https://universal-blue.discourse.group/c/bazzite/5

Discussion forum for the readers.

The calzones have betrayed me…

Consider a summary statement though. Not a big fan of a link with no text.

There can be only one.

They are apparently territorial so the winner will destroy everyone else.

And since the Mother just gave birth to something the same size as herself, she also dies shortly.

Plus the babies eat each other. It’s dying all the way down.

Also a good Mother (photo taken yesterday):

Ignore the elephant in the room, the change in climate change.

Plant native plants to help your local ecosystem while something changes it for you.

Plant plants that restore function and are adapted to a wider range of climatic conditions. Don’t plant plants based on what it was like before colonisation 250 years ago.

Yeah, I get that but, personally, I feel, the creation of biochar is supposed to be a clean, smoke-free process so as to make the storage of the carbon the most efficient.

I can understand the manure retort experiment (my grass burn was also an experiment but not something I did again) but it would have been nice to have seen a clean burn attempt. Since he was picking manure up off the ground right next to a cow’s arse, you can’t even guarantee low moisture fuel or feedstock.

Maybe an airgap at the base of the flue might allow a secondary burn inside there.

Well, if he was doing science, couldn’t he use a clean, dry fuel for the heating part and keep the manure in the retort part?

I’ve flame shielded Vetiver grass before, it wasn’t smoky. It was just fast and tricky to burn right.

For other readers that might be questioning…

Spoiler: He ate it. Offscreen though, it could have been a granola bar.

Will an organic matter turn to charcoal during pyrolysis.

Tune in for over 8 minutes to find out the answer.

Spoiler: Yes.

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There was an article a few days back with microplastics working through “untouched by humans” layers of lake silt.

Stay positive, friend.

https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/best-way-to-install-a-vpn-on-universal-blue/134

The OSTree layering option worked for me, well… I can get it to run once I turn off the ovpn I still have sitting in Fedora’s network settings. @[email protected]’s comment I fumbled around with and I’ll wait to see if it updates.

Most of my time is spent in Linux Mint but if I ever have to reinstall, I’ll switch over to a ublue flavour.

Commenting from a laypersons’ perspective for new users, with my minor Linux experience and an inability to remember commands, don’t be frightened in giving it a go. If I can do it, anyone can. I run Fedora Kinoite on a second harddrive, use the BIOS Boot Menu to boot in, and then “rebased” to the UBlue Kinoite image using the provided commands once I read about it.

Almost everything is on Flatpak so I don’t even notice a difference with much. I had trouble layering the Mullvad VPN app (originally just using ovpn profiles) and I’m not sure I did it right in relation to updating but it seems to work.

Basically, I don’t understand much about it but it’s a completely usable operating system from my perspective.

Thanks for the write-up. It was helpful in increasing some knowledge.

https://universal-blue.discourse.group/

Australian version:

It’s not fixed unfortunately. We are on 0.19.1 and having issues.

The fix is to regularly restart which clears the federation queue.

There is no reason why you can’t resume apical growth. It looks to be recovering as is. It is difficult to tell, but the pinkish growth is new, yes? That is what will resume growing as your “main trunk”.

You can see the angled swelling above the node, that is the branch collar you need to every so slightly cut at, or minutely above. This is where the callous wood will form to compartmentalise the wound. As the stub you have cut is so long, the tree will will have to wait for the stub to die and drop off before closing.

First step is prune at the collar “target”. Then you will let tree recover for a while and dictate what new growth will resume the vertical trunk that you want. You will then select and encourage that growth to resume being the main trunk. You won’t be pruning anything for a while after your first cut, you need the tree to recover. Most pruning events are annual and never more than 25% of total canopy loss. Note on pic, zoom in.

I don’t know what the other commentators mean with their comments, this is fairly standard arboricultural pruning practices. If anything they said was true, any tree other than a mature conifer that suffered minor “topping” damage in the wild would be an instant death sentence for the tree. This is not the case in a majority of situations.

For a real world example, here is a tree that was topped by a moth and the pruning that I did to recover it. I pruned some of the new branches at the wound to encourage the upper growth. There are notes on pic, you need to zoom in,

Edit: Just went to neighbours house and they have a roughly pollarded Avocado. You can see the multiple regrowth points, you would select one of these to be the new trunk. Just a good demonstration of the same species getting on with it.

I got it during a websearch. Changed VPN server to another city and it went away. Mullvad.

Beaver. Always beaver.

Australia is mostly degraded, channelised shallow creeks and erosion problems. Bam, beaver does all the work for us.

Can beavers survive in the subtropics?

As their specialised knowledge reaches the edge of the circle, their general knowledge updating should retract.

Everyone has met a PhD that is almost entirely clueless in other areas. Not their fault though, don’t get me wrong.

Edit: The person that downvoted must be Dr. Climate Change Denier. Dr. Covid Denier has joined the fray.