Korhaka
@Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Uses for stalled mead? 2 hours ago:
Tried and didn’t get far. I do wonder what type of sugars it has, it was the cheapest Lidl honey I could get. So not sure on the quality of the honey. Also used quite a lot of it. IIRC the previous batch that fermented dry in a couple of weeks or so was targeting 7.5% and this was 15%. So that is also a likely reason for it.
Want to try an apple mead again, but sweeten it a little after it’s finished. Maybe berry meads too. Seems to ferment a lot easier which is also a benefit.
- Submitted 2 hours ago to homebrewing@sopuli.xyz | 3 comments
- Comment on Retail giants join UK government drive to boost ‘plug-in’ balcony solar panels 3 hours ago:
I think I would rather get full roof solar when I come to getting solar panels, but still welcome this as an option and hopefully it helps to drive competition for installers too as they have to compete against the DIY option. 800w isn’t terrible but more would be nice.
- Comment on Nintendo reportedly look set to net so little from their Palworld lawsuit you'll wonder why they bothered 2 days ago:
And what is that fucking message, that Nintendo isn’t much of a threat compared to what people thought?
- Comment on DIY Cheese Making (Paneer) 3 days ago:
Which type of gallon is that? Although prices here are going to be different anyway.
- Comment on H... how many Battles of the Isonzo River are you going to have, Italy...? 3 days ago:
Also the name of the best WW1 shooter available so far. There was a surge of Isonzo memes when it came out
- Comment on DIY Cheese Making (Paneer) 3 days ago:
I have wondered about cost efficiency of it because of how little you get from so much milk. But then cheese costs a fair bit more too. Not actually counted yields yet.
I wonder if a ratchet strap would be a way to apply a fair bit more force on the cheese press without having to spend much money on the setup.
- Comment on Xbox Gaming CSO Pitches Ads in Games as "Affordable Alternative" 3 days ago:
I like games that are highly relatable/endless. Story isn’t something I am overly bothered by though.
- Comment on Xbox Gaming CSO Pitches Ads in Games as "Affordable Alternative" 3 days ago:
I think some of my most played games are indie ones I bought in the 2010s, Rimworld, Factorio, Vintage Story, From the Depths, Kenshi.
Not sure if I can think of as much that stands out from the 2020s tbh. Valheim perhaps but I don’t feel like going back to it as much as the others.
- Comment on Xbox Gaming CSO Pitches Ads in Games as "Affordable Alternative" 4 days ago:
Far more affordable to just buy indie games instead, and you can play a lot of them on fairly affordable hardware. You could make do with an iGPU for a fair bit if you want to keep costs down low enough.
- Comment on What's your contingency plan for the apocalypse? 1 week ago:
Any tips for trying to catch fish for food? UK here and everything is written like it’s a sport instead. Plus it’s usually for freshwater where you need licensing and permissions but I live by the sea.
Caught a couple of crabs before but that is about it.
- Comment on What's your contingency plan for the apocalypse? 1 week ago:
In most of those situations I have bigger problems to deal with and can always restore from backup later.
If it’s so serious I don’t even have backups left then it doesn’t matter anymore.
- Comment on Gothic remake lockpicking backlash raises the fascinating question of whether anybody really enjoys lockpicking in RPGs 1 week ago:
And a % per attempt
- Comment on Gothic remake lockpicking backlash raises the fascinating question of whether anybody really enjoys lockpicking in RPGs 1 week ago:
Kenshi does it pretty well
- Comment on Curious about making cheese 1 week ago:
Some cheeses are a lot easier than others. Add acid and simmer the milk should result in it separating and then you can filter out the whey with cheesecloth. Now you have cheese!
If you press it you can remove more of the liquid but you can do a fair bit by hand for soft cheeses.
- Comment on My first attempt at fletching an arrow 1 week ago:
Agree that you want batches.
If you are interested in using them you may want to look up Dutch arrows, it’s an arrow you can throw with a bit of string.
Only thrown them once before, I would like to try stuff like that again but I don’t really have the space to do it and suspect it would be illegal to use on public land here in the UK.
Atlatls are another fun one, bigger though. More of a javelin.
- Comment on My first attempt at fletching an arrow 1 week ago:
Looks pretty good. Used to do a fair bit of archery, but my arrows were still made with modern tools/glues. Going fully primitive self made tools is certainly appealing until you see one break and think at all that work it took to make.
- Comment on Naming it World War 1 was a bad omen 1 week ago:
Someone else already provided a source. I didn’t say it didn’t have other names, just that WW1 had been used too even if it wasn’t as popular initially.
- Comment on Naming it World War 1 was a bad omen 1 week ago:
We kinda fucked up, again and again and again and again…
- Comment on Naming it World War 1 was a bad omen 1 week ago:
This is a common myth, while it wasn’t primarily called WW1, the name had been used before it even finished.
- Comment on Volkswagen knew what they were doing 1 week ago:
It was a pretty good one, but yeah nothing to do with VW this time.
- Comment on PlayerUnknown's survival game is shutting down 6 months after launch: 'I have reached the limits of how far I can continue to fund this journey' 1 week ago:
It can be shutdown, I don’t want it.
- Comment on PlayerUnknown's survival game is shutting down 6 months after launch: 'I have reached the limits of how far I can continue to fund this journey' 1 week ago:
Probably not if it can shutdown.
- Comment on Question: What are some alternatives to a Raspberry Pi good for a small home server? 2 weeks ago:
Around £100 a year from 50w, if you run this for several years then you tell me if that matters.
- Comment on Question: What are some alternatives to a Raspberry Pi good for a small home server? 2 weeks ago:
I was looking at bee-link a while back, shame prices have gone through the roof on everything though.
- Comment on Question: What are some alternatives to a Raspberry Pi good for a small home server? 2 weeks ago:
N100/N150 doesn’t use that much more power and going for x64 instead of ARM could be a pretty big benefit too. Depends on what you want of course.
- Comment on Question: What are some alternatives to a Raspberry Pi good for a small home server? 2 weeks ago:
Power demand on an old laptop might actually cost you more in the long run.
- Comment on PewDiePie releases Codex/ClaudeCode/Cursor killer, Odysseous (FOSS) 2 weeks ago:
Depends on what you want it to do and how well it should do it. Zero is potentially enough. A second hand card from half a decade ago can also do quite a lot.
- Comment on Researchers turn sunlight and CO2 into living biomass 3 weeks ago:
They clearly don’t get outside much
- Comment on California Senate passes plug-in solar bill 3 weeks ago:
And pretty sure if it doesn’t plug in you can have as much as you like. DIY setups seem like fun although not sure how well the prices scale.