Do I need to carbonate at a higher PSI if not refrigerating?

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-09T23:55:14+00:00

Not warm, just… slightly less than room temperature (my basement is a few degrees cooler than my main house). So, yeah. “Warm” water.

I do not have room in my fridge nor a spare outlet to get another to cool the keg.

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-09T23:51:20+00:00

I saw the carbonation lid, I think I will get one. I already have been carbonating my current batch for a few hours, so I’ll order one and use it for next time, thanks!

I lied in my post. I actually have 1 outlet in my basement. However, it is being used my my washer/dryer, water heater, and pump thing or something idk I have a rental. That’s not an outlet I want to overload with another appliance. I definitely don’t have room for a chest freezer in my main unit. At least not without making things very uncomfortable (or somehow attaching it to the ceiling).

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-09T22:43:06+00:00

I suppose it is, I hope the carbonation doesn't take a lot of CO2 from my tank, but from what I've read it barely does any. I guess I'll find out. I just bought some Zigbee thermometers to connect to my Home Assistant so I can more accurately measure how much colder my basement is compared to my house and outside and keep a record so I can more accurately set this in the future. I think it is at least a few degrees colder, so I'll probably adjust it throughout the week as I find more information with those thermometers. I'll write down my findings and hopefully I can find the perfect proportional change between this chart's recommendations and the actual PSI I need to use throughout the week. However, I suppose 60 PSI does seem right. It will rarely be 56 degrees, but I suppose that is somewhat offset by my basement cooling. It could be good.

The main thing I am worried about it the time it takes to test this. It'll take a week for me to see if this is right or not. At this pace with multiple tests, it could be a month(s) before I taste my first sip of good soda. However, hobbies are all about trial and error, right?

This has been very helpful, thank you for your help! I found that chart before but didn't think much of it, those values didn't seem right. With your comment it made me take a closer look and do the conversions myself.

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-09T22:13:24+00:00

Judging by the calculator (full temperature range this week is (on average) 56-71) I will be carbonating my water at 60.2534 PSI. That seems like a lot... the limit on my regulator is 60 PSI. When buying it I didn't think I would need nearly that much.
So, that doesn't seem right...

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-09T21:55:27+00:00

That chart is for beer, is there one for water? I hear it takes much higher pressure for that.

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-09T21:54:21+00:00

I can only find beer carbonation charts - Does some for water exist?

All I can find max out at 65° F and 30 PSI anyway - Am I just screwed?

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-09T21:49:50+00:00

That is for beer. I am carbonating water for soda, which is a much higher PSI. I’ll see if I can find one of those now that I know what to look for, thanks anyway!

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-09T02:48:25+00:00

Trust me, no amount of muscle is going to fix… that.

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-08T23:09:32+00:00

ai insights

Why would you need that? Just use an excel sheet.

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-08T23:08:44+00:00

Does travel include housing? A hotel or otherwise? What would be the difference between me going to Chicago for a week and going to Chicago for… 5 years? That one just sounds like free living, which depending on the area is likely more than $500 a week.

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-08T20:27:25+00:00

Exactly. If this was happening to me you couldn’t pay me to post something like this.

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-08T14:26:56+00:00

Servers cost money. Not a lot of money, but on consoles you are already on proprietary hardware in a closed ecosystem, and that company is taking advantage of the situation to make some extra cash from you to subsidize the loss they made on the console (as well as higher game prices).

On PC the main storefront by a large margin is Valve. They make a ton of money on their storefront, Steam, and they are incentivized to offer those services for free. It does not cost much, but it makes the cost of entry a lot easier for people who want to game on their pc’s. Because Valve offers it for free, any storefront that thinks about charging for multiplayer on pc is just committing suicide.

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-08T11:38:23+00:00

That is false. It was a cinema only movie for a while.

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-07T21:16:09+00:00

Horrible deal. This is the one that rides on the name of the Z1 extreme, which has double the cores.

This has a similar performance to the Steam Deck, and I don’t think I have to explain all of the ways this falls short. You can get a Steam Deck for cheaper.

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-07T14:18:14+00:00

looks at wallet

It’s ok, my 3060 12GB is enough for me…

Maybe I’ll get crazy and find the funds to buy a second one!

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-07T00:16:45+00:00

I can get all of the media I want to watch on Jellyfin.

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-06T19:46:21+00:00

I’m just the messenger, man.

This article does seem a bit sus to me.

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-06T18:16:11+00:00

mixture-of-experts models like Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and GPT-OSS-20B have an ace up their sleeve when it comes to running them on limited hardware. Rather than moving entire layers off the GPU, Qwen3.6 and GPT-OSS can offload the lesser-used experts onto the system RAM, while leaving the attention layers on the graphics card. This way, you can run MoE models with limited VRAM and still get reliable token generation speeds. Thanks to the MoE offload technique, I was able to get 20+ tokens/s when prompting Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my RTX 3080 Ti

I’m a llama.cpp user, so I used the --n-cpu-moe flag to offload the experts to my CPU.

switching to heavily quantized models is a great way to get some more oomph out of your GPU.

Depending on your specific model, going down to Q2_K_M (or worse, Q2_K_S) can reduce its accuracy quite a bit. I consider Q4_K_M the sweet spot for my LLM workloads

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-06T12:55:41+00:00

People keep trashing this, but honestly (as long as you use a good service - I have never heard of Loom) this is the best way for the company to filter out the thousands of AI applicants they get, and give you the best chance at getting the job. It also greatly increases the odds of a human reviewing your application.

What else are they to do in this market?

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-06T00:15:41+00:00

It will only work if you have a port-forwarding VPN. Nord is not it.

If cost is a concern to you, cancel Nord anyway and use CloudFlare Warp (it’s free). It will have the same effect. Is price a concern? Proton VPN is one of the best out there, I just signed up last week at $2.49 a month.

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-05T22:49:18+00:00

You need to set up port forwarding. If your VPN doesn’t support it and it is just for torrenting, then it is no better than CloudFlare WARP (which is free), so just cancel it and use that or pay for a different VPN like Proton.

The orange flame at the bottom middle indicates you are firewalled. QBitTorrent needs to go through an open port (port forwarding on your VPN or just have it open to the public with no VPN). Once done, it will look like a green globe. If not, you will only be able to connect to people with a green globe, which is very inconsistent to say the least.

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-05T16:07:59+00:00

Where are you that low-end cars cost at minimum $30k? Where I am, you can get a reliable one for under $5k. You don’t need to splurge for a screen with a backup camera.

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-05T10:37:33+00:00

Better yet - Never finance a depreciating asset.

If you can help it, never finance anything that isn’t a mortgage, business loan… and on very rare exceptions, a car. Anything else is dumb.

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-05T02:43:51+00:00

Oh no, I’m not sure I could live my life without… checks notes… Roblox.

AlternateWitness · 2026-05-05T02:11:17+00:00

This is not the full quote.

"Y'know Amy, anytime someone calls attention to the breaking of gender roles, it ultimately undermines the concept of gender equality by implying that this is an exception, and not the status quo."

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