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Just throwing this out there, but does anyone happen to know of a good 찐빵 (jjinppang) recipe? I've been trying to find it for years. You'd think that for all the stores/restaurants specializing in Korean food in the area I'd have been able to find it, but no.

I'm sure I could google a recipe, but if I'm going to go to the trouble to make it (which I understand is somewhat extensive) I'd like to know I have a good recipe.

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Made those (apparently) viral potato lentil burritos a couple days ago and they were amazing, so we made a giant stock pot's worth of filling to freeze in batches.

They're stupidly cheap, delicious, and really high in fibre (which we're old enough that we care about that kind of thing now).

I am happy.

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Looks yum! Thanks for the Markdown version. Did you use little red lentils, or the bigger green ones?


Welp, #Debian 13 is out. I wonder how long it'll take me to get around to upgrading. Every time I do, something always breaks. It's always fixable, but annoying.



Just had an appointment with my family doctor. Mostly good news, except for the fact that when we discussed finally being able to go back on #ADHD meds (which I had come off of because we were worried about them worsening another issue) he's going to want me to be re-evaluated for ADHD.

I can't wait to jump through those hoops again for the umpteenth time.

#ADHD

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Ah, well. Hopefully this time around the assessment will be easier.





Hello diaspora*! I’m AdiposeOverclocked, new to this pod. Looking forward to meeting everyone and finding great conversations here.
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Haven't had McDonald's in a while, but Katy wanted it, so we got some. As a diabetic, my drink options are limited, but I opted for a sugar free cold brew coffee.

I'm shocked at how much I enjoyed it. I think I might actually like it better than the stuff I make at home. I'm kinda mad about it, actually. 🙃

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@Kevin Davy Not only that, but I take a certain pride in my homemade cold brew. I thought I'd gotten it down to an art.
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@silverwizard @Kevin Davy I get a specific brand of beans from Costco (don't remember the name but recognise the bag when I see it) and fresh grind them. I'm fortunate in that our tap water seems pretty good just on its own for hardness and so forth. The rest is just about the consistency of the measurements. (It was actually at your suggestion a while ago I started using a kitchen scale.)

I don't know that it's the best coffee in the world but given that pre-made cold brew is generally expensive and rather hit-and-miss for me, and this produces what I deem to be a consistently good cup of coffee at a fraction of the price, I've deemed it Good Enough for Me™.

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@silverwizard Also, the recipe I adapted mine from said that a pitcher would keep in the fridge for up to two weeks. At first, I had no reason to doubt this because it never lasted me that long anyway.

I've since had to moderate my caffeine intake, and have learned to make less at a time because the quality seems to degrade a bit after about a week.

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ph, food

@Jonathan Lamothe I've made coldbrew based on your video on it, so good full circle!

Yeah, that's shocking. I find coldbrew does better sweet than a lot - was it that it had a solid creamer you're missing out in? I use a squirt of stevia syrup these days (for complex reasons invovling too much stevia)

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ph, food
@silverwizard That could be what it was. I usually drink my coffee black with a little sugar-free syrup. I do change the syrups up from time to time to keep it interesting, though.
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ph, food
@Jonathan Lamothe I think coldbrew doesn't have the same flavour pop as hot coffee (which is why I use coldbrew for "coffee flavoured milkshakes") - and so you might be disguising a lot of complexity and not filling it in.
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As a side note, this coffee had creamer in it. Dairy and I aren't the best of friends. For Katy's sake, I might be sleeping on the balcony tonight. 🙃


#OpenSCAD question:

if in wanted to emboss text around the outer rounded edge of a cylinder, how would I go about doing that? I don't know how to transform an object on a curve like that.

#3DPrinting

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Could you use path_text() from #BOSL2? github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2/wi….
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Something that would solve this problem would be if the language supported a transform that would take a function as an input (either a name or some kind of lambda) that would take a set of coordinates as an input and return a modified set of coordinates. It would then apply this transformation to each vertex of its children.


One of the neighbours smoke detectors was going off for an extended period of time. Just as I was about to go investigate, it stopped.

I assume this either means it was a false alarm after all, or the smoke detector itself has been destroyed in the blaze. 🙃



My cat has three distinct modes of operation:
1. asleep
2. being cute
3. VIOLENCE
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I think that the three states are 1) sleeping 2) surveiling and 3) violence. Being cute is endemic to all states.



So, I've been getting reasonably decent with #OpenSCAD. I've debated opening an Etsy store, but I don't own a #3DPrinter. While I do have access to a couple for personal projects, I have nothing that would be suitable for commercial use, nor do I have the seed money to buy one.

One of the services I'm thinking of offering in the interim is creating custom STL files for people based on a rough sketch or photo, but I don't know if that would be a viable thing.

Is that a thing anyone here would have interest in?

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I wonder if that's something worth discussing with the kwarztLab folks on their Tuesday drop in night? Afaik most have 3D printers, and I expect a few might have done the same?




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unsolicited advice, I guess?

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unsolicited advice, I guess?
@patagona Ooh. I'll have to look into that. Thanks for the tip!


Pretty sure Rogers keeps disconnecting my internet in the middle of the night without notice to do some kind of maintenance hoping that nobody will notice.

I keep having to reboot the modem every morning for the past few days. This time I was awake when it went down.



There's a storm raging outside. I wonder if we're going to lose power again.


Katy and I have randomly discovered sumo wrestling and weirdly gotten into it. The first thing I learned was that the people who deliberately get seating in the front rows are... brave.

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It's all these dignitaries and rich people, those rows aren't easy to buy, and they get run over a lot. As do the judges, "Shimpan bowling" we call it.



Went to a large grocery store and waitied in the parking lot with a book for a few hours hoping to pick up an Instacart order. Didn't get one, but as I tried to start the car to go home, I found that I'd left the lights on and the battery's dead.

Waiting on my father to show up with jumper cables, but at least I'm not so upset about not getting an order. Would've sucked to find the battery dead when I tried to deliver it...








So there's this Japanese sushi chef YouTuber that Katy and I have been watching. He does all kinds of recipes, but he keeps using this one ingredient I'm unfamiliar with. He calls it "salad oil". Is that a mistranslation of vegetable oil, or is this something else I'm just unaware of?

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It's any unnamed vegetable oil that you would use to make a salad dressing; the key characteristic is that it doesn't have much flavor. It's often sold as a mix of whatever's reasonably cheap: soybean, canola, peanut, and in some cases, cottonseed.

You can substitute whatever you like, especially if you think the recipe would improve with avocado or olive oil.



"Physical books are so much better than ebooks because you don't have to worry about the battery dying", I say as the battery to my reading light starts dying...

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Candles! I appreciate the irony but at least you still have options.


Brought home a box of groceries. On my in the front door, the bottom of the box gave out and everything hit the floor. Amazingly, every single egg survived the fall.


I will concede that ebooks are convenient, but when it comes to a good novel, nothing tops the experience of an actual paper book for me.

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Bank machines have business hours now? How is that a thing?

Are the machines that are replacing us demanding better working conditions now? 🙃

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in Aachen it's at least partially because people kept blowing them up at night lol





I seem to have allowed myself to run out of CR2032s. Ah well, If I don't test my blood glucose that means it's fine, right?
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Katy: Did you look in the cabinet under your night stand?
Me: Yes. They're absolutely not there.
Katy: Found some.
Me: Where were they?
Katy: In the cabinet under your night stand.
Me: 🙃


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Our brakes sound really terrible. Our emergency fund is tapped out.

Fuck.

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@Kevin Davy I'm pretty sure they're shot. I've been neglecting it for a while (equal parts lack of funds and lack of spoons).

Already working on a contingency plan. If need be, we can lean on family for help. I just hate doing that because I know things are tight for them too.



ph (nothing to be worried about)
Walking into a fast food restaurant and placing an order is a fun thing to do while wearing a heart monitor.
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ph (nothing to be worried about)

@Shae Erisson It's a thing my doctor's been keeping an eye on for a while now. My heart rate will occasionally just spike for no apparent reason. I'm told it's "an electrical issue, not a plumbing issue" which is apparently far less serious.

At present, it's nothing more than a nuisance. I'm wearing the monitor for now to see of they can actually catch it happening to better diagnose, but in general, it doesn't affect my day-to-day.






I've encountered an interesting bug in the @Nextcloud 📱☁️💻 client found in the F-Droid store. Whenever I use it to create a folder, the folder name is converted to lower case for some reason. I can fix this after the fact by renaming, but it's annoying (and kind of weird).

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