My indoor banana tree isn't even that old (about one year), but it's growing like crazy in hydro.
One of the cool things about hydro is that pot sizes are less relevant, because the root system is more effective at absorbing water and nutrients compared to soil.
This has resulted in absolutely huge plants compared to their pot.
The only noticeable downside so far has only been the increased watering frequency, but I didn't notice much stunted growth tbh.
This is (also) why I haven't repotted yet.
Sadly I noticed, that this resulted in quite a few forgotten waterings and therefore burnt roots.
This was the tree before:
And here it is in the new net pot:
I put this pond basket into a concrete mixing bowl for 5 bucks, which I now painted with acrylic paint :)
It even gave me a few cuttings of baby trees which I gave to friends
It has been very healthy and was growing like crazy, but there was unusual cold, rainy weather in the last weeks.
Also, there have been a lot of slugs on it.
I think it has caught a fungus infection, and it looks worse and worse from day to day.
Every leaf I touch crumbles, and there is pretty much no non-affected one.
Fruit development has been stagnating and there are pretty much no new leaves or blossoms too.
Should I throw it away? Or will it recover?
Here are my Pinguicula agnata and P. moranensis.
They are the "parents" and just a few months old themselves.
They were in the succulent stage when I bought them and finally developed their carnivorous leaves!
And here are the "babies". I made lots of leaf pullings of both donor plants. They make great gifts!
They all grow on LECA (semi-hydro) with a layer of living moss on top. They get distilled water most of the time, and the moss finally comes to life!
This is one of my ferns.
They give me a constant supply of baby ferns, which I can remove from the mother plant and put it into another pot.
Here's the plant as a whole:
I already split it into three parts this year, but it recovers to full growth in less than a few months!
This one was just one piece of root/ rhizome half a year ago. Look how big it already is!
Transitioning them into hydro has been a huge pain, but once they've adapted to the new environment, they thrive and are very easy to care for.
If you're interested in pictures or stories of my other ferns, feel free to just ask :)
This is basically the only Oncidium orchid that has this issue. And I have plenty of them.
It's recieving a few minutes of direct sunlight a day through a small slit above, and the rest of the day it only gets indirect light.
That is the way it's recommended, since they supposedly need lots of sunlight, way more than other orchids like Phalaenopsis.
Others have a way brighter spot and don't look that way.
Might it be a bacterial infection, or a virus?
I've also looked for pests, but didn't find any.
It's also a pretty new specimen in my collection, is that due to transplant stress?
I don't know what is the problem - can you give me your guesses?
I even got it on video! How can I share it here?
This is my second try. I got a bunch of seeds from a hobbyist and put them on LECA first. Most of them got washed away, and those that stayed, died a pretty quick death.
I had to try a different method.
Gladly, I found some leftover CP substrate (peat + perlite) in my parents garage and placed it into a petri dish.
Now, about 3 weeks later, they germinated.
I transferred them into living sphagnum moss now and hope they will survive 😬 Update will follow soon! 💪
Fedora Atomic because I don't fucking care what package manager and whatnot sits underneath.
I just wanna relax in my free time and not worry about all this fucking nerd stuff.
Touching grass > Troubleshooting a broken system
I really love these update posts, thank you a lot!
The PR/ communication from the KDE team is absolutely great, and I can't wait til the new stuff will arrive on Fedora!
KDE is getting even better and better each update, it's amazing! Thank you for your hard work! 💚
100% AMD, for sure. AMD won't make much problems and works ootb.
Nvidia on the other hand... if you already have a Nvidia GPU, then the proprietary drivers work pretty well, but even those won't work flawlessly and still cause problems for many people.
And the FOSS drivers are still in the early stages and won't cut it. So why spend lots of money for a piece of hardware that won't give you the performance you paid for?
Also, Nvidia clearly doesn't care about PCs or its' users, so why support such a shitty company with your money?
"Cloud native" means in this context, that the images are being built centrally by "the cloud" (in this case, it's GitHub actions, but could be replaced by something else) and then the identical copies of the OS are distributed downstream.
Contrary to traditional package manager based distros, this is more efficient and reliable.
At least that's the mission from what I know, but I also might be wrong. Then please correct me :)
Ususally, like 99% of the time, it's absolutely the fault of the game developers and by choice.
Pretty much any game can run on Linux nowadays. Some do even run better than on Windows, but most equally good or a tiny bit worse.
The main problem is (very invasive kernel level) anti cheat.
And sometimes, games work fine on Linux, and then the devs actively lock out Linux users for some ludicrous reasons.
You can visit protondb.com for a very nice overview of which games work and how well they do.
Then how do you explain the continued success of Mint?
Because Mint's philosophy is to make a friendly, simple and usable system for everyone.
That may be for people who came from Windows before, or those who like their OS to be a bit more conservative, meaning no flashy stuff, boring, and just working. Just like Windows was "in the good ol' days".
This makes it accessible and usable by everyone, including Linux sysadmins who come home after work and don't want to deal with annoying computers and fixing things.
Everything on Mint feels high quality, functional and cohesive.
ElementaryOS on the other hand feels like a cheap MacOS clone, but nothing works. Those who want Mac, buy a Mac.
Mint/ Cinnamon on the other hand is similar to Windows (XP, 7, etc.), but not a copycat. It's familiar enough to be intuitive for Windows users, but much enough it's own thing.
Mint's main focus is to get a uncomplicated, and usable system, while Elementary's focus is to just do what Apple does. ... Well, did. 15 years ago. They totally forgot how much work maintaining a distro and a desktop with a whole app suite is, and just stopped working on it.
While Gnome and KDE (and other WMs/ DEs) got magnitudes better in just one year (e.g. Plasma 6), Pantheon (and Elementary) just stagnated the last 5 years or so.
They don't even offer/ work on Wayland yet, or other new things.
Either they'll stop working on Elementary, and focus only on Pantheon, so it can live on on other distros, or it will just continue dying like it does currently.
Just a small (or maybe big?) tip for you 🙂
If it's for Linux, there's a 50% chance there are no releases and 2 lines of commands showing how to build it (which doesn't work on your distro), but don't worry because your distro has it prepackaged 1 version out of date
There's a tool called Distrobox.
You can install it (via CLI I think?), and then manage it the easiest graphically way via BoxBuddy (available in your Software Center), or just the terminal if you prefer it.
With it, you can screw all those "Doesn't work on my distro" moments.
You're on Linux Mint? No problems, here's the AUR for you!
✨✨✨ BONUS: Your OS won't break anymore randomly due to some AUR incompatibility, because everything is containerized! ✨✨✨
Even if you run Arch, use it to install AUR stuff. Or Debian/ Ubuntu, add PPAs only via Distrobox.
It's absolutely no virtual machine. It basically only creates a small, lightweight container with all dependencies, but it runs on your host. Similar to Flatpaks.
You can also export the software, and then it's just like you would have installed it natively!
Your distro choice doesn't matter anymore. You now can run any software written only for Suse, an abandoned Debian version 10 years ago, Arch, Fedora, Void, whatever. It's all the same.
I hope that was helpful :)
I don't see any reason to use a Raspi instead of an used thin client for selfhosting.
They use about the same energy, but the Mini-PC has x86, which has better software support, has more ports, and runs more stable.
I have a RPI for my 3D-printer (Octoprint), and I will soon replace it with a "proper" PC, because it always crashes.
Raspberry Pis are good for very small appliances, but for anything more, they suck imo
Either Localsend, if you're only interested in that one function, or KDE Connect for the ultimate experience.
GrapheneOS is probably the best option out there.
As you said, it's only for Pixels currently, because
Pixels are cheap(ish) for what you get, and I believe Google makes them so cheap because 99% of users don't care which ROM/OS is installed. Those are the advertisment-cows that will get milked. If you buy a Pixel and install a custom ROM on it, they will loose money.
My experience with GrapheneOS has been great. My Pixel 5 hit EOL a while ago and still gets maintenance updates almost weekly.
Many security additions are overkill for me, but quite some make a lot of sense.
I used CalyxOS for a year too, but now that I don't get full updates anymore, I don't feel safe anymore with it.
I think GrapheneOS is technically superior to Calyx, especially due to the sandboxing they do. MicroG has full root privileges and can do with your phone what it wants, while also breaking some apps due to missing dependencies. If you choose to enable Play Services on GrapheneOS, they are user level and heavily restricted, and only you decide how much access you want to give them.
Regarding Calyx, since they don't limit themselves as much in terms of security, they also offer a ROM for the Fairphone. Maybe check that out too.
DivestOS also seems to be a good option. AFAIK it's based on LineageOS and supports a lot of devices, while being more secure than LOS.
Regarding Linux phones, I don't have any experience with them. I tried Phosh (Mobile Gnome) on an exhibition a while ago, and it felt great and interesting, but from what I've heard, they are nowhere as good as Android.
Logseq.
What is Logseq?
It's a non-linear note taking app that allows smart linking and is made as a second brain.
It makes use of the Zettelkasten system, where, in theory, you make notes of everything and categorize it. Over time, you offload your brain and make it free for more productive stuff.
Logseq is often considered as a FOSS alternative to Obsidian.
While I definitely do not want a LLM (especially not Open AI or whatever) to have access to my terminal or other stuff on my PC, and in general don't have any use for that, I find it cool that something like this is available now.
Remember, it's totally optional and nobody forces you to download that stuff. You have the choice to ignore it, and that's the great thing about Linux!