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chillicampari

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Open Source Thing-doer, wandering around the Fediverse ca. 2010. Posts are in English and (some) German with translation help at times.

#foss #florespondence #tzag
#nobot #nobridge she/her

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This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

chillicampari, (edited ) to Plants
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Doing some spring pruning today. I usually like to let the plants grow the way they want, but in this case (and with some other plants I'll be trimming) they get too unbalanced and can topple over or stem weakening. This Pachyphytum Oviferum branched and offset/cloned a new smaller plant, and then grew sideways.
It was really cute and I wanted to leave it like this but the head of the original plant was too heavy to support over time.

#Succulents #Plantstodon #Florespondence #Plants @plants

chillicampari, (edited )
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@plants I put cinnamon on the cuts and ends of the leaves that I pulled to help heal them as it's an antifungal, then put everything in a lower-light area where it will stay for a few days. After it's healed over I'll plant the original head in a new pot and not water it for a while until it has grown new roots.

chillicampari, to carnivorousplants
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One of my Sarracenias flowered this year for the first time. The flower has been around for a while but photos of it haven't really turned out well so far until this one.

@plants

chillicampari, (edited ) to android
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I have an Android (and Nokia/HMD) question. After updating to Android 14 my Nokia G42 5G lost AAC codec over Bluetooth support, which downgraded some of my headphones as they are falling back to SBC (more noticeable on some headphones than others and these are without aptX* support, which is still working fine). Developer Options doesn't change it. Has anyone else seen this? I already factory defaulted the phone and recently updated to the April 2024 patch with no change.

#android #nokia

chillicampari,
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There doesn't seem to be an answer for this (I still looked around a lot) but this issue affected my Bose NC 700 headphones a lot (using SBC with the Nokia paired to that headphone dropped the audio quality noticeably). I'm planning on using the 700s while traveling soon as they have the best noise canceling of what I have. Anyway- a couple of inelegant workarounds seem to be:
wired directly to the phone (NC still works with an analog connection) -or- cable connected to a FiiO Bluetooth clip.

chillicampari, (edited )
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which will make it quasi-wireless but can use a much shorter cable if I wear the clip on a shirt or jacket collar. It's receiving aptX-HD from the phone and cabling that with the headphones sounds pretty okay.

ajroach42, to random
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New bookshelf day!

The bookshelves
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chillicampari,
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@ajroach42 those look really great!

chillicampari, to carnivorousplants
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The Darlingtonia Californica has woken up from winter dormancy.

#CarnivorousPlants #SavageGarden #florespondence #Plantstodon #Plants @plants

New growth of Darlingtonia Californica traps against old growth in a white plastic pot with moss.
Old growth of Darlingtonia Calfornia and moss in foreground with an emerging new trap in background.

claireasher, to random

Hey folks! This cactus has got a bit out of hand. What can I do?

I’m thinking of cutting off the most disobedient column and replanting it. I know I need to let the cutting callus - anything else I should know? Will the main plant likely be ok?

chillicampari,
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@claireasher @Transflux I haven't trimmed my cactus yet but with other succulents I usually put cinnamon on the cuts to prevent fungus from taking over, and give them a few days in a shaded spot (main plant and cutting). When the cutting is fully healed then I put it in a new pot and let it re-root there.

chillicampari,
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@claireasher @Transflux I'm glad and you're welcome! 😃

gvy_dvpont, to random
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We need to STOP running DOOM on new things
and START putting new things into DOOM.

For example, today I added micro-transactions to the original game. Any time you pick up an item, the game freezes until you make a payment.

opening DOOM from the command line. start a new game. immediately walk to health item. when the character touches it, the game freezes and a QR code pops up. I scan the qr code with my phone and a credit card payment UI is displayed. I enter fake credit card details, hit submit. A second later the web page on the phone says "Payment Complete" and the game on the computer resumes.

chillicampari,
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@gvy_dvpont

chillicampari, to random
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#FensterFreitag

chillicampari,
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@herrorange Thank you and happy Friday to you too! :)

18+ chillicampari, (edited ) to random
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These are now both "Bluetooth" and "Portable".

chillicampari,
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@ken_fallon @mfeilner it worked pretty well and it was fun wearing these like that for a bit though when I moved my head they were sliding off. Surprisingly, neither the Bluetooth clip nor the velcro straps got tangled in my hair. :D

chillicampari, to random
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There is a poll I have that I'll be reboosting a couple more times before it closes to reach across timezones and apologies for the repetition.

sollat, to random
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Happy surprise this morning! I managed to rehab this grocery store orchid enough for it to bloom!

#Florespondence #Orchid

chillicampari,
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@sollat Beautiful!

chillicampari, (edited ) to random
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If you are a maintainer or contributor for a small-to-one person open source project- from options below, what is your current most pressing need (if any one of them apply specifically to you)?

I'm just trying to get a snapshot as there are a lot of ideas going around. I would like this to remain as anonymous it can possibly be here so don't feel like you need to write a comment.

I already know this is not a professional study #poll

I only have four choices to use, so I know it's incomplete.

chillicampari,
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I would have liked to have added "To be literally left alone to do my thing in however much time I need to take to do it" as an option but ran out of space. Maybe for a later poll.

chillicampari,
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@Sweetshark hmmm... I had more in mind the daily/weekly/release support help like writing/proofing docs, communication across projects, moderating discussions, etc.

More like things we'd generally consider "the usual" (for lack of a better phrase) but are also the things that are time consuming, possibly stressful and tend to run short on people-wise.

I think anything yearly from a completely external team would fall into something like "special support".

chillicampari,
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@Sweetshark that would be a really good thing though!

spaduf, to random
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You ever get a fast food soda that kind of burns the back of your throat? That's pink slime. You should report it

chillicampari,
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@spaduf soda machines that haven't had a daily nozzle cleaning can get a clear-to-gray or brown slime that is visible during the dispense. If you see that, it's probably worth skipping.

chillicampari,
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@spaduf yep :) it's kind of weird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime

chillicampari,
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@spaduf Yep, also spent a few years behind the counter (a long time ago though). :D I don't usually buy fountain sodas unless I am really thirsty and there is nothing else.

It might be one of the additives in the soda syrup (if it's a weird tickling thing) that people can be sensitive to.

I'm in Europe now so there is a lot less stuff in fountain soda (and less fountain soda outside fast food) but still skip it.

chillicampari,
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@spaduf ah! Found the additive I was thinking of that can cause irritation and possibly longer-term effects. California has already banned it, FDA might follow (hopefully) https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/02/health/brominated-vegetable-oil-ban-fda-proposal-wellness/index.html

chillicampari,
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@spaduf Here (EU) I think something has to be proven to be safe for use before you can sell it, and then later if it's no longer approved as safe it's pulled from the market. The US is doing it backwards with this. There seems to be less variety with some things across the EU with artificial colors in food, cosmetics, etc. but it also seems a lot more safety-oriented and much less "buyer-beware".

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