evranch @ evranch @lemmy.ca

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As a farmer we haven't even seen the beginning of food inflation. The entire country and much of the world is in drought, and we're only entering this El Nino cycle.

I sold all my animals and my crops are a wash. Drought has crushed yields over a vast area of Canada's agricultural land. Combining the other factors at play such as war between two massive grain producers, there's a chance that global food demand could actually outstrip production this year, for the first time since the start of the Green Revolution.

With that said, processors and middlemen are definitely grabbing the large portion of the increased value of food at the stores. Cattle prices are up but nowhere near the extent that beef has risen, and will soon plummet as animals are dumped on the market for lack of feed. What won't plummet is the consumer price of beef, I can almost guarantee it. And I shudder to think of what grain and bread prices could be by the end of this year. Very glad to have a freezer of meat, huge garden, a good wheat grinder and bins of grain that would last my family decades.

Despite being proud to still fly the Jolly Roger for most media I have to say that for the Linux gamer it's nearly as cost effective just to put Steam games on your wishlist and wait for the sale notification. Lots of great games can be had for single dollars, you get support, patches, online play etc. so it's not worth the effort to plunder them.

I found honestly it's rare that a Steam game has issues on Linux these days and if it does, just refund it and get your $5 back. Otherwise as mentioned they are very hard to find.

So this is the first time I've heard of the 15 minute city concept, especially as a bad thing. I live on a farm but if I wanted to move to the city... 15 minutes to everything sounds great. Isn't that sort of convenience kind of the whole point of a city?

My ex lives in Moose Jaw and that's a pretty good description of it, it's 15 minutes drive from edge to edge and it's honestly a really nice little city. No traffic jams and you can also walk or bike most places you want to go, as long as the weather permits.

I'm an electrician, I found my own solar panels incredibly easy to install. The job is 90% racking and I would recommend buying a racking package if possible which includes all mounts, rail and fasteners.

Take care as solar panels are ALWAYS LIVE. This is why they use the shielded connectors that they do. Do all the rest of your wiring first, then plug the panels in last.

Make sure you have appropriate disconnecting means. If this is going to be grid tied in any way, make sure you're familiar with the code as it will be inspected. If not grid tied you may be exempt, but this is no reason to just slap it up, still follow the code as it's there for your safety.

I recommend grid-interactive systems over grid-tied if you actually want to be power independent. Microinverters seem great until the power goes out and your panels are good for nothing. I would recommend a power blending transverter type system that allows 3-way power flow between panels, battery and grid. They have come way down in price and allow seamless integration of your loads compared to a charger/inverter system like I have.

Run a string voltage as close as possible to your battery voltage to avoid conversion losses. It's tempting to go for high string voltages but roof mount distances are usually really short and conversion will likely be most of your loss. I started with 140VDC strings and my charger ran hot, dropping to 70VDC made it run cool and boosted my output by over 10%.

Depending on your utility it may not be worth selling power and the hassle or extra fees and regulations that come with it. That's the case here - I just have automation set up to burn excess power for heat in winter and cooling in summer.

Best of luck with your install, for sure it is way cheaper to DIY and not hard at all.

As a farmer this plague of grasshoppers is bad news for non-grasshopper insects. High grasshopper numbers means lots of insecticide spraying.

Also pests tend to increase as others decrease, because they are stronger under adverse conditions. We have few butterflies, wild bees, dung beetles and other desirables. But vast quantities of grasshoppers, mosquitoes and ticks, plenty of horseflies too.

Same for birds, we have less songbirds, purple martins, ducks etc. every year. More sparrows, starlings, magpies, all invasive pest birds.

Nah this and the other otter one are just someone having silly fun, not the grossly explicit stuff you see from the furries. Or their odd and unappealing art style.

If you want to block the flood of actual furry porn, just block the one or two instances it comes from as most of us already have.

Ska is simple, fun music that cares little for anything other than being fun, and is often gleefully immature. As such, teenage boys like it and pretentious music snobs love to look down their noses at it. Ska bands are aware of this fact and tend to lean into it, creating a self-aware and often self-parodying genre. It can be argued that it's not "good" music. But it is, without a doubt, fun and high energy music and a live ska show is a blast.

As far as cultural appropriation goes, nobody who matters cares, as all music is a collaborative effort that builds off of previous works. Music belongs to the world, and gatekeeping it as belonging to any particular culture is ridiculous. Ska in particular is a genre that loves to do covers, and often the sillier the better.

Oh, for those carefree days. But someday if you have a house and a family to support, you'll quickly find the difference between being lazy and being exhausted by your responsibilities.

I would love to take a month off and bike across the continent. That sounds incredibly lazy to me.

For real if I wanted RGB footwell lighting I would install it myself. And I did, in my first beater car, as a dumb teenager does. I thought it looked pretty cool.

But now as a grown man I want a car to start every time, go fast when I step on the pedal, and have AC like a refrigerator. If it's a truck I want it to pull heavy trailers and not get stuck in mud and THAT'S IT.

Currently driving a 2008 Crown Vic and a 1978 F350 on propane, both of which do exactly what I want.

Vim keys in vscode for the win, I'm dead serious

Container tabs? They are an official extension but for some reason don't come pre-installed. I use them extensively for exactly this. Also they are great for paywall evasion, as they don't count as incognito browsing but can be created and destroyed in seconds.

Correct my first ever instance block was of a furry porn instance. However it appears to have disappeared from my block list today, I wonder if that means my home instance unfederated from it?

I'm not a big movie rewatcher myself, but this is one of those movies to watch again because you know the plot. It's extremely well crafted, and there are plenty of significant scenes with hidden meaning or foreshadowing to catch on the second watch if you keep your eyes open.

Guessing you've never been to Western Canada. We only have a couple major cities, and we don't use that much groundwater both as it tends to be saline and because we have plenty of surface water to use due to snowmelt runoff. Also we don't have anything to desalinate, unless we're talking about that low-quality groundwater, which is a very expensive proposition as you say to get any significant volume.

We're not concerned about water for drinking, city usage etc. Most cities are on major rivers that are running near normally. Hydro dams have tons of storage to run until next winter's snow. On my farm I have dugouts that capture runoff, they are full. I have shallow wells on GUDI aquifers where the water is near the top of the casing! I'm irrigating my garden and my orchard like mad out of my yard dugout and that usage isn't even noticeable compared to evaporation losses.

We're concerned that our crops are dying, our livestock are starving (sold mine already) and almost none of our land is irrigated. In BC the trees are dying and burning for lack of rain and there is no way to irrigate them of course. This part of the country has long relied on a steady cycle of June and July thunderstorms for moisture - but the thunderstorms have dried up.

It just won't rain, that's all.

Full text of actual paper: https://www.aging-us.com/full/204896

Tldr; seems like decent science and the compounds used are fairly ordinary ones for the most part. Note however this is all in vitro so far and it might be a challenge to deliver the same chemicals in the same concentrations to all the senescent cells of the body.

Prepare to see these ingredients added in insignificant amounts to expensive skin creams before the year is out, whether they can penetrate the epidermis or not

Such good memories of learning to code as a kid in QBasic, I remember NIBBLES.BAS.

I was totally spoiled as my dad had the professional paid version which had an incredible IDE for the time and things like user defined types and structs that I later found out weren't usually part of BASIC. It also had a ton of fancy graphics modes, double buffering, and even a sprite library. I loved playing around making crappy games.

Mild in Montreal, maybe, but check out the Canadian Drought Monitor as the rest of Canada is in drought. Like, the entire rest of Canada. https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/agricultural-production/weather/canadian-drought-monitor/current-drought-conditions

Over here in the west it's never been so dry. Pastures are brown, hay and crops aren't just stunted but are dying before maturity. Trees are yellowing and dropping leaves. Plague of grasshoppers eating everything that was still green. Every day is hot and the air is full of smoke, it feels like the end of the world over here.

I used RedReader which got an exemption, so it still works. So I still use it because I enjoy talking to people on Reddit despite the bad behaviour from the admins, and they don't make any money off me so who cares. The day I'll leave is the day they force me to use their unusable app (and when your non-tech buddy tells you he uses Reddit in desktop mode on mobile Firefox, you know it's bad)

I've been using both services as there's way more news and discussion on Reddit but Lemmy is improving rapidly. I do think Reddit has shot themselves in the foot by restricting NSFW subs to logged in / official app only though. I honestly expected this would result in a ton of content moving to Lemmy but that doesn't seem to have been the case so far.

I think Lemmy's biggest issue is community discovery on federated instances. Lots of active communities don't show up unless explicitly requested on your own instance, and that's going to confuse a lot of new users.

Definitely there should be an updated list of apps as the first recommended app (Jerboa) is like... Pre-alpha. Constant authentication issues for the one day I used it, plus other usability issues galore.

I only found any mention of Connect for Lemmy on Lemmy itself and it's a far superior app, used it ever since.

It works with Google Cloud's dashboard lol, I swear they broke it in Firefox on purpose.

But seriously it's like the IE days, some sites are designed with one target in mind and that target is now Chrome instead of IE, partly because the Chromium engine is now the de facto one to embed and rebrand. So sometimes you just have to use Chrome.

However I use Firefox 99% of the time myself and only use Chrome when needed (mostly when managing my Google compute engine VMs, sigh)