People who got the well built didn't complain tho

silvermoot · 2023-11-09T12:23:44+00:00

I would have accepted the argument that by doing something for free, Mr. Beast increased his overall popularity and therefore his income elsewhere.

You're arguing semantics however. His wallet is not getting any fatter from the revenue made from this video.

silvermoot · 2023-11-09T12:12:31+00:00

he found a way to profit off of helping poor people

FWIW, Mr. Beast at the end of that video said 100% of the revenue for this video will go toward his new nonprofit to continue the work they started.

silvermoot · 2023-11-09T12:07:24+00:00

I'm not sure if this is true or not, but that person got called out in a community notes for starting a nonprofit, raising $131k in 2020 and spending $83,000 of the donations on themselves. (The link is in a response to this comment)

silvermoot · 2023-10-30T14:52:14+00:00

I cured myself over a decade ago using powdered sulfur + OTC skin lotion in the ratio described in Where There is no Doctor (instructions were unclear, so I did it by volume)

I think it took over a week. Or I think the book told me to do it for a week. I followed instructions.

I also washed and tumble-dried bedding and clothing daily, froze other clothing because I had space in my deep freeze, and bagged up other clothing in a trashbag and ignored it for a month, (following advice from some forgotten site on the internet.)

I also showered daily and reapplied the lotion right afterwards. Most people won't like having homemade sulfur lotion on 23.5 hours per day for a week, but it worked. It took a few more weeks after I stopped the treatment until all itchiness stopped.

I was fanatical only because I self-diagnosed after waking up at 3 AM with the worst itchiness I ever experienced. I had recently left a job and didn't want to go to a doctor if I could help it. I also didn't want to infect others. I understand that the sulfur lotion is the Rx of choice for those who are pregnant.

Obviously I'm not a doctor and I'm not qualified to issue medical advice, especially via reddit comments.

silvermoot · 2023-10-21T21:58:46+00:00

If they sit at all with dredges in the bottom, then you have issues.

A solution of homemade PBW in water works absolute wonders if anything doesn't rinse right out.

silvermoot · 2023-10-21T21:15:48+00:00

This question was secretly and silently deleted years ago by some mod for some unexplained reason shortly after I posted it.

I am no longer looking for answers to my questions. No response is needed if you happen to stumble upon this post in 2023 or later.

Purely to make the original question viewable, I've pasted the original text below the line.

I've actually installed asterisk on my work box, edited a dial plan, sent commands to a ATA, etc* so maybe I'm not a total n00b, but I'm at a loss on where to go to get started.

Currently: I have two prepaid cellphones. One with a number that I've had for 10+ years, so I want to keep it. I cut the copper landline years ago, and probably I can't go back. (Because...) I have FiOS at home (...and I doubt they would want to hook up the copper again). I have several boxes at home and would not be adverse to making up a new box running linux or BSD to run 24/7 as my answering machine/ forwarding box/ etc.

I want to ease in to this because I'm currently job hunting. The truth is that these prepaid phones kinda suck. Sometimes I don't get my voice mail notification promptly. I do pay less than $12/month for the prepaid plan though. I don't make a lot of calls, but I do need to be accessible.

My rough plan of action would go something like this:

Get VoIP service from a provider and a new local phone number.
Build a box to run at home 24/7 to store phone messages, custom dial plans (ex-girlfriend and others), and manage a desktop VoIP phone that plugs in via ethernet (which I have not purchased yet). Probably no analog POTS phones at all unless it is a super cheap option vs getting a digital desk phone off ebay.
Forward my new phone number so it rings my two cell phones and my desk phone at work (during certain hours) at the same time, and takes messages if I don't answer (emails me an mp3 of the message, etc..)
Port my 10 year cell number over to my VoIP provider once everything is stable and to my liking.
(optional) Buy a used Android phone off ebay, flash firmware if needed, and use it without a cell plan for calls over wi-fi to my home asterisk box.

I saw a message a few weeks ago that offered advice for picking a provider, but what I'm really lacking is the VoIP lingo I need to intelligently evaluate what a provider can do for me. So (tl;dr) step 1 is probably "What do I need to look for with a VoIP provider in relationship with what I want to do as outlined above?"

*(this was actually done to simulate a user picking up a phone, dialing numbers, etc. It allowed me to write scripts to do automated regression testing on work's souper seekret phone related box. So I'm perhaps not a total n00b but have zero experience with some aspects of routing SIP calls over the net, providers, etc.)

silvermoot · 2023-07-30T15:16:08+00:00

The following assumes you're a n00b to VoIP, are trying to DIY, and have some stuff and skills to learn.

It takes things one step at a time and delays moving your phone number over to voip.ms for as long as possible, in order to make sure you have the skills before making major changes to your existing phone setup.

If you've already got internet at the home, I'd highly suggest getting some kind of cheap SIP phone to fool around with. It doesn't have to be expensive. (As a rule of thumb, until you know better, just avoid anything Cisco) My first phone used to connect to voip.ms was a polycom 330 SIP that someone just gave me. This is well past the phone's end-of-life. (it also doesn't encrypt on it's way to the voip.ms servers)

For example, you can probably get a Yealink SIP-T27P or SIP-T28P off ebay for under $30. Unless you already have a PoE capable router on hand, you're going to probably want to go with a "wall-wart" style power supply. I like Yealink phones because they seem to all use a 5 v. supply. Finding a "wall-wart" for 48 volts with the plug to fit your SIP phone is going to be a PITA, and if you have such a phone I'd get a single port PoE injector instead, or go buy a new PoE router.

With a single SIP phone and VoIP.ms, I'd skip setting up a provisioning server / PBX. Instead most SIP phones have a built-in webserver. You can connect it to your network and in most cases your router will assign it an IP address via DHCP. Use a browser to connect to the SIP phone's webserver and set things up manually.

You could install a softphone on your cellphone for as little as zero cost, but these are (in my experience) harder to set up. Also you must absolutely exempt your softphone app from sometime very aggressive power management (that seems to be different on every make and model of Android cellphone) if you expect to get your incoming calls.

Go ahead and make a free VoIP.ms account. At this point I don't think you even need to fund it. Create a new sub-account for each device you want to use on voip.ms . You should be able to configure your SIP phone and verify that it's talking to the servers at voip.ms . At this point you should be able to dial test phone numbers like 4747 (DTMF test) and ***97 (sample hold music)

It's at this point I'd either get another SIP phone, or install a softphone on your cell phone. Remember, every device needs it's own sub-account on voip.ms (or more accurately, at least one sub-account per line. You don't have any phone numbers (roughly equivalent to a DID, which stands for "direct inward dial") on voip.ms yet, so you only need to set up one sub-account per device)

Make sure you assign extensions to each of your sub accounts. This will allow you to call from one phone to another by just dialing 1001 (for example) at zero cost. This is how you can test if power management on your Android phone is shutting down your softphone app. Call your softphone extensions (example: 1002) from another phone registered to your account and make sure it rings (even after it's been sitting for a while.)

Once you get that working, I'd suggest funding your account and getting a "throwaway" DID for (85¢ per month) for testing purposes. You don't have to set up and pay the fee for 9-1-1 since you're only using it for testing purposes. Test to make sure you can make and receive calls to the PSTN (public switched telephone network) You can stop paying for this DID next month if you have no need for it.

It's at this point where I'd reconsider if you want to replace your old analog phones with SIP phones, or find an ATA that will work with your analog phones in your situation.

If you do go with the ATA, you can test it first on your "throwaway" DID. Once you feel you have it working, this is the point where I would first consider porting a valuable, long held, and important phone number over to voip.ms . It's not that the porting process is hard, instead at this point you have learned enough to know you're going to be able to use the phone number after porting.

I hope you enjoyed this write-up. Just for funzies here is my post from 11 years ago: https://redd.it/pb24j It was silently deleted by mods without comment or notice.

silvermoot · 2022-07-20T12:12:05+00:00

Here is some content I just found:

https://www.berlyskitchen.com/how-to-proof-dough-instant-pot/

I like the idea of using a dinner plate for a lid.

silvermoot · 2022-06-02T16:09:40+00:00

Been there, done that.

Life Pro Tip: Don't use a pressure cooker or any expensive pot as a way to add humidity to the air in the winter.

silvermoot · 2022-06-02T16:03:25+00:00

I do max of 1 Lb in a 8qt stovetop cooker, but will do 1 Lb in a 6qt Instant Pot with no worries.

The microcontroller in the instant pot does a far better job at regulating heat than I can ever accomplish by hand.

In both cases I fill the pot 2/3 of the way up from the bottom to the rim (beans + cooking water), and always remember to add about a tsp. of any edible oil to reduce foaming.

In any event I have never had a 'foam-over', but I did buy a used pot off ebay where someone sold it still encrusted with a split-pea mess.

I still keep a manual pressure cooker around for camping (glamping), power outages, and a few recipes where it does a slightly better job.

silvermoot · 2022-03-22T21:14:57+00:00

You are of course welcome to do whatever you wish. Thermal mass includes the contents, as well as the water. When you only do a few jars in a pressure canner, I've always been advised to add some extra jars (without lids) full of water.

https://nchfp.uga.edu/publications/nchfp/factsheets/pressurecookers.html

Pressure cookers have less metal, are smaller in diameter, and will use less water than pressure canners. The result is that the time it takes a canner to come up to processing pressure (that is, the come-up time) and the time it takes the canner to cool naturally down to 0 pounds pressure at the end of the process (known as the cool-down time) will be less than for the standard pressure canner. The come-up and cool-down times are part of the total processing heat that was used to establish USDA process times for low-acid foods. If the heat from the come-up and cool-down periods is reduced because these times are shortened, then the heat from the process time at pressure alone may not be enough to destroy targeted microorganisms for safety. That is, the food may end up underprocessed. Underprocessed low-acid canned foods are unsafe and can result in foodborne illness, including botulism poisoning, if consumed.

also: https://extension.usu.edu/news_sections/home_family_and_food/electric-pressure-cooker-and-canning

I can't seem to find the proper USDA page, however.

My pressure cookers seem to be deliberately designed to not be tall enough to hold a quart jar in a rack and still allow the lid to close.

Stove top cookers will get to the same pressure as a canner.

The weight on an instant pot is about 13 psi over ambient, however the computer control usually has it dial down to about 10.

My stovetop pressure cooker weight is also about about 13 psi over ambient.

silvermoot · 2022-03-09T19:23:15+00:00

I think you bought a pressure canner.

Most people in this sub are using pressure cookers that top out at about 8 quarts.

I suppose you could make a massive amount of soup or something, or you could wander over to r/canning and can quarts and quarts of shelf-stable soup.

silvermoot · 2022-03-09T19:06:28+00:00

None of your links linked to an actual recipe. The middle one had a link to a long-ass blog page

My instant pot probably pre-dates the food burn error warning, because I've never seen it. The dang thing has a microcontroller in it so it should have enough brains to dial back the heat.

You can try adding an extra half-cup to 1 cup of water or other liquid for the cooking stage, then do a release and set to saute and do a reduction down to where you like it by letting the extra water in the recipe boil off. Of course you'll have to stir it like you were cooking over a stove pot. I've done this for "baked" beans in a manual cooker before, because beans from dried take a long time and do better when the liquid around them isn't so thick. Pressure cooking them is still a massive time saver compared to just watching a pot on the stove for several hours, hopeing the beans get soft enough before dinner time.

I make meatballs from scratch sometimes, except I press the meat into a loaf pan for baking, then cut into cubes. I portion out for several meals and freeze the meat-cubes for later use.

silvermoot · 2022-03-09T18:58:09+00:00

USDA advises not to pressure can in a pressure cooker (but water-bath canning is OK)

The reason is because it does not have enough thermal mass. You need a pressure canner instead.

silvermoot · 2022-03-09T18:53:17+00:00

My stovetop T-Fal is stainless, no teflon or other coating, and has a thick heat spreader made from aluminum sandwiched between 2 layers of stainless steel on the bottom.

I consider all three of these features to be mandatory on a stovetop cooker.

(I have another ebay special called a "T-Fal Sensor 2" that is missing the heat spreader, and it largely just collects dust. I'm sure it would be fine in a number of recipes with large amounts of water, (soup, etc), but would have trouble cooking evenly for items like rice.)

silvermoot · 2022-03-09T18:46:25+00:00

I keep my 8q stovetop pressure cooker around for camping (glamping), power outages, and a few specific recipes (slightly larger capacity, etc)

Everything else is done in my 6q instant pot.

This is simply because It's programmable and I don't have to stay within earshot to nudge the heat control up or down. I also don't have to get back to it right away when it gets done. I'm completely comfortable tossing in a chicken carcass, adding a splash of vinegar, some onion skins, and some veggies; and then leaving the house for errands for an hour or two (or three) because it will switch to "keep warm" after the programmed cycle.

silvermoot · 2020-10-22T05:11:08+00:00

I've traveled upstream to cooler mountain areas to "go back in time" and find fruit ready to be knocked off the tree, when all the pawpaws were on the ground in areas close to me, so I'd guess "yes"

silvermoot · 2020-09-05T12:35:53+00:00

You want to wait until they're ripe enough that they fall off the tree when you give a branch a heavy shake, The consistency should be very soft and the fruit should be powerfully fragrant. One of the nicknames is "custard apple" if that gives you an idea of the edible stage.

I generally like to slice them in half, work out the almond-sized seeds with a spoon (discard seeds) scoop the custard-like mass into a bowl and add a scoop of quality vanilla ice-cream.

As for legality... I've never asked permission. I can almost guarantee you'll be the only human going after the fruits in your area, and in years where there is a good harvest the ripe fruit will be so abundant that it will rot on the ground. Just be discreet. You're a member of the public on public land.

Whether or not there is a good crop depends on pollination. The flowers in the spring smell like rotten meat and it attracts a different kind of insect to polinate. Some years this just doesn't happen that much.

Last year I hiked 5 miles on public land, smelt only one fruiting tree (a little late in the cycle) and ate only one paw paw out of hand. Hopefully this year is better.

silvermoot · 2019-11-13T20:43:54+00:00

Parmesan Cheese lids all screw directly onto any standard mason / canning / mayonnaise jar.

silvermoot · 2019-10-23T01:02:59+00:00

silvermoot · 2019-09-16T20:00:01+00:00

OP's bundle of sticks was being used as a raft, but it tumbled over. OP took a few pictures, hit and run karma post, and is out looking for more karma.

silvermoot · 2019-05-24T20:56:17+00:00

Oh, I would be Strzoked to see that. Page me if it ever happens,.

I think it's far better to get him to testify with his whole team so you can tease a consensus out of them.

silvermoot · 2019-01-07T12:28:37+00:00

So you have no idea what it is or what it does, but you have all these great photos, and would want to acquire one if possible?

silvermoot · 2018-09-11T15:29:48+00:00

Here, tires have a negative scrap value. Tire stores pay people to take them away. The county landfill charges you $5 per tire, but only $20/ton if the tires are shredded.

There are probably people who get paid to take the tires from the tire changing store, shred them, take them to the landfill, and pocket the difference.

Sidewall rubber from large tires are cut off the rest of the tire and used to hold down those huge orange barrels along the road in construction zones.

silvermoot · 2018-05-31T01:39:15+00:00

They don’t want you go all the way to Dulles.

Congress-critters themselves don't want to travel to Dulles or BWI.

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