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Comment on What's something you're "in too deep" on? in ~talk
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Comment on What's something you're "in too deep" on? in ~talk
goose LinkBrewing beer. It started as a hobby back in 2009. At the ripe young age of 19, my American friends and I were unable to buy beer. But we figured out there was no age restriction on the ingredients...Brewing beer.
It started as a hobby back in 2009. At the ripe young age of 19, my American friends and I were unable to buy beer. But we figured out there was no age restriction on the ingredients to make beer.
Our first few batches were pretty bad. But with time, we learned, and improved. By the time we turned 21, we kept going, it was fun and more cost effective. The basic starting kits were quickly outgrown for equipment that was better for bottling, better for transferring among vessels, easier to clean, easier to measure. More precise fermentation measurements and control were bigger costs (A Tilt Hydrometer, along with a chest freezer/raspberry pi/ardiuno to run Fermentrack). Then moving from bottles to kegs, and the equipment costs of building my own keezer (Chest freezer converted for use with kegs). I'm probably $2,000 in equipment, on a hobby I now only get in to 2-4 times a year, now that I'm in the swing of being a dad with three young kids.
But I keep telling myself I'll get back to it...eventually.
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Comment on Does the way you tie a sheet bend matter? in ~hobbies
goose Link ParentBack in my days of public safety, I was a rope rescue tech (and later instructor). If we absolutely had to use two different size ropes, we'd usually do a figure eight bend. It was exceedingly...Back in my days of public safety, I was a rope rescue tech (and later instructor). If we absolutely had to use two different size ropes, we'd usually do a figure eight bend. It was exceedingly rare though, since almost all our rope was 14mm.
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Comment on Tablet suggestions? in ~tech
goose Link Parent+1 for the Pixel Tablet. I bought one for my iPhone using wife, and she's enjoyed it. About two years old and like the Pixel phones, performance is still great. Great integration with the dock, too.+1 for the Pixel Tablet. I bought one for my iPhone using wife, and she's enjoyed it. About two years old and like the Pixel phones, performance is still great. Great integration with the dock, too.
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Comment on Moving back to the US (after 7+ years living in Germany) in ~life
goose Link ParentMy quick and dirty math, using a bill of $32.34 as an example: Move the decimal left one (3.234) and round up to the nearest whole number (4). I use that as 10%. Add half for 15%, double for 20%,...My quick and dirty math, using a bill of $32.34 as an example:
Move the decimal left one (3.234) and round up to the nearest whole number (4). I use that as 10%. Add half for 15%, double for 20%, and so on (if needed). I end up being slightly above my target percentages, but at a margin I'm okay with.
Feel free to use or ignore, to your taste, if it's helpful reintegrating into our tipping culture 😁 Good luck with your move!
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Comment on Moving back to the US (after 7+ years living in Germany) in ~life
goose (edited )Link7+ year gap puts you emigrating around 2018? One of the things I think you'll notice most immediately is "sticker shock". While prices have gone up just about everywhere around the globe, we've...7+ year gap puts you emigrating around 2018?
One of the things I think you'll notice most immediately is "sticker shock". While prices have gone up just about everywhere around the globe, we've seen costs for housing and groceries rise significantly. If I recall correctly, beef products alone are up nearly 12% just this year. There's been a lot of price increases across all major consumer categories, including services. Just to renew my professional licenses has gone up about 15% over the last six years. When I break down the cost of groceries, we've had about an 18% increase over the last two years.
I've also experienced quite a bit of tip fatigue. I've been spending 2-3 weeks every other year in France visiting my dad, and one of the things I love is that when we're out and getting a coffee or a pastry, the cashier isn't flipping the screen around at me and coyly saying "Screen is gonna ask you a question" and it wants to know if I want to tip 10/20/30%. Places where tipping wasn't even a consideration when you left are very likely asking for tips now.
On that note, cash has become more rare. It's certainly still around, but I don't remember any businesses in 2018 being cashless, where as a handful of the ones I visit now are. But tap to pay is much more common now than it was when you left, which I find to be more convenient.
Finally, while doing my best to respect your wishes to remain apolitical, I just want to mention that while in your words you are aware of the political status in the US, I think viewing it from afar versus living it will be two different experiences. I'd like to just say that while view of hate seem to be more (publicly) widespread than they were when you left, please don't be too discouraged. There are still large swathes of people who don't want to spread hate, who want to be kind and supportive of others. Living here, it's easy to sometimes feel "trapped in the negative news cycle". But once you engage with your local community, I think you'll find that kindness is still the default for most Americans. Don't let the noise drown out the good.
Welcome home.
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Comment on I force my shell prompt to the bottom of the screen in ~comp
goose Link ParentVery nice! Only issue I'm seeing is that if I resize the window, it doesn't move to the new "bottom". But not enough of a problem to stop me from using this. Thanks!Very nice! Only issue I'm seeing is that if I resize the window, it doesn't move to the new "bottom". But not enough of a problem to stop me from using this. Thanks!
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Comment on Merry Christmas! in ~talk
goose Link ParentThanks for the thanks! Obfuscating just a tiny bit, I currently work on a specialty team for a local pediatric hospital. My team offers 24/7 coverage, I joined as a night shifter about 2 years...Thanks for the thanks! Obfuscating just a tiny bit, I currently work on a specialty team for a local pediatric hospital. My team offers 24/7 coverage, I joined as a night shifter about 2 years ago. My previous job was in public safety, where I also worked on holidays. It's all I've ever known, since starting my life as a professional.
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Comment on Merry Christmas! in ~talk
goose LinkI'm on for work this year. My job only gives us two shifts of one of three major holidays each year, in a forward rotation. Last year I was thanksgiving, this year I'm Christmas, next year I'll be...I'm on for work this year. My job only gives us two shifts of one of three major holidays each year, in a forward rotation. Last year I was thanksgiving, this year I'm Christmas, next year I'll be new years, then it starts over. I'm a night shifter, but while I spent Christmas Eve at work last night, I was able to dip out an hour early and get home before my kids got up for presents. So that was nice! I'll be back tonight for day two of my work holiday tonight, hopefully it's as good as last night was!
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Comment on How do you plan out your meals for the week/meal prep? in ~food
goose LinkLess dense of a reply, but shout out to Mealie, a FOSS self-hostable recipe manager with features such as meal planning. Its recipe scraper works pretty well, I love that when I find a recipe I...Less dense of a reply, but shout out to Mealie, a FOSS self-hostable recipe manager with features such as meal planning. Its recipe scraper works pretty well, I love that when I find a recipe I want, I can just import via URL and it will automatically import the parts I want (not the life story of the author). Also nice to have an archive of my recipes, as bookmarks can be unreliable (website goes down, etc).
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Comment on How did you choose your podcast app and would you switch to a different one? in ~tech
goose Link ParentI ran Pocket Casts (PC) for a very long time, probably 2015-ish to earlier this year, when I switched to Podcast Addict (PA). My biggest complaint about the PC model is that they cache podcast...I ran Pocket Casts (PC) for a very long time, probably 2015-ish to earlier this year, when I switched to Podcast Addict (PA). My biggest complaint about the PC model is that they cache podcast feeds through their servers, which seem to refresh on an hourly basis.
So for example: Let's say PC indexes the RSS feed for NPR's "Up First" podcast at 6:38am. NPR has not yet published that day's episode, but they do so at 6:45am. I can "Pull down to refresh" as much as I want in PC on my phone, but that's just pulling a copy of the cached RSS feed from the PC servers to my phone. Until the PC servers index and re-cache their copy of the RSS feed at 7:38am, PC won't have that new episode.
This probably isn't an issue for most people, but I found it to be annoying enough for me, that I finally moved off of PC to PA. PA pulls the RSS feeds directly from providers to your device, so no caching issues. I've largely been happy with it. I've only found one issue that bothers me with PA, sometimes when re-arranging my queue, I'll accidentally manually start playing something and it switches my queue from the automatically generated one (of downloaded items) to a "Custom" queue with only that item, so no items will autoplay afterwards. Barring that, it's been solid for me.
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Comment on 2025 Spotify Wrapped is now out in ~music
goose Link ParentI have a family plan 😂 My kids are 8, 6, and almost 2. None of them are using devices independently, other than my 8-year-old for occasional school stuff. So anytime they want to listen to music...I have a family plan 😂 My kids are 8, 6, and almost 2. None of them are using devices independently, other than my 8-year-old for occasional school stuff. So anytime they want to listen to music it's me pulling it up on my phone.
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Comment on 2025 Spotify Wrapped is now out in ~music
goose LinkMy children have ruined my Spotify wrapped for six years running now 😭My children have ruined my Spotify wrapped for six years running now 😭
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Helldivers movie in the works from Justin Lin, Sony
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Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones in ~tech
goose Link ParentAh, yes, the restriction on remote access unless you have a Plex Pass. I picked up a lifetime pass roughly six years ago, as one of the unaffected, I forgot this was a decision they made from the...Ah, yes, the restriction on remote access unless you have a Plex Pass. I picked up a lifetime pass roughly six years ago, as one of the unaffected, I forgot this was a decision they made from the time they announced it to now rolling it out. But that was definitely a shitty decision they made that I was hoping they'd revert on. Were I affected, it would definitely be a reason to look at switching to JellyFin.
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Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones in ~tech
goose Link ParentCould you be more specific about "shady and weird"? Jellyfin is FOSS, Plex is closed source and for-profit. When I side-by-side tried them some time ago, all the differences felt aligned to those...Could you be more specific about "shady and weird"?
Jellyfin is FOSS, Plex is closed source and for-profit. When I side-by-side tried them some time ago, all the differences felt aligned to those two points. Plex had some features Jellyfin did not, which I appreciated -- Easy support for my OTA antenna (EPG), intro/credits detection, and I couldn't quite get Jellyfin to work with my P400. The Jellyfin app for LG WebOS (at the time, at least) was very clunky and difficult to use, as well. While the ability to more heavily customize Jellyfin was nice, but didn't really add anything I appreciated. The biggest advantage I saw was fully local auth.
The addition of Plex's *oh look we're also a streaming service now* was annoying at launch, but after turning off/unpinning those features, I haven't seen or thought about it any more. The two data breaches I've been around for I felt like were handled less poorly than I've seen others. The biggest issue I've had is tech support for a paid product, the forums are very hit or miss, more often miss. To their credit though, I've had much less technical issues with Plex in the last year than I have in years past.
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Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones in ~tech
goose Link ParentYou would be looking for an article, guide, or YouTube video that describes setting up: Plex or Jellyfin Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr Sabnzbd There are many well written ones out there.You would be looking for an article, guide, or YouTube video that describes setting up:
- Plex or Jellyfin
- Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr
- Sabnzbd
There are many well written ones out there.
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Comment on Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world in ~health
goose Link ParentI think of medicine in three "branches": Techniques Application Access The disparities you address are very valid. I would classify most of them under the "access" branch. No one -- women, people...While I like that sentiment, I think that there is a real problem with Western medicine and how they (don't) listen to women, and how they treat patients.
I think of medicine in three "branches":
- Techniques
- Application
- Access
The disparities you address are very valid. I would classify most of them under the "access" branch. No one -- women, people of color, non-English speakers, whatever -- no one should have reduced access to medicine. Either through barriers such as insurance, or bias from a healthcare provider causing the patient to "not be heard". On this note, I could not agree more.
But on the topics of techniques and application, modern medicine has done so much to improve the lives of those who use it, across all demographics.
Don't get me wrong, there are still barriers there. For example, a lack of techniques leading to a lack of applications in populations whose disparities are unknown or de-prioritized for whatever reason, such as pain in women historically being mismanaged due to a bias that "they're just soft, not really in pain".
But on the whole, while there is absolutely room for improvement, I see the trend that medicine continues to try and "do better" year after year. Sometimes not as fast as it should for specific populations. But definitely in an upward trend.
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Comment on Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world in ~health
goose LinkEvery time I see some "natural" or "homeopathic" medicine pop up as "preferable" to modern medicine, I am reminded of one of my favorite quotes: I don't mean to dunk on natural remedies, they have...Every time I see some "natural" or "homeopathic" medicine pop up as "preferable" to modern medicine, I am reminded of one of my favorite quotes:
Do you know what they call homeopathic medicine that works? They call it medicine.
I don't mean to dunk on natural remedies, they have their place. But there's a reason neonatal mortality during childbirth has dropped roughly 90% since the advent of modern medicine.
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Comment on After break with US President Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene will resign in ~society
goose Link ParentI'm a Georgia resident. Prior to the last 30ish days where her platform was, what I would describe as "entirely unhinged", no, I do not think she could have gained enough statewide support for any...I'm a Georgia resident. Prior to the last 30ish days where her platform was, what I would describe as "entirely unhinged", no, I do not think she could have gained enough statewide support for any other elected positions in Georgia. Our state mostly follows the trend of blue in the cities, red everywhere else. But given our most recent elections, it's very much a purple state right now. That said, after her "recent position changes", I would have some degree of concern that she is walked back enough of her shenanigans to potentially earn support of people who might not have voted for her because "[they] could just never vote for a democrat, no matter who it was" (thinking of my wife's grandmother, for example) -- But because of her ideology change, perhaps they could ship from not supporting her at all, to supporting her.
Eh, I still drink socially. Not nearly as much as I did back then, I'm good for zero to three beers a week, average of one. I did throw together a keg of Brulosophy's non-alcoholic H-brü-O Hop Water last year. It came out pretty nice, I'll put together another keg of it soon. But my brewery is crafted to five gallon batches, which is a lot of beer for someone who doesn't drink very much now a days. That's probably my biggest barrier to trying to really get back in to the hobby.