I start every day with oysters and champagne just to make that sadsack spin in his grave. Well, that and to awaken the sexual appetite.

It will be similar but not the same. Tvarog & quark are more acidic. So it will have a tartness you may or may not like. With cottage cheese there is more rennet for curdling, the curd is cut like with cheese production, and the curd is heated and washed, producing a more firm and less sour curd. Then cream is added.

So try it and see what you think. If it is too sour you could try and find a very soft fresh cheese it might be closer to the curd you are familiar with and add cream to that.

In the end though, cottage cheese is an industrial product, with all kinds of bioengineering involved (like special bacteria strains that produce diacetyl for a buttery flavor). So any hacks will be unlikely to duplicate the flavor and texture exactly. It’s probably worth learning to love the local stuff.

Yes indeed. Everyone arriving goes through immigration, collects bags, clears customs; and only then may proceed to the exit, or recheck bags and go back through security to catch a connecting flight.

The only exception is if you originated at a pre-clearance airport and did the immigration stuff before departure. But that means you still need a visa. And it’s only at a handful of airports in Canada, Ireland, UAE and the Caribbean.

In the US, if you land, you must pass through immigration.

At least I’m not aware of any airports where there is an international terminal like you find elsewhere in the world. Ours require entry to the country even if you are connecting to another international flight.

Edit: yep, none have this.

If you have trouble with the soaking, black beans do very well with a “quick soak”.

1. Cover them with water about twice the depth of the beans. Add about 1 teaspoon (~5 ml or 5-7 g) salt.

2. Bring to a boil and keep it boiling for 2 minutes. Then cover and turn off the burner/hob. Let soak for 1-2 hours.

3. Add any extra seasonings now (but nothing acidic). Then bring back to a boil and then simmer until soft. Adjust seasoning and you’re done.

They should take much less time than cooking from dry. How long will depend on the beans. Older beans can take much longer, but most should be soft in 1 hour or so.

Very nice. Haven’t seen that before.

Could also be a stale DNS cache entry on one device or the router. If you ping your duckdns fqdn from the device that can’t connect while on your home network, does it resolve to the correct public IP?

I still think a firewall/nat issue is more likely tho.

What is your router make and model? You need to enable hairpin NAT.

Not when you change residency, but if you relinquish your citizenship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expatriation_tax#United_States or your residency has been revoked.

So if you remain a US citizen you owe normal annual tax (minus a credit for foreign taxes paid).

The port is forwarded from your router to the pi, right? If so, you could test for the router as the bottleneck using the router’s WAN side IP address as the target.

This should give you a good data point for comparison. If it’s also slow then you can focus on the router performance. Some are slow when doing hairpin NAT.

Does this media server need to be accessible when you are away from home? Will you store personal data on it?

Out of band management: this is a server feature that lets you access and manage the server even if the OS is down. That’s important if you may be away from home and need to fix a boot problem.

You can simulate some of this with PiKVM (remote console access) and PDU solutions (remote power control).

Redundant power: servers often have redundant power supplies, so that if one fails it can still function.

You can simulate this, with short downtime, by having a replacement ready. Mini PCs make this easy by using relatively inexpensive laptop style external power bricks. But also think about the power circuit - is the server on the same breaker/fuse with something that could potentially take the circuit down while you are away?

ECC RAM: this is about data integrity. If there is a failure in non-ECC then a bit flip could cause data corruption.

You can’t really get this without ECC. Using a file system that has anti-corruption features can help reduce some of the risk. You probably trust your data to consumer PC hardware, so this would be no different really. It’s about risk mitigation.

And that’s the main thing here, deciding on the use cases and prioritizing/budgeting how you mitigate risks to each.

I’d say your chances are very good. Even their high end rackmount models work with the usbhid-ups driver. Don’t think they would change things up in this regard since they would also need to change their software.

It’s probably still IPv6 related. If you use something like Network Analyzer on your phone while only connected to the mobile network you may find that it only shows an IPv6 address and DNS server, no IPv4 config. That could explain the difference. Particularly if you were using the maximum typically permissible MTU. Your provider might also be doing some 6to4 tunneling somewhere that adds overhead and causes size problems.

You might want to do a DNS leak test from your phone with the wireguard connection down and then with it up to make sure you’re tunneling DNS. This will be clearer if you set pihole to use something upstream that an ISP is unlikely to use - quad9 for example.

Watched that episode a few months ago. I did a spit take when I heard it.

Liz Lemon’s ringtone

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6GT1797-rQQ

Btw: does anybody know what bad things actually happen if there is no metal cage that blocks all the radio?

Noise happens. Could be no problem, or it could hurt your wifi or mobile data connections, or maybe raise a neighbor’s ham radio noise floor. I saw this recently when setting up a pi to run BirdNet-Pi. The USB3 connection to an SSD caused enough noise in the 2.4GHz band that the onboard wifi radio could only connect on the 5GHz band.

To start - moving services from bare metal to rootless Podman containers running via quadlets. It’s something I have had in mind for a while but keep second guessing the distro choice. Long-ish release cadence, systemd-networkd and a recent Podman version in the native repos, well supported, and not Ubuntu.

So far openSUSE Leap seems like the winner. A testing machine is up to install everything, write some deployment scripts, and decide on a storage layout and partitioning scheme.

If anyone has another distro to recommend that checks these boxes let me know!

I like rolling release for the desktop, but only want critical patches in any given month for this server, and a major upgrade no more than every 3-4 years. Or an immutable server distro. But it doesn’t seem like networkd is an option for the ones I’ve looked at (Fedora CoreOS, openSUSE MicroOS), and I am not sure if I want to figure out Ignition/Combustion right now.

Next project - VLANs on Mikrotik.

OP - Navepoint makes good racks for reasonable money. I have a Pro series 9u from them and it went together without any problems. It’s on the wall with a pretty big ups in it.

Heck yeah! It should be great in borscht. I would reserve the liquid in the cabbage and use it to add acidity and salt to taste when the soup is done.

I’ll bet a mushroom and rice or barley cabbage roll would be great, if messy. We sometimes make unrolled lazy cabbage rolls. Chopped onion, celery and carrot, cooked in a little oil, add garlic and the chopped protein. Season with salt, pepper and caraway. Add the cabbage or kraut and a splash of beer or water, cover and let steam a bit. Stir and serve when the texture is as you like it. Chopped tomatoes are good on top as a fresh addition.

Whole head of cabbage, right? Probably intended to make cabbage rolls, aka holubky, golubtsi, sarma, etc.

You could also slice it to shreds and make choucroute garnie or any other sauerkraut dish.