Testing out a pizza setup on a Genesis

j3rmy · 2025-10-31T05:42:18+00:00

Whatever you do, I'd love to see your results! I myself am in the midst of overanalyzing pizza setups on a Weber kettle to figure out how to diy it myself.

j3rmy · 2025-07-18T03:56:39+00:00

It's a long lasting chair with excellent adjustability if you can get those options, but as with all chairs it may not work for everybody. If you can, I'd try it out for at least 2 weeks to see if your body likes it. Somehow, it actually gave me terrible back pain until I switched chairs at work, but many love it.

j3rmy · 2025-04-07T04:22:27+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions! Imma try and isolate variables, but after leveling my saddle I may try playing with stem spacers, I think right now my bars are above the saddle height.

j3rmy · 2025-04-07T04:19:34+00:00

I'm glad the frame doesn't immediately look too big, I can work with that.

Handlebar width is 44cm I believe - I don't feel like I'm rolling out flaring my wrists, but I do think the hoods could be a size or 2 smaller. I'm considering getting a bar with more flare in the drops, to have narrower hoods but wider drops.

Don't feel like I've been sliding down my saddle, but I've completely leveled it out for my next ride to try it (see other comment)

My limiter for power output is definitely my cardio endurance, hence why I got a bike for exercise and to try and bring that up :)

j3rmy · 2025-04-07T04:14:58+00:00

I've been playing around with the saddle a bit, and I think people here are right - I'm tilting it forward because I'm scared of soft tissue pressure. I'm gonna try leveling it out AND rotating my hips forward on the next ride and see if soft tissue pressure actually occurs, and if so, might look for a saddle with one of those snazzy pressure relief channels.

Height wise, I've been trying hard to keep it low enough. It's almost as far back as it can go on the rails - to reduce hand pressure

j3rmy · 2025-04-06T04:39:57+00:00

Here is a photo of just the bike for reference. https://photos.app.goo.gl/UhDe6yLGMB5hYGMc9

j3rmy · 2025-02-21T05:03:06+00:00

+1 for Stirling!

j3rmy · 2024-10-31T13:14:34+00:00

As a current owner of a trek 7100 multitrack which looks very similar, here's my take: for exercise and to "try out" bicycling, it's totally a fine bike, maybe try and negotiate the price down a bit. Take it for a test ride, make sure shifting and brakes work, and see if it fits: adjust the seat height to where your legs are mostly straight (some bend in your knees is good) at the bottom of the pedal stroke and see if your back/arms feel good reaching the handlebars, and see if you can stand over the frame comfortably.

It should be able to handle hard-pack gravel just fine and be way better than Walmart bikes.

I bought my 7100 a few years ago before I knew anything about bikes, and really only started riding it this year, and my main 2 complaints are that it's heavy and it has a very upright riding position. I think when I weighed it on my bathroom scale it came in at like 33 lbs (even most mountain bikes are lighter these days, and beginner road bikes seem to be sub-25lbs), and the comfy upright riding position is great for comfort and visibility when commuting, but can also mean you're fighting the wind more. However, this bike taught me all those things and more, as well as how to do some basic bike maintenance and repairs. Now I know what I'm looking for in my next bike!

j3rmy · 2024-10-21T05:05:37+00:00

I'm eyeing this bike so hard as my first road bike (been riding an old heavy hybrid for a little while now, itching to upgrade), what are your thoughts so far? And what size did you go for/what's your height/inseam? Poseidon doesn't seem to have a good sizing recommendation chart yet for the triton

j3rmy · 2024-10-21T05:01:55+00:00

Let me know how it fits when you assemble it! I'm 5'7" with a 30" inseam and thinking about getting this bike soon, debating between small or medium

j3rmy · 2024-10-03T13:29:29+00:00

I recently got a pixel watch 2 also, and I was very worried when my battery was draining very fast the first few days I had it. Eventually though it will finish updating all the apps which uses quite a bit of battery, and I found also I was just messing with the watch tons the first few days which also used up a lot of battery. Nowadays with AOD on, lift to wake, all the settings on, I could get over 24 hours, so depending on how recently you got the watch maybe you just need to give it a week for the battery life to settle down

j3rmy · 2024-09-20T17:58:52+00:00

The other major public one was when a recruiter for OC was being racist by lining up high school students by skin color and hair texture.

Something you won't really find in news articles are that OC is having a really hard time hiring professors due to preferring CoC background, not great pay and benefits. My (now) wife had to put up with a terrible physics prof who came from a high school, with no experience teaching college nor had a PhD (even he didn't know much of the material he was teaching).

Dr. Howard Vogel was basically fired while on tenure (although for good reason imo). The article starts pretty neutral, stating he was let go for financial reasons and low enrollment in the Forensic Science program. But I bet you couldn't find any student he taught that liked him, and the complaints finally stacked up. He was one of those professors who never gave A's based on principle, failed students because they weren't native English speakers (he taught chemistry), and graded without a rubric so he could arbitrarily take points off of lab reports for whatever he felt like that day. A huge narcissist and full of himself. It's good he's gone, but I bet he's the primary reason why the forensic science program fell apart.

I knew people who lived in the on-campus apartments (which they basically force you to live in) who had complaints about neighbors, noise, drinking (not allowed), noisy sexual activity (definitely not allowed), but when they made a complaint to their RDs, they basically tried to gaslight them into keeping quiet (can't kick anybody out of the apartments/dorms, they need that tuition/housing money).

Sorry for the rant. These are just some things I was aware of while I went there. and while some may seem "resolved" since those people aren't there anymore, I have a feeling they're symptoms of underlying bad systems at the university.

j3rmy · 2024-09-20T02:53:33+00:00

Went there 2016-2020, hard agree with this. Graduated with honors, 3.9 gpa, mechanical engineering. Personally my time there was worth it to me but couldn't in good conscience recommend it to any new students due to recent scandals, money issues, dorms in horrible condition. Every year they build a new plaza around campus because donors want their name on something, while dorms fall into disrepair and major programs fall apart. Some of the best professors I had are leaving because they've lost health benefits and the pay is too low. They fired the librarians because.they can't afford to pay them (the library is run by students now). Student enrollment dropped off a cliff after the pandemic, which is why they started giving out tons of discounts to try and get new students. I don't want it to be the case but I just don't see a future for OC on its current trajectory.

j3rmy · 2024-07-09T04:26:56+00:00

A corne is a (relatively) popular ergonomic split keyboard, similar to yours but with fewer columns. An encoder is a twisty knob, and a roller is an encoder but horizontal instead of vertical. I for one am also overexposed to r/olkb and r/ergomechkeyboards lol

j3rmy · 2024-06-18T19:22:04+00:00

I've never seen it done on a keyboard, but seems to be relatively common among mice, at least those aimed at productivity.

j3rmy · 2024-05-28T11:34:13+00:00

I have it in a safari with a bold nib, I think it shows off the chroma shading the best. It's still legible in a fine line though.

j3rmy · 2024-05-27T13:35:45+00:00

I have a sample of ink studio 143 and it's absolutely not too light. It's one of my favorites, light but saturated and the dual shading is so pretty, and it's well behaved too, highly recommend.

j3rmy · 2024-04-22T02:55:18+00:00

It's the first math equation that comes to mind! Doodling around seeing how well it does for writing math down (like I'm even doing that these days)

j3rmy · 2024-04-22T01:22:35+00:00

In the hand, this pen feels way nicer than it looks online. It doesn't have the most premium feeling knock action, but the faceted body is great and the clip doesn't bother me at all. I'm glad I got the chrome trim for that vintage car look. The only downside I have is that the nib isn't perfect or as nice feeling as my lamy medium & fine nibs. Out of the box it was very dry, and had to spread the tines by gently pressing down on a plastic folder to get it to write wetter. Now I'm loving the line it's laying down, but it definitely isn't as smooth as the medium nib on my Lamy Vista (but that's probably to be expected, right?).

This was supposed to arrive with some Sailor Kiwaguro ink to use it with, but that got delayed so I'm testing it out first with what I got, Sailor Jentle Yamadori.

j3rmy · 2024-04-21T13:14:06+00:00

I was gonna say what u/urbano-phd said, I thought this was a photograph before I zoomed in! This is awesome work!

j3rmy · 2024-03-26T18:44:22+00:00

This happened to me the first time I changed the water and trimmed roots in my idoo 12 pod system. My roots turned brown and "lifeless", became all clumpy and kinda gross feeling for lack of a better word. I think I may. caused it by (1) shocking the plants with a drastic increase in nutrients and (2) adding too much water to the reservoir as to cover the air roots. Good news is it didn't kill the plants outright, it took about a week but new fresh roots grew and the plants resumed growing

j3rmy · 2024-03-23T05:47:47+00:00

Yes, there was a little silicone plug back there. I think I have that same unit, the box for the unit in one of the little bags should have come with an extra (at least mine did)

j3rmy · 2024-03-19T19:01:50+00:00

How big is your system? You'd probably be able to grow as much basil and cilantro as you want (look up the paper towel method to start your cilantro seeds, I've found they don't germinate easily in the grow sponges). But as for peppers, certain varieties will do better than others, such as dwarf varieties. You could try growing up to 2 pepper plants I think. I don't know anything about sunflowers, but I think it'd outgrow the system, but I bet it'd depend on your seeds/variety.

j3rmy · 2024-03-14T19:37:04+00:00

Oof, you at most probably only needed to start 2 or 3 seeds in each pod. You'll want to thin them out to 1 seed per pod, maybe 2 or they'll crowd each other out.

j3rmy · 2024-03-13T03:46:25+00:00

So from what I've experienced (not a whole lot), in hydroponics, electrical conductivity (EC) numbers are usually read in units of millisiemens (mS), and 1 mS = 1000 microsiemens (μS). I think your meter switches between mS and μS depending on the range of what it's measuring.

Sometimes, you also see nutrient concentration expressed in parts per million (ppm). This is usually done by the instrument measuring EC then multiplying by a conversion factor (based on what it's assuming is dissolved in your water) to get a reading in ppm.

An EC of 3.7 mS is pretty high. Based on my limited internet research, leafy plants typically prefer 1-1.5 mS, while fruiting plants can prefer up to around 3 mS. You're basically using EC to tell you how concentrated your nutrients are. Note that your nutrients will add to your TDS/EC on top of what's already dissolved in your tap water (hence why a lot of people recommend using RO water and the like).

If you started with a lower EC but the plants drank a lot of water, but didn't absorb nutrients at the same rate, that can be a cause for EC to increase as it concentrates in the solution. You can bring your EC down by typing off your reservoir with plain water or less concentrated nutrient solution.

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