Notices by Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org), page 7

Upgrade to #diaspora #0900 seems to have worked!

#kerryking #slayer #motleycrue #music #humor

#strawberry #flower #gardening

As a total novice potato farmer I have a bit of a mystery as to why these two results are so different. The plants in the two photos were only planted days apart, and have had equal sun and water, but the results are starkly different. Granted, there are a few important variables at play.

Both planters were started by filling them half way to the top with homemade compost. I then placed two seed potatoes on the surface of each and filled the planters up to the top. The one with the lush growth was topped with more of my own compost and mulched with straw. The one with the poor growth was topped with expensive bagged manure compost and mulched with dead leaves. Finally, each planter has a different variety of potato in it, though I forget now which is which.

Anyone care to opine? Is it just down to different varieties? Could the pricey bagged soil actually suck? What do you think?

#potatoes #plants #compost #gardening #mystery

Potatoes are showing a respectable 10 days worth of growth since the first shoot broke the surface. The tomato cuttings I planted 2 weeks ago were still looking robust, but the leaves started pointing up so I took it as a sign of stress and transplanted them to proper sized pots. Mom is already setting fruit, so hopefully these little fellas will give me some later-season harvest.

#tomatoes #potatoes #gardening #vegetables #plants

Rabbits have discovered my strawberry bed, so I had to get mildly unfriendly about it. 🐇

#gardening #plants #strawberries #rabbits #diy

The internet told me you can propagate tomato plants by pruning off a stem, stripping most of the leaves, and burying it as deeply as possible in soil. They will develop roots all along the stem and turn into full-fledged plants. I tried this, and for the first week they were alive but very droopy and sad looking, but as of yesterday they're standing up tall and look like they've grown a bit. I guess it works?

#tomatoes #gardening #horticulture #botany

I tried my hand at making English muffins this afternoon. Not sure how they taste (yet) but they look the part :)

#cooking #baking #food #breakfast

Someone has eliminated the mole.

#wildlife #animals #moles #death #riplittlebuddy

First time growing potatoes. So far, so good.

#gardening #plants #vegetables #potatoes

I planted six "Sweet Berry" (which are presumably sweet) and a variety that's supposed to produce large berries that I've already forgotten the name of. Snipped off all of the dead leaves, flowers and baby strawberries and popped them in. Just in time for rain 👍

#gardening #strawberries #diy #plants

On a whim this afternoon I built a small raised bed for strawberries. I used some old concrete blocks, cardboard, rotting logs, sticks, soild from some old planters, half-rotten hay and composted chicken bedding. All stuff I had lying around already, except for a light top dressing with bagged soil. Now I just need the plants and some straw mulch.

#gardening #plants #diy

Speaking of #Denver I got a chance to check out the local #MeowWolf #art installation, which was pretty incredible. It was the first one I've been to but now I want to see the rest. I've included photos, but it's really hard to convey with pictures. It's an experience. You kind of have to be there. 10/10 recommend.

Speaking of in-place upgrades, I recently returned from #RedHat Summit in Denver, #Colorado where I picked up a bunch of cool tricks with #Ansible, including some RedHat-supported playbooks that can pretty reliably upgrade #RHEL 7 to RHEL 8. This will make my work life much less miserable :)

#linux #joys

Since #debian 11 is nearing EOL I was looking into what it would take to update my router. I was pleased to see that #unifi has sorted out whatever licensing issues they had with #mongodb and now support versions greater than 3.6. Sadly, the newest version of mongodb supported in debian 12 is 5.0 which also happens to require #avx extensions which my older Celeron CPU doesn't have. So, it looks like I'll have to invest in new hardware. I guess on the bright side I can keep the old box around as-is as an emergency spare and start the new one from a fresh install instead of crossing my fingers and doing an in-place upgrade.

#linux #woes

I updated to Fedora 40, which now includes KDE 6 and along with it a native Matrix client called NeoChat. I played with it for a bit, and it seems to have most of the features I'm used to from Element (including some cool extras like user-defined emoji). However, it won't decrypt any messages in rooms from before I first signed in with it, which kind of sucks. I guess I'll check back on it in a few months and see how it's progressed.

#fedora #fedoralinux #linux #kde #kde6 #matrix #element #neochat

https://youtu.be/5h4P-26kHAw

This looks like something.

#film #movies #comedy #slapstick #blackandwhite

I saw Heilung this week on their US tour, and it was perhaps one of the best live performances I've ever seen. It was so much more than I expected.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

https://youtu.be/9PFz9FQsU8w

#heilung #music #folk #performance #art

I picked up Pacific Drive last week and I've been having a lot of fun with it. In a lot of ways it reminds me of The Long Dark, but much more light-hearted and less of a cruel grind.

The game starts you with perhaps the shittiest station wagon known to human kind, but you get to upgrade and customize it to your liking in play. This is a photo of the current state of my ride.The glow in the dark decals make it easy to find in the dark :D

#pacificdrive #games #videogames #ps5

Headed to Denver, Colorado next month to attend RedHat Summit, but I'll have free time in the evenings to check out the city. I already plan to visit Meow Wolf if I can. Any other recommendations?

#travel #denver #colorado #usa #meowwolf