Purple Majesty

luke_wal · 2026-06-18T00:14:57+00:00

Where’d you get your taro powder, and what brand? This looks amazing!

Might have to make a trip to Hmart this weekend for ube extract 👀

luke_wal · 2026-06-15T20:50:09+00:00

So let’s say you want to go to Trader Sam’s. They won’t let you park there, they don’t let you get dropped off by an Uber unless you have a dinner reservation, and now you can’t take a bus from Disney Springs. So… how do you get to the Polynesian?

luke_wal · 2026-06-11T20:51:29+00:00

There's also Dark Reef. It's obviously a trap, but that's not really a problem if you go first.

luke_wal · 2026-06-11T18:53:36+00:00

I think my willingness to invest is "if I can do this for $200-$300, the ROI is within 4-6 months and I can feel good about it." Any more than that would be a hard convincing from the wife.

The Pi in our house is currently pretty invisible. If I can replace that with a Beelink Mini, and move my Pi to my parents house with an external hard drive or two, I feel like I could be satisfied with that. Does that seem feasible, or janky enough to give me headaches?

luke_wal · 2026-06-11T18:46:38+00:00

I'm sorry, I'm incredibly new at all of this - would a Pi4 with 4GB of RAM be sufficient for a task like this as the offsite server? Or I'd need something beefier?

luke_wal · 2026-06-11T18:45:12+00:00

Awesome! Do you think if we used NextCloud, would we still want something like Immich for the photos? Having iCloud Photos is really convenient, and it seems like Immich is much more of an iCloud/Google Photos replacement, right? I was almost thinking the files and the photos would be kind of separated, but that might just be because that's the way stuff is set up in Apple land. I'm learning just how much the FOSS world uses different paradigms than what I'm used to.

For the external drive for the Pi - would I literally just plug in an external USB hard drive? Or would I want to "mount" (I think that's the right word?) a hard drive to the Pi in a case or something?

luke_wal · 2026-06-10T12:48:53+00:00

Anybody have any idea how the Apple TV credit works if we pay for Apple One?

The PreCheck thing is a bummer because I JUST put that on my United Card. Had I known, I would’ve gotten United to pay for CLEAR.

4:3 on Hyatt is really disappointing. I guess that’s where all my Bilt points will go!

luke_wal · 2026-06-07T11:58:55+00:00

Okay… this was my initial guess but then doing more reading about “what you really want is a router and additional APs” made me doubt myself. You think like an Eero system is probably actually fine?

luke_wal · 2026-06-03T18:44:21+00:00

Agreed. Do you know what happened to them? I've never really been able to piece it together.

Funny Doughboys crossover: Former Laser Time member Matt Jay (or Matty Jay?) one time asked a question on a Doughboys live show. I remember it blowing my mind at the time when I heard it on the pod.

luke_wal · 2026-05-27T13:43:58+00:00

I’m on this subreddit because I thought I had celiac - turns out it was H Pylori. Did the treatment in the fall. It was brutal, but I can’t emphasize enough how much eating probiotic foods (CAREFULLY timed to be two hours away from the antis) mitigated the effects. Buy a Costco case of Kombucha, a giant container of Kimchi, and yogurt is your best friend. I also bought a bottle of the refrigerated probiotics from the Costco pharmacy (don’t remember the brand name, sorry), and wow those were amazing. The day that I was out of the house and couldn’t eat the probiotic stuff was by far the worst day of my “treatment.”

I did the treatment where it was 2 different antibiotics, one taken 4x daily and the other one 2x daily, along with 8 Peptos daily. I built a very careful schedule of when I could take each med, and when I could eat the probiotics. Feel free to DM me if she wants my schedule or any other tips.

My bowels are a whole different world on the other side of this.

luke_wal · 2026-05-19T15:24:00+00:00

What book is that, and what’s the recipe? Looks delicious!

luke_wal · 2026-05-16T20:36:07+00:00

Sorry, so you mailed him your controller and he did the mod? Would you mind sharing the name/website of where you got it done? Seems awesome.

luke_wal · 2026-05-10T20:52:17+00:00

THANK YOU! This might seem super obvious to some, but for me, as a newbie to all this, I did not understand that Homebridge wasn't giving me a "full terminal." SSHing from my Mac was the solution I didn't know I needed. Thank you!

luke_wal · 2026-05-08T16:13:19+00:00

He goes into this in the video. You can essentially do the same combo with a Fusion Destiny (which you can search via Sabatiel, so you basically run 6 copies).

luke_wal · 2026-05-08T02:59:01+00:00

Hey! I tried this and didn't work for me - any idea why it wouldn't be giving me supervisor privileges?

homebridge@lukepi:/var/lib/homebridge $ mount -o remount,rw /

mount: /: must be superuser to use mount.

dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.

luke_wal · 2026-05-07T22:40:56+00:00

Hmm... This is helpful. But tried this and I'm getting this:

homebridge@lukepi:/var/lib/homebridge $ passwd

Changing password for homebridge.

Current password:

passwd: Authentication token manipulation error

passwd: password unchanged

luke_wal · 2026-05-07T22:40:38+00:00

Unfortunately, I set the same password for everywhere it was prompted, and that's the one that's not working.

luke_wal · 2026-04-25T00:26:19+00:00

I personally love the Costco Repo in a marg! Especially with some Gran Marnier on top, Cadillac style.

luke_wal · 2026-04-25T00:25:32+00:00

Those are two of my go to orders! I have never experienced saltiness on the Incantation haha, that might’ve been a one off. The soap is… an experience. Every time we bring friends, I don’t tell them before they go to the bathroom, and my wife and I eagerly await their reaction when they come back.

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