I use Ultrasonic with my Navidrome server and it's fine, but I really wish I could find a player that would replicate the old itunes style Genre -> Artist -> Album selection flow. The Genre tab in most players just gives you a list of songs, which is not helpful for large libraries.
Also just getting started! The only edible fruiting plant when I moved here in 2023 was a black raspberry bush. A year ago I added two apple trees (though the honey crisp may not have survived the winter, we'll see). I had a very successful annual garden last year, hoping to continue that this coming season and try out the three sisters companion planting method.
For perennials, this year I'll be adding two blueberry bushes, inoculating some logs with shiitake and oyster mushroom spawn, and encouraging some volunteer black raspberries that have popped up elsewhere.
Pruning hasn't been an issue yet, but I will need to more actively manage the raspberries this year.
In the future I'm hoping to add lots more edible native shrubs, and maybe more trees if I can find good spots for them.
I'm in the northeast woodlands bioregion of the US, zone 5. I have two compost bins going with leaves, grass clippings, shredded paper/cardboard and kitchen scraps. Last year one bin produced enough to cover about one and a half of my 4x8 ft garden beds. I'm planning to order a cubic yard or two from a local business again this year to top up the annual garden. I don't really expect to get fully self sufficient on compost anytime soon, but I'll keep producing as much as I'm able.
I use these at night if my feet get too cold, but this was a great reminder I can use them at other times too! Turned down my heat but am very cozy with a blanket and a hot water bottle.
Also, making covers for them was a great beginner crochet project.
I've been following you for a while on the mainstream socials, super cool to see you here! I love everything you've got going on!
Good luck with the irrigation system, I'd love to do something similar in the future, and Home Assistant + ESPHome is certainly what I would use to control it.
Physical anti-tamper, while important for this type of device, wouldn't have helped for this particular attack. It's an electromagnetic side channel, so they don't even have to be touching the the thing to collect data.
If you like Old Gods of Appalachia and haven't listened to The Magnus Archives yet, definitely give that a try! The Nightvale family of podcasts (including Welcome to Nightvale, Alice Isn't Dead, and Within the Wires) also get great reviews.
I've been playing the new Solium Infernum with a friend - the first playthrough I did not particularly enjoy (partially my fault for not playing the tutorial first) but once I learned the mechanics my second game was more fun. The UI is not very smooth to use and there are some mechanics I don't like, but overall pretty good.
I also picked up Mindustry again last night - it's an open source Factorio + Tower Defense + RTS that is rather addicting... The new campaign they added a couple years ago is better than the original too.
I'm planning to build a solar powered weather station soon - I feel like that's a project I could have done in my old apartment and put out on the balcony.
Planetary boundaries are hard boundaries, so the economy can't go on growing no matter what. We can either plan this ourselves or be faced with climate disasters planning it for us.
Degrowth is not "everyone gets less" - no one will disagree with the goal of lifting the global south out of poverty. It means diverting the unnecessary consumption (and carbon budget) of the most wealthy people in the global north to help those who actually need the economic growth.
Now that the roads aren't icy anymore I'm trying to bike to work more often. Did the trip in the rain for the first time today, and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be!
Small scale, but I just got a compost bin! My muicipality was selling them for pretty cheap, I'd recommend everyone check if your town has any similar programs
I use Ultrasonic with my Navidrome server and it's fine, but I really wish I could find a player that would replicate the old itunes style Genre -> Artist -> Album selection flow. The Genre tab in most players just gives you a list of songs, which is not helpful for large libraries.