I’m always hesitant on these systems without water testing “certificates”. Removing turbidity and removing bacteria is a different kettle, one is invisible and far more dangerous.
That said, there is plenty of evidence that worms do break down viruses and bacteria so potentially the system is safe to do surface water. I wouldn’t be playing, drinking, or eating root crops from it, but it’s definitely better than shitting straight into a creek.
We have some worm farm systems here in Aus but they need to be approved by the Local/State Government (Victorian certs: www.epa.vic.gov.au/…/onsite-wastewater-systems) you reside in. A couple of examples:
Even my greywater treatment got worms into it and they are thriving. This is a biochar/plant/worm system so 3x the cleaning power? I don’t know, I can just make up wild claims on the internet. Good enough to drink! Trust me!
Commenting from a laypersons’ perspective for new users, with my minor Linux experience and an inability to remember commands, don’t be frightened in giving it a go. If I can do it, anyone can. I run Fedora Kinoite on a second harddrive, use the BIOS Boot Menu to boot in, and then “rebased” to the UBlue Kinoite image using the provided commands once I read about it.
Almost everything is on Flatpak so I don’t even notice a difference with much. I had trouble layering the Mullvad VPN app (originally just using ovpn profiles) and I’m not sure I did it right in relation to updating but it seems to work.
Basically, I don’t understand much about it but it’s a completely usable operating system from my perspective.
Thanks for the write-up. It was helpful in increasing some knowledge.
This got me thinking since uBlock Origin can do a lot of blocking (basically replacing a lot of extensions) as to whether or not there are filter lists available.
Install ublockorigin.com, go to Filter Lists in Settings, go to the bottom and Import. Add the link .txt above, then apply. All blocked. To remove, hit the little red bin icon next to the list in the Custom list area and then apply.
If you haven’t looked lately, check out what uBlock Origin filter lists can do for you!
I live in an “back-to-the-land” “ecovillage”. It’s a disaster and not very “eco” (depending on how you define it) but would I live anywhere else? No, I love it.
It was early permaculturalists having a shot with design and got a lot right, and some wrong. If the world didn’t double down on fuel extraction with the peak oil scare, then maybe it could have worked like any small rural township but personal cars are still dominant here. It’s just too far away from anything to work in that regard. A cooperative on a train line with fertile soils might be better.
The place operates under a Body Corporate (or similar to a HOA), land is held in common (600 acres plus) and freehold lots make up the rest. You pay into common land management, you can work some back.
The best thing is the gravity fed reticulated water system fed from header tanks all at same altitude across property. It was the first of its kind designed. All houses have firefighting hydrants too. Dams are large and integrated into road surface. A recent project was Fibre to the Home done with a single pass tractor and blown fibre.
The freehold lots should have been put into trust so they don’t get bought and resold repeatedly for ever increasing prices. Originally they were $20K, now an empty lot is worth 450K and houses have hit 800K. Some lots have cycled for millions.
Internal roads are expensive to maintain as houses are spread out over ridges, leaving river flats open to agriculture. Could a light rail make sense? A single electric bus? It was the 80’s/early 90’s, cars have always been front and centre here.
Succession plans. An aged care facility should have been built, now there are people in their 80s rattling around in their houses and their lots go into disrepair. If property was held in trust, new younger owners could move in and with that, the energy to make change. As it is, most are renters and don’t give a fuck, and fair enough. No one young can buy in so new owners are always old.
Due to age, and some other factors (young people need money to work), no one volunteers for common land ecological maintenance which means barely anything gets done. Parties for personal enjoyment outnumber working bees by a factor of 100.
It was a back to the land, not really a cooperative business, not many streams for money making that would benefit more than a few. It’s just a subdivision in the bush that has a lot of plants planted in the 90s and early 2000s. It’s a high mix of exotics but wildlife has returned heavily so successful in that regard considering it was degraded when they started. It’s a mostly stunning place that has water needs sorted. There isn’t enough money in food production to warrant the planting of food production though small successful business have come and gone in market garden, bamboo, and nurseries.
I’m usually a C2 sort of guy, but through bad luck and (my own) poor performance, I’ve begun my Sunday morning with a B1. Whilst a bad start to the day, I’m determined not to let it ruin what could be a good Sunday....
That chart is different to an earlier one I saw. My partner likes C4 but she would turn her nose up at this particular C4. She too said she likes the look of C2 on this one.
Is there a standard tea colour chart to prevent quiet grumbling?
It’s not in Newpipe, it’s the Android app settings for it. Long press the icon, ‘app info’, scroll down to ‘open by default’. You have to manually click each link which takes a while. Not sure if there is an easier way.
Edit: this was at the bottom (learn more about open by default):
Petrol has been refined, wood smoke is unrefined and an improperly burning one, or something not efficient like a pot belly, really pump out the pollutants. My neighbour does green wood stack burns without a care in the world.
I wholeheartedly agree with you but in semi-urban/urban areas, this is low-hanging fruit for air pollution. Bit of a no-brainer.
Yeah, but a lot of modern trucks burn off the particulates these days. They run heat through an accumulator for 5-10 mins or so, at least our tree truck did.
A poorly run fire is bad for PM2.5 which is the one that lodges in the lungs. It’s hard to regulate. You can make a smoky modern efficient fireplace too. Even wood types. Difficult to regulate and if electricity is available, reverse cycle is the go.
I think this more reads like “How to fight non-native species with native species”.
The definition of invasive doesn’t really lend itself to an easy change-out. Truly invasive are the plants that modify the entire ecosystem, brings trees down, swamps everything else, spreads easily, difficult to eradicate etc.
I work in the invasive plant industry and I wish it were that easy. Sure, some jobs are “remove the exotics” but that’s simple work compared to the true monsters.
I’m trying to post some stuff over at literature.cafe, but it seems it isn’t federating. I checked the modlog to see if I was banned, but nothing came up. When I attempt to press over to read some stuff in the meta community, it bounces me elsewhere. Does anyone know what the issue might be?
Nope. But there would be a difference in components in cheap versus expensive, perhaps even how the aerial is situated inside phone?
A guy I worked with had an iphone 4 on the same provider as me and sometimes he would get reception where we were provided a satellite phone in a deep valley. That phone was an absolute beast, we still talk about it 7 years later as it got us out of trouble a few times. Our job keeps us outside of mobile reception and there is a difference between each phone on site even when they are all running Telstra or resellers. The Optus and Vodaphone people suffer more than us.
You just gotta ease it into the water. Isn’t their water so high that if the high fibre diet is followed, you can slip it into the water like a crocodile?
Hello all! Do you recommend any eco friendly loofah alternatives, or anything really to scrub your body in the shower with. The fact that most loofahs are made from unrecyclable plastic concerns me.
Home made full domestic wastewater treatment system using active vermifiltration (youtu.be)
www.vermifilter.com
My Kiwiberry plant did **NOT** enjoy the recent heat here in South Brisbane (aussie.zone)
Some close up shots of the damage:...
Immutable Distros: What you should know - An introduction into image based systems (Part 1)
This post is part of my “Immutable Linux” post series I have planned....
FYI: Firefox extension to block websites that Rupert Murdoch controls (addons.mozilla.org)
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…/bye-rupert/...
Are Ecovillages Impossible? | The back-to-the-land 1970s model ecovillage doesn't work for younger generations. Here's what does (terrenity.substack.com)
It's time we had this conversation. (feddit.uk)
I’m usually a C2 sort of guy, but through bad luck and (my own) poor performance, I’ve begun my Sunday morning with a B1. Whilst a bad start to the day, I’m determined not to let it ruin what could be a good Sunday....
What Could Replace the Australian Flag? (yt.artemislena.eu)
Wood heater smoke estimated to kill up to 63 in ACT each year, prompting calls for national ban (www.abc.net.au)
Checking out fire trails on the dirt bike (aussie.zone)
Get them while they're hot (slrpnk.net)
8 lanes in one direction (beehaw.org)
This is in a city of 175,000 people. And in a “liberal”, West Coast, US city. You really can’t get away from this stuff in North America.
Invasive Species - How to Fight Plants with Plants (www.humanegardener.com)
Having a bit of a weird one
I’m trying to post some stuff over at literature.cafe, but it seems it isn’t federating. I checked the modlog to see if I was banned, but nothing came up. When I attempt to press over to read some stuff in the meta community, it bounces me elsewhere. Does anyone know what the issue might be?
Australian Cannabis Cultivation (i.postimg.cc)
Well, the next best thing....
Who is responsible for requesting/issuing cell phone coverage upgrades?
The city I live in, Port Macquarie, has awful cell phone reception basically everywhere (I’m on the Vodafone network)....
Federation broken with Aussie.zone (aussie.zone)
I’ve made an account here because I can’t contact you through my normal @WaterWaiver account. Example test showing broken fed....
Federation with <0.19.1 Instances - *updated by u/lodion*
Usually I post to slrpnk.net and they are currently on 0.18.5. None of my posts/comments (2 posts, 1 comment) are federating....
Eco friendly loofah alternatives?
Hello all! Do you recommend any eco friendly loofah alternatives, or anything really to scrub your body in the shower with. The fact that most loofahs are made from unrecyclable plastic concerns me.