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  • I only use Lineage and have done so for years without any problems since CyanogenMod 10.1.

    Do remember that it is the choice of the developers to use google services and nothing to do with google.

    When you say “Le Chat”, do you mean Mistral AI assistant/chatbot? Its probably stopped working since GPT‑5.

    Currently it is not possible to run “Le Chat” ai on a phone without google,

    Again its the devopers choice. They could develop a non-google Le Chat.

    who on earth needs a chatbot on a phone?

    I have never have any problems finding open source alternative apps.

    MAPS: Comaps, Organic Maps and MagicEarth, all provide Turn by Turn navigation

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn-by-turn_navigation

    I dont use any Banking Apps. Why do you need a banking app? I login to my bank in the comfort and safety of my home.

    Lineage:

    https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

    If you must use google try E/OS. It Uses MicroG and works very well.

    microG is a FLOSS implementation of Google play services

    https://doc.e.foundation/



  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mlOPtoBready@lemmy.world82% poolish ciabatta rolls
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    Hey Vex_Detrause

    good question

    The 82% is the hydration of the dough. Basically, how much water is added.

    also known as “bakers percentage”

    The higher the hydration to wetter and more difficult the dough is to handle.

    The benfits are that you end up with much larger holes in the crumb. As per sourdoughs and classic French and Italian breads.

    you can work out the hydration of any dough by dividing the water by the flour, multiplied by 100.

    1000g flour and 820g water

    python in the terminal

    820/1000 0.82

    0.82*100 82.0

    generally, a basic simple home made loaf will be about 65% hydration.

    1000g flour and 650g water.

    650/1000 0.65

    0.65*100 65.0


  • Hello Leax

    I did recommend them.

    However, I am very biased because I did a lot of training there in the late 90’s.

    I have always found that therapists trained at the Metanioa Institute to be a little more exacting in their approach to therapy.

    I have a look at their training process.

    One of the original founders of the Metanoia Institute was Petruska Clarkson. unfortunately she passed away in 2006. I first met her on a training day where she was teaching protective identification.

    she has written many fabulous books about Transactional Analysis and Gestalt.







  • I have always used either filtered or bottled water for my baking.

    All bakeries I have worked at use filtered water.

    The chlorine and chloramine in tap water are not good for natural yeast and will kill it. Not that good for drinking either.

    I used to keep fish some 20-30 years ago.

    The process back then to top up your aquarium, was to fill a bucket with tap water, and leave it for 24 hour for the chlorine to evaporate.

    This changed with the introduction of chloramine and you now need specialist chemicals to remove the chloramine.

    The introduction of chloramine into our tap water here in the UK came about 30 years or so ago, when a London hospital was overwhelemed with its patients dying of water bourne diseases.

    Initially they could not work out what was causing it. They eventually found that the culprit was the water storage tank on the roof of the Hospital that supplied its water. The stagnant water had developed all sorts of bacteria and viruses.

    So they introduced chloramine.

    Generally though, I do not trust any privatised water company here in the UK. They are more concerned with profits than providing clean water.

    I personally have a black staining sludge forming in my toilet cistern and in the outlet of my taps. It is not clean water.

    So I always only use filtered water for everything.



  • Hello SeductiveTortoise

    Thank you

    Do try this high hydration dough.

    I have specifically adapted it so that other people can get used to high hydration doughs.

    there is no kneading in the recipe, nor any hands on french kneading, which is the main deterrent for new sourdough bakers.

    working with poolish doughs is a great introduction to learning sourdough techniques

    best of luck




  • I have always used either filtered or bottled water for my baking.

    All bakeries I have worked at use filtered water.

    The chlorine and chloramine in tap water are not good for natural yeast and will kill it. Not that good for drinking either.

    I used to keep fish some 20-30 years ago.

    The process back then to top up your aquarium, was to fill a bucket with tap water, and leave it for 24 hour for the chlorine to evaporate.

    This changed with the introduction of chloramine and you now need specialist chemicals to remove the chloramine.

    The introduction of chloramine into our tap water here in the UK came about 30 years or so ago, when a London hospital was overwhelemed with its patients dying of water bourne diseases.

    Initially they could not work out what was causing it. They eventually found that the culprit was the water storage tank on the roof of the Hospital that supplied its water. The stagnant water had developed all sorts of bacteria and viruses.

    So they introduced chloramine.

    Generally though, I do not trust any privatised water company here in the UK. They are more concerned with profits than providing clean water.

    I personally have a black staining sludge forming in my toilet cistern and in the outlet of my taps. It is not clean water.

    So I always only use filtered water for everything.


  • yes, you can still use signal, molly and signal-foss. I have signal on my desktop and some of my family have molly and some signal-Foss.

    The signal servers are primarily hosted on AWS with redundancies on Azure or Google Cloud. Molly and Siganl-FOSS use these too.

    The official Android app generally uses the proprietary Google Play Services, although it is designed to be able to work without them.

    Hence we use the signal-FOSS and Molly on our phones that do not have any google services.

    Like any AOSP rom, Lineage, there are no google play services.

    Its the google firebase that manages push notifications that seems to be the main privacy issue.

    MollySocket allows getting signal notifications via UnifiedPush, not google firebase,

    https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android



  • The baguette trays do help keep the shape, but more importantly, they stop the dough rolling off.

    Over the years making these baguettes I have had many baguette doughs slide off the baking sheet as I slide them into the oven.

    There is no difference in the final bread using a basic oven baking sheet.

    I saw the baguette trays for cheap in TKMax. I think they were £2.50 each.






  • I install a full MX-Linux distro on an old 32Gb usb drive.

    Particularly helpful when family or friends have IT problems.

    I install the latest downloaded distro on a usb with dd:

    sudo fdisk -l

    sudo dd if=MX-23.5_x64.iso of=/dev/sdX status=progress

    The /dev/sdX could be sdb, sdc, sdd, or microsd /dev/nvme0n1

    boot into the live distro F12,

    fully update the live disk.

    set it up as you would your new linux device. network manager, web browser, text editor, email, VPN, etc and any tools you want.

    whatever you change here goes into your new usb distro settings

    once complete, install and run bleachbit as user and as root to clear all the caches and install data.

    install another blank usb into the laptop

    Open MX-Linux tools to create a snapshot

    select Snapshot.

    select a different snapshot directory. use the blank usb you just inserted,

    usually: /dev/sdb

    rename the snapshot to a name of choice.

    once the creation of the snapshot is complete, safely remove the usb drive and shut down the live distro.

    boot into your daily driver.

    Insert the usb drive with the MX-Linux snapshot, and transfer it to a new folder/directory.

    insert the 32Gb usb. format it with gparted, fat32 is fine

    open the folder/directory with the snapshot.iso

    open a terminal

    then install the snapshot onto the usb with dd.

    sudo fdisk -l

    sudo dd if=snapshot.iso of=/dev/sdX status=progress

    The /dev/sdX could be sdb, sdc, sdd, or microsd /dev/nvme0n1

    always double check with:

    sudo fdisk -l