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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.

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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