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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • So, this depends a lot on your taste and texture limitations. Would you be willing to share the kinds of flavors that have worked well for you in the past?

    I’ve been theorizing recently that I could mitigate the loss of safe food events by seeking the base flavors I like and combining them with food textures I tolerate or enjoy, with the goal of making the same food taste entirely different throughout the week.

    For example: full size carrots, great texture but way too carrot-y. Get a bag of carrots and 2 limes - get an extra lime if you dislike carrot flavor but like texture. Preheat oven to 425°F with a rack moved to the top slot. Cut carrots diagonally in 1/2" to 1" chunks, toss the chunks in olive oil such that they’re all coated in it. Arrange oiled carrot chunks on an oven pan (baking sheet?), place in fully preheated oven for 20 minutes and wash the mixing bowl with soap then rinse and dry it. While carrots are cooking, zest the limes into the mixing bowl. Once carrots are done, put them into the mixing bowl and mix thoroughly so they’re all lime zest coated. Nutritious and tolerable.

    Another good one is rice made with flavor. I’ve got two flavors so far: garlicy (2-3 cloves) basmati rice and garlic(2-3 cloves)+gingerroot(1-2 thumb) jasmine rice. Measure out 1 cup of rice and 1.5cup water. Mince the flavor or get it in those pre-minced jars. Melt 1tbsp butter in medium pot, medium heat - enough heat that the butter bubbles a bit when melted. Once melted, toss in the flavor and let it sit 30-60seconds - let it get fragrant, move flavor around the pan a bit intermittently. Toss in rice, let sit for maybe 10 seconds (not sure why, it seems to improve texture). Toss in water. Add a portion of salt, start with a teaspoon and adjust in subsequent meals to taste. Increase heat to medium-high, enough to get the water boiling. Once boiling, turn heat down to minimum (often the 1 setting or Lo setting). Place lid on pot, set timer for 15 minutes. When timer dings, turn off heat and set pot on a cool burner for 5 minutes. Fluff with fork and eat; save extra in fridge for max 1 day, 2 if you like to live life on the edge.

    If you can afford it, I recommend something like hello fresh because they take the hardest parts of new recipes out of your brain. Try their food and steal their ideas. You can even skip shipments and keep downloading the PDF recipes fron their website. Just steal that flavor!

    I can get you a copy of the recipes I have if you direct message me.





  • Server admin here, you can do this in a way that avoids lemmy even knowing anything has changed. Read through all of this and do some googling first if you don’t know the specific commands to use!

    First, you need to set the remote volume to automatically mount correctly on system restarts. On Linux, this is done by adding an entry for it to /etc/fstab if one does not exist already. Once done, ‘mount -a’ will mount the volume.

    Mount your remote volume to the filesystem and rsync the folder you want to migrate off-server to it. Take the lemmy service offline, rsync again to catch any changes from when you started.

    Now, you can move the old folder that lemmy has been using elsewhere - I recommend renaming it by appending “.old” or something.

    Next, you need to make a symbolic link. This link should point from the old folder’s original path and point to your remote volume. Once done, make sure everything is there and that file permissions match the ones in your .old folder - file permissions are important and you may need to recursively set them if your lemmy service runs on a different user than you were making these changes with.

    Finally, say a prayer to the machine spirit, waft the holy incense, perform the ritual whack with a wrench, and start the lemmy service. Make sure everything is running properly before you walk away!

    The only issue you’re likely to run into is that remote volumes are constrained by network bandwidth. This may slow down load speeds, so some kind of CDN caching solution is recommended.





  • Resurrecting this thread because I spent many hours on research for this:

    I ended up getting Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 3’s. They have decent noise cancellation, good fit via included interchangeable parts, very good sound quality, modern Bluetooth, a good app, and have decent battery life.

    If noise cancellation is most important to you, there are options offered by Bose and Sony reported to have better quality in this one aspect at the cost of other aspects.






  • I’ve never had to interact with system updates in Linux distros beyond saying “yes I want to update” in the last decade. If I didn’t want to, there’s usually a force update flag available to skip the asking part. Would I do this for a server without backups? Absolutely not. For home use? I’ll roll the dice; I have backups even if there’s a couple days of shipping time to get all 12TB mailed to me.

    Of course, major distribution releases are a different monster. Fortunately, I don’t deal with those often and when I do, I migrate instead of upgrade.