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

Discussion forum for the readers.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/13/seaweed-cow-feed-trial-fails-methane-reduction-australia

One of the world’s longest commercial trials of a seaweed supplement that the global meat industry hopes could slash methane from beef cattle has recorded much lower reductions in the potent greenhouse gas than previous studies.

There is no reason not to use Syncthing besides KDEConnect has features other than sharing files that might come in handy.

Syncthing is a much better tool for a hands-off approach once set up so sure, why not?

The Windows version used to be shit. That’s no longer a problem. That’s about the only negative I remember. Otherwise you can have it doing a lot of work between devices or only sending when you feel like it. I force stop it on my phone and then invoke through share when needed.

I brought up Syncthing as it will function the same way, in a more hands off way (by choice if you want, automagically or forced) if you needed to share files/folders between devices. Not only for passwords.

Local file sharing:

I use KDEConnect on all my devices (Windows, Linux, GrapheneOS, Work Galaxy Tab) and it works just fine. Never needed to try anything else.

Syncthing as well for keepass files.

I hope that people who say “plant locally-adapted” plants read this.

What makes you smarter than people studying these problems? A single example of a plant introduced in 1963?

You can’t just declare your opinion to be right. And you can’t ignore climate change to suit your argument. Nor can you deny that urban areas are very diverse in exotic tree species and that won’t change because you want it to. A single comment isn’t putting the genie back in the bottle, nor stopping climate change, or land degradation/clearing, or new pests and diseases.

Stay optimistic though.

The calzones have betrayed me…

Is the sigh based on invasive species bring present from the early lovefest of carrying everything around and then the agricultural lovefest of intentionally moving everything around and you imagine it could happen again?

Or is the sigh that you wished climate change wasn’t real and you could go back to the good old days where indigenous species would just grow like they did for the previous 10,000 years?

The climate is changing. It sucks and these articles are the result of it. Rather than willy-nilly introducing species like yesteryear, this is going to be measured and studied to increase a functioning tree cover’s survival. I feel as though your sigh is a hindrance, rather than a help. What does the sigh mean?

Sometimes both?

A quick change from Commodore and Falcon Ute to 4WD dual cabs being the “bogan” vehicle of choice. The change from average ute size to oversized was a blink of an eye.

Then conversely the small SUV (a taller car) became the Prado-style giant SUV of the day.

Parking must be absolute bullshit.

You should see the rapid change in vehicle types happening here. Dual cab utes, overly large (US trucks). A lot of American imports turning up (usually the cheaper Ram) but even the domestic models are swelling in size from the work vehicles they used to be.

It may be too late. We are America Jnr. It’s a good way to identify people who don’t give a fuck though.

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.