That’s so cool! I’ve taken care of cabbage loopers three times now, and it’s so cool to see them do their thing. My fiancée is not a fan though since both her and the caterpillars love our Swedish ivies lol
Probably, because only two of them decimated a whole plant here. They’re hungry little buddies, so much so that I actually captured them and keep feeding them with veggies leftovers lol
Since I don’t quite understand how all this works (in fact, my field are humanities and sociology lol) I can only talk about what I’ve seen surfing. A website that I could host and requires little to run sounds super fun to me and also a nice way to dip my toes in this world, although I might be wrong about that.
I recently discovered the Fediverse and matrix, and thought it would be neat to try to host my own stuff. But again, I don’t know how literate you need to be to do any of that, and I’m probably a few months away from even understanding the basics.
Thanks for the reply! I’ll check if I can find the book in the public libraries nearby!
My brother-in-law gave me a Raspberry P1, so I might be able to do something! I’ll be checking those communities, thank you!
As for Arduino, I bought years ago an Arduino Super (?), but it doesn’t have wifi nor bluetooth is it essential, or I could use this one? I’ll have a look at those sensors. It came with a little screen, so I might be able to do some of that!
Probably because of my background I’m used to learning and understanding something before getting my hands dirty, so to speak. This might prove as a good chance to try another approach. Thank you!
Automate the boring stuff with Python sounds like something I would enjoy reading, even if it’s a bit outdated. Mozilla’s website seems a good approach for me too, since it starts from complete beginners.
I don’t think I have the time to learn much about computer science theory if it’s not something mandatory. Linux, on the other hand, is something I’m somewhat familiar too (I’ve used it a lot for uni and such as a “distraction free” OS haha) and it looks like any server that I could run on a Raspberry or similar is going to be running Linux.
It would be nice to just have a blog up and running! This morning I stumbled upon this website alexw.nyc, and I would be so happy to be able to make a website like that one, to be honest.
Being able to host a matrix server o a pixelfed instance for me, family and friends is something that would be awesome, but probably too much for someone like me, at least for now. So I’d rather go with the website.
PS: Whenever I see something like this I panic lol
Thanks for the explanation! Once you give everything a meaning it’s just another language I guess lol
I’m not on a Mac, but I do have a PC running Ubuntu so maybe that works too (?)
I’ll be looking for those resources you listed this week since we have some days off and see what I can come up with. With that and all the other suggestions I think I’m ready to do some stuff, build some break some and see how it goes haha
It is true that I thought it would be easier to know what learning is essential to me and not. I find myself now saving stuff for later and with loads of new stuff that I didn’t even know that existed before haha So far it’s fun though! I’ll probably stick to python and learn a bit of HTML and CSS for now.
I think neither of that is low-tech. The chips and software itself are state-of-the-art technology. From my perspective you’d need to add the “low”-aspect with some context. Make them solar-powered or host a blog on those services.
This is something I plan on doing. Going solar is something I definitely want to do for my website and, to be honest, I want to learn more about electronics for that same reason. It would be a sin not to since I live in Spain lol
When I was a kid I was really into computers, so I met Linux back then. Nowadays, I just use it when I’m fed up with Windows or if I need to get work done since it’s distraction free and workspaces and hot corners make my life so much easier when working with multiple documents :)
I’m all about free use and distribution of all kind of content, but also a big believer of patronage and supporting what actually made a difference in your life (because you learnt from it or just because it brought you enough joy, so to speak). I will definitely chip in!
I like how posts and replies tend to be longer here than in other platforms. It feels more like talking to actual people, and makes Lemmy less noise polluted I would say, so your reply was a very welcomed read!
We’re suffering a serious drought here though, even Barcelona’s tap water might be not available this summer! We should split our sunny and rainy days! We visited Frankfurt and Heidelberg and loved the cold and rainy days… which makes sense: we barely had any winter this year 😅
You make some good points, and being overwhelmed after trying to bite too much at once is something I’m used to, sadly, so I’ll try to think about how to approach all this. Probably pre-configured hosting as you said, so I can see the website running sooner, and we’ll then see how it goes or what calls my attention!
So, happy tinkering… Keep us posted in case you start another low-tech blog coming from Spain to us. And don’t let any complexity stop you 😊
That would be so cool! I don’t know much about practical stuff, but I plan on putting my reflections about morals and society online. It would be nice to have some kind of low-tech website like that and inspire some conversation on the topics. I’ll keep you guys posted for sure!
PS: I’m pretty sure I had a coffee with Kris, but I didn’t know about the website back then. I thought it was a cool guy, we had a good time (well me at least lol).
That’s what makes it so scary. I didn’t have long COVID and I was feeling alright about the “cold” but it took a month for me to feel like I had the same amount of energy I had before catching it.
About the younger ones… I don’t want to think about it but I can’t help thinking about my nephews. Some of them got COVID two or even three times.
The studies I’ve read aren’t too optimistic about their future health. I hope they’re wrong.
Scientists have raised concerns about whether high-income countries, with their high per-capita CO2 emissions, can decarbonise fast enough to meet their obligations under the Paris Agreement if they continue to pursue aggregate economic growth. Over the past decade, some countries have reduced their CO2 emissions while...
“At the achieved rates, these countries would on average take more than 220 years to reduce their emissions by 95%, emitting 27 times their remaining 1·5°C fair-shares in the process. To meet their 1·5°C fair-shares alongside continued economic growth, decoupling rates would on average need to increase by a factor of ten by 2025.”
So the findings are what we all thought they would be: not even close.
That’s a very evolutionist stand, which is proved to do more harm than good to society. There are economic options out of capitalism and communism, for that matter.
If you think that capitalism is going forward or a valid place to start something from, it surprises me that you’re even in this community, since even Marx himself abandoned the idea that capitalism was the necessary (although wrong) path to get to socialism.
We visited NY last year for the first time and it’s so sad to see the pictures. I hope the people is taking care of themselves and masking up despite whatever bs fox news and others say.
This is not only unhealthy but, life threatening in the short term for some people.
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Scientists increasingly worried that chronic wasting disease could jump from deer to humans (m.startribune.com)
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Does the risk of getting long Covid increase each time you get reinfected? (www.statnews.com)
Is green growth happening? An empirical analysis of achieved versus Paris-compliant CO2–GDP decoupling in high-income countries (www.thelancet.com)
Scientists have raised concerns about whether high-income countries, with their high per-capita CO2 emissions, can decarbonise fast enough to meet their obligations under the Paris Agreement if they continue to pursue aggregate economic growth. Over the past decade, some countries have reduced their CO2 emissions while...
Capitalism cannot be saved (lemmy.world)
New York Air quality is about twice as bad as the second worse city in the world. It is beyond the threshold for threatening. (arstechnica.com)