I’m confused about caffeine pills.

Vivarin (200 mg), pic related and as of recent drug of choice works way better for me than off brand tablets. Feels like ~8 hours of energy. Then a big crash.

Tried many off-brand caffeine tablets, even double dose. Mostly just headaches though and not the same “clean” alertness.

I assumed quality control or additives or what not. But it’s literally just caffeine, right? Do other people see this? Could tablet fillers / how fast it dissolves matter? Or is this just tolerance + timing + placebo?

What’s the actual mechanism here?

Vivarin is the first time I understand why some people call it poor people's meth...

Hi Lemmings,

when I repot these citrus cuttings, how far up do I expose the stem base? Do I just uncover enough to find the highest roots and set that near soil level, or should I expose more? And with the old Jiffy pellet, is it better to carefully peel it off, just slit the mesh, or mostly leave it alone at this stage? These are still young cuttings, not established trees, so I’m trying not to damage the new root system while also not planting them too deep.

Closeup of the fresh cutting in a peat pellet:

Context: I propagated some citrus cuttings in Jiffy peat pellets. They rooted, then I potted them up into regular potting mix. They are alive and pushing new leaves, so that part seems fine, but I’m realizing the peat pellet was probably not the best choice and I’ll likely need to repot them again soon.

I looked into it a bit, and from what I found, for fresh rooted citrus cuttings you generally do not want to bare the whole stem all the way down to the original cut end just because roots may have formed there. The important part seems to be keeping the plant at about the right depth relative to where the first real roots / root flare zone starts. In other words, avoid burying too much unrooted stem, since that can raise the chance of rot, but it is apparently fine for the actual rooted section of the cutting to stay buried.

What I found about the Jiffy pellet itself was mixed. Some people say roots grow through the mesh fine, others say the mesh can restrict roots and should be removed. The most reasonable advice I found was: when repotting, don’t rip everything apart. Instead, take the root ball out, gently remove loose mix from the top until you can see where the first roots start, then maybe slit the pellet mesh vertically and remove only the parts that come off easily without tearing roots.

And advice / experience reports most welcome!

Closeup of the original tree's root flare for comparison:

So Arch just moved to NVIDIA 590 and dropped Pascal support. I’m running an older Predator laptop with a GTX 1070 (Pascal) + Intel iGPU. After the update, NVIDIA is basically gone, but Intel fallback still gives me a working desktop.

This machine was always a fallback gaming laptop, not my primary system, but I’d still like to make reasonable use of it.

My current situation: Arch Linux with KDE Plasma, Intel graphics works fine, NVIDIA 1070 is unusable unless I go legacy, Wayland currently working only because I’m on Intel.

From what I understand: NVIDIA legacy (580xx) = X11 only, Wayland + Pascal is basically dead.

Arch will keep moving kernels, so legacy drivers mean ongoing maintenance...

(picture related).

What I’m trying to decide:

Stick with Arch, install legacy NVIDIA, switch to X11, accept maintenance?

Ditch NVIDIA entirely, run Intel + Wayland, and treat the 1070 as dead weight?

Switch to a slower-moving distro (Debian?) just to keep X11 + NVIDIA working longer?

Or is there a better hybrid setup people are actually happy with?

I’m not looking to resurrect Pascal forever, just trying to choose the least stupid path for a secondary machine without fighting my system every update.

Curious what others with GTX 10xx laptops are actually doing in practice.

So Arch just moved to NVIDIA 590 and dropped Pascal support. I’m running an older Predator laptop with a GTX 1070 (Pascal) + Intel iGPU. After the update, NVIDIA is basically gone, but Intel fallback still gives me a working desktop.

This machine was always a fallback gaming laptop, not my primary system, but I’d still like to make reasonable use of it.

My current situation: Arch Linux with KDE Plasma, Intel graphics works fine, NVIDIA 1070 is unusable unless I go legacy, Wayland currently working only because I’m on Intel.

From what I understand: NVIDIA legacy (580xx) = X11 only, Wayland + Pascal is basically dead.

Arch will keep moving kernels, so legacy drivers mean ongoing maintenance...

(picture related).

What I’m trying to decide:

Stick with Arch, install legacy NVIDIA, switch to X11, accept maintenance?

Ditch NVIDIA entirely, run Intel + Wayland, and treat the 1070 as dead weight?

Switch to a slower-moving distro (Debian?) just to keep X11 + NVIDIA working longer?

Or is there a better hybrid setup people are actually happy with?

I’m not looking to resurrect Pascal forever, just trying to choose the least stupid path for a secondary machine without fighting my system every update.

Curious what others with GTX 10xx laptops are actually doing in practice.

The hubris it must take to yank a soul out of nonexistence into this... meat, to force a life into this... thresher.

Hi! Any idea on what those are? I found them in my raised bed while preparing it for the spring season. They look like little onions but have the texture of potatoes.

I live in Georgia, USA.

Miss how the world used to be. Easier times.

Wenn ich die ganzen Störche loswerden will.