You can actually buy a peanut crushing machine! I don’t have one, and I can’t honestly see that anyone would want to go through the botheration of cleaning and maintaining but hey to each their own!

For me there’s a bulk food center that sells stuff out of bins by weight, and they provide the crushers for a minor extra charge, I believe it’s 11 cents extra per 100g

Every once in awhile I run out of peanut butter, but because I actually always have roasted unsalted peanuts, if I need to I can just bust them up or smosh them in my cast iron mortar and pestle

You can just bash some on a cutting board with a hard heavy thing… The little smashed up nuggets are amazing on different things like rice noodles, as a topping for curries, some salads

One of my favorite uses for peanut butter, and you only need like a tablespoon, is mix it in with a little bit of beef broth out of a box, mix in the peanut butter, some Thai chilies or whatever heat you like, spices to taste, and then you can parboil some potatoes and finish them in that sauce and it’s like this crazy… like dude just try it

I love peanuts so much!

Edit: I forgot to mention I was eating peanuts while typing this comment

essentially a three star Michelin drink and meal

What the fuck are you talking about. It’s sugar water and hot candy.

Pro tip: crush roasted unsalted peanuts and have real peanut butter. You have no idea what you’re missing. The peanut butter sold in most places is hydraulically fractured, then the peanut oil is reserved and replaced with inferior soybean. Crushed (not fractured) peanut butter does not separate, and it is breathtakingly versatile in cooking!

Cool! 200 Watt RMS/ch yoooooooo

My 2nd experience, which happened to be headphones as well - a wired set of B&W I got for $2 because the cable frayed.

I’m on board with you there about the “displacement” idea. With engines technology can help, but with audio all the wave guides, custom boxes and tomfoolery in the world can’t get around physics. Bigger = better.

edit: re your edit. A big part of how I do … things… is to be patient and let them come into my life. Having been able to pick up so much crazy gear for pennies means I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night if I paid retail or even used prices. When the “bug” was first starting to bite me I decided to buy a used sub for $100 which was still a deal. I nearly cried when I saw the exact sub at thrift for $9. But hey, sold the one I bought and moved on so no issue. But yeah… I don’t have the money to buy everything I’d like but I’m becoming aware of what’s good and what’s not, and I enjoy the “saving” or “free” aspect very much. Plus I get to keep the constant upgrade cycle going and make a bit of side cash too.

What was that “holy crap I didn’t know what good audio was” moment for you?

High quality audio equipment.

Yes, it’s an area filled with more snake-oil and bullshit than any other technical realm I’ve experienced, but with some knowledge (unarguably required on the part of the user) you can actually figure stuff out and get some ROCKING audio gear for pennies on the dollar.

Last year I got into electronic fix/build/mashup as a hobby, and a project I had in mind for fun was to turn a $10 Sirius Boombox that needed 8xD batteries and a wired AUX input, into a wireless BT boombox. I did it and it was fun as hellllllll. But it was not for the audio, it was for the learning. I repurposed battery cells and a charging board from a Shark handheld vacuum, and grabbed a BT board out of a scrapped shower speaker - made that work by “bolting it” onto a disposable vape battery/charger which draws from the main battery pak.

Well anyways… getting a taste of that deep, rich, penetrating audio made me realize I’d been sold THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LIE by the speaker business. That moment of looking at my Bose SoundLink and realizing I’ve been a fool for so long. The stupid Sirius boombox isn’t even that good now that I look back, but at the moment it was a HOLY SHIT moment for me. Running up to it thinking my music was distorting… but NO… it was actually musical details I’d never heard, and didn’t know existed.

Now I have a soul-destroying audio setup (for a small 1BR apartment) that I shit you not, cost me a total of $23. RXV581 Receiver, YST-SW011 Subwoofer and two Polk MXT11 Monitor tower speakers. People either discarded, sold, or donated. I got the Yamaha Receiver/Sub set because… get this… ONE of the surround sound speakers was dropped and it’s case cracked, so they threw it ALL away. The Polks were seen at thrift, first for $70 each, then reduced to $34 after a month… then one day muthafukkaaaaaaa $10 each plus tax.\

So yeah. Good audio. I had NO idea how satisfying it could be. I didn’t know what I’d been missing.

Unpopular opinion time: Virtually nothing. Lemmy is, from the end-user perspective, just another Reddit clone filled with the same idiots as Reddit, posting the exact same bullshit as is posted on Reddit.

The only reason I can tolerate this format of interaction has been to have a policy of blocking at least 1 imbecile per day. It actually helps, try it. Block me if you think I’m a loudmouth idiot.

Ah yes, the very first lesson I’d teach in my multimedia ‘authoring’ class: Back your shit up, here’s 11 ways to do that; if you EVER tell me you lost your work as an excuse I’m going to LAUGH IN YOUR FACE as I assign you a ZERO.

Don’t put rocks near fire, especially wet rocks, they can explode

edit: I love that there’s some crying piss-ass following me and downvoting all my stuff. Whatever I said to hurt your feelings: GOOD!

I go back to the BBS days on my 300 baud modem… there’s never been a fruitful discussion on the Internet. We’re all just here to waste time. (e: even those who put forth good-faith effort)

I just graduated and I don’t know my ass from a hole in the ground! Why am I not CEO?

I’m just here to point out that I look down upon everybody, as I have some arbitrary consideration in my mind that makes me and the things I think, more next-levelier than all of you and what you like

Thank for saying this, and also nice to meet you, fellow roadside and bin scrapper!

I’m here to say that I figured out “stomp on the stoop when you hear the funk loop”. It took me 30 years.

A lot of time people comment on their own life as a youth, not really understanding the fucked up parts were in fact, fucked up.

I didn’t know that the insane shit my parents put me through wasn’t normal life for everybody else. Took me well into my 20’s to figure it out and even though I’m 50, I am still re-discovering memories that remind me just how fucked-up my life was back then. Re-connecting with my sister after 2 decades of estrangement due to family dysfunction and addiction, new realizations are still unfolding for me.

The dad bod is in

Among fat chicks. Healthy women want healthy men.

edit: up/down ratio is PERFECTLY in line with general obesity rates, as I expected, as is ALWAYS the case when I whisper any notion about how being overweight/obese isn’t really a good thing

We don’t need to talk about any of these things.

I have always understood the rough side to simply be an outcome of the rolling process.

If I’m wrong I’d love to know!

edit: I looked it up, yeah that’s the reason one side is shinier… the rolling process, nothing else

Clueless.

Women are insanely violent and abusive to men, just not so much physically.

It’s not, but when the subject matter is hyperbolic fantasy that’s not in line with reality, it doesn’t really go anywhere.