Honestly I've posted more to Lemmy in the last couple days than I have on Reddit in the last 8 years - it's easier because Lemmy feels like a smaller place... Like announcing yourself to a small room of people vs getting on a soapbox on a crowded main street.

Also omitted - the amount of speculative buying for planned capacity that never actually happens. I worked for one of the big tech companies for several years, and more specialized hardware especially (ML accelerators) were spun up with the notion of "we don't know who will need these, but we don't want to not have them if they're needed". Cue massive amounts of expensive hardware sitting plugged in and idle for months as dev teams scramble to adopt their stuff to new hardware that has just enough difference in behavior and requirements as to make it hard to migrate over.

Also also, there's a bunch of "when in doubt, throw it out" - automated systems detecting hardware failure that automatically decommission it after a couple strikes. False positive signals were common, so a lot gets thrown out despite being perfectly fine.

I'd never heard of passivation before - thanks, will definitely do that before my first attempt.

Rad. Thanks for the correction :)

I only use iodophor and sometimes hot steam, so I think I should be ok. Good to know some chemicals will etch it though

What a nice duck! Lemmy absolutely needs more duck pics :)

It's from a spool I bought a few years ago - but I do have a project involving a heat gun strapped to a leaf blower that I'll be sharing once it's a bit further along :D

Cool - I avoid acids for cleaning, mostly just use iodophor and steam

I do brew mead sometimes - I'll probably be switching between mead, beer, and wine over time. Do you think those flavors will start carrying over between batches? I've had pretty good luck so far with plastic, and I'm hoping stainless is fine as well since it's a harder material.

What do you normally do for secondary with mead? I could get a glass carboy, but I hear those are prone to shatter when moved...

Strong agree - but IMO this sounds like a request for the Lemmy devs, not for Beehaw.

Maybe try opening an enhancement request at https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues ? That's probably more likely to be acted on vs posting here.