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.

the recent gen mac mini and the iphone “e” range was probably a bit of a warning that they were going to push their entry level equipment a bit harder… I think it’s good for the industry to have some actual competition and disruption in what used to be the mid-range price brackets.

bring back the decently made, adequately specced mid range, we’ve lost it somewhere along the line.

I know their plan is just to get more people into their ecosystem, people will buy this laptop, or have it given to them buy a school or even a business, then they’re stuck in the apple ecosystem and will be more likely to upgrade to their higher end models, buy their phones, cloud services etc.

wicked smart.

on my work PC at the moment (lovely little AMD 5700u mini-pc with 16Gb ram) I have a debloated LTSC build on W11 and two profiles of firefox running with a total of 25 tabs, a couple of them are more complex web apps but most are static pages, plus a couple of file browser, an old dumb custom invoicing app we use (~2003 application so its very light) and a VNC viewer with another machine running.

7.9gb of ram use.

it’s not that bad really, I mean it’s a lot for just mostly websites but we know they arent as light as they used to be, 8gb would be too little since I need some dedicated for Vram as I run 3 displays but I certainly dont need much more than 16.

I did have 32gb in this machine at first since I was doing some light photoshop and basic CAD/CAM, but it very rarely exceeded 16gb, so I cut it back and it’s been absolutely fine.

If you give windows more ram, it will use more ram as a baseline of course, unused ram is wasted ram.

I honestly dont care about the 8gb of ram, that is plenty for the target audience given MacOS’s pretty good memory management, and optimisation of the first party apps the majority of users will use. I would have liked to see the base price be $499, but that would probably have needed something to be cut down to outside of apples standards, like the display or chassis quality.

I’m a little disappointed by the limited USB, its just one usb 3.0 (not 3.1 as far as I know) and one 2.0, I know that’s a limitation of the platform, there arent really any spare PCIE lanes on a phone SOC. They could have put in a USB Hub chip to get two USB 3.0 ports with shared bandwidth, but I suspect that was difficult to do with reliable video and power throughput and someone decided saving a dollar was more important. That’s plenty for your average user, but a pair of usb 3.1 would have been preferred of course.

However… how many average PC users even use USB now? maybe just a thumb drive very rarely or to use an external display. I’m surprised it even has a headphone jack and an SD reader honestly.

I’d suspect the next gen model to use the newer iPhone chip that should bump the memory up to 12gb and I think has a usb 3.1 controller, so they could break that out better.

I dont hate it. it’s filling in what used to be the mid range of laptops that has kinda died in the last 10 years and is full of spec bumped versions of bottom tier plastic garbage with awful screens and short battery life, and a couple of underspecced cut down versions of nicer metal case laptops that are just not very good either.

MacOS is significantly better than windows when using their first party apps, but many third party apps are ram hogs and things get forced to swap more often.

Swap isn’t terrible though, a lot of current gen mac hardware has very fast SSDs and very low latency controllers so it’s pretty transparent in normal use.

I think if you are on a website like this, this computer isn’t for you, but it is for a lot of people who use nothing but a web browser with one tab open 90% of the time.

the newer A series chips have 12GB of ram, so that bodes well for the next generation of the neo.

8gb is plenty for your average non-technical user, and macos is pretty good at memory and process management and swap as long as you are using mostly first party apps, which the average non-tech savvy user will, likely just the default browser and maybe the built in office suite… that’s pretty much it.

its really a case of If you ask whether 8gb is enough… you probably arent the target for this machine.

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.

no takopi, no madoka, no Lain?

the fitgirl love is part of the whole meme.

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

Thanks I hate it.

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.

and theres a PunPun adaptation in the works too, that’s going to be pretty dark, even if they heavily censor it.

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.

If you follow the homebrewing socials world there was a flurry of AI vs human beer recipe videos and posts a while ago.

in short, yes most of these Ai tools can spit out a workable beer recipe, but as expected it’s more or less just the average of multiple published recipes and not particularly special, and if you ask it to tweak the recipe for a particular quality it falls apart quickly due to a lack of source data for the effects of all possible variables.

Adapt more of the books you cowards!

Unidan was a legend, he will be missed.