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Starfruit off the tree
These grow like weeds and are heat resistant in this climate. Local groceries have the gall to charge $2 per fruit.
Recently pulled where almost everything is burning to a crisp
In Florida, everything in the garden, even the stuff that should be heat tolerant is burning to a crisp with 100+ degree temps every freakin day.
Upgraded to 24.04
I hit a kernel panic after the upgrade.
The fix was easy enough for me to find and correct, out of space in the efi part due to windows dual boot stuff in there too. I removed the old kernel rebuilt and I was good.
I wo der how many people hit that and were stumped.
My 2 concerns to date are
1 just a bad file manager. Its dumbed down for people and I hate it.
2 lack of support for veracrypt volumes.
My 1st carrot harvest
Not too bad. Too many smaller ones means i planted too close together. I spaced them out more this time around and will add more water and manure.... should come out better.
Live updates: Trump says he’s enacted a 10% global tariff by executive order
Trump just said Fuck You to the supreme court decision and to Congress. He signed an order saying he will enact 10%tariffs and can ignore congress.
Who has the power to arrest him for contempt of court?
https://apnews.com/live/supreme-court-tariff-ruling-updatesOpen linkView original on lemmy.worldHarvested gandules and carambola
Pulled these today. Only got through peeling half of the gandule pods. I'll be handing out starfruit to the neighbors.
What is the best way to repair this large crack UPDATED
This is a wing Chung training dummy. Its 50 plus years old. The crack runs down the length of the dummy. It doesn't move, its still very solid, but we would like to seal the crack to avoid further damage.
Our thought wes to use wood shims to fill in the space with wood glue, then use straps or screw down hose fittings to squeeze the dummy together so the glue and shims hold. Then saw off the excess and stain to match color.
Is there a better method or is the above plan stupid? This dummy is special and has history, I just don't want to make it worse.
Update: Thanks for the suggestions. This wood is hard as a rock. I tried a small wood chisel just to see if a butterfly joint was doable and I could barely scratch the thing. I am guessing I couldn't squeeze it tighter around glue and shims either.
Someone mentioned just leave it if its that old....i m thinking I might just do that. I may just fill in the crack them closely watch it for signs of damage as it gets used.
I'm being very careful because this thing has history being used by Dan Inosanto.
Dragon fruit update
That yellow bulb is the remnants of the large flower I had. Am I correct in assuming that is the fruit? It's a slow grower if it is.
A surprise IRS move on political endorsements leaves faith leaders and legal experts divided
IRS now says churches won't lose tax exempt status for political endorsements.
https://apnews.com/article/irs-religious-leaders-political-endorsements-trump-6e4f0edc51fff936cd6a0e174dc43dccOpen linkView original on lemmy.worldTrump appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from privatizing weather forecasts
And there it is. The real reason to destroy NOAA and the NHC.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-lutnick-weather-service-privatization-conflicts-9892de853c283468e6fb970cfd898d96Open linkView original on lemmy.worldHarvested a few items today
Was able to pick enough for my dinner tonight.
Dragon fruit Update
The 1st flower wilted away....see it there in the left. The 2nd flower appeared and is much bigger and healthier. Waiting to see if I get any fruit here.



