Yeah, it tastes pretty different. It's either the carbonation or the fact each SodaStream is haunted by the thousands of people killed and displaced for settlers to put a factory in the West Bank. 50/50 on which is a bigger factor

If you want it to taste as close to identical as possible, you can usually find name brand bag in box syrups if you search around. So I guess in theory you should be able to get the same taste as real fountain soda. Idk how that compares to bottled though. I had a box of dr pepper syrup which made great tasting dr pepper.

A little bit. The carbonation and syrup amount changes each time you make it. But overall it's the same idea.

My skoolie is semi-usable, basically just needs the utilities (electric, propane and water) hooked up. I bought a house two years ago and that has suspended work on the bus completely. Someday ...

I actually did the paint job myself. Bought an old saw that needed some new paint, so I decided to have some fun with it.

I'm actually working on a PhD in the field. Whether that officially makes me a "scientist" I cannot say. But I have actually studied and done research in the field. Ask away!

$75, and it works. Well ... worked, it's being weird now, but I'm sure it's mechanical, I just haven't gotten to looking at it.

If you manage to find one, there's a modification you can do to it so that it will also take US quarters. Mine seems to have already had that modification before I got it, so I can't say how involved it is, but I don't think it's too hard.

I've not seen freely available software to split such a workload across multiple machines, but realistically if I did I'd be looking at less performance that if I just got a single used datacenter card (like one of the Nvidia Tesla cards) off eBay for the same price and popped it into a computer, or if I got a single much more modern server.

I can however cluster them in fun ways for redundancy! Most hypervisors support clustering so that VMs can be migrated to another host if one needs to be taken offline for anything, or if one unexpectedly powes off the others will continue the workload. Or clustered storage where it spreads the storage across multiple hosts for redundancy as well as speed. I definitely want to get some of those old 25GB or even some of those 40GB infiniband cards and run a glusterFS or Ceph cluster to really see what clustered storage can do (I ran a Ceph cluster in a lab in college but it was over a gigabit network so everything was painfully slow)

But those projects will account for only about a dozen computers at most, so I have to find more projects and more willing people to have these systems foisted upon

Most likely, yes. I think most people do end up finding one or two smaller boards' worth of "unicorn barf," which is to say everything is the right shape and 95-99% have the right thing written on them, but the colors are totally random and visually jarring. I also have a few ideas that might benefit from some of the weirder caps, (like a big square that uses four keybaord switches... people seem to end up with some of those) and occasionally you'll land on something that someone in the hobby actually does need and you can help them out. A lot of it is simply indulging a certain need to examine and categorize.

Lol let's go.

Tea is easy to pretend it isn't a vice. Just keep telling yourself its healthy. Even if it may be a bit more borderline at our levels lol.

Thanks for asking :) WARNING: I got excited to respond. I've gotten into a Puerh kick lately. For those that don't know, Puerh is a very dark fermented tea. My current one taste predominantly like leather with a hint of wood and dirt. High quality dirt. I adore this tea.

I've got a huge white2tea.com sampler order that hasn't been shipped yet. I'm trying like 21 different teas spread across the following categories: white, ripe puerh, raw puerh, haungpain.

FYI haungpain is known as "Farms Tea". It uses broken leaves and leaves lower on the tea plant that were/are considered lower quality. But I hear the lower leaves have a nice robust flavor, and most tea I buy tends to avoid the lower leaves. I'm excited to try it.

I'm thinking of reviewing all the tea I get posting them all on the tea community or something.

Coke Zero is a newer diet option formulated to taste similar to original Coke, with the presence of a mild artificial sweetener flavor that is more recognizable to those who are sensitive to the taste. Diet Coke, on the other hand, was created decades before they had decent sweeteners. While it still has a sizable following of people who like it, Diet Coke tastes nothing like original Coke, and has a flavor more akin to the smell of hot plastic.

This is pretty consistent across all brands now, at least from those that I've tried so far. The new Zero versions are much, much closer to the original formulas.

Coke Zero is the formula marketed to males who do not want to be on a "diet".

It's got some extra flavor extracts as far as I can tell; a more robust and "spicy" taste v Diet Coke

Agreed, and your wording is excellent.

He's an advocate for spending where it brings you value (and only you can decide that), and aggressively cutting out the things that don't.

That's an excellent way to put it! Sometimes I feel like a weirdo for actually pursuing the things that bring me happiness. Like that makes me the eccentric one. So many seem to be on a boring yet miserable autopilot, trying get the things they've been taught they SHOULD want.

Yeah those Moog's are insane. But the Behringer clones are also super nice. And imo nothing beats the sound of an analog synth. With those new Behringer clones you also have a USB connection supporting midi, so you can mix them very well with any DAW.

No I don't have money for the real ones. I mostly have Behringer clones.

The diagram of the new (imho way better) Version is quite a bit more complex, but you should get the point.

How do you interact with the UI? Well, every flashlight has a button. This is your input. And you have the LEDs which you can use as an output/feedback. Yeah, it's wild.

https://github.com/ToyKeeper/anduril