It's been a while since I've used F-Droid but I think you just go in and update them... not a whole lot different but maybe a little less automated. Then again it's been a little while.

Oh good idea. I love my gadgets, I never would have thought I would have so many fun toys as an adult!

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Your referring to the orange oil not the diatomaceous, correct?

You can't fight a battle if you don't make it to the battlefield. Someone I must think is smart or something is known to say "Don't let perfect be the enemy of the done."/good/progress.

I'd imagine they need to comply with laws or they will be made irrelevant. Get the lawyers to fight that fight, but in the mean time we can push for the hearts and minds of those whom which we can find a common ground; keep moving forward together.

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Haha. Good laugh. Even more absurd is that most of those are interchangeable other than the shape of the port it fits. I looked through my bin of chargers and what not for a 24v and I must have 100 12v with some differences in amperage but mainly they might as well be the exact same with various strange shapes attached to the end of the cord. For a moment I wondered if I could strip two 12v and connect them together to the 24v fan assuming the amps were not too low. Then I realized I have no idea what I am talking about. Time for me to learn some more about basic electronics!

These things are like those hummingbirds that have evolved to have beaks/tongues that only fit one particular flower in all the rain forest. Same bird, but needs a different power source (lmao).

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This is your economy... ::SIZZLE::. This is your economy on drugs. Any questions? 🤯🤯🤯

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I just spent part of my morning filling ant hills with diatomaceous earth and packing it in, and one hole I left open and spread d.earth all around it thinking they would carry it into the colony. They freaked out when I put it down but when I went back an hour later they were back to business. Looks like I will need some orange oil and a kids BBQ cup to continue the struggle... best of luck - let us know how it goes!

10$ a truck load? I love that price. I pay 40$ for a cubic yard which is most of a truckload. There are several landscaping companies that are local that allow you to sign up for a free truckload of mulch but it sounds like it can take months before they get to me. Beautiful pictures!

Notes...posts...tweets... chirps, burps and drunk commenting - they all are permanent, but in the case of non-NOSTR social media your data may not be permanently accessible by you (I'm banned from Facebook and lost access to messages, contacts, etc) but all that data still lives on as marketing fodder and vast dossiers.

X Files is a great show! I can't get my significant other to give it a shot though.

Honestly my favorite way to decompress is working in the garden, so I guess it depends on what made your week long. My long weeks are sitting at a computer for 40 hours so I'm dying to get my hands in the soil after that. Of coarse, I do also adhere to the bong beer binge protocol as well!

still watering them... no sign of life yet. I have had a bag of seeds in the fridge or freezer, I can't remember but I'm going to dig them out and try planting them too since apparently it helps to get them cold before they sprout.

I was wondering what happened to reddit. That sucks! GO NOSTR! Nows our chance to take the Reddit segment.

I don't get it, what are you saying?

I forgot to mention that I crushed it before putting it in my compost pile. I just put it in the tin can and smushed it down with some kinda metal rod or something. It was quite easy however I may have found one or two larger pieces that didn't break easy so I threw them in the pit for next time

First biochar burn:

I found some cans of coffee that came in metal cans, which seem pretty rare these days. I found a regular sized and a smaller one so I just tried it out to make biochar.

I just went ahead and made some holes at the top and bottom, for secondary and primary air, but after going through it I would say they are probably too small.

Filled the small one with small sticks and put it upside down inside the bigger one.

I filled the bigger one completely with sticks and set it ablaze with a torch. It was going pretty well for a bit but I'm pretty sure it wasn't able to pull in enough oxygen.

I ended up just putting the whole thing in my fire put and built a fire around it. I also placed a brick on top of the small one to hold it down hoping to hear some gasses escape, which I believe I heard some but it wasn't like I've seen in videos online.

This was the end result, a decent amount of biochar for the small can. It sounds like glass I would say, the black washes off of my hands quite easily, and I know I achieved very high temperatures, high enough anyways. I used a laser heat gun and got 600 degree F and above right around the can and I let it burn for a good while.

I also made sure to quench it down the sides to blast steam up through the biochar. I am told this opens up the pores really well and makes it better biochar.

I then dumped it on top of my lazy mans compost pile and turned it in. I plan on letting it hang out in there for several weeks to a month or more, whenever I get around to digging out my hugelkultur beds. I have a large collection of wood, and I have been setting aside the bottoms, the parts that look like they have had some breaking down/fungal activity and then some new stuff: a real nice mix. Then I was planning on putting that whole pile of compost in with it.

Next time I will be doing a much bigger burn. I am trying to decide on the technique. I have a 55 gallon drum that is about 3/4 full mesquite, palo verde, pine, ironwood, etc, cut into nice sized pieces ready for use in my next burn.

What have you all used and what gave you the best results? I have been interested in the tin man idea for a long time and wanted the stove pipe top but it seems people get really good results with TLUD's and cone kilns etc. I just like that once you hear that syngas coming out and the fire whooshing then you know the process is working, and I think it seems like you could be very sure that all of the matter inside the smaller drum was pyrolyzed completely.

Thanks for reading!

From The Cholla Co.mmunity Secret Activities Committee

#biochar #grownostr #gronostr #zap #zapathon #gardening #liberty #chollaco #secretactivitiescommittee #composting

We both have double ll's in our names, but you have three total, and so I'm jealous

I slept too late and so I "had" to call into work and take the day off, so I slept in and then did a lot of work on the growing setup, did some stuff around the house, spent time in the yard with the plants and dog, and now I'm going to make a couple posts to nostr and make pickled purslane just in time to not really get any sleep before work. Yay! LOL How about yourself?

Removing metadata from photos

Metadata is extra information, in this case attached to a photo, which describes many things, some of which may be the location the photo was taken, specific information about the device, etc. If for some reason you don't want that information accessible publicly you can remove it.

In linux you can use exiftool -ALL= *.jpg for example to remove metadata from all jpg files in that folder. In windows you can go to the file properties and delete it, but save a copy for yourself because when you have that personal, specific information about the photo, I believe you could use that to give considerable evidence that the photo is in fact yours, if that is something you would be interested in protecting.

Just a random thought while I remove metadata from my photos that maybe not everyone who would want to know that, does, so hopefully that helps someone. Obviously you can search the internet for more information.

#privacy #random #grownostr #security #technology #zap #zapathon #chollaco