hometowns a lot less, b) information was MUCH less accessible except from people who showed you how, and c) businesses put a lot more stock into their people as an asset, instead of treating labor as a liability.
A isn’t anyone’s fault.
B isn’t anyone’s fault.
C is where businesses have gone sour, but it’s not like businesses have ever been well known for taking care of their people (labor laws, unions, OSHA are all examples of this from history)
It’s not propaganda that people need to take ownership of their own skills and careers. Nobody’s responsible for you or your success but you. If you want to be good at what you do then that’s on you. You can take what your job gives you and that’s it, and you’ll probably do fine at whatever tasks you got specific OJT for, but unless you get lucky or play your cards right that’s not going to make you very successful.
I really don’t want to sound like an old person saying that kids these days want things handed to them, and I really do think that employers in general don’t invest in their entry level workers as well as they used to, but expecting an employer to take you from know-nothing to a master of your craft is naive, frankly, because the days of someone working at a place for 10-30 years are just gone, and everyone has accepted it. There’s a ton of reasons why that’s the case and a lot of that is employers not incentivising employees to stay via wage growth, promotion opportunities, and training, but there’s a lot of other factors. Either way things have changed, and it doesn’t really do much except make you sound like you need a waahmbulance if you just sit back on your haunches and complain about it.
You can still become an apprentice if you want to work a trade, and a good union will train you up if you’re a good worker, but that isn’t fast. It was never fast, and most people aren’t satisfied with the pace today, because it doesn’t get you earning six figures out the gate. You had to work hard, earn a good reputation, and stay in the area for 10-20 years. Most people don’t want to do that, and that dynamic never took a hard root in the tech sector in the first place, which is where this conversation started.
I encourage you to stick to a career that you enjoy enough to take some joy in getting better at your skills for the sake of getting better at stuff instead of just trying to earn a paycheck. Nothing wrong with a job being just a means to an end, but I say this because you’ll enjoy your jobs much better if you’re passionate about what you do, and you’ll naturally be drawn to opportunities to gain mastery in skills that will make you more successful.
None of this might change your mind, might just piss you off even, but the guy you’re replying to sounds like he enjoys the job enough that he’s trying to be better for the sake of being better. I wouldn’t knock them for that.
- Comment on Meta Quest 3/3s XR headsets finally rooted after 2 years 3 weeks ago:
My guess is that it’s a loss on the hardware but their revenue stream is tied to data collection.
- Comment on What are some good "frugal" movie viewing setups? (Recommendations) 4 weeks ago:
The Hook Up YouTube channel has a ton of awesome non sponsored reviews of tech that you might be interested in. Projectors, sound equipment, etc. I’ve honestly never seen better consumer review content.
www.youtube.com/channel/UC2gyzKcHbYfqoXA5xbyGXtQ
Personally I don’t care for home theater so often I skip videos about projectors, but there’s a ton of stuff there that might help you make some decisions - at the very least you’ll walk away better educated about what makes a quality piece of kit.
- Comment on DNS server 4 weeks ago:
Not trying to go down a rabbit hole, nor invade your teen’s privacy, but have you done any kind of packet inspection on what’s going out/in? Teens can surprise you with the kind of stuff they’re up to sometimes.
I’m not sure why your resolver started acting up but what you’re describing doesn’t sound like normal cause/effect. Four people on a residential connection, even if you throw in a ton of electronic devices and iot/crap that calls home constantly shouldn’t cause any kind of ISP engagement.
Not like it really matters, for 99.9% of people having a forwarder is easy and just fine and there isn’t good reason to troubleshoot it if there’s a working solution. I’m pretty privacy conscious and I don’t even think having my own forwarder is worth the hassle, I am just choosy about my upstream.
- Comment on Is it everywhere? 4 weeks ago:
My theory at this point is that it’s the equivalent of an audio editing meme. I think they just want to see how often they can get it into a final cut, for the lulz.
- Comment on DNS server 4 weeks ago:
If pi hole is configured to use another DNS it will still forward your request, just not to your ISP DNS server. Essentially you’re providing your DNS requests to a 3rd party, for a slight boost to performance (because they’ll have tons of stuff cached and can do recursive queries faster if you’re requesting a site not in their cache.) Your web pages will load faster because you don’t have an SBC trying to manually figure out what’s the IP for bigfuckdaddyhairbrushemporium.net
The downside is you’re exposing your DNS queries to a 3rd party and it’s a bit of a privacy hit, as the upstream DNS server you select has your public IP correlated with your DNS requests. Doesn’t really matter to most, but it does for some.
- Comment on DNS server 4 weeks ago:
Even if your ISP did have something in place to try and prevent abuse I find it unlikely it would trigger over normal traffic. Do you have a huge network/many hosts/exposed services?
- Comment on Immich server is not reachable 5 weeks ago:
You haven’t really given enough information about your config to diagnose.
If you’re able to access it from your local network but not your outside network it’s a port forwarding/firewall or routing issue. My guess is it’s a firewall issue either on your network edge (likely integrated into your router) or on your server that’s hosting immich.
Unless you do one of the following you won’t be able to access it from outside your network:
-set up a VPN and tunnel into your network. Wireguard or tailscale/zerotier will be easiest.
-set up port forwarding correctly. Not my first choice, best to VPN in rather than poke holes in your firewall, especially if you’re a noob.
-set up a reverse proxy. This is a bit more complicated than a VPN or overlay VPN (tail scale etc), but it works fine and will be secure as well.
If you haven’t done one of those three things then you won’t be able to access anything from outside your network, for good reason - your firewall is by default set up to deny connections that are initiated from outside your network, so when you’re trying to connect from the outside it looks at your traffic trying to start a connection to your server and naw dawg’s it.
- Comment on After trying them in the mountains, I think Carbonated Beverages were better closer to sea level. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Florida ounces 5 weeks ago:
I haven’t, but it’s easier to divide things cleanly and quickly into 3rds when you don’t have to go down to 1/10000 of the whole length to translate it effectively.
It’s why standard metric sheets of plywood (that I’ve seen - probably varies from country to country but when I was in Southeast Asia and Europe) come in 1200mm x 2400mm, because 12 and 24 are more easily divisible into equal sections than 10.
This is the same advantage that the foot/yard have over the meter.
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t that because a driver will instinctively pull left (instinct to protect their own body) when facing a head on collision in many cases? Also the rate of being thrown from the vehicle, being pierced by objects from outside the vehicle, and the risk of unsecured things (including passengers not belted in - wear your goddamn seatbelt!) flying forward from the back all being higher?
Not sure how the saying still works if those types of things are the main causes for passengers riding shotgun being statistically higher to get fatally injured
- Comment on Florida ounces 5 weeks ago:
Sure, but that doesn’t translate into real world as well, it doesn’t cleanly divide on a tape/calculator, which is what I was saying is an advantage.
- Comment on Florida ounces 5 weeks ago:
I’ve done years of construction with metric. I’m very familiar with it.
I would counter your point that you are the one who is unfamiliar with imperial measures if it sounds like goobledigook to you. Yeah, it’s weird if you’re unfamiliar with it. But in practice it is easier to work with for many day to day applications for humans.
You have to get used to it, same as folks that are familiar with imperial have to get used to metric. I would never say that metric is bad and if I had to choose one until I die I would probably choose metric due to the ways the different volume/length/mass measures align together, but they’re both fine. Even the advantage of the alignment in different areas practically never affects anyone in day to day living, even if it’s more elegant.
This is a dumb hill for you to die on when you haven’t demonstrated actual experience to back your opinion, and I attribute it more to a superiority complex of some sort than a good argument.
