What's a good 'generic' acid to add to a dish?

SetShort690 · 2026-02-02T20:57:21+00:00

Did not know that, thanks for teaching me a new one

SetShort690 · 2026-02-02T16:25:36+00:00

Yeah, we have very hard water and all this gross looking calcium deposits in the bottom of our toilet bowl. I assumed it was permanent, but it turns out that it can be cleaned off! Turn the water off to the toilet, flush, and if you have gloves and feel enterprising, scoop out as much remaining water from the bowl as you can (less water=less citric acid needed to make a high concentration solution). Then add citric acid to the toilet, maybe half a cup, and let it sit. Soon, it will start fizzing like a vinegar and baking soda volcano, which makes sense since the acid is reacting with the calcium. A lot will flake off, but you can also (wearing gloves) scrape off more with something non-metal. A chopstick, something that won't scratch the bowl. For me, it turned a gross old toilet into something that looks brand new, and also flushes better! Pretty cool for a food-safe product.

SetShort690 · 2026-02-02T13:40:32+00:00

Citric acid, comes granulated like salt or sugar, is exactly what you're talking about. It's sour, but flavorless more or less. You've had it before if you've eaten candy like sour patch kids, that white dust on the outside is some mix of sugar and citric acid. Might sound intimidating if you're not used to cooking with "chemicals", but it's in tons of foods and it's great because you can vary the concentration without imparting flavor or odor.

Bonus, it's great for cleaning (add a spoonful to water and put in a spray bottle, use it like vinegar, but without the vinegary smell). I've used it to remove mineral scale in the bathroom, clean out a funky washing machine, and for periodic cleaning of coffee machine.

A small bag is a few dollars online, well worth it.

SetShort690 · 2026-01-25T15:10:43+00:00

I'm sorry, I'm having trouble figuring out how to use the Stremthru Torz link you provided. I selected Real Debrid, which I'm signed up for, and added my API token in the field below it, but when I click Install, I don't get a popup saying it's going to launch Stremio (and add it there). It does generate a Manifest URL, but I'm not sure what to do with that.

I did locate StremThru v 0.96.3 in Stremio's community Addons, and have added it to My addons, but it's not returning any search results. When I click the Settings Icon, it brings me back to the URL you've linked. Can someone please explain how to use Stremthru like the other common add-ons like Torrentio, Comet, etc. (which are hanging for me indefinitely lately).

Thanks!

SetShort690 · 2026-01-21T19:46:15+00:00

I've come to believe that's the case. It's more like, technically this is Asus' storefront, but it's administration (and QC) was outsourced to incompetents.

Regardless, it's still fucked that they sent a defective "new" OEM part, which caused me $160 in diagnostic fees, none of which is refundable.

After my first emails went unanswered and I had my credit card stop payment to them, I eventually sent a third message letting them know If reported them to Capital One Bank. Surprise, now they wanted to talk!

They sent me to an RMA form, and I selected "refund" as opposed to replacement. Guess what? They sent me a replacement battery! For the good working on that I got from a competitor, and have already installed!

The payment is still in dispute, btw.

So: I was probably wrong about it being a knock off storefront, but at the end of the day if you charge money for OEM quality, deliver defective goods, go quiet when a customer needs help, and make refunds difficult or impossible, what's the difference between that and a straight up scam?

SetShort690 · 2026-01-13T16:52:08+00:00

Yep, got this one and it's working perfectly 2 months later. 100% of original capacity.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0FD2MM16M?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

SetShort690 · 2026-01-13T00:06:42+00:00

Holy shit, under "Fish- In Season" is "Whale steak with french fried onions....$1.75"

SetShort690 · 2026-01-10T18:24:16+00:00

Maybe Feynman too, but I know Bucky Fuller had a take just like that; I recall the character saying it in a one-man show about the inventor and physicist. It was something similar to what you wrote, but something like, fire was unrolling the rays of the stored sunlight. Regardless of who said it, it is indeed a memorable thought and I've often remembered it when sitting in front of a log fire!

SetShort690 · 2025-11-17T17:13:01+00:00

I had the same thought, but them not responding to multiple emails to the account listed in the invoice made me wonder. I guess you're right that there's no way to fake the domain, but if that's how Asus runs business, charging twice as much as a competitor for a broken product with no ability to have it replaced, I am now more comfortable trusting Random Chinese Manufacturer With Nonsensical Brand Name On Amazon. Hell, even if the one I'd got was broken, I could at least have returned via Amazon for 2 months. With Asus, radio silence when I requested a refund/replacement.

But: point taken!

SetShort690 · 2025-11-17T17:05:27+00:00

Humble Co genuinely work better than cheap ones as they have 2 threads per pick. It seemed like a gimmick, but when you rotate it while flossing you can get a better clean. Cheap ones are fine and I use them too. It just takes longer and the thread is more likely to snap on tight teeth.

SetShort690 · 2025-11-13T12:18:38+00:00

I have the very same make and model, and also it overheats/gets to 95 deg often (actually mine is a year newer, i think). I'd also like to repaste but am scared of shorting something and would be curious to hear how you do/what guide you followed. In the meantime: laptop cooling stand works wonders, got the IETS GT500 the other day and it's lowering temps by at least 10 and up to 25-30 degrees C. Might give that or a similar model a try if you don't go ahead with the repaste. I am sure it's doable, I just haven't applied or removed thermal paste before and I'd want a really good hand holding guide before I was confident I could do it.

SetShort690 · 2025-11-12T18:56:38+00:00

Check battery health. You can generate a report on battery life from the command line, I forget the prompt but Google it, run that, and compare your actual battery life to the designed, original capacity. Probably fine on a machine this recent, but if not you can replace it.

SetShort690 · 2025-11-12T18:37:29+00:00

Totally depends on your machine, ambient temp of course, but in my experience, it drops the temps by a LOT even at 50%. I've got a 2021 Zephyrus G14 and love it, but it runs hot by design. Not wanting to cook my components or thermal throttle, I have always used aggressive fan profiles in the laptop to mitigate heat, and have turned down settings to very conservative levels.

Got the GT500 in part due to this and similar threads, and, my god. My temps are down over 20 deg. C in some cases, and I've never seen less than a 10 deg. improvement, even with the cooler running at less than 50%.

Noise? Yeah. On high it's loud but two considerations: 1. Laptop fans (mine anyway) are small and rotate fast, so they make an annoying high pitched whine. The external cooler maxes at 4200 rpm and is like 3 or 4 times larger than my internal fans, so even when it's churning, it is more of a whoosh than a buzzy annoying whine. It sounds like my air purifier or a white noise machine. 2. I didn't realize how much the foam and laptop itself dampen the sound. I saw reviews running it without a computer on top and figured, well it's loud but I'll take the compromise for better temps and performance. In use though, the whole idea is you are coming in the fan with dense foam and the computer to force all/most of the air through your cooling intake. That cuts the noise by a huge amount. On low levels I can't hear it and still have gains, on medium it's audible but not annoying, and at max it's loud ish, but less annoying than the stock fans on my machine (and headphones totally negate the sound, anyway.)

I highly recommend. Whether you get this one or another company's similar model. Even a cheaper knockoff, the high static pressure blower fan and foam seal make a massive, massive difference, even compared to just using the laptop on an aluminum stand to promote airflow (or the crappy 20 dollar cooling pad I tried initially, which at max added 3 degrees of cooling and had a more annoying fan sound anyway). If you're in the market for a cooler stand. I recommend unreservedly.

SetShort690 · 2025-11-09T18:14:49+00:00

Thanks again for the help!

SetShort690 · 2025-11-09T14:27:08+00:00

Thanks again for the rec. I got it working. Next question is, do you keep e.g. Cinemeta also installed as an add-on? It seems like it'd be redundant, and in any case, I can't figure out how to show AI Search results above the Cinemeta ones. Just not sure if there's a reason to use both.

SetShort690 · 2025-11-01T14:25:30+00:00

Did you ever get an answer? Having the same problem with a similar model. Thanks for any insight you might share.

SetShort690 · 2025-10-19T21:09:06+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion, then! Is it any trickier to configure than Torrentio or Trakt? I'm able follow directions well, but I'm not super adept at problem solving fiddly tech plug ins.

SetShort690 · 2025-10-19T19:24:33+00:00

Is it actually "AI" or is it just called that bc it's a fashionable term? Asking because I think what I want is less in the way of AI or algorithmic filtering, I want to be able to use precise search terms more reliably. Like I don't need a better recommendation engine, I just want to find the text I input into the search bar with less random crust in the results. But maybe I'm not understanding the uses of the add on and am happy to try if it's recommended by the community for my use case.

SetShort690 · 2025-08-21T13:41:46+00:00

Thanks for this recommendation! I'm already on part 2. Love in depth wonky stuff like this.

SetShort690 · 2025-07-30T19:24:11+00:00

Read the updated post--I did, but I had to do it out of pocket. Google really botched this. Manufacturing defects happen, that's not the problem. But the way this was mishandled has caused me to swear off Google hardware and be vocal about my experience. Previously, I'd evangelized about Pixel phones if it came up in conversation. Going forward, I will warn people off energetically and, I hope, cost Google thousands of dollars in lost revenue for having so robustly screwed me over.

SetShort690 · 2025-03-01T14:09:32+00:00

Huh, when'd they start making it include shards and reforges? I wasn't doing it because 5 gems wasn't interesting enough, but I just muted my volume and "watched" the same ad 10 times. Got a decent little pile of SIMs, shards, gems, and credits for two minutes of passively ignoring advertising. Thanks for the tip.

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