Thanks, I had no idea that anonymous accounts were created just to short the market down to the very second of the precipitating post. Insiders get rich again.

I do gamble every day - it’s called driving.

Glad you are making progress! If you want to cultivate the sour taste, that means you want more acetic acid. There are a few things you can do to accomplish this:

-After mixing all ingredients, make sure the dough consistency is on the DRIER side, at least for the initial rises.

-Storing the rising and fermenting bread dough in a cool location, preferably in one of the coldest spots in your house. This will take longer, but develop a much more sour profile.

-Punch down the dough once or twice during the rising.

-Use whole-grain flour.

If you do one or more of these, you should notice a marked flavor difference!

The chunk I remove from the jar in step 1 is usually almost the size of a golf ball, and I mix it with 500g flour, 2 tsp sea salt, and ~1.5 to 1.75 cups of water (use about half the water while mixing, then slowly add more until it hits a moist but sticky consistency. If it gets slimy that’s too much, but you can still cook with it.

Kneed it however works best for you, cover it and let it sit for a few hours (or in my case overnight), kneed it again, and after another few hours it should be bubbly and happy and ready to bake.

As for the rest of the colony in the jar - room temperature is fine for feeding it. As long as you give it a few hours to eat the fresh flour/water, it’ll be happy. Once it gets bubbly and expands, you can put it in the fridge and it should be fine for a week or three.

Once again, when you are ready for the next loaf, you pull it out of the fridge, let it get to room temp for an hour or 3, take about half of it for the loaf and repeat.

The important thing to remember is to maintain a routine if you can. It’s a living colony, and even if it doesn’t seem super enthusiastic at first, as you keep going then the yeast cells that survive will be the ones to multiply and eventually the whole colony will be made of a culture literally bred for your care style.

I’ve been making a loaf every week +/- since March of 2020 with the wild start I cultivated. I don’t understand the idea of discarding part of the colony. I have maintained the same colony in a little 12oz jar this entire time.

1. Pull out ~half of the colony and use it to make bread.
2. Add 4 Tbsp flour and 2 Tbsp water into the jar, mix.
3. Let it sit for a few hours (Or don’t)
4. Put the jar in the fridge until you are ready to make a new loaf.
5. If you feel like it, or you skipped step 3, pull the jar out of the fridge and let it sit out for a few hours.
6. Go to step 1.

That’s it. So simple, no waste.

Second for GNUCash - there’s a bit of a learning curve, but once you get used to it, it works great!

Some people work to live, others live to work. Personally, I enjoy having a life completely separate from my career. I don’t know anyone who sits around Sunday afternoon saying, “All right, it’s almost MONDAY! Glad I got through the weekend!” And I like sleep, sleep is good.

It’s not specifically what you are requesting, but your comment reminds me how much I enjoy Fallout Radio. Great songs interspersed with fictional hosts discussing all manner of things. It’s just so nice to haveusic broken up with a little bit of banter.

One of the greatest examples of the work and detail that went into the recent Fallout London mod are the custom radio stations with their fun hosts.

My understanding is that Net Neutrality is not the same as privacy. The first is concerned with providers not discriminating against the data being sent/received. The second is about tracking all the data that is being sent/received (and more).

Very interesting video, I had no idea the level of redundancy built into QR codes. Thanks!

LLMs can also be helpful when your actual feelings should NOT be conveyed. For example, I can have a genuine response to someone along the lines of, “You are dumb for so many reasons, here are just a few of them that show you are out of touch with what our product can do, and frankly with reality itself. {Enumerated list with copious amounts of cursing and belittling}” Ok LLM, rewrite that message using professional office language because I emotionally refuse to.

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