If you’re just desk jockeying for 10 hours, I’d say skip the breakfast entirely. A nice iced coffee (black or splash of oatmilk) goes a long way towards curbing hunger.
If you absolutely MUST eat in the morning, a smoothie is nice and cold, quick to make, and can be as high/low in calories as you desire. I make mine with a banana, frozen strawberries, protein powder, peanut butter powder, and soy milk (~300kcal, 30g protein) but I only have one on days I go to the gym (4 days a week)
You can’t possibly have time to breed all those different crops, so do you just buy from independent breeding/production programs, and sell retail?
Sounds pretty entertaining. Just working with local growers, or all over the nation?
That’s what I’m sayin! Goofy ass world we live in. Either that or me and “v” are the same person, and we have split personality disorder and can’t remember the password to each others lemmy accounts…
Shout out Oregon, btw.
Damn. That’ll happen.
Nice work getting out of the business. Corporations can really crush your soul. I bailed on my plant breeding background because I prefer the data side.
What kinda seed you selling these days?
Hahaha!
I was trying to keep it simple enough to answer OP about vegetables in general. But you are correct with regard to onions. I actually work for a vegetable breeding company, but I try to stay vague enough to protect my anonymity. It’s a pretty small word in the plant breeding community. (Even smaller in veg seeds specifically.)
You know your stuff, so I’ll have to assume you work for one of our competitors. And based on nothing other than assumptions made in bad faith, I will now consider you my lemmy nemesis.
Edit: wait… it’s somehow BOTH of our cake days? Are you actually me?
True Hybrids (F1) will be identical. But the catch is that you can’t have a “true hybrid f1” if your parent lines are not true breeding. Usually this involves selfing the parental lines 6+ times to obtain purebred (all genes the same allele) lines.
Lots of breeders are loose with that step, so you can occasionally get some variation in your F1. But that’s usually because selfing 2 parents 6+ times, then making the hybrid cross is at least 7 generations. In an annual crop, or even biannual (onion/carrot) this can take 7-14 years.
I can’t decide if it’s “notes box” or “box bankers”.
I do know that it’s best to not burn too much brain power trying to decipher lunatics.
“Wood” = “would”
These posts are allergic to punctuation. So there also should be a “.” or something after the “would”.
Yeah, you won’t ever have the tang that comes with using yogurt, but since I’m pretty much always stuffing them with pretty flavorful fillings, I don’t really notice.
I can’t comment on the texture because I’ve never made naan in anything but my ooni. You can snag the smaller models second hand for pretty cheap if you’re watching around. But it definitely has limited uses, and traditional bread is NOT one of them.
My friend with a 3d printer is about to get an unexpected fruit basket, as well as a link to this file…
I usually use puff pastry on top when I’m getting lazy with my sheppards pie, but this looks good!
Regarding naan- I tried with all the liquids. Water, plant milk, fake yogurt, and mixtures of all the above. I literally don’t notice a difference. So now I just use soy milk because it’s what I usually have on hand.
For me, the major contributor is using 50% whole wheat flour. And cook for like 30 seconds in the ooni at 800f. Honestly super easy, and takes the level of any curry dish to the next level without much additional effort.
Oh hell yeah. You got all the trickery going on there. It’s a rabbit hole I fell down years ago, so I wanted to see if you had done the same.
Eventually I caved and got a propane Ooni, but after going vegan I make far more naan and pita than I do pizza with it!
Either way, beautiful pizza. I’ve found the liquid mozz miyoko’s vegan cheese to be the best approximation for craving that “pizza” shaped hole.
Really good looking crust there! Home oven? Did you use any tricks or gear to get such a nice rise and color? (Pizza stone/steel, broiler, etc?)
The democrats should not have dressed so provocatively!
Not true. VFTs prefer nutrient poor soil. In fact, the main reason owners of these plants fail to keep them alive is not watering them with pure enough water. You’re supposed to use water with a TDS below 100ppm. Rain water or RO water preferred.
The reason these plants can survive in such low nutrient soils is because they evolved a different mechanism for obtaining nutrients.
I don’t know if a vac sealer would help, but I have no experience with one. I’ve seen a recipe that uses one to get marinade deep into a mushroom steak, but mushrooms are not the same as tofu!
Give it a try and report back!
Yup! Soak beans over night, sauté veggies in the instapot with oil, add spices/beans/broth, blast in instapot. They’re better the next day.
Same rice method you described. But I don’t use a rice cooker because I don’t have one. And I use tomato paste, not salsa.
Biked to the farmers market to snag some giant lions mane mushrooms. Cooked/pressed them into steaks. Marinated with beet root powder, red wine, oil, seasonings in the fridge. Take it out, sear it up, and slice it.
I can’t add a photo in the body of this post, but if there’s interest, I’ll post another with just the “meat”
Edit: home made fresh corn tortillas, homemade beans, and my take on Spanish rice.
Couple experiments with making tofu replicate the texture and fishiness of salmon.
Marinade is full of seaweed(flavor) and beet juice(color).
The “skin” is made with rice paper and nori. Struggled to keep the skin stuck to the tofu, and varying cook methods achieved varying levels of crispness. But on the whole- great stuff. Great excuse to eat a block of tofu with pretty minimal prep.
Some pan fried squash on the side.
I love making naan in my pizza oven. Especially since I don’t make nearly as much pizza now that I don’t eat cheese!
We use extra firm tofu instead of paneer, and it’s texture is actually pretty perfect for it.
I make seitan deli meat loaves in two flavors: Turkey and ham. This is the ham variety. Sliced thin, and lightly toasted in a pan with a dash of oil. Let the edges get crispy, pile it up, and slap a piece of fake cheese on it. Cover the pan and let melt.
In a different pan, sauté some diced onion in olive oil until slightly carmelized. Turn off heat, add horseradish mustard, mix.
Toast ciabatta bun, spread the onion/mustard mix on, top with the meat/cheese pile, load up some pickles and go crazy.
I have a pic of the inside after I took a bite which better shows the texture of the “ham”, but I have no idea how to add it.
Sorry for the shit pic. I’m a bit drunk right now.
Made my normal crispy tofu bullshit, but instead of coating it in Buffalo sauce and wrapping it up with celery and ranch, I followed a recipe I stumbled into on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-zkj_8bOd58?si=oS_iEd8MtRdmbijD
I steamed some leftover rice, and cooked up some. Asparagus from the garden as well as some bok choy I had leftover. Shit was slappin.
EDIT: It seems something is causing my wireguard hanshake to fail. I can't find much on this particular error except "try rebooting the wg server". I rebooted everything, and I can't get it to connect unless the clients are already connected to the home wifi.
So I installed wg-easy on my one of my virtual machines on my proxmox "homelab". It seems to be working, and I installed the client wireguard-tools on my phone (via app), and on my laptop (EndeavorOS), and on my minecraft server (mineOS also in proxmox).
The web client for wg-easy shows all 3 clients connected and transmitting data.
I used my routers app to open the port to the wg-easy server.
I attempted to use my phone's cell network to pretend like I am not home, and simply ping my minecraft server. I tried with the wg ip (10.8.0.x) and I tried pinging the normal wlan ip (192.168.x.x). Neither work. I'm really confused as to why this simple test didn't work. The documentation on wireguard's site is pretty sparse when it comes to testing your own setup. Doe anyone have any resource to help me understand how this should work?
Side note: I have to have wireguard installed on every computer in my home network if I want to be able to reach them, correct?
other side note: If I wanted to reach my minecraft webUI (mineOS) from outside my network, what address should I use?
Okay, I am super new to tiling windows managers, and let me just say - Sway made me an instant convert. I'm obsessed. But I still have no clue what I'm doing.
So I have been trying out every status bar I can to see what looks good, what feels good, and what has the best efficiency for some of my SUPER low-grade hardware.
This brings me to yambar. It is touted as the most resource efficient status bars, and because I only want to see a few things (battery, ram, cpu, volume, time/date), I figured it was a good fit. I downloaded and installed it (used AUR) and I had a few issues getting it installed, but eventually go there. (I should probably say right now that I'm also new to Arch. All my previous Linux experience has been Debian based.)
So now that yambar is installed, I snagged the example config.yaml and moved/renamed it to ~/.config/yambar/config.yaml. Now most of the previous status bars I've been trying required you to add/change something in the ~/.config/sway/config to make them go. usually in between some bar:{status_command }. So I went ahead and tried to add status_command /usr/bin/yambar in there, and I just got errors.
I've read the documentation on yambar's codeberg like 100 times, and there isn't anything in there about how to actually activate this darn bar. I'm guessing I'm missing something totally noob.
Help?
(ps- love the community. Subscribed immediately.)
Okay, most of the relevant information is in the title - I got a nice deal on an old Lenovo X280, threw Debian on there with KDE. I have an HP Elite book for my work, and thus a work provided HP G2 DisplayLink dock with USBC connection.
In order for this dock to work, I had to install the displaylink drivers for "Ubuntu" from here. The drivers work as expected, and I am able to dock the X280 to my workstation, and use both external monitors. It feels pretty nice when I am just browsing/emailing/bullshitting. But when I tried to play Minecraft on it, the game feels incredibly laggy.
At first I thought this was due to an under-powered graphics card, but I did some testing with the external monitors using an HDMI cord directly to the X280, and everything feels clean and smooth when I use it in that way. The other odd glitch is that when I have the laptop docked, and I am trying to play MC, if I put MC on the external monitor = lag. But if I just drag the MC window to the laptop's screen = no lag.
I'm assuming this issue is related to the dock and/or drivers. I've looked around for some sort of workaround, but came up empty handed. So now I think the solution might be a different dock. The dock would need to:
- support USBC connections to my HP Elitebook, preferably without new drivers needed for the HP (dumb work won't give me admin rights, but I think I could convince them to install the necessary drivers for me. I WFH, so it makes sense that I would need a setup at home.
- support USB/Lightning to my X280
- have 1+ HDMI out or 2+ Display port out
So... Does anyone have any experience with Linux (Debian preferred) compatible docks that don't introduce input delay when gaming?
ps. Sweet community you got here. I subbed, and it's DEFINITELY going to result in me buying more stuff...
Hi all, recently I got my partner an older Lenovo laptop (x280) to replace her aging Chromebook. I swapped the windows OS for Linux, and installed MC, hoping to get her into playing with me. She does enjoy playing, but that computer is just too weak to run it without it looking like shit and lagging like crazy. I'd like to get her something else that would be dedicated to playing minecraft, but because it would EXCLUSIVELY be for playing MC, I don't want to spend a lot of cash. It doesn't have to be a laptop (I'd expect it to be cheaper to not be one), but I'd like it to be smaller than a full-fledged desktop. Her current x280 has an intel i7 (1.9ghz) and 16GB RAM, so I'm guessing the issue is the video card or lack there of. I'm not looking for minimum specs, so answers from official documentation is pretty hard to apply here. Does anyone have any experience running MC smoothly on something like a NUC or other miniPC?
(we only play multiplayer Java edition on my self hosted server running Paper. No mods yet, but I think eventually Ill get into the mod game.)
I have a Shelly Dimmer2 flashed with Tasmota. It has two 'switch' inputs. I have the shelly installed behind a two-gang switch box with the two inputs connected to two different switches. But currently, if I flip either switch, the same light is flipped (the one connected to the output of the Shelly Dimmer)
I thought I could disconnect one of the switch inputs, and use it to send an MQTT message to a different light in my HA config. Effectively using one Shelly device to convert two 'dumb' switches into smart ones.
I have dug through the docs at Tasmota, and I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. Am I using the wrong keywords?
I recently installed Debian 12 using Xfce on my SUPER old chromebook to extend its life. Everything has been really nice so far. But I use the chromebook for browsing 90% of the time, so I like to have everything as easily operated as possible, and I am used to being able to navigate forward and back in the browser using two finger swipe gestures. After some googling, I saw that the support for this just got added in Wayland environments. That implies that it already existed in X11 environments? After a while, I found that if you hold 'alt' you can use the swipe gestures. It defeats the purpose of gestures if you have to use both hands, so I was hoping there was a way to get this functionality back.
(Mozilla Firefox version = 115.6.0esr)
Background: I'm not "new" to linux, but this is my first year daily driving it. I have been running Mint on my main PC for a little over a year, and I love it.
My super old chromebook (Acer c720) has reached end of life. It is no longer supported by Google, and will not receive updates. I've toyed with dual-booting it to Linux in the past with Bodhi, but eventually it broke, and I ended up reverting to ChromeOS. That was years ago, and my patience/knowledge has grown, and I'm committed to switching.
So the other day I went ahead and pulled the trigger. I removed the write-protect screw from the Chromebook's motherboard, and installed Debian 12. I really just chose Debian because I already had a flash drive with the ISO on it for a different project (rooting my Dreame vacuum). It also runs GNOME by default, and I had never used that, so I thought it would be worth a try. Turns out, I didn't mind GNOME, and I really loved the three-finger swipe to switch workspaces. BUT... The function keys on the chromebook that are used for changing the screen's brightness don't work. So I dove down the rabbit hole of trying to get those to work. Found 'xbacklight' and gave it a go. didn't work, and I struggled with it for a few hours until I discovered that xbacklight doesn't work with Wayland... So I attempted to disable wayland, and also made some other changes that lead to my Chromebook not completing its boot up... whoops. Every challenge is an opportunity, so I figured - why not explore some other distros, and see if I can't find one that fits my needs a bit better?
Now the request: The hardware of this machine is OLD, so I am hoping to put something super light on it, but still be able to have a few features:
- Trackpad gestures (swapping workspaces, navigating firefox).
- Window snapping (left and right panes at least)
- I don't care too much about how it looks, but I need to be able to map the function keys to volume and brightness.
I have been lurking on Lemmy for long enough to have watched all the memes/conversations about different desktop managers (GNOME/Xfce/etc) but I never really understood what the deal was, but now I am coming face to face with that decision, and I'd love some "professional" input!
Edit: the only "real" activities I will use this for is web browsing, terminal stuffs for my servers/other machines/homeassistant, and some note taking. So default programs can be SUPER minimum.
I want to get my partner a replacement for an aging chromebook. I was thinking it would be easiest to just grab another super budget chromebook and call it a day. But the more I read about google and chrome, the less I want to do with them.
So my goal is to snag a cheap ($300ish?) laptop that I can slap Linux on (probably mint, but I’m open to suggestions).
The main caveat is the size- needs to be small. Current chromebook is 11.5” I think. I’d like to keep it under 13”. The main use (95% will be web browsing/streaming/email/bullshit) but I’d like it to have enough juice to play Minecraft on my local server.
I’ve looked around a bit, but my god there is a lot of options. I’d love it if there was just a recommendation that was proven to work. I’m busy enough tinkering with all the other tech, and I’d like to just set this one up and forget it.
Currently I’ve got 12 can lights in my living room, entry, and kitchen. Three different sections, all controlled by an inovelli red switch.
All of the existing can lights are just LED chips with an E27 adapter. They are all locked in a specific color temp (4000k is my fav).
After using the adaptive lighting integration, I am convinced I want my whole house to have the ability to change brightness and color temp. I’d like to do this as cheaply as possible.
One option is smart bulbs. That’s 12 bulbs, plus the dumb can light bulb cover things. What is the cheapest bulb for this? This solution doesn’t take advantage of the very fancy inovelli switch either.
Any way to leverage the nice switches, and have “dumb lights” that can be controlled via the switch? I know this sounds impossible, because there is no data going to the bulbs that would allow changing the color temp, but I just can’t stand the idea of buying 12 smart bulbs.
Got some friends together to help us roll some sushi. Here are some of the prettier attempts!
Based mostly on the serious eats recipe. We added siracha to the Mayo, and smashed avacado to the toasted bun.
I also don’t think the marinade needs to go on the tofu much before grilling. Just a quick rub to get the color for grilling. Then I spread a layer of the marinade on the bun.
Portland pub bun. Game changer.
I’ve finally configured my garden and landscaping on drip irrigation, but I’m using some dumb valves hooked up to my house hose spigot.
I would absolutely love a smart valve that I can have better control of the schedule, or respond to sensors.
After some looking around, it seems like “Rachio” is the only integration I can find for something like this. It’s a bit pricy ($99 per valve), and it looks like it needs a wifi hub to work. Has anyone used this integration successfully?
Is there any other options? There seem to be lots of “Bluetooth” controllers available in the big box stores, but I’m guessing they will need an app or something?