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for manga I’m still running FMD2 via wine in a docker container. it works, but it’s clunky and outdated. that feeds into Komga, which in turn is pulled by Mihon/tachiyomi on my devices.

for books, I just manually search usenet and public trackers. books i;m managing manually at the moment. used to use ubooquity but I dont read a lot so I move files to my boox tablet when I need them.

when they watch an entire movie in 2mbit 720p from a 4K HDR source and you know they have a proper TV and a shield pro.

Looks tasty mate!

they are fun to look at when fully active, you dont get that with a stainless FV. gotta keep it dark most of the time though, too much light aint good for the beer.

This is what it looks like when the yeast really gets going (immich share link).

yep, Since I’m in Australia the kegland products are much more readily available and affordable, so that’s what most of my gear is.

I’ll take some photos of the next brew and do a write up since I just got a new brewer (Brewzilla 35L Gen4.1) and will be trying a slightly different setup and plumbing arrangement for the first time.

This brew and the previous ones were in a Brewzilla 35L Gen3.1.1, counterflow chiller, no real care taken with trub management, I just get it all into the fermenter and let it drop out naturally. all grain, so no malt extracts in most recipes.

The fermenter is a Fermzilla 27L tri-conical, with a collection vessel at the bottom which I mostly dont use, I just let trub (all the gunk leftover) and hop matter collect there like a sump, I keep it attached cause I use the bottom port to pump some c02 through occasionally if I need to break things up or give it a stir. on top is a hop-bong which is a way to add hops or other additions under c02 pressure, without opening the fermenter, it acts as an airlock, add hops through the top, attach c02 (or loop through the fermentation gas to do it for free) to purge out the air and to match the pressure, then open the valve and the hops drop down. It was a quarter the price of a “proper” stainless conical FV, and does most of the same things, so for small scale brewing it’s a good option, and you get to have a look at the brew while it’s going, though it stays dark most of the time, too much light can affect the quality and flavour.

I have a fermentation fridge, I started with a cheap old fridge plugged into a separate controller, but “invested” in a proper fermentation chamber with is computer controlled and can adjust temperature in profiles and ramps as needed, either manually or based on gravity readings automatically. I get temperature and a rough gravity reading live during fermentation with a Pill, that connects to the fridge and to the internet so everything is logged, graphed, and I know exactly what is going on.

There are plenty of great videos on youtube about how to use an all-in-one style brewer, and they are a great way to upgrade from stovetop brew-in-a-bag all grain / partial mash or non-kit extract brewing, which is usually the next step after your current “throw the extract and water into a tub and wait” brewing.

If you are comfortable with coopers kits, try adding some extra hops, doing a grain steep with some crystal/caramel grains or small partial mash in a cheesecloth bag, or talk to a homebrew shop for some more interesting extracts to use (dry or liquid) to amp-up/tweak the kits.

usually at least a little bit. this one was pretty much open, tiny bit of pressure from the kegs attached to the gas port.

generally once the krausen starts to drop I ramp it up to 10-15psi.but this time I manually gassed the fermenter up to 20psi at cold crash to get some carbonation started.

I like using pressure cause I use fermentation c02 to purge and sanitise kegs, so it’s great having the kegs not only c02 purged for free, they are pressurised too! I take the unrestricted gas from the fermenter, into a keg full of sanitizer (gas port) then the liquid port of that goes to the gas port of another keg so when it starts producing c02 the liquid gets pumped out to the next one, only thing I have to remember is the final keg in the chain needs to be hooked up the other way to avoid dumping that sanitiser everwhere… which I have done… twice now.

This quick throw together was actually so successful and popular that the next brew is a refined version of this, with a more fully flavoured base malt, slightly more of everything overall a tweaked water profile to be a bit sharper, using London Fog or another juicy yeast, rather than the Voss. a sharper water profile should make up some of the extra character voss gave it.

I quite like Voss for Neipas since the extra sweetness and body can round over and balance out the bitter orange pith flavour it tends to throw around but in a dryer pale it stands out a bit much.

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A lovely bright orange, not brown as I had feared. flavour was immense as expected, a little bit muddy and busy at first (also to be expected) but after a couple of weeks in the keg it had settled down and was extremely well balanced.

That keg didn’t last long so the next brew was a quick Voss hazy pale (very pale malt and lots of wheat too!), 1 week grain to glass, using rakau, strata, some amarillo I found buried in the freezer and a galaxy liquid extract. super successful, bright, snappy, super clean and easy to drink way too much of as a 6.2% that feels more like a 4.5%…

I really enjoyed this one too, I think it’s an essential watch for Haruhi fans, or more specifically, Nagato Yuki fans, but not really for anyone else.

yes it does finish a bit weakly and on a mild cliffhanger because, as is unfortunately common, it’s only a partial adaptation roughly covering the events from 5 volumes of a 10 volume series. so there’s a fair bit more to read if you want to continue it but they have cut out a lot of extra fluff and a bit of bloat from the manga. they did a fairly good job streamlining the manga into a 16 episode series. a full 2-cour would have been too long and drawn out, a standard 12eps would have been too short to cover both the light hearted SOL rom-com fluff and the more serious arc they adapted very well that crosses it into the main Haruhi universe.

Viz Media coming after household cleaning chemicals next.

if all you need is a tiny NPU for things like image object identification or OCR the IGPU you already have will be better.

if you need slightly more than that, but not as much power as a large dedicated gpu, then you would have to look at a newer mini-pc with a more modern chip.

I do immich face/object detection and Birdnet audio analysis on the igpu of an intel 14600 and it’s fine, tiny amount of usage and plenty fast. my other node has a core ultra 235 and the igpu is faster than the on-chip npu in every regard, the npu is also a bit harder to actually get working and put to use.

I run two synchonised Adguard instances on two different devices as DNS servers for the house (and for my work PC via vpn). on top of that I run local ad blockers on top of that. I dont care that my DNS ping times are a few ms longer. I dont want to be pestered, tracked, solicited or interrupted.

I cant stand the barrage of ads, especially on mobile websites, like its at the point where you want to read an article and you get two lines of text and the entire rest of the screen is ads you have to navigate.

maybe due for a re-watch then.

The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan

it’s generally a 6/10 spin-off rom-com, but with one solid 10/10 arc that makes it all worth it that ties it in with the main series and movie so well I’d consider it an essential must-watch for Haruhi fans.

Also, this version of Yuki is just adorable.

I’ve always kept my apps and databases on solid state media, putting them on spinning rust, even in a well tuned ZFS pool with lots of disks is way too slow for their (admittedly inefficient) database.

It absolutely does but you have to do it yourself, they dont accept any liability for doing that and nor should they, so if you dont know how to do it with at least the minimal level of safety and security and accept that risk yourself then you really shouldn’t try. Ideally you would only do it via a private VPN to trusted users.

Plex has some features built in to make just opening the port reasonably safe, though I’d still recommend against that. They also have a reasonably secure account verification system, and the software itself has proven to be somewhat safe.

Jellyfin has very little security built in and is not intended to be public facing, it also has the double edged sword of being open source, so you could read through all the code and pick it apart for flaws and exploits if you wanted to and we all just trust that when exploits or flaws are found they are reported properly.

JF is great but you are on your own if you want to make it available via WAN.

honestly Wholfin being so nice to use was my last hurdle to getting the whole house over the JF from Plex, just a few remote users with uncommon players that still need Plex and once they upgrade I can be done with it for good after starting out with OSXBMC way back in the day and being a lifetime licence holder from the start of paid plans.

I’ve fiddled with it recently and it’s fine but not really better than something like Gemini.

If you tell it to use metric or imperial it still mixes them, and it seems really set on forcing you into the specific styles, with little room to experiment, like if you want a slightly more amber-leaning WCIPA (which is a very common deviation from the BJCP guidelines) it will push back because it wants you right in the middle of the style range, the XML it spat out in my test didn’t exactly match the summary it gave either. That was a week ago so maybe they’ve been tuning it.

I just feel like AI recipe generation will lead beginners astray because they dont have the experience to know whether it’s correct or not. The AI will always say something that it comes up with is amazing and special regardless of errors, that’s how they are biased, they will only correct those flaws when you point them out.

The only thing I can see AI brewing assistants being good at currently is to say things like:

• “how can I adjust this existing recipe to a full volume mash/no-sparge brew without changing the end result too much”
• “how do I adapt my all-in-one brewer process to a 2V or 3V setup, take me through the steps”
• “how can I approximate this all grain recipe with partial mash brewing”
• “I like this recipe but want it to be more floral, what do I change”

Beyond the usual Dragon Ball and Pokemon things, along with catching random episodes of Sailor Moon, Hamtaro, Cardcaptor Sakura etc on morning TV before school, It was Evangelion, Bebop and couple of years later FLCL on late night TV. I also remember seeing a few random episodes of Escaflowne as well in the 90’s.

I later watched and got very into Eva and Cowboy Bepop, but i still dint really think of it as Anime for some reason.

so beyond those the first “modern” anime that I watched and actually got into the media properly with was Haruhi, then the first thing I watched in Japanese instead of English was Hibike! Euphonium.

so that’s where I stopped watching dubs for shows other than the classic dub series where most people also listen dubbed.

thats a fermzilla rig.