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  • Luccus@feddit.orgtoScience Memes@mander.xyzForbidden Gummies
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    23 days ago

    As someone who grows figs in their living room:

    Most commercial (and even hobbyist) fig varieties are parthenocarpic, meaning they don’t require pollination.

    And fig wasps don’t look like that. They’re tiny little guys that most people would probably mistake for a very small ant.

    And even if the fig was pollinated by a wasp, it uses enzymes to break down the insects body, to protect itself from mold and other pathenogens that such may cause.

    Basically; fig waps are itsy bitsy wittle wupies, while figs are digesting their dead mothers corpses, because they are metal as fuuuuuck.


  • What is the point of paying for the pipe if you don’t use everything you can?! There is no reason they shouldn’t push it through faster.

    This is the reason why I leave the shower running in every hotel I visit. And at the buffet, I tell the waiter to fetch me a trash can so I can actually get rid of the whole thing. If I can, I usually leave both a heater and an air conditioner running in the hallway.

    Edit: Wow. I had completely forgotten about this comment. I really didn’t think anyone would take it seriously. I work with networks. I know we’re not literally going to run out of internet. But everyone treats bandwidth as this freely available resource. Advertisers, consumers, creatives and Jürgen. Fuck you, Jürgen. We both know that downloading 6 fucking MB every time someone wants to queue up the database is fucking insane, as is your reliance on client-side bullshit.

    Anyway, whenever a anything loads slowly, think about why. Bandwith is not free. It’s a maintained resource.





  • Luccus@feddit.orgtoich_iel@feddit.orgich💀iel
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    1 month ago

    DSW:

    Eine helle Nutzerschnittstelle in einem hellen Zimmer schont die Augen. Anders rum, anders rum.

    Pluspunkte gibt’s für einen Bildschirm, mit vernünftigem Weißpunkt und einem automatischen Nachtmodus zum Abend.

    EDIT: hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl hat eine enorm wichtige Frage gestellt und ich schäme mich etwas, einfach so Halbwissen weitergegeben zu haben. Diese Weißheit hatte ich vor bestimmt 'ner Dekade (+/- 'n Jahr oder so) gelesen. Ich weiß aber aktuell nicht mehr wo und kann diesen “Fakt” schlicht nicht mehr mit vernünftigen Quellen belegen.

    Hinzu kommt, dass damals™ mein mentaler Medienfilter deutlich schlechter war. Joar. Ggf. erzähl ich Schwachfu. Recherchiert das lieber nochmal.







  • Luccus@feddit.orgtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldEarbuds
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    2 months ago

    Which cannot connect to a phone unless it’s unlocked, as accepting every USB-C connection carries security risks. They also require negotiation, which can fail at any time, meaning you have to unlock, disconnect, reconnect.

    I also have a nice, external (and still cheap) DAC on my computer. It has a headphone jack. This means I need to be able to disconnect the USB-C dongle from my headphones, unless I want to have two separate headphones for my phone and my PC. By extension this requires me to go searching for the dongle from time to time.

    I love USB-C. But the headphone jack had what companies and people claim to want: simplicity.

    Headphone jacks solved a single but extremly common problem very well. USB-C provides a workaround for it.


  • The initial comment resonated so much with me, that I feel the need to answer, even though I wasn’t even asked: YES

    A few years ago I was in a really dark place. I lost 3 kg in 2 months and when I wasn’t at work, I was lying in my bed on the verge of crying, half-listening to YouTube just to scare the thoughts away.

    But the thing, that finally got me out of the loop, was getting myself a houseplant, after watching a plant YouTuber for a while. And when I got home, rather than cry, I obsessively cleaned every speck of dust off the leaves, measured the soil moisture with a stick and just watched it be. And something just clicked inside me and I realized that I had found something I wanted to do; probably forever, if given the chance.

    Still have the same plant; cut, repotted and propagated. And while I’m at a much better place now - physically, mentally, financially - just thinking about giving that (houseplants) up feels like going back.


  • Luccus@feddit.orgOPtoHouseplants@mander.xyzCherimoya Fruit!
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    3 months ago

    Funnily enough, it’s my least troublesome plant.

    I got it as a impulse purchase. But the novelty only lasted a few weeks, so I pretty much dismissed it and put it in the bathroom to get more space for plants I liked better. But it endured for a entire year, thanklessly and without a single complaint. No pests, no fertilizer issues, no water problems, no rot or anything. And then it put put it’s first flowers aswell.

    This one really clawed it’s way back into my heart and I consider one of my favorite plants by now. It really earned it.


  • Luccus@feddit.orgOPtoHouseplants@mander.xyzCherimoya Fruit!
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    3 months ago

    It’s currently in my bathroom, which is clean but still not very sighty. And I’m currently trying to kinda trellis it as it has become quite unwieldy and I can’t really move it much without risking it.

    But I’m planning to relocate it after pruning next spring. As soon as the leaves have grown back, there will definitely be pictures! :D