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Usenet and Debrid (lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz)

I have been doing torrents + VPN for years now and thinking about switching.

Is usenet and debrid safe to use without a VPN in the UK? What about other piracy streaming sites?

From what I understand it's cheaper to use a VPN than have debrid + usenet + private indexers but I am not sure.

I have heard some questionable justifications as to why it's safer such as it being encrypted (torrents can also be encrypted). Are the index sites also safe? I have heard it both ways about this. Including people saying index sites are not encrypted which they normally are.

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Sanitization (lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz)

I have some questions and concerns

I have a batch contaminated with some VWP sanitizer. How dangerous is this? It's a sanitizer you normally have to rinse and I fucked up and got some in a brew. I don't know exactly how much and one bottle in particular has more than the others.

I am begging to question if it's safer for me to not use sanitizer at all and instead just use dish soap. Maybe I should switch to a different sanitizer? I am not completely convinced of the safety of no rinse sanitizer either and want to find some sources or more information about these things. There is a high chance I will end up making a mistake using these and I don't know what the risk profile is of different sanitizers. How dangerous is not using sanitizer at all?

Star san and chem san are somewhat expensive though I hear they last a while.

I would love to meet a typing dog. I wonder what it would be like.

For lots of people even survival is difficult is the point

Why not go further and hardwire?

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Opened my first bottle of hibiscus mead. I think it needs longer to carbonate, or I might have not added enough carbonation sugar. Probably both.

It is pretty drinkable. This is reassuring given it was made using the cheapest available honey and is well under a month old. Voss Kveik yeast and good nutrients do wonders!

Definitely needs some refinement when it comes to sweeteners and acids. This was my first time using acids to balance a mead and I think I should have chosen citric acid or malic acid instead of tartaric acid.

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Front Left - Orange & Mango cordial Front Right - Ginger beer from cordial Left Rear - Stawberry Jam Wine Right Rear - Cyser Bochet

Using the Bray Denard methodology for the bochet minus GoFerm (didn't have any at the time). Using Voss Kveik yeast from LalBrew for the bochet and the jam wine.

The two from cordial are using EC-1118 primarily because I had it lying around not being used. They also have added sugar - brown for ginger beer, white for orange & mango.

I will be interested to see how the orange and mango goes for two reasons: It had preservatives that normally prevent fermentation, and you don't normally use orange juice to ferment.

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Airlock liquid (lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz)

What liquid do people use for their airlocks?

I have been using water for a while but have recently seen people who think this isn't best practice and is likely to get infected.

I have also found out that the sanitizer I use breaks down over time so likely wouldn't be suitable. I have taken to using dish soap for now but don't know if there is a problem with this practice.

I am currently avoiding vodka because of the alcohol duty in my country.

[-] areyouevenreal@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Except piloting a plane requires actual skills. Plus actually flying the thing isn't even the hard part, it's not that much more difficult than driving a car from what I understand. The difficult parts are doing paperwork, setting up the plane, dealing with ATC and passengers, and most of all finding a way to fund all the training and building up the flying hours without going broke.

Before any commercial plane takes off all kinds of performance calculations are done and flight plans are filled to make sure it's actually safe. Load and balance plus fuel checks all have to be done. Pilots need to plan and brief on emergency procedures and so on, this is also done prior to landing.

This really depends on the distribution. If some or all of the people in that bottom 20% are very, very stupid it could actually work out that 80% are above average, because the average is being pulled down by the people at the bottom.

This is why we have different averages like mean, median, mode, and RMS because they each give you different interpretations of the raw data. For example the mean electro motive force of the grid is around 0 volts because it spends as much time in the negative as the positive. We use RMS here because negative numbers become positive when squared.

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Unhopped ale (lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz)

I normally don't drink beer or ale because I find it too bitter. I have no problems with malt though (I actually think it's pretty interesting). Would I be correct in thinking that unhopped beer is less bitter?

Also does anyone have any advice for brewing my first ale? I have made fruit wine, mead, and cider before but never beer. I have some kveik yeast and spray malt from other brews that I can use so I am thinking of using that. The closest I have gotten to brewing ale or beer is making bochet braggot so any help is appreciated.

I can't imagine thinking redditors are cool. Not even redditors think redditors are cool.

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Nutrients (lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz)

I thought I would ask some questions.

Who uses nutrients? What do you use them in and which ones do you use?

There seems to be lots of ways to use nutrients in things like mead, wine, and even cider. Many people even debate whether and when they are actually needed especially in the mead space.

I've even been blocked before for suggesting SNA (Staggered Nutrient Addition) is unnecessary or elitist even though it's a recent invention.

Why is lemmy turning into MLs vs liberals? From my perspective their both questionable groups. Furthermore I don't think it's actually helpful or constructive outside of political communities to discuss this kind of thing. Not everyone actually has a side in politics to begin with.

What exactly is a liberal in this context? Is a social democrat a liberal? What about Jeremy Corbyn or Bernie Sanders?

Why are people hating on "liberals" more than conservatives?

What about the issues with Steve Irwin? There is also the "Got Autism?" campaign which was rather offensive?

I am sure what you are saying is true, that's why I want to know about these incidents as well to see if they are also been misrepresented.

I am using the actual definition. Saying you are x percent wrong isn't an arguement. You're just making yourself look bad.

Have you read the definition? It's a platform reducing the quality of services to increase profit. Nothing about this is to increase profit.

The problem isn't living together, it's the people that exploit others based on that fact. People can live together without exploiting each other - that's what a commune is.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by areyouevenreal@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz to c/homebrewing@sopuli.xyz

Made in a 5L demijohn.

Ingredients:

  • 3x Seedless Raspberry Jam 420g
  • Lalvin EC-1118 yeast
  • Pectinase enzyme
  • Fermaid-O 10g

I believe now that this is more nutrients than necessary.

I have made other beverages before but never a fruit wine!

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