eosha

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[–] eosha@midwest.social 70 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Dealing with winter. I live in the rural upper Midwest, where winter can hit -20 with whiteout blizzards, week-long power outages, and car-burying snowdrifts. I've seen too many people move here from warmer places and think "I guess I'll buy a warmer coat and a snow shovel", rather than "I should have a backup generator, a backup heat source, a few barrels of spare fuel, a month's worth of stockpiled food, and at least two different pieces of heavy snow-moving machinery tested to be in good working order".

[–] eosha@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

During AC season, 71 during the day, 68 at night. Geothermal FTW.

 

Do you consider yourself a farmer? A full-time row crop farmer? A part-time hobby farmer? Gardener? Homesteader? Food consumer?

 

Are you getting it on early to fight tar spot? Later to fight NCLB? Multiple applications? None at all?

[–] eosha@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

Exactly. I've run Linux almost exclusively for more than 20 years. I did the whole roll-my-own thing for a while. Now most of the computers I deal with regularly run mostly-stock Ubuntu.

[–] eosha@midwest.social 101 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Bug zapper flyswatter. Like you can buy at Harbor Freight for a few bucks. It might not be a terribly effective solution to the overall fly population, but in terms of grim-bloody-vengeance-per-dollar, it's one of the best investments I've ever made.

[–] eosha@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

Specific subs that don't exist on Lemmy, especially Q&A-type subs with no equivalent (or very few members). Things like AskPlumbers. It'll just take time to build those communities here.

 

It's interesting in that we have things that feel very scifi (GotG, for example) and ones that don't (Luke Cage, Punisher) notionally sharing the same universe.