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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I’d start over. A mobo, decent CPU, lots of ram for ZFS, and a used LSI storage adapter from eBay would get you far on a budget. USB won’t have the performance or reliability and you’d need a handful of drives to make it worth it. You could install an M2 SATA adapter, I don’t know if it would even work, and drive drives with it but they would still need power and you couldn’t put the case back together without cutting holes in it.






  • Half the time I try to go look at comment replies lemmy.world is being difficult, I was able to reply to your comment on my other post the other day but then I couldn’t get this one to load…

    These cigars are fine. So far they’ve all been well constructed, and they’re not the best but there are certainly not the worst, which is why I was okay with buying a box of them, I don’t mind smoking a couple through the week out on the back deck. As far as notes go I don’t get a lot, but I do get some sort of a nut, I don’t know if it’s a walnut or what but it makes me think of a nutty flavor. I don’t know if it’s just my pallet or what but I can’t really get more descriptive than that.



  • Medium bodied, I get notes different woods and it reminds me of the same as when I smoke some lighter meats with stronger wood like hickory. I have had the swamp rat, somebody sent one in a trade a long time ago. I remember it being similar overall at first but then there were some distinct differences I couldn’t pin down to a flavor.





  • Hah - I’ve got one in my Pit Boss as I type this. The best thing about a pork shoulder as the first smoke is that it smokes for a while and gets a good first seasoning in the smoker. I’ve always heard an hour to an hour and a half per pound, I usually plan on the longer side and then if it’s done early wrap it in foil and then beach towels and throw it in a cooler and let it rest until I’m ready, the foil-beach towel-insulated cooler combination keeps it hot.