Nice - I am about to repot my tomato seedlings now as well. I have planted Garderner’s Delight, Venus and Ildi this year.

This was a cool read, thanks for sharing :)

Hehe, now there are three different suggestions for a gravity-feed system, so I will need to take a closer look at how I could set that up!

Thank you (and to the other suggestors)! :)

Oh, I were not aware of these. I’ll have to check my soil mixture to see if they contain any, and at least be on the lookout when getting new bags. Thanks :)

I don’t have a water outlet on my balcony, and I wouldn’t want the noise associated with a water pump running. But I have been wanting to add moisture sensors later, and if I could find some other way to regulate water flow in, I could use that to control it.

It’s a balcony setup without a water outlet, so this is unfortunately not possible.

The way I designed the baskets in the end was to have holes to allow water to seep in only at the very bottom of the baskets. That way I can still make use of the entire reservoir, but reduce the amount of water that is in contact with the wicking material. This was a change from my initial design that had holes along the whole basket. This approach did reduce the overall moisture I believe (I mean, it should right?), but since it was later in the growing season with higher temperatures, I couldn’t judge the effect very accurately.

I have tried to think up some way that would allow me to completely close of the water from the wicking material and reopen after it had dried out, but so far I’ve not had any luck with this.

Not yet, but I’ve been so far doing some reading on it: 1) Worms Eat My Garbage by Mary Appelhof and Joanne Olszweski and 2) Compost City by Rebecca Louie.

I am planning on printing this https://www.printables.com/model/60965-small-fully-printable-modular-vermicomposter soon. Not ordered the filament yet. The 3-box-setup can also fairly easily be constructed in a DIY-fashion from plastic boxes.

And then place it outside on my balcony when outside temperature allows the worms to thrive and by the time we get to Fall / Winter again, I will find some space in my inside storage room. I also have some room within my apartment that I could use, but want to gauge potential smells and escapees first… :)

Nice idea checking with restaurants. But it sounds like you end up getting quite a lot of compost this way? I will likely be unable to have too big an operation, but my efforts can be spread across to sites (one at home on my balcony and one with a friend with more outdoor space, though no garden in the classical sense).

Cheers, saving those resources! Yeah, I am planning a trip to the library soon to see what they have, but my local library is quite small and I am happy using digital versions of any books I find that would be suitable!

I’m super lazy when it comes to compost. There’s a few things that I do depending on the time of year. Also, I’m only composting plant matter. Any meat or bones that my parents eat usually gets sent to the city compost.

Plant matter only here as well. I have access to two places where I can start composting: very small scale on an apartment balcony (where I would want to try vermicomposting), and a house with some more outdoor space, but no traditional garden (it’s got a slanted area with vegetation that is planned to gradually become some terraced beds).

If the garden is established, I’ll have a few dumping spots in the garden and rotate between each spots so they have a chance to break down. I’ll also put layers of garden trimmings on top so the food waste is covered and broken down a little quicker, or so it seems to me.

So you basically get a full batch of good compost from each of these dumping spots? How long would you say it typically takes from you deposit til you can use the compost?

Oh, are they hard to keep alive?

What is the typical timeline for when you can start using the soil after starting the compost?

Did you browse the older posts in the community already? I guess it might be nice to add some good links to the sidebar though.

Yeah, and I found some good things there, but a lot of the posts were quite old and I wanted to contribute to some activity here as well and give people new to Lemmy since those posts were made to contribute with their favorite resources. Links in the sidebar/Wiki would be very nice as a starting point!

In general it very much sounds like you are overthinking it. I started composting by throwing foodwaste in a bucket and it worked just fine 🤷

I quite enjoy the research, so I wouldn’t say I am overthinking it. I am just looking for some recommended reading from the community to get started with the research. There’s so much stuff online, and a lot of it seems AI-generated, so I try to get a more curated starting point from actual humans who are already into it, as in my experience direct recommendations from people are much better than starting from zero. :)

Nice! I use Nginx Proxy Manager and found the process to be surprisingly simple, but if your public IP change often it could be annoying if you don’t have some way to automate updates of DNS records. Let us know if you have any issues!

I have been a major sinner on the backup front, but I’m now in the process of setting up automated restic encrypted backups that first copies to a different hard drive, that is then is rscynced to my Hetzner storage box (you can also swap this around - rsync to another hard drive, then use restic to dump it on the Hetzner server, but I want the backups with multiple snapshots locally as well). Primarily for Docker container configs and data for now, but I will set up similar automation for dumping stuff from my laptop on my local server and then similarly push encrypted restic repos to Hetzner. Not set up RAID or a NAS or anything like that, but I will eventually build a NAS. I am forcing myself to write the scripts in bash as well to get some more experience with it - I usually default to Python for any scripting, but in this case I would almost only use subprocess.run anyway :)

ETA: The 1TB storage box is 4 EUR a month or something like this.

Personal: Choose FOSS first, and contribute some of your time and money towards projects that align with solarpunk ideals. Get into self-hosting and eventually perhaps community-hosting for local organizations or neighborhoods or someting like that. Find your local makerspace and meet up with tinkerers there and find common community projects to work on.

Work: At my work, my small team of devs are currently trying to break out of an otherwise heavily Microsoft-based ecosystem. So far we’ve gone from a general hostility towards FOSS to being allowed to run things on bare metal Linix servers instead of Azure, and I my request for a Linux laptop is approved (though still waiting on them to learn how to install Linux or something?). As part of a research project we are trying out FOSS alternatives to Microsoft products in hopes of creating interest and success stories. We are also in that project going to open source some of our internal development. I’ve also challenged my bosses on the heavy use of products from a single major tech company.

I love RSS! I have tried to move all first-hand consumption of news (so excluding for instance Lemmy) to RSS, but I still haven’t found an effective way of dealing with the sheer volume of articles that is generated by the news outlets, so I am either getting exhaustes trying tosift through or missing the articles I actually want to read and archive. I am toying with the idea of feeding it through a local LLM to make daily or even weekly digests, so I can focus my RSS energy on the blogs I follow instead. But it’s at a very conceptual stage and I don’t yet have the hardware I would run that on. Anyone have experience with that?

This looks pretty cool - I will want to look into this later.

Anyone familiar with this CERN license for open source hardware?

“1kW within 1hr” isn’t power. That’s energy.

The watt is always power, not energy. I’m assuming OP here got some prepositions mixed up and meant 1 kW delivered for 1 hr. That amounts to an energy of 1 kWh.

The second is like hell hole, tons of energy but still only a little bit of power.” No. They are both precisely the same energy.

No, they are the same power. The energy in the case where 1 kW of power is delivered for 1 hour is 1 kWh. The energy in the case of 1 kW delivered for 1 s is about 0.28 Wh.

If instead 1 kWh was transferred over the course of 1 hour, that is an average power of 1 kW (but does not have to be uniform, without more information we can’t know the power profile). If 1 kWh is transferred over the course of 1 s, that is an average power of 3.6 MW which is the example I think OP was getting at (ref. hell hole comment).

I wonder if this could be a good use-case for an LLM: feed it that fire-hose of an RSS-feed and have it group and spit out a short and sweet summary per group with the original links. It’s something I would want from actual journalists, but while they are busy writing about Trump’s latest tweet, this might be a usable substitute?