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Cake day: February 15th, 2025

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  • Looking pretty good! I’ll pick nits because this is right up my straße, but it does work well for its purposes.

    I prefer sorting by botanical names, but searching helps. Common names are too woolly & unreliable.

    If you’re feeling adventurous in the long winter evenings, you could nerd out with cross references. Have a table of plants buried somewhere that are called in charts of uses, growing seasons, etc.

    You could calculate Growing Degree Days with auto-filling Base50 temp averages, or just give GDD info per plant with calculation instructions as the lazier option. Store GDD ranges & info in chart from above. I made a gnarly automatic GDD spreadsheet with home assistant filling temperatures for ornamentals and insects/pathology, but I never really look at it despite it updating every day.

    Don’t sleep on dyes, inks, etc.

    You were creative in the spelling of perennial and comfrey.

    Plants:

    • Consider adding Urtica, Papavar, Lactuca, Galium aparine. Urtica dioica is extremely useful for food, medicine, fiber, & fertilizer - the stuff of legends. Corylus (hazel) is good for building and food.
    • Not sure why you specify Symphytum x uplandicum and not just Symphytum spp., especially when your link points to S. spp.
    • Salix is a fairly big genus, and most fiber willows are going to be in the shrub or understory layers (eg Salix lucida). Willow bark as medicine is overstated, and it is not analgesic, but it does reduce fever if you hate your stomach lining.
    • Not sure what Lathyrus latifolius is doing in there - it’s not edible, and I don’t know of any uses for it other than pollinator fodder.

    Source: A particular perversion for this kind of ethnobotany & a hort degree program that indulged it (suckers!).




  • AITA for going no contact with Mama after she narced me, my friends, and my siblings out to the evil doctor in a phone call? Her response was wholly disproportionate to the situation. We were sent right to sleep in the same bed, but it was too crowded, and George fell off when we all rolled over. He’s now doing a stretch in Attica from the shame of it all setting him on a dark path of strong drink, nanners, and lord knows what else - he was always too curious :(




  • I quite like Nextcloud with Talk (spreed), but it’s a whole cloud suite. Nextcloud is E2EE, and NC Talk does text, voice, and video. The phone apps are nice too. The only problem is connecting more than 2-3 people in a voice/video call can be a bit much, so they recommend a high-performance backend (either a paid service, or annoying to set up yourself). It might be overkill if you don’t also use Nextcloud’s other applications, but I use a lot of them extensively, especially when feeding CalDav calendars etc into Home Assistant. Friends making an account on your nextcloud is pretty trivial, even for people who aren’t technical. I use the VM hooked to dedyn io for outside access, and it was all very easy to set up. I’ve had it running for about 6 years now, and only had a problem updating for a while, but it was resolved by the community forums.