Faceman2K23

Very kiwi of you.

I have a beer just in cold crash now that’s mostly NZ hops, rakau and Motueka. Good stuff.

dry hopped manuka sparkling mead

Yum. please tell… what have you put in that concoction.

Mostly just to get the beer carbonated, or at least mostly carbonated, but it can supress esters slightly if you push your fermentation temps to the top of a yeasts happy range. I also use it to purge kegs. I have a couple of kegs attached, one filled with sanitiser and the other empty with a regulator on the output, the co2 pushes the sanitiser through into the second leg leaving one sanktised, purged and at pressure ready to hook up for a sealed gravity transfer.

So I use a heck of a lot less co2 than I used to pushing liquid around and purging kegs.

I forgot to take some photos of the brew process this weekend… sorry, first brew on new gear and things were different and I was rushed.

convection always does the job.

worst case, if its really cold or the yeast is stressed, give it a gentle rock.

That’s only about 170w continuous over 24h. This time of year, on a good day I’ll generate 90kwh from solar and use about 60kwh total.

On average it’s about 4kwh per day. I’m effectively off grid most of the time so the cost of electricity is irrelevant unless I go way overboard during a week of rain or something and I have to draw from the grid.

I am about to move from an 18ru rack to 45… So… Might be some expansion in the future.

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 it works, but it’s clunky and outdated.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.

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.

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.

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.