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Let's keep posting our treasure hauls, to spite the americans.

So I've been completely out of the waters for years but the way things are nowadays I have to sail again the high seas.

But to where?

Are there any general purpose torrent search engines like there used to be?

I need/slash want to build a few pieces of furniture for my house.

After visiting a shop, I had the carpenter go on a long tirade on how my choice on OSB was poor, when compared to the standard plywood the shop uses for their work, being weaker and not as "clean" looking.

We personally like OSB, here. We already have a few pieces and the rough look of the material is our style.

But is it really a poorer choice when compared to plywood?

The next project will be a bookcase and it will have to withstand a heavy load.

I brought a small strip of plywood home with me, as a sample. The material is made up of five layers. If necessary, I can upload a picture later.

I intend to use 15mm material for the sides of the boxes that will compose the bookcase, with 9mm for the back. These specifications exist for OSB; on plywood, I was told the closest is 13mm and 6mm.

Can someone share some advice and knowledge in what can be the better choice to build this project?

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Bake Time: 1 hour 10 minutes

Ingredients

4 egg whites 
3/4 Cup [400g] heavy cream 
4 1/2 Cups [1000g] Quark (plain)
4 egg yolks 
3/4 Cup [150g] sugar 
1/4 Cup [50g] vanilla sugar 
1/2 Cup [70g] corn starch 
4 TBSP lemon juice 

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F/175C.
Beat heavy cream to stiff peaks using a hand or stand mixer with the whisk attachment. Set aside.
Separate eggs and set egg yolks aside.
Beat egg whites to stiff peaks using a hand or stand mixer with the whisk attachment. Set aside.
Add Quark, sugar, vanilla sugar, egg yolks, lemon juice, and corn starch to a medium sized mixing bowl. Sitr to combine using a whisk.
Carefully fold the heavy cream and then the egg whites into the batter.
Pour batter into a prepared springform pan.
Bake cheesecake for 60-70 minutes. If it starts turning too brown, cover with foil.
Turn off oven, open the door a little, and let the cheesecake sit for another 10-15 minutes.
Take cheesecake out of oven and let cool.
Cover and store cheesecake in the fridge for up to a week.
Serve with a side of whipped cream or fresh berries.

I'm torn between being shitty food porn or crimes against humanity food.

Cast your vote.

P.s.

Next, I think I'm going to try the None Pizza With Side Beef

In this dream of mine, there was an issue with zombies. Not the conventional undead fare but people that carried a disease that made them attack those who didn't carried it.

The strangest part is that these zombies would attempt to season their potential meals with salt and pepper before the first bite. And it was possible to snap the potential cannibal from their frenzied state by slapping them hard enough.

I woke half terrified and half face palming, undecided if I should laugh or question my sanity.

I'm not an horror movie fan. Why would my brain come up with this sort of plot for a dream?

I have an Athlon 3000G (YD3000C6FHBOX/YD3000C6M2OFH) I'm trying to pair with a Gigabyte AB350M-DASH.

I've assembled the pair, connected to a 750W PSU, but I get no video signal output. The system doesn't POST, nor does it return any error signal.

It isn't a RAM error issue as the system doesn't change behaviour with or without the stick.

Can anyone offer some suggestion on this issue? I'm already considering buying an error code external reader, as the board seems to have a dedicated por for it.

For the first time in my life, I find myself writting in my head a list of goals I want to achieve next year. Some are mundane, some are harder to achieve. I thought about sharing that list here.

Please consider sharing yours as well. Consider it like sharing ideas, something to push others in to thinking about small things they can do as well just because they can.

Now, without further ado:

The List

• survive

A reminder from j4k3. Should always be a priority.

• renew my entire fleet of hand tools and, if money allows it, some power tools

I have lot of maintenance chores, renovations and improvements to do around the house and my current tool stock is essentially shot, so...

• start making furniture for my house

Have you seen the price furniture goes for these days? I have a carpentry shop nearby willing to look at my doodles and work out the details with me and make the rough cutting of the big pieces that require precision tools for it. I'll have to take care of the rest.

• put together a cook book with my partner

This just came to me/us the other day.

Throughout this year, we shared with a good number of people food from our table. We are not foodies nor trained chefs, we just enjoy having good, tasty, healthy food. Many people told us they could never make what we cook daily and a few even told us we should open a place of our own. Because we're not that insane yet, the book will do.

No publishing intention: it will be about putting together a collection of recipes anyone can follow and share it. All inclusive.

• paint the freaking walls

• finish that computer tech course

I've been playing with computers for twenty+ years. Now I want my know-how recognized. And on this I have money tied and a deadline!

• write my own first book (romance, with raunchy bits)

Or should I say just put it together? I write my fantasies basically since I was taught to put letters together to form words. My biggest flaw is that I'm my worst critic and I drop draft after draft. Well... it needs to end.

• work with my dogs

I have two, very over reactive dogs. Of the big kind, that are constantly fighting each other for no reason. I need to do something to counter this.

• get back on working on my plot of land

That place is a fire hazard and I want to start growing my own food again.

• read more books

As an added incentive to culture and reading habits: support an online ebook repository, download and keep offline copies of as many books you can manage. Culture is the worst enemy of bigotry and ignorance.

So many lost or misplaced. Others damaged, broken or worn out. I really need to get new tools. I have so many things to do around the house.

I'm going to put that on my New Year Goals List.

I find myself often putting small details into my stories that come straight from my life experience: a car model, a location, a reference to a book or a movie... small details that make the story feel more connected and help me dive into it.

Do you do this as well? And do you keep those things in your work or do you anonimize or erase those little details, when you give others your work to read?

Here is my problem: I have an old house - nearly 100 years old - that I need to insulate but I have a few problems and concerns I need to deal with. The walls are essentially stone and an old kind on solid cement block.

I've been looking into the insulation solutions available in my market and it is basically a matter of gluing thick boards of styrofoam-like material to the walls.

On the outwalls this is not feaseable as the house faces a road with no sidewalk, so I'd be encroaching onto the road. Inside, adding 5cm of insulation would make small rooms smaller to the point some would be, for all practical purposes, rendered into generous pantries.

Because I live in a somewhat rural area, mice and rodents are a concern, so adding materials they can chew through makes no sense. It would be like supplying an easy to move through medium to run the entire house. I have seen houses and buildings with this kind of insulation chewed into, the moment the smallest of pieces of the hard plaster gets cracked, which is very easy. The added fire hazard is a concern as well, I'll admit.

I've already seen cork insulation but the base color is always brown and does not deal well with being painted on.

What other options may I look into? I'm in southern Europe but in an area with harsh winters.