Its a bit easier if you use a bath of ice water. Skin separates easier most of the time.

I’ve been brewing for a while but I havent yet had the courage to try a lager. Pale ales are forgiving and basically everything works, a lager is all about subtlety and control. I did a Belgian quad before my first lager.

Just found this community and happy to see it semi active as lemmy is a pretty quiet place for the niches I tend to frequent.

I started brewing a couple of years ago with a simple stovetop extract kit and a plastic barrel fermenter, but after only a couple of brews that way I went straight to all grain and a fermzilla.

I have 24L of a not-quite Neipa in the fermenter at the moment, should be ready to keg in a week, I say not quite neipa as I generally do them in the 6.5-7.5% range with tonnes of oats and wheat, rolled and whole malted, Golden naked oats (try it), chit and cara, lots of lactose and hop loads in the 7-10g/l range, etc, bit heavy dense things. but this one is much more down to earth at 5.8%ish (we will see when its done) and a more restrained form of my usual hazy grain bill. starting gravity was 1063 and expected FG is ~1017-1020, higher FG is by design as it is lighter in ABV than the ~8% recipe it is based on so it should balance out.

Should be pretty tasty, Golden promise, wheat malt, chit, carahell, golden naked oats, rolled oats and a bit of lactose has been my go-to for big neipas for the last few brews, just been playing with the hop bill and timings, and a few different yeasts, this one is more diluted overall (24L vs 21L) and more base malt in the ratio. still expecting a very hazy beer but not not to the extent of it looking like a milkshake or orange juice this time.

Here’s a picture just as it was starting to take off. will update once it has cold crashed and I can put a nice sample in a glass. It will clear out and lighten a fair bit but still be a bit cloudy.

for Ep 4 I like HAL9000’s cut, Adywan’s cuts are good too. I like their prequel trilogy cuts too.

if you are looking for a supercut of all 3 into one film, I like “Star Wars: Abridged II - The Rebellion” by SubjectZero, though their cuts of the other trilogies arent quite as good in my opinion.

as for other fan edits of other franchises, I just watched the M4 book edit of the Hobbit trilogy and that does a fantastic job combining those three bloated films back into something simpler and truer to the book.

I have the 4K77/80/83 releases in DNR and no-DNR on my server, along with classic despec, Harmy’s and one fan-edit that re-cuts the films.

there’s also 4k80 and 4k83 for the other films, and they are all available with or without noise reduction. the no-dnr versions have incredible detail (to the extent of seeing flaws in the sets and costumes in some cases) but the film grain varies in size and contrast pretty wildly from scene to scene due to having various sources so it can be distracting, the DNR versions are oversmoothed IMO so I just watch with the grain intact.

They have some issues where there are colour and contrast variances scene to scene, again thats from having multiple film sources of various ages and generations, and their intent to do minimal colour correction. sometimes better quality film is found and the releases are updated with that.

They dont intend to be “perfect” but they are sourced directly from projection copies that people watched in the day, which may include some flaws that other versions like Harmy’s aim to fix.

the fitgirl love is part of the whole meme.

in reality the person behind fitgirl is unhinged as fuck and that is very entertaining.

instructions unclear, put entire homelab into a single consumer pc server with mismatched ram and a single off-brand power supply and no battery backup.

If you run everything on a single PI, at least take regular backups so you can image a new SD card quickly when needed and get back up and running within a few minutes.

I used to run pretty much everything on 3 pis, but now just have a single one left that runs HAOS+Nodered+a secondary DNS (because you should always run two separate DNS servers so you can update one at a time without downtime), that gets backed up daily to the main server if a card dies and also keeps a local backup on its SD card for the odd rollback if the server is down, plus I have a spare SD taped to it ready to go with an older image but one that would be able to boot and pull the latest backup from another source, my main server is a purpose built storage and compute server that runs all the heavy stuff, then there’s a couple of N95 mini PCs that run proxmox for small tasks and general homelabbery.

you could have one plex master server accessing multiple storage servers over SMB/NFS without much hassle, that allows combined libraries and more or less seamless access if the network and connection between servers is up to scratch as it would require reasonably high bandwidth, but multiple separate servers is a bit of a pain as you cant easily combine them and you would have to have split libraries AFAIK.

the radxa penta is a JMB585 connected with pcie gen3x1.

They do overheat though, might need a heatsink and some ZFS tuning.

They still push their exclusive features and services in the UI’s pretty hard, but I’m OK with that while they are making moves like this, and letting you have third party cameras mixed into their ecosystem reasonably easily.

Very happy to see this, I thought they were going to be pulling away from self-hostable and more flexible solutions a few years back when they stopped developing things like Unifi Video, but they seem to have made many positive movements towards openness, true ownership and self-hostability lately.

probably a federation issue, if I go to my own post in Boost the images load after a second.

They arent all that impressive to look at though, it’s just a grid of buttons.

My main dashboard is on a little 480x480 LCD android wallpanel, so I have a template that uses a grid of buttons which can perform actions themselves or navigate to and from other pages with other functions. every page uses some variation of that template, usually 9 buttons but it can be more or fewer as needed, or nesting grids within larger grids in some cases.

This main panel is in my “theatre” aka the spare bedroom I claimed for a media room, so most of the control is based around triggering actions and flows mostly orchestrated by NodeRed but a few functions are direct to HA for simpler functions. there are other pages that bring up controls for other rooms and my original plan was to put one of these panels in every room but I never really got there… one day.

I use the wallpanel addon to run screensavers, but the LCD panels also have a sensor that turns the screen off until you put your hand near it, then it wakes up to the screensaver with the weather and any warnings until you tap the screen to bring up the main page.

main page:

example source selection grid, still working on making this neater or less ugly, maybe more nested pages based on user or type or simply culling sources never uses in this particular room, though most of the time you walk up to the panel and hit movie mode on the main page, then any other switching is accessible from the remote itself.

I need a lot of selections because just this room has multiple local devices, some on the TV, some on the receiver, then some on the main HDMI matrix for the whole house, then there are a couple of IP feeds and other devices. switching and sequencing all of those steps on each device is done in Nodered, that also sends a ping to the smart remote to set it to the right mode for what is chosen and it all stays in sync if the source is changed from the remote, since it is all orchestrated in nodered… sources like the TV and Sat tuners I am working on a round robin style selection for those so you just tap it and it goes to whichever one is free or warns you if it is being used in another room, but 90% of the time only one of those is being used at any one time so that would work OK. that way I can get them down to one button.

I also have a simple phone dashboard with climate controls, sensors, status etc. that can also bring up these control panels if needed but I mostly use the dashboard on the touch panel.

Yea, JF is getting mature enough for more people to transition.

I’ve been running it side by side with Plex for about 2 years now, and have a couple of clients (and all of my personal use) on JF, but a few users either cant run JF directly on their hardware (and don’t want to cast every time) or they are older and would struggle to learn a new app without some hands on practice with it.

The newest Plex UI update on some devices is causing some problems so I think I’ll have a few more users moving to JF in the near future.

It’s a bit of a ram hog compared to plex but that’s not a major issue.

unraid is great but on a little 4 bay mini nas with limited expandability you don’t get much advantage for the money, it’s better for larger arrays and lots of mixed disk sizes, and on systems where you can put in lots of SSDs to make a decently fast caching setup die to unraid slower non-striped array architecture.

On a 4 bay mini-NAS I’d go with the free truenas option and just make it a RaidZ1 of 4 disks.

For a beginner, OMV might be simpler, and for paid options, HexOS is probably more beginner friendly than raw TrueNas.

A free alternative to Unraid is Snapraid, but thats more of a roll-your-own solution, not an OS you can just install.

way back in the early days of Wifi (802.11B was the cutting edge magic future technology) I had a large antenna hooked up to my laptop PCMCIA wifi card and could pick up some open networks from a few neighbours away. I used to set it up and leave winmx running on my laptop to download all sorts of garbage.

My home internet at the time was up-to 512Kbps satellite downlink (usually around 200k and lots of packet loss and very high ping) with a ~56k dial up uplink which was also the failover when the satellite was too weak, so it was very asymmetrical and unreliable.

This is semi-rural Australia in 1999/2000 and was the best we could get until we got a 3G connection that usually got 1.5meg down and 500k up on a weak HSPA connection, that place didn’t get 8/1 ADSL a couple of years later around 2005/6. A couple of streets away there were already on cable and better DSL lines were available so I assume I was connecting to one of those.

Over the weak long range Wifi connection with a makeshift “cantenna” that probably wasn’t quite right I usually got around 250k symmetrical if I recall correctly, which was really nice compared to the satellite link despite the lower maximum speed.

the most I think you could do would be log IPs for malicious or litigious purposes, I don’t think you could really do anything like malware injection in this case.

lol ARJ, malware distributors are really trying arent they. I havent use ARJ since the 90’s

it’s less than $3 on GOG at the moment.

And it is easily available through other means.

I still fire up HOMM3 + HD + HOTA every now and then.