I’ve seen refrigerated cooked rice turn pink and slimey in spots. I trash the dodgy looking stuff and fry the rest. Is that a bad idea? I got away with it twice so far. Now I leave the lid loose so some of the moisture can escape.

(edit) after reading the link posted by ‘solo’, I guess i should freeze rice if I don’t use it after a couple days.

Guess I’d try getting a separate mini-fridge, with a lock. When something is ~2 days before triggering the chronic waste manager, move it to the locked fridge.

So there is a torque sensor?

I appreciate the effort. Google has killed off most invideous instances so I only know of a few instances. I did not know about that one so I was happy to try it. But it gives a broken CAPTCHA. Took like 5 min to apparently do a proof of work problem, which in the end finally gave an “error, try again”. Had to switch to hCAPTCHA. After repeated enabling of a shit-ton of nested JavaScript, I was able to pass the hCAPTCHA. Then I could only watch the video, not save it. And there was no audio.

Using yt-dlp yields: “ERROR: [generic] None: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused> (caused by URLError(ConnectionRefusedError(111, ‘Connection refused’)))”

I was trying to work out whether he came up with a torque sensor. With no audio, I can only guess. But there were some moments where he has his feet off the pedals and the motor is still cranking. Not sure if that means there is no torque sensor, a demo of a faulty torque sensor, or if he was testing a manual torque-sensor override mode.

I would add: if it tastes off, spit it out, as tasting does not imply swallowing.

Worth noting as well that the taste test can kill you when dealing with some very toxic variaties of wild mushrooms – even if you spit it out.

Shit, Google-Youtube exclusivity strikes again. If anyone has a copy of this video in an unrestricted host, plz share. I would be quite interested in seeing this video, ideally from a copy that I can pass around to friends who are considering building ebikes.

Nutrition doesnt generally need to be minmaxed;

That may be true superficially but some ppl have an interest in minimising waste. On the one hand, we want to minimise food waste. But if that leads to consuming more food to get the needed nutrition we may still be failing to minimise waste as we try to minimise waste. So consider these two scenarios:

1. Bob eats 1 freshly picked bell pepper. But this habit led to throwing 1 bell pepper away because he routinely eats the freshest option.
2. Alice, who tries to minimise food waste only has near-spoiled bell peppers. So she eats 2 bell peppers as they lost nutrition.

In both cases 1 bell pepper was wasted. It’s oversimplified¹ in order to convey the problem. Alice may not be consciously choosing to eat more but when living the zerowaste lifestyle her body naturally demands bigger portions (we might hypothesize).

¹ No idea if 50% nutrition is lost in aging from freshest to near ruin. It’s arbitrary for the sake of the example…

Well I have no problem stuffing my face. If I had a robot chef there would be no problem at all. But anticipating my future motivation to prepare the food is where it gets dicey.

I recently found out about a local non-profit which collects scrap unused building material. Then it gets stored until someone needs it. You can’t just be a taker though… they keep track of who gives what so if you give something you then have an allowance to take stuff. It’s a kind of bartering. It works around the hard-ass repair/hobbyist-hostile municipalities like yours.

According ro research inspired by one of the scientists kids, nutrients and vitamins rise when exposed to sunlight, and deteriorate when in a dark fridge.

I appreciate the link but I didn’t quite catch the nutrition analysis. They did not seem to state outright that nutrients rise, though they say the daylit food has more anti-carcinogens. Are you infering that the tissue loss implies a loss of nutrition?

There was a finding in research a couple decades ago on mushrooms, which accumulate vitamin E or D under sunlight. I forgot which but it the same vitamin we directly get from sun exposure.

But then we must work out how to exploit this knowledge. Mushrooms need to be refrigerated. Should they be in a fridge with a glass door? Or does the glass block most of the UV which is likely the key ingredient anyway? I keep them in a dark fridge but if insects are not around I will take them out of the fridge in the morning so they get sunlight in their final day.

Potatoes need to be kept in darkness to slow sprouting. But I wonder if I should treat them like mushrooms and give them a final day or two of light.

Smart shopping

Not exactly sure what this implies. I buy edgy food which was slow to move off the shelf so the price gets cut down in order to make it move. It’s cheap¹ and mitigates food waste outside my house. If by smart shopping you mean to buy the freshest food, well then that would prioritise nutrition over rescuing local food from waste. Which is smart is not obvious to me.

My kitchen becomes like a ER triage to eat food before it spoils. And sometimes I have to do surgery and make sculptures. That is, carving decayed parts out of partially ruined food. It’s food in its least nutritional state, but there is still something to be said for training your immune system.

Ex. I eat leftovers from last night’s dinner for lunch the next day.

Leftovers the next day risks giving you more of the same nutrition you still have traversing your body from the previous meal. So I deliberately skip a day or two on leftovers to ensure the nutrients are replenished when they are needed more (which is after they left the system). Leftovers are also less urgent because the cooking kills the baddies and enables the spoilage clock to be reset.

¹ Since the edgy food is generally ½-off, it’s fair to say I can buy twice as much for the same price. I don’t really know if that more or less than compensates for the age-induced decline of vitamins.

i’d say throwing away edible food is being overly cautious.

That’s not really what’s happening. People who eat the freshest food first don’t toss edible food. They still wait until it’s rotten before tossing. It’s just that when you eat the freshest food first, more food ends up reaching the spoiled state.

editing to add: happy cake day, activistPnk!

I’m afraid it’s a fake cake day to throw off the doxxers (who now know that I was born on one of the other 364 days).

That’s some nice scrap wood. My region is so overloaded with Ikea melamine particle board garbage that I only keep two pieces around. On any spontaneous day that I need wood, I can cycle around the neighborhood and find a pile of Ikea discards. Every minute of every day, there is something.

Solid wood would be worth saving but it’s much more scarcely dumped on curbs than Ikea wood.

I needed a new roof a couple years ago. Only 1 roofer in my whole city offered vegetated roofs. He only had experience with commercial installations, not residential.

So indeed there is a shortage. No idea why roofing companies are not on the ball with this.

Various cheap LCD panels can be repurposed using a $10-20 driver from Ali or eBay.

When a Thinkad is disassembled, there are like 20—40 fragile pins on the connector. I always just assumed it was custom and proprietary. Although it probably would not make sense for IBM to be in the LCD business, so I guess the pins must be standard (probably not the connector though). From there, can I trust the wire colors?

I ask because sometimes I find a destroyed laptop like a keyboard and base busted in half, where the LCD could be salvagable.

The most recent trashed laptop turns out to be purely the display, which was torn off, scratched up, and hanging by a wire. The power connector was smashed. But I got a Thinkpad docking station which supported an external display and a new power input, and it works just fine. It is now the fastest “desktop” in my house.

Precise (but weak) stepper assembly from old CD/DVD drives.

I had to look into how that’s useful. Apparently printers, engravers, and laser cutters are made with them. Requires a lot of ambition but if I really need one of those things and I hate what is in the enshitified marketplace, it might be interesting. I imagine the difficulty is in all the other components needed for those things.

Some old keyboards (especially programmable ones) have a DIP chip, if you are into building keyboards.

I did not know that was a thing. I have lots of spare keyboards and thought of using the linux app keyb to map chars like ½, “, ”, etc. to it. Thanks for the suggestion, b/c I think my plan of having two keyboards in front of me is a bit wasteful of desk space.

I saw a video at some point on how to build an ultrasonic by epoxying an u/s generator to the bottom of a metal tub. Many adhesives fail when a surface gets sufficiently hot. I haven’t opened it up yet but I imagine they used some kind of adhesive, as opposed to welding it. It would be interesting to know if your cleaner uses glue or welding to fasten the u/s generator.

No, in fact the cheap thing is allergic to heat. The manual says it’s important to fill with /cold/ water. And the running time is restricted to like 4 min. If I run two cycles, the water gets a little warm despite (apparently) having no heating element. The manual also says not to run more than 2 cycles. So it seems the thing is sensitive to heat and the water functions to keep the ultrasonic generator cool, which makes it a bit sucky. I know pro jewelers who have industrial cleaners that have heating elements to deliberately make the liquid very hot.

I don’t know. I might have to try to track one down since I currently have devices I cannot control easily.

The page you linked is full of incorrect information

I guess you are talking about the hitchwiki not NPR, since you are talking about Europe. Would be cool if you would correct it, since it’s a wiki with open access.

The stock Lemmy client does that. Indeed it’s a poor design; and there are no decent Lemmy apps for desktop users.