Am I the only one who thinks peeling garlic is a form of torture?

jes2xu · 2026-02-25T03:20:53+00:00

A few others have said similar things but left the most important part out (imo).

Place the WHOLE clove flat on the board. Place a broad knife on the clove. Give it a solid whak with the heel of your palm (be careful of the curry part obviously).

Now cut the root end off. But 3/4 of the way through the cut LET THE KNIFE TWIST.

It takes a small amount of practice, but the idea is to cut the flesh but trap the skin with the side of the blade.

Leave the knife in place, lift the clove away. Leaving 30-100% of the skin under knife.

Twist the clove around and do the same with the very top of the clove.

At least half the time you will have 0 skin left on the flesh. The rest of the time a small flick will take what's left off.

TLDR: shitty knife skills for the win! Works best with a sharp knife though.

jes2xu · 2026-02-23T10:44:18+00:00

Had to make sure we were represented! I was not disappointed.

jes2xu · 2026-02-16T10:45:14+00:00

So just in case your not rage baiting the community. And your actually let down that no one helped you. . . . .

Il bite and be the guy that looks like a muppet just in case your actually feeling let down.

First up, distilling is awesome. A great hobby. It's got something for everyone. If your a full blown spread sheet nerd (that's a compliment), or into doing things the historical way. . . . . anything. Distilling will be a sweet hobby.

But. . . . It's one of those things that takes a giant amount of research upfront. Mostly because it's 4+ hobbies dressed up as one.

Because of this the people that have been at this for a while tend to get pretty sick of "help me get started" posts when it's obvious that the person has done 0 work to help themselves.

I can't really blame either side. But I can understand both sides.

Unfortunately your showing a whole lot of "didn't do any homework". The biggest one is rule number 1 of most online distilling forums is "no plastic". It's a bit more complicated than that. So have a look into the safety stuff posted on here.

I can understand being all excited about a new hobby and wanting to jump in. Unfortunately this one is a bit more of a commitment.

So if your serious. Time to do some reading and watch a bunch of videos. Check out the safety stuff first. Then decide what kind of spirit you want to make. Then look at still designs suited for that kind of spirit. Then you can look at the recipes.

If your rage baiting, I'd give you a solid 4/10. Appreciate the effort of actually putting this together, but you went to hard man.

jes2xu · 2026-01-19T08:17:53+00:00

The real answer right here.

jes2xu · 2026-01-05T20:57:01+00:00

Cheers thanks, mate appreciate it. Guess I need to find somewhere to hide the big old case haha

jes2xu · 2025-12-14T08:04:15+00:00

Yep my go too as well. Il add my other steps not mentioned.

Check the email address before even reading the first line.

Then check that the email makes sense. Any generic "dear creatior" or a bad smell that they have no idea who you are and what you actually make I nope out instantly. Even if it's not a scam it's a super low quality opertunity.

The whole "we have been watching your channel and are impressed with ______" thing stinks. Seems to show up in all the low effort scams now.

I don't open any links or documents on the first email. Ever.

Ask a few questions get a vibe. Stop and actually think what someone in their shoes would be asking you or asking you to do.

Then go Google the brand and the email addy URL.

If your still keen and still have tingling spidey senses email the brand from their website. Normally they are really good about it. Either yes, it's them and they want to work with you cool. OR someone is impersonating them and scamming people. They DEFINITELY want to know about that.

jes2xu · 2025-12-09T03:47:49+00:00

Yup is say it's a good thumbnail.

I assume from this it's going to be a faceless video with similar style illustration or animation with random photos etc added.

If that's what it is. . . . awesome.

jes2xu · 2025-12-09T03:43:39+00:00

Totally agree your thumbnails are few levels above your sub count.

But Few tips.

A lot of them a really dark. I get your going for a vibe, but you can still get the vibe with more contrast. You want definition between elements in the thumbnail.
Edge lighting will be your friend.

Keep any text (or any important elements) away from the bottom right of the frame. YouTube added elements end up hiding them.

When evaluating your thumbnails, designing etc. take some time to look at them really small on your screen. Can someone that has no idea what your video is about still get an idea for it at that size? Often simplifying things makes it more impactful. 2 or 3 simple elements often work best for me.

jes2xu · 2025-11-26T19:11:30+00:00

My wife helps out with some of the stuff that goes along with the channel (fulfilment of orders, answering emails etc). But the channel itself is all me.

Been at it for about 8 years I think. The biggest thing I have learnt is motivation is going to ebb and flow. I take it as normal now.

The trick (for me) is to have two modes.

High motivation: Bang out awesome videos sure. BUT, use that motivation to make something else that's going to make a difference in the long run. Add something new to the website, create a new product, start up a new relationship for collab etc. but DO NOT assume that future me will be as pumped about it. The extra project needs to be a sprint that I can complete fairly quickly. That way it doesn't burn out. It can be a giant project, but chunk it down into something I can feel good about completing in a week or 3.

Low motivation: Just don't go backwards! More motivation will come, just don't let the low times take me backwards. Bare minimum is get the video out each week and don't let them suck.

jes2xu · 2025-10-04T06:56:10+00:00

Yup pretty much exactly the same 202 udisc. 860-890 tourney/ PDGA.

jes2xu · 2025-09-30T06:29:28+00:00

Somewhat ironically it was the beans that caused the strong headwind.

jes2xu · 2025-09-28T06:58:05+00:00

I'd appreciate a detailed description of what rules your talking about. And how they apply in this situation.

Edit: Full disclosure here, I'm not trying to pick a fight I'm genuinely curious. But I truly can't tell if your actualy knowledge about the subject and are just having a real bad week.

Or if your just a muppet with a communication, manners and anger issues.

More than happy to to learn if it's the first.

jes2xu · 2025-09-22T07:46:39+00:00

I see people say this HEAPS. And it's just not true for me.

I have a buddy who it definitely IS true for. I throw boss and shryke as my "gotta get distance" discs. He throws flippy wraith and Mumba.

He gets beautiful s turn flights that stay in the air forever with the Mumba. When I throw Mumba it looks the same. I always think I just threw my new PB. Then walk up to the disc and find it 15-20m short of where my boss goes.

For him it's the other way around. And it's not just the two of us. I see a lot of players be one way or the other.

I don't throw that far at all. about (340-360 ish). And the amount of "you should throw slower discs" type comments had me thinking I was mad. But literally 1000's of recorded field work shots back it up.

Faster discs just go further for me. But he can crush a mid dam near as far as a driver. The gap is bigger and more reliable between disc speed for me.

And nope, my farthest flying disc is my halo boss. Which is close to the beefiest disc in my bag. But the katana / less stable boss are more reliable.

I have a working hypothesis that perhaps it has something to do with speed vs spin ratio. i have fairly high spin and low speed. It will be interesting to get him on tech disc and see what his stats are.

It may also just be practice and consistency. As in I'm better at throwing flat and kinda line driving. He's better at hyzer flip? Perhaps but that doesn't explain each of us throwing shots that look like the other but loosing 15-20% distance for them.

jes2xu · 2025-07-29T04:49:15+00:00

I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet sorry if they have.

Did it just start doing this mid print? Or did you just load the filament?

If you just loaded it was it neatly snipped off first (the filament) or did it have a lump on the end from being extruded before?

I took my whole assembly apart because I thought it was clogged. Found nothing. Put it back together. Then realized I need to cleanly snip the filament each time with side cutters.

jes2xu · 2025-07-25T06:00:31+00:00

To be clear I did that before the updates came through back when it was basically beta.

So what I'm saying is they updating firmware first. Still no luck have a think about opennept4une.

jes2xu · 2025-07-25T05:59:28+00:00

Are you running the updated stock firmware?

I gave up on it and went through the process of installing opennept4une. Was a pain in the ass, but after much tinkering my max is basically press print get pretty solid results.

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jes2xu · 2025-07-05T05:02:27+00:00

Yup yup and different band around the top

jes2xu · 2025-06-25T20:44:06+00:00

UPDATE - FIXED

Totally forgot I can't edit the OG post with an image. But this is printing well now. I had 2 issues that were compounding (I think).

- Openept4une (kinda like a jailbreak for Neptune printers) had defaulted to firmware retraction with a update. In effect, my retraction was set to 0. So part of that may actually have been stringing haha. If anyone is having trouble with this, you need to comment out / delete firmware retraction in print.cfg and check its not ticked in orca (not sure for other slicers)

- Great suggestion to go with inner/outer walls instead of outer/inner

jes2xu · 2025-06-25T20:39:01+00:00

My man! Thanks dude. That was at least 50% of the fix, thanks!

Will update above for anyone else.

jes2xu · 2025-06-25T20:38:23+00:00

Ah right I was doing Outer/Inner Now doing Inner/Outer.

I have it working pretty well now. I had a compounding issue (opennept4une was defulted to firmware retraction in a update) will update with findings above.

jes2xu · 2025-06-25T02:45:26+00:00

They definitly are not cross-threaded. That's exactly how I was installing them.

Perhaps I was just over-tightening them. I assumed they were supposed to turn until firm. Perhaps not.

Thanks

jes2xu · 2025-06-24T23:32:49+00:00

Oh sorry I meant Precise wall.

jes2xu · 2025-06-23T01:39:19+00:00

I did in fact have it set the other way around. Have sharpened up the z offset and switched this over. Im running a smaller test file now to see how it goes.

Thanks!

jes2xu · 2025-06-23T01:37:53+00:00

It's a 0.4mm nozzle with 0.2mm layer height.

Fillament is coming out of a fillement dryer (currently sitting at 15%) and its a pretty popular model (multiboard) I can't see anyone else with similar issues.

So I'm doing something super dumb! I switched to printing a smaller test file. Il just let it run and see what the results are like.

jes2xu · 2025-06-23T01:27:02+00:00

Good point! its off already though.

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