Dead simple, you can Google different recipes to get the right proportions of ingredients.

If I remember correctly, last time we made it we did it roughly this way:

1 cup peeled cloves, raw 1/4 tbsp salt 1.5 cups vegetable oil (not olive, has to be neutral flavor) 1/4 c lemon juice

It all needs to be blended together. Different recipes will tell you different ways of doing this. Add them together in small amounts, drizzle the oil in slowly, etc etc. Bah. It’s never worked for us.

If you use a blender, you’ll fail. If you add things at different times, you’ll fail. Or at least we failed.

The trick is to use an immersion blender, and use the special blending cup they give you, which has the diameter of the bottom of the cup matching the diameter of the head of the wand. So it’s real close to the edges down there.

Then add everything to the cup at once, the garlic, salt, oil, and lemon juice.

With the blender off, push the head all the way to the bottom, so it’s sitting in the garlic. Turn on the blender and push down gently until you’re sitting on the bottom. Don’t lift it! Some garlic will make it above the blender, that’s ok, just try to get most of it on that first push down.

Then, SLOWLY, and I mean dang SLOWLY, lift the head blender up. Just barely creeping up, painfully slow. Let the blender work. What this is doing is slowly incorporating the oil into the garlic and whipping it up. Keep slowly raising until you get near the top and stuff starts trying to get messy.

It should be somewhat thick ish on the bottom where you just were. Then you can go to town, start and stop, lift and set the blender up and down, do what you need to do to blend the rest of everything into the thick stuff at the bottom and blend up any large chunks that survived. Blend until everything is a thick smooth consistency, like soft whipped butter maybe. Like hummus almost, but much more spicy.

Then, enjoy!

Best served with chicken shawarma, and some warm pita bread.

The recipe makes a lot, so if you like it, be prepared to share it with friends. Lasts a couple weeks in the fridge.

Have you had toum? It’s so good, and easy to make at home once you figure it out. But figuring it out wasted a lot of good garlic 😑

Soooo good though. Put it on everything. Have to restrain myself or else it upsets my guts.

This is an example of what an Internet service providers network might look like.

They use many different types of specialized computers and devices to connect your house (one of the grey rectangles) to the greater Internet (the yellow rectangle in the middle).

One person is arguing that instead of the Internet service provider owning all of the red green and blue computers… Other people would own them. And maybe the red computer for your neighborhood would physically be inside your neighbor’s house, instead of in a small building or box on the side of the road somewhere nearby.

Functionally, it’s the same Internet, regardless of who owns the red box. Though theoretically, it could be less safe to give random people, potentially bad actors, access to the physical computer that is the red box, because they could do something malicious with it. But the point is, if the technology is working correctly, it doesn’t matter who owns it, everyone’s private home networks (everything downstream of your grey rectangle), are kept separate.

Just like normal Internet, you can’t print on your neighbor’s network printer, just because you both have the same ISP and share the same red computer upstream somewhere. The red computer won’t let it happen.

Does that make sense?

Now, the concern of the other guy, it seems, comes from not understanding this. Not understanding that the red computers are specially configured by the ISP, or whoever owns it, to keep the grey rectangles separate.

What he might be thinking, is something similar to sharing your Wi-Fi password. Or maybe running an Ethernet cable over the fence and plugging your neighbor’s router into your router. Things start to get complicated here, so I’ll gloss over a lot of things, but essentially… Your home router is not configured like the red computers are. So all of your neighbors data would be going through your home network, and you could very likely see what he’s doing, and he could potentially see what you’re doing (provided there’s no double NAT, but even then I’m not sure, maybe).

Basically, if two or more neighbors want to share Internet, but don’t know how to do it safely, then they can expose their private network activity to each other and open each other up to a decent amount of risk.

The solution, is to configure your router in a similar way to the red computers. It’s complicated, but not that difficult in practice. You could Google VLANs to get an idea of what would need to be done. Honestly you’d need more than that, some good firewall rules, and more things that I’m not qualified to comment on. I’m not a networkologist. But it can be done.

The debate/argument stems from a basic misunderstanding of how these systems work. Or perhaps they both understand how they work, but the guy who doesn’t want to do it is just worried about his neighbors being untrustworthy with the hardware being in their house, worried they’ll be nefarious, but he’s just bad at communicating that idea to the other guy.

At any rate, it doesn’t matter who owns the red computers or the green or blue, if they’re configured correctly, you’re safe. Unless you don’t trust whoever owns the computers 🤷‍♂️

Hopefully that makes sense! Let me know if you have any questions!

This. Though theoretically you could do it without CGNAT, maybe some type of complex vlan arrangement? I’m not sure, I’m not a networkologist.

I do know that I just got fiber down my road from a smaller company, still a big multi state company, but not Comcast or charter big. I called them because I was worried about CGNAT for my self hosting. The salesman didn’t know what I was talking about, which is disappointing but not surprising. But they forwarded me to the tech guys, who also claimed to not know what I was talking about… Which was either a downright lie, or they were idiots, either way it’s very concerning.

The price was right though, $5 cheaper per month, for 10 times faster download, and 30 times faster upload. So I gave it a shot. Thankfully I’m not behind a CGNAT, yet 🤞

This is the answer.

If it’s a DC whoop style motor, switch.

If it’s a BLDC with the standard three wires, just swap two of them, pick any two and swap them.