This picture has been floating around the internet for ages. I dunno if it’s entirely accurate, but it suggests Nutella is primarily palm oil and sugar. With hazelnuts and cocoa making guest appearances

Don’t get me wrong, though. The stuff’s addictive.

I am salivating over the Frame. I was blown away by consumer VR when it came to market 10 years ago. I had access to an Oculus Quest (pre-Meta) and an HTC Vive at my job. They were both impressive from a technological standpoint and super fun to use.

A mere two years later, the Oculus Quest 1 arrived and I bought one immediately. Basically the full VR experience but entirely wireless. Again, I was blown away from a sheer technical standpoint. But I loathed the headset being tied to Facebook/Meta and their walled garden. It soured the entire experience for me, and it quickly began collecting dust. Even though I could stream PC games to the Quest with FOSS third party apps like ALVR, there was still the privacy aspect of “six cameras controlled by Mark Zuckerberg are looking wherever I’m looking in my house”. No thanks.

The Steam Frame looks like it could reignite my interest in the VR space. I’m honestly surprised Valve has continued to invest R&D into VR well after the hype died. I’m glad they did, because the Frame looks pretty sweet so far.

I appreciate the insight. I do tend to erroneously use “sanitize” and “sterilize” synonymously in this context. Good to know the distinction!

Yeesh. That’s a lot of work, but I guess it makes sense that properly sterilizing things isn’t easy.

I have a pressure cooker, but would be a bit anxious about putting glass inside it. Another user said they used Potassium Metabisulfite for beer and wine bottling. Would that be sufficient for sterilization, or would one still need high heat and pressure?

fermented honey garlic

Dear lord. I’ll have to look into that one, haha.

Thanks for the recipes! I’ll have to experiment with these as I get more comfortable with the fermentation process

Haha, I’ve contemplated buying my own bottles for the extra panache once I get the hang of the actual fermenting process.

Until then, I’ve recycled a dozen or so hot sauce bottles from my hot sauce rack for this purpose.

I certainly won’t say no to a recipe. This is the recipe I’m currently using (though I didn’t follow these specific fermentation steps because they are not done by weight) . If you have anything in a similar vein, I’d love to compare and contrast them.

Thanks! I’ll check it out – I’ve been wanting to find a more comprehensive sanitation process for this, since it can be so prone to going bad if not done correctly.

Ahh, gotcha. I’ll keep it in mind for the next batch

The jar on the left initially was filled up to around the threads, but then I added the glass weight and it nearly spilled over the top, lol.

Thanks for the advice! I used boiling water to sterilize the jars, lids, and weights in this instance. Would you say that’s sufficient compared to the oven? I used filtered water from my fridge for the entire process (washing and for making the brine).

Weighed everything out using a scale. Did a 4% salt brine by weight. Last time I did 2.5% so this time I went a bit higher to be on the safe side.

What exactly do you mean when you say “leave a bit more room at the top”? Room for what?

At least you’ll have an excuse to finally shoot the printer.

Nobody talks like that. Nobody

How do you think LLMs learned to talk like that? Plenty of people talk (or rather, write) exactly like that. It’s just now heavily associated with AI because AI has been specifically tuned to output sentences structured that way.

Yes, AI has a vibe to it that can be very predictable and easy to spot, but that doesn’t mean every single instance of someone knowing how to string a few paragraphs together with certain verbiage is a bot.

Idk maybe I’m being paranoid

Seems that way. Healthy skepticism is good and necessary. Paranoia not so much.

This attitude is essentially discouraging certain syntactic styles in writing. I and many others now regularly have moments when writing posts where we go, “Hm, I maybe shouldn’t word it this way or people might say I’m a bot,” and it’s obnoxious that it’s come to that.

You could install something like LMMS and let them experiment with making their own music (without needing recording equipment or learning real instruments yet).

Have him search Wikipedia on something he loves and to look for the sources.

I like this idea, but with the additional step of vetting the topic in question on Wikipedia before allowing the kid to read the page.

e.g.: the kid says, “I love MrBeast!” and wants to research him. That Wiki article, while mostly innocuous, has a fairly lengthy “Controversies” section, including blue links to topics like “sexual harassment” and “homophobia”.

Pretty neat! Mind showing us what the interface looks like with the screen on? What kind of OS is it running?

Looks pretty barebones from a hardware perspective; about how much would you say the bill of materials cost overall?

Can you define “god” in this context? Does “god” imply a creator of human existence, or merely a being with abilities not understood or quantified by humans (think Q from Star Trek).

The latter isn’t necessarily a belief system in and of itself. It’s just the acknowledgement that “higher”, ascendent beings can exist because humans are not, necesssarily, the be-all-end-all sapient beings of the universe.

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Also taking suggestions for a compact measuring device. Even a 50cm long one would cover 95% of my needs.

I’ve had one of these attached to my backpack for 6 or 7 years now. I don’t even remember where or when I got it, but it has survived this long and still gets the job done. Their website says it’s discontinued, but I imagine any of their equivalent models would do fine.

I use Raspberry Pi Zero W’s with the cheapest wide-angle USB cameras I can find. PS3 Eyes used to be (pre-covid) ridiculously cheap on eBay (like $6 each if you could find them in the bulk packaging). I dunno if you’re gonna find anything that cheap in 2025, but if you can find PS3 eyes on the cheap, they get the job done (but don’t work great in low light). Mine (about 8 total) have been running well for about 7 years now, some indoors, some outdoors (mounted strategically to avoid rain and heavy wind).

You can install Raspberry Pi OS (or your lightweight distro of choice) on each Pi and then install the Motion package, which supports pretty much any USB camera out of the box, and lets you set up things like motion detection, image capture, live streaming, etc with a little configuration. If you’ve got HA running smoothly, I suspect you’ll be able to tackle setting up a few Motion configurations. You just SSH into each headless Pi and configure Motion to start in daemon mode so it’s always running whenever the Pi boots. You can then access the camera feed remotely from the Pi’s IP address with an address like http://<local.ip.address.>:8080

A bit of work to set up (and maybe more expensive than cheap, cloud-based, AIO systems), but it’s incredibly worth it to have a wholly cloudless, entirely local security/nannycam solution.

A finished Pi Zero W + camera unit has a pretty small footprint, and can be mounted just about anywhere within distance to a power outlet with some velcro if it can’t just be sat on a table or something. My units typically look like this:

Though this one uses a Ubisoft camera (didn’t wanna take down a PS3 eye for this pic so I pulled my crappiest unused USB cam from the closet. This camera is awful, but I got it for free so I can’t complain, lol)

Problem: Receiving antennas can be geolocated using signal interference.

I’m not sure that’s what the wikipedia article says. It only seems to refer to this method being able to locate transmitting antennas (or “radio sources”). Something like an FM, AM, or shortwave radio antenna would not be able to be located by that radio simply listening to the airwaves passing through it; reception on those media is passive and doesn’t require the radio to broadcast any kind of signal.

Not an expert, but I am a licensed ham radio tech.

Since the other two posts on this community have examples from Breaking Bad, I’ll add that to this one:

Walt admits to Hank on two occasions (iirc) that he’s up to some illegal activities. In the first season, I think when Hank helps him load some duffel bags full of cash into his car, he asks what’s in the bags. Walt says, “Half a million in cash,” and then they share a laugh.

In a later season, when Hank finds Gale’s notebook is tributed to “W.W”, Hank jokingly suggests maybe it stands for “Walter White”. Walt puts his hands up and says, “You caught me.”