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Cake day: March 16th, 2024

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  • I’ve been wondering about this. I’ve only had this issue with Fedora based distros, but not Ubuntu or Debian based ones. It’s extremely annoying, and the system settings having it on and same with bios don’t do anything. Num Lock is on by default for Mint for example - same system. Even freaking windows.













  • It’s easy to make too, but especially so with that yeast I got from Alzymologist. This is Jar 1 of 2, but you just dissolve the brown sugar cone in boiling water, then let that fully cool down. Then add half a pineapple for this size jar, the yeast, stir, and leave it in a dark place. I manually released the extra gas from it throughout the day, but if you have the money you can get a proper fermenting jar / bucket / lid. You can either strain and filter it fresh to get a bubbly, more sour Chicha, or if you really want to make sure you don’t get vinegar and have it for longer term storage / have it taste sweeter and smoother without the bubbles and no sourness, you put it in a big metal pot with a fully sealed lid, boil it for like a minute, then turn off the heat and leave it in the pot without opening the lid until it’s fully cooled down the next day. That’s why I made 2 jars, to have one of each.




  • I know the smell you mean.

    I think I remember reading it’s produced by some kind of bacteria, similar to petrichor. They’d why it’s strongest in autumn and spring - the wettest seasons that also have cooler temps.

    It smells similar to mountain jungle, just more fresh and less sweet, and I remember that same book saying that different wet regions have different distinctive smells because of the soil bacteria.

    This was about 20 years ago, so I don’t remember the title of the book at all, but maybe searching for that can help.

    It could be, if it is soil bacteria, they hang out more around birch than other trees.

    If this is the case though, it would probably take a couple years of planting many to get the smell near your house strongly, though I imagine using forest soil near birch would help speed up the process.

    You could probably also test if this is the source by disturbing some forest soil with a shovel to see if it momentarily intensifies, maybe 🤔