Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 20/8/2023
Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 20/8/2023
Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
Made pancakes for the kids this morning. Double batch and no leftovers for me 😑
That happens every time I make pikelets.
I'm still a kid at heart. When my wife makes me a stack of pikelets that are supposed to last a week, then leaves them on the kitchen bench, where I walk past often during the day. I do not know where they go, but they are usually gone within a day, 2 at most!!! (must be the dog)
Looks like a lot of IT types on Lemmy NZ by the discussion today (I'm one too). But I've had enough of that in my lifetime, so, another gardening topic:
I've been growing some Asparagus from seed over winter in our sun room and have just got them into the ground. They take a while to establish, so I probably won't start picking them until after next winter.
Really easy to grow from seed, just have to wait a bit longer. These have gone into a no dig bed with pretty rough compost, but by the time they establish it will have rotted down well. I'll try to collect some seaweed sometime during summer and add that as well, which is recommended for Asparagus beds.
Netting to keep those hard-working blackbirds from moving the garden bed to somewhere I don't want it.
Blackbirds are my nemesis every Spring. Digging up newly composted beds and destroying seedlings in the process sometimes 😡 Also eating all our berries!
They are lucky I need them to pollinate my feijoa hedge otherwise I would try to eradicate them
Yep. We struggled for a year or two trying to keep them of gardens. Just use netting now, and don't have problems. Occasionally "catch" a cheeky sparrow that finds a gap somewhere, but they don't do any harm. When plants are big enough we take off the netting so the birds can have at the bugs. Mostly works for us.
I'm still toying with the idea of replacing my OS with linux, in spite of knowing it's a Bad Idea (because of software compatibility). Wouldn't it be nice if companies you pay money to were a little open to the idea of creating flatpaks?
I've been running linux on my laptop for the past 18 months or so. I have a headless desktop machine running windows that I still connect to regularly because it's just easier. But over time I have managed to do more and more on linux as I learn more or find different programs.
What are your must haves that don't have linux versions available?
The Adobe suite for work and the Affinity suite for myself. I use scrivener too but I'm sure I've seen open source alternatives for that and it keeps everything buried in rtf if I get stuck.
I know there are open source graphics programs available but affinity is the best I've used (much better than Adobe) and the forum posts Ive seen about Wine aren't encouraging.
You don't have to replace it completely. Dual-booting is a fine compromise, so is running Windows inside a VM.
I've been running Linux as my main OS for ~15 years now, but still run Windows in some form (and macOS).
Why settle for a single OS? Just use whatever tools are best for the job.
Software compatibility really comes down to what tools you use & why. If you have flexibility the same outcomes can be achieved with other (typically) open source alternatives a lot of the time. Gaming used to be a major challenge but has been improving rapidly over the last couple of years.
I have a macbook air for portable computing, a windows desktop for gaming, and another half a dozen linux machines for various other bits & pieces I muck about with - and really other than some games I could use any machine for anything.
Tinkering with alternative software used to be my main hobby but these days I just want stuff that works so have drifted away from it a bit.
I've always dual booted windows and Linux, I generally boot into Linux unless I know there's something I need windows for, there's a lot of hardcore Linux enthusiasts on Lemmy that will tell you why you're sub human for using windows but frankly there isn't always a way around it
Honestly, I think being on Lemmy is what put the idea back into my head in the first place. I have a permanent case of grass-is-always-greener so whatever I'm using, I want to be using something else.
Took my parents out into the ocean on our sailboat today and had perfect sailing weather all day. It was a great day had by all!
Pretty cruisey weekend, looked after my sick son for the vast majority of it, went for a sauna today and it always makes me feel really really good