Guenther_Amanita 🍄

A weirdo doing weird things on the internet.

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  • Good advice, how do I add more than one image here? Maybe I just don’t know what I’m doing.

    No problem at all, Lemmy can be confusing sometimes :)

    What you did is selecting the header picture or link, which is only possible for one URL.
    You can click the image button on the text formatting menu and then select one or more images (I believe GIFs are also possible?) and the attach them in the text box.

    Sure you can let me know what you think about it, though to be completely honest, it was her ideas that I just implemented, but I’d love to make it better.

    You don’t have to alter anything to the design.

    I personally would only increase the height of the saucer edge, because when you water the plants, everything will else leak on your table or whatever it’s standing on. You can achieve that by just stretching the Z axis in your slicer, and that might save you from a mess :)

    Also, I guess the plastic might leak too over time because of small holes in it, and the potting soil maybe won’t hold onto enough water, so it drips.
    It will also decompose and stain everything brown or black.

    Maybe coat the saucer with wax or so.

    You could maybe switch to something based on sphagnum moss or coco with a bit of perlite. They will be more inert and hold more water.

    The plant choice you made couldn’t be better! Those succulents will be very strong and survive everything.


  • You should really add the picture frames into the post here, seriously. Or maybe shoot a few great ones and attach them.
    On the picture here I only thought “Cute!” but not much more, but when I saw the video… Damn! Not clicking on the link would be a shame guys!

    It really comes to life. The light gets shattered almost like a diamond, and you see how well it fits together.

    You really did not only a great job designing it, but also printing it with that supreme quality and shiny finish!

    And shame to the dumb fart breathing donkey bitch that ripped you off.
    I also had to learn that lesson myself the hard way. Always offer your price first, and only then start the project. Even if it’s for a friend. Then it has the price of one bottle of cold beer.

    Do you also want to hear criticism about what comes after printing? Or are you completely happy with it?

    Cheers! 💚


  • 1. Distro choice

    I would recommend you either Aurora or Bluefin.
    Both are pretty much the same, but differ in their desktop environment.

    Traditionally, Gnome (Bluefin) always has been the champion in terms of being tablet-like, but from what I’ve heard, KDE has surpassed Gnome in terms of how well it works as a tablet UI.

    You can install the one or the other, and then later “rebase” to the other variant without needing to reinstall anything if you want to try the “competitor” or if you’re unhappy.

    This basically switches out the base system, but your installed apps and pictures are decoupled and kept. Like just doing a big update :D

    Why do I recommend you exactly that, and not just base Fedora or Kubuntu or whatever?

    Simple - you need to install the linux-surface kernel (and stuff), because without it, nothing will work, no stylus, no sleep, no battery, basically nothing.

    But said modified kernel is nothing ordinary, and might shit itself randomly.

    Not only would you have to install everything by hand, which was a task that not only let me return to Windows once, but twice as Linux noob! It also causes a lot of headache when you have to spend your evening fixing it via CLI or whatever.

    Here uBlue comes handy: you can “fix” your system with just one click.

    • Smort silica rock not thinking?
    • Grub says “NØ” after system update?
    • Me not care, me pressing space while booting, me selecting yesterday image, me watching YouTube when eating because me don’t care, knowing that dev daddy is already working on fix that ship tomorrow.

    You don’t even have to do manual updates or whatever, everything is done in the background for you, just like on your smartphone.

    You have to select the “I have a Surface device” option, and then everything comes pre-bundled and (hopefully) just werks™

    2. Note taking and PDFs

    I don’t know 🤷

    3. SD card

    🤷

    4. Stylus

    I believe KDE is better, because it has many wacom tablet input settings and features, but I sold that crappy Surface ages ago when Gnome was the obvious choice. The 🤷 also applies here I guess, because it was two years ago and felt like a completely different age compared to today.


  • I actually enjoy both types of gardening, because they’re basically complete opposites with entirely different pros and cons.

    I find that hydroponics teaches you everything about plants, but the living soil stuff teaches you everything about nature.

    Hydro gets you into tune with the plant, and you understand its’ needs and how it functions and reacts, and balcony gardening with dirt is all about understanding relationships between insects, funghi, bacteria, pests, symbiosis, and more.

    Hydroponics is actually really easy imo, easier than dirt. Aquaponics on the other hand is an entirely different discipline…


  • Thanks for your help!

    I think one of the most important pieces is to figure out where the slugs are coming from, because there’s no benefits to a barrier if all the slugs are already inside of it.

    I already know that. I practice both hydroponics AND organic no-till gardening.
    I probably got a few slug eggs from somewhere, which hatched and then spreaded like crazy.

    Over the day, they crawl into the soil, live there and lay their eggs in it, because it’s very rich and healthy dirt with a huge lot of hiding spots under the mulch and cover crops.

    And in the night, they crawl out and feast on my LECA containers, which is a perfect hiding spot because it’s constantly moist and has gaps in it.

    Also, the floor covering is shaded and slightly moist, also providing great shelter.

    But there’s almost nothing I can do about it :(

    On the bright side, at least it’s a great hiding spot for the predatory insects too, like spiders or centipedes :)

    Go out at night, particularly if it’s a humid night with a flashlight.

    I did that for weeks daily for a hour every evening. There were literally >100 slugs per square meter, if not more. I gave up on it.

    If you can squash all that you see, or drop them in a bucket of soapy water

    I first tried table salt, which makes them explode due to osmotic pressure. But I quickly got afraid this also salts my soil.

    What works extremely well is alcohol, especially disinfectant spray. One spray, and they’ll explode. They’ll also not slime as much as with salt or other methods.

    9,5/10, very satisfying.

    Some people use crushed eggshells as they apparently don’t like those sharp edges.

    They crawled over thorn bushes in front of my eyes. They absolutely don’t give a flying shit.
    Not even copper bands worked.

    Another method i use is to place scrap boards on top of the soil around my plants. That makes good hiding places for the slugs during the day. Then you can just flip the boards during the day and kill all the slugs.

    One of the most useful tips I’ve ever read. I didn’t try that one yet, but it sounds great.

    Thank you a lot stranger! 💚


  • i am not into gardening much, but your photos look great. You seem to have a good microscope, maybe you can buy some stains (not very expensive unless you buy good stuff to quantise) and even do some charecterisation.

    Thanks! 💚 Most of the pictures were just shot in macro mode on my phone, I’m a bit ashamed to admit it 😄
    But I do have a microscope too, and the pics of the springtails were shot with it.

    What stains do you recommend?
    I believe I have Methylene blue lying around somewhere, maybe that might be useful for a living-dead-characterization?

    But to be honest, I didn’t think much about looking up the stuff under the microscope, because I was pretty sure it was mold. I think you can even see the hyphae on the colony on the picture.

    From what I got, you have a mildly basic master batch, which you dilute.

    My fertiliser is a two-part solution. I mix them with demineralised water, and the final diluted solution has a pH of 6,2-ish, without pH adjuster. But I didn’t test it with the part A solution, which is the one that got moldy. It is probably moderately acidic.

    […] Adding Peroxide/ other oxidizers

    Not a big fan of that idea. On the first glance it makes sense, but my arguments against that are:

    1. I highly doubt that the fertilizer is resistant against bleach. There are quite a few chelated minerals in it, and I’m sure that they will get destroyed or at least precipitate out of solution. And
    2. Even though mycorrhizae (and bacteria) are not remotely as important in hydroponics as they are in soil, I still highly value a healthy ecosystem of healthy microbes, that keep the bad guys at bay. If I add a oxidizing agent to the nutrient solution, it will kill a lot, mainly the good guys. And then bad things, like root rot, happen.

    I’m now trying to mitigate that problem by pressure cooking small batches (a bunch of 200 ml bottles instead of 1 liter) and keeping them sealed until use, which will only last a week or so until used up.

    My bigger question is, is this growth really problematic or not

    It is. In hydroponics, everything should be as clean as possible. Not sterile-clean, but at least not full of slime or dirty.
    If there is (too much) organic contamination, it will attract pests. And those specs are organic matter, and I already got the spring tail infestation from it, as I already mentioned in the post.

    Regarding worms: I also have a few pots with organic soil (no-till, cover crops, etc.) outside, with a very healthy ecosystem, and an absolute shit ton of earth worms. If they would be a tiny bit bad for plant health, I would consider them as infestation :D I’m glad they aren’t.

    After a rain fall and temperature drop in early winter, there were literally hundreds, if not thousands, crawling around on my super small balcony, just from the three pots or so!

    Again, I am a gardening noob, and not a chemist, so what I may have said may as well be shit, please feel free to correct me.

    Please! You sound both like a chemist AND someone with gardening experience. You seem to already have quite a lot of knowledge, keep going on! 😊











  • You did everything right. Boot into the image that works, and then apply rpm-ostree rollback. This reverses the broken image and the working one, so you’ll boot into this one the next time you boot up until you change something in the order, e.g. by updating.

    In the meantime, wait a day or so and then update again.

    On what channel are you on? bazzite:latest or bazzite:stable?