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thats a fermzilla rig.

I’ve been using BrewFather, I get good results now that I’ve dialled in my usual efficiencies, though I dont really care if my final numbers are slightly off the target, if it tastes alright i’m happy.

I really only started using it to do water chemistry calculations, but now it’s my main recipe builder/checker.

I mainly use it to get my brew sheet that I have on my boox tablet for brew day, the only time I’ve skipped having that brew sheet I forgot to add a major ingredient and screwed up a batch.

Just rolling back to this one in case anyone sees it.

I’ve not practically finished drinking this brew, it turned out very well, but dryer, lighter on the palate than i had hoped. so I’ve adjusted the recipe for next time to skip the extra sugar, cut the chocolate malt back 50% and increased the oats and base malt to compensate, adjusted the mash up a couple of degrees to leave some dextrins and a target FG closer to ~1012 rather than the 1007 I ended at here. The beer I was basing it on is quite light and dry but I wanted a bit more body. I’d also swap to a traditional yeast for some more ester prescence, though the lutra did a fantastic job of fermenting quick and clean.

Flavour wise, it’s a touch darker and more roasted than I had hoped, not overboard though, but the use of cararoma (basically Special B) really added a nice raisin, dried fruit thing that works really well with the coffee and toasty flavors from the chocolate. the CaraAmber isnt doing much but I needed something to fill in the middle without using too much CaraAroma, so I’m keeping it in the recipe.

hops-wise, it was spot on, lightly hoppy balanced with the malts. I’ve added an extra couple of IBUs to account for some lost apparent bitterness I’ll get from reducing the chocolate malts and increased the whirlpool hops slightly for a tiny bit more fruityness in the middle.

It was a bit harsh and “black” at first since it has a very light dry finish it came through a bit more aggressively than it would in a sweeter beer, but after a couple of weeks in the keg it calmed down and was extremely drinkable. not my best work but it’s most of the way to a good dark ale.

there are a couple of projects I’ve seen, and surely people will fork off one of the open robo-vac projects to spin knives.

Robot mowers are in this grey area where if you have a big enough area to mow that you cant walk it in 15 minutes with a push mower, you could get a small riding mower for the same price, and now you also have a handy tractor too.

I like them, but that’s because i’m a lazy tech head, but just like high end robot vacuums they seem like one of those things that you spend good money on, they work reasonably well for a while, then break and are unfixable and the company behind them doesn’t help.

that said… there is a decent crossover in the region of “lazy tech head” and “enough disposable income” that would use a robot mower on a small lawn.

for a beginner with just a few remote clients, tailscale all the way.

though I still like doing it the old way with a custom nginx setup, fail2ban and a domain name, but its more work to make it secure and even then it’s still somewhat of a liability.

yea, very easy to fall back into the bad habit of blindly updating without giving the release notes a skim.

immich hasnt had any major breaking changes for a while in my experience using it for a few years, anything that does break is probably some third party integration or plugin that would have to wait for it’s own maintainer to fix, that’s pretty normal in the open source world.

Yea I changed over to v3 without issue recently too, I read the release notes and some of the issue conversations on github, so I knew what to expect.

That’s something a lot of people dont do, if you are self hosting an open source project it’s on you to stay on top of those things, stay updated as much as possible but dont do major jumps blindly without backups.

In my case, I went from a regular immich in a container to one with openVino built in for gpu accelerated image analysis and face detection, and I had to change my database container image. Then it fired straight up and everything seems to work 100% so far.

I was 21 when the series first aired. I’ll be 36 watching this finale.

still skim through every chapter. you made the right decision.

nothing has changed, except now Ruka is a rapist, Chizuru is a gold digger, Mami is a stalker, and whats her face shy girl basically doesnt even exist.

I have a stack of PCBs and some parts from an early revision but never got around to it.

that’s what the U3 is supposed to be, but I haven’t played with that newer one to know if its any good. I think its still not a full activity thing with power and input state tracking, but just a more advanced macro based system.

Would work for 90% of people though,

The U2, which is the one that is portable, I.e. no base station, doesn’t have activities, but you can fudge activity behaviour with macros. Its handy to just throw some codes onto it from the app and go.

The x1s and X do have activities but they are more expensive and need a base station.

The sofabatons are imperfect, but they’re as close to harmony as you will get

gotta break through the first half of the show to really wake up.

Kowloon Generic Romance?

that was great, I went straight to the manga after it finished.

Not generic at all, it’s a wild ride, fans of Lain would probably love it.

perhaps something like a Sofabaton U2 would do well for you? you can put in a device preset for the shield and for your home devices plus anything else you need, but also pull a codeset for the hotel TV and swap it out as needed from their app when travelling. you rarely need exact model number matches, usually just something from the right era from the right manufacturer gets you all the commands you need. Add a Flirc USB to use IR on the shield with more control (or on shields without built in IR), you can use any IR codes then, and map keyboard macros and such, or use the sofabatons built in Bluetooth support for a native remote.

Nothing selfhostable in that regard, and most of the solutions that do exist are either terribly tedious, or rely on chinese server at some point.

Outside of that, i’m playing with an Astrion remote at home at the moment, which also uses Chinese servers, but you can block all of that and connect it directly to home assistant. it’s far from perfect and a lot of features are still in the development timeline, but they are keeping their word so far with version drops, and the majority of the code is public on their github. Hardly an option for travelling with though.

It’s winter for me at the moment but I adore Call of the Night for the wild midnight vibes and also Insomniacs after Dark cause it’s cozy as.

dont mix and match, since you mention there is an Ethernet link from downstairs to upstairs, get a multi-node mesh system and use that Ethernet as a backbone link between two nodes.

I use Komga, but only as an OPDS server for Mihon on my phone and Boox tablet. I rarely actually look at the server software itself.

I haven’t dug into metadata management because the files I source all seem to have good metadata, all I need to do occasionally is change out a cover image or rename some files in batches.

Brew day went very smoothly, first solo brew day in a while, changed the recipe up slightly because I found I was short on golden naked oats (I put them in bloody everything, they are magic) so instead of 200g golden oats, I had 150g golden oats and then threw in 100g of quick oats. adjusted OG of ~1.056 due to slightly higher efficiency than expected and slightly more oats, so I might end up with 6.3 if it goes to 1008, happy with anything below 1015 for this brew but I want it to be moderately dry to avoid it being too heavy.

after tasting the wort, it was more bitter than expected so i re-timed the hops slightly to bring the IBU down a bit. minor change but should balance out well.

pitched yeast at 2pm @ ~30c with lots of oxygen, by 5pm it was starting to take off already. now less than 24 hours later its already shot past 50% attenuated. forgot how fast Kviek’s can be, haven’t used them since I got the fermentation chamber setup. should be keggable after just 5 days or so and on tap a couple of days after that, doing 2 days at 27, 2 days at 30 to finish it off, then cold crash as hard as possible. decided against any dry hopping on this one, since its a malt forward brew and I dont want to overcomplicate it and risk muddying the flavours.

colour is as expected, still black and murky since I didn’t take the time to really clarify the wort in any way, but should be a deep red by the time it has flocced out and cold crashed.

Even managed to clean up the brewery on the same day this time… instead of taking a week to do it!

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if they are obviously bot or dedicated marketing accounts, then no I dont think they should be here.

I would like the rules to make clear what is acceptable.

self promotion of a FOSS project is acceptable in my opinion, as long as it is clearly titled as self promotion and isn’t done in a spamming way (such as carpet bombing multiple communities with bot posts). I’d also say that donation-seeking in those posts should be kept to the creators own web pages, not in the posts themselves too.

there is a pretty easy line to draw for what is blatant advertising and what is genuine discussion of a paid service. that’s not that hard to moderate, especially when accounts are new, and carpet bombing the same posts to multiple communities, that is clearly spam.

if they are obviously bot or dedicated marketing accounts, then no I dont think they should be here.

However, I’m not 100% opposed to closed source/paid software being discussed here, but it should clearly marked as such, with a flair that people can filter out if they so choose.

If someone posts asking about whether there are any alternatives to a paid closed source program, that’s a totally valid conversation, and if it turns out there is no FOSS alternative, then we have to talk about paid closed alternatives, find the one that offers the best value and vet for trustworthiness.

The rules say nothing about selling a paid service, but maybe “no spam” should be updated with some clarity on self promotion, so perhaps you can self promote your FOSS service with the appropriate flair, but if you are selling a paid closed service it shouldn’t be allowed?

I want to be able to take illegal uploads down when they get reported

never underestimate how fucked up the internet can be, and how quickly they can ruin things.

some of the more aggressive antivirus software will flag anything related to piracy.

If you are certain it was the official lidarr and is safe, you can add it to a whitelist so it is ignored.

there is a huge worldwide problem at the moment with honey and bees in general, so I can pretty much guarantee that was not pure honey.

Sorry, misworded that, I meant it isn’t as good as a dedicated self hosted FOSS tracking service. meaning HA has access to my location data but i’ve also put lots of third party addons and integrations into HA that have to be trusted with access to that information too.

A dedicated service would be a bit easier for peace of mind as it would be isolated.

Even when set up “correctly” there are going to be a few shows where things are wrong, just due to different groups classifying series differently in some cases.

for the basics, you just need to ensure you have the right folder structure and the standard episode numbering in the filename, usually “/libraryroot/Show Title/Season 01/Show title - Episode Name - S01E01.file”

there are cases where a show has multiple seasons but some are classified as a separate show, some are separate single cour seasons, some are multiple cour seasons, specials etc. and that changes based on where you get your metadata and often differs from what the release groups will use.

So to tidy it up in those situations I use TinyMediaManager to manually build the metadata and write that to a file that jellyfin will use above all other providers.

I’ve only needed to do that in full detail for Monogatari series though, since I have my preferred way to arrange that abominable mess. pretty much everything else I stick with whatever the AniDB plugin wants and adjust my files to suit.