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Cake day: July 12th, 2024

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  • I rinse my seeds well by spraying water on them in the mesh tray, and then use RO/distilled water (because I have an RO unit, I’m sure tap water would be fine, but I’ve got lead pipes) to fill the bottom water tray until it just starts coming through the mesh layer, such that if I push down in the middle, the seeds float around, then cover on top and thats it, I don’t touch them again until harvest. Never had a failed run, did get some mold before I started rinsing, but hasn’t been a problem since.

    Haven’t had a problem with smells afaik.

    I’ve been doing hydro for years, and as long as seeds aren’t drowning, they are fine resting in water. If they are in so much water they are floating around without pushing down the middle of the tray, you have too much, thats about it, though.




  • The joins appear to be tape, so yeah probably pretty lightweight. As much as hard foam, wooden dowels (most likely because cheap and still light) and paint can be.

    But all of the weight is on her shoulders, so as long as she doesn’t fall over, shed be fine either way.

    Also looks like the hole her head goes through has enough space that if it falls it might just come off entirely.





  • Fun story - my house has a hidden room sort of. I’ve known about it since I bought the place like 15 years ago. I plan to convert it into a root cellar/storm shelter/bug out room since its in a very secure part of the basement.

    I didn’t know there was a half-size wooden door hidden behind the partly-finished basement drywall (previously a rec room/office), i just knew about the shitty door cut into the side of the stairs. Never had a reason to go inside there with a light prior to that, and its entirely hidden from the existing door. Only found it while preparing the space for my chickens to ride out a brutal cold snap this past winter.

    Its jambed on both sides to prevent swing and never had hardware, but I can drill and hang it pretty easily. Then i really will make it a hidden room someone will find randomly someday




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    If mine are any indication, they’ll go hunting for bugs before they start scratching at stuff or eating plants. Even when I give mine pulled weeds the first thing they do is look for bugs on them. Those are the real prize.

    They have an amazing eye for slight movement, and are quite good little hunters (they really like catching mice as well). If you don’t give them time to destroy everything, and keep your eyes on them.

    As a bonus they poop while they eradicate, and they do some mild scratching of the surface which is good for the soil.




  • Oooooooh let it be something class action I can get money for. I have three rokus and a TCL.

    Granted, none of them are on my network; the rokus were removed from it when that update came out that would brick the tv if you don’t accept them spying (fortunately roku was blocked on my pihole except occasionally when they wanted to be updated to repair the apps that stopped working every month forcing online connection to syphon data) and the TCL was never allowed on the network in the first place because i learned my lesson…

    But I still want money back from them for their anti-consumer choices, because fuck them.






  • I got to witness first-hand exactly how much worse it’s gotten in the last few years all at once.

    See, I’m stuck on an iPhone for the moment (thankfully a 14 which isn’t compatible with the extra AI bullshit, or I’d probably have just dealt with the vulnerability…), and because of liquid glass and a bunch of other reasons, I declined to update my OS from 17.whatever. Then the critical vulnerability was found, and the only fix was to update. So I snapped forward to 26 or whatever it is up to now. Literal years of backslide in one day. It’s so fucking unusable. I can’t wait until that motorola that’s compatible with graphene is available.

    I went from having a sort of OK autocorrect that was only wrong like 30% of the time, to just flat out disabling it because it was so so much worse than my own typos and fixing my own mistakes. I gave it a few days, but yeah, it would correct words that I’d typed out correctly to random bullshit, sometimes several words later so you don’t notice it. It wouldn’t fix obvious typos even when they came up in red underline. It got the wrong conjugation or contraction frequently. It was aggressive about changing stuff no matter how many times I typed it in the correct way.

    It’s fucking bad, man. You are not imagining it. At all. It’s just that it crept up on you as it gradually got worse.