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Self-Watering Pots - What are they good for?
  • I don't understand the issues surrounding bottom watering pots with a wick.

    I have a number of succulents in them, and of course the usual unkillable Pothos. I partially/fully fill the bottom part (Depending on it's carrying capacity) once every 2+ weeks and for the succulents they're good to go. Saves me A LOT of effort doing the usual bottom watering process of putting the pots in a large container of water until the water saturates the soil.

    Can someone go into detail on the downsides of such pots?

  • BIFL compression garments
  • I've been using socks from here: https://procompression.com/

    However I don't think this type of socks is really BiFL. The elastic in them will get tired, and I have had several doctors recommend replacing them after 6 months because of it. I tend to agree with those docs as I have found that the elastic does stretch over time and they do not have nearly the compression after 6-12 months than when new.

  • Help me identify this plant believed to be a succulent or cactus

    I bought this plant from Home Depot about two years. While repotting it these "fingers" fell off.

    Unfortunately I cannot find a picture to identify the plan so I'm hoping someone here can. And can I use them to propagate the plant, or do they go into compost?

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    Meta Services, Sorry WHAT!?
  • Some of that stuff just doesn’t exist now without Google.

    I disagree. EVERYTHING Google offers has some sort of alternative. Will it take more effort? Sure. But I have been Google free for over 2 years now and I have not once been unable to do anything because Google has some imagined exclusivity.

    Start here for apps
    CalyxOS
    GrapheneOS

    And for the diehard there's the Fairphone

  • Shell boss under fire for saying cutting fossil fuel production is ‘dangerous’
  • "We have better non earth destroying energy fossil fuel.. That guy is a dinosaur."

    So you're willing to give up plastics and electronics, which use byproducts from oil refining? Let us know when you practice what you preach.

  • Is there an idiots guide to self hosting?
  • What's the difference between a docker and just installing an app on rented server space?

    Functionally? Not much. But people who selfhost typically want everything on computers they own. Whether it's for learning purposes, or to not have their stuff on "someone else's computer" selfhosting usually means you're running software on computers you own, almost always within your own house.

    Does each dock (?) have its own server? (Apache or nginx or whatever?)

    Each docker image usually has a web server built in. The philosophy of docker is that it contains everything needed to run the app. Even a small linux OS (LibELEC or Alpine are favorites for docker images). So while you're not managing the web server in a docker image each docker image will have its own web server if web access is needed

    Does each dock host a whole site, or do you have a dock for your database and a dock for your web app?

    Docker the program is what runs all the docker images on a computer. Each docker image is built as per the software's developer. Some docker images will have a web app and a database combined into a single image, while others will expect a separate database server running independent of the image (It won't care if the database server is a docker image or not; just that it has access)

  • Trump takes aim at EV industry during speech to Michigan Republicans
  • EV proponents...I mean fanbois are still in love with China and the slave/child labor in the Congo. Nothing says "I love EVs" like genocide, concentration camps, totalitarian regimes, and slave labor of the worst kind.

  • Growing Succulents! Advice welcome.
  • If you're looking for lights for succulents look into weed lights (AKA Cannabis grow lights). The LED fixtures throw A LOT of light and are generally cheaper than plant grow lights. Amazon has a number of them.

    Hell, depending on what you want to grow you could repurpose a cheap weed plant "greenhouse" which is a wire frame and some reflective material. Amazon has a number of those for your home.

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  • "Why, just today the notably left-wing Supreme Court upheld speech restrictions on speech encouraging immigration."

    That's a lie. From the article:

    The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a provision of federal law that prohibits the encouragement of illegal immigration for financial gain, ruling against a man who ran an organization falsely claiming that noncitizens could obtain citizenship in the US through adult adoption.

    Wonder why you left that part out.

  • Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office over unpaid rent
  • It's one way companies cancel leases and may be the best way to break a lease depending on how it's written. Then they get evicted and the lease is cancelled.

    Look at San Francisco and all the companies just walking away from buildings while stopping any payments to said leases and loans. It's not that uncommon.

  • Looks like some subreddits are extending the blackout
  • If subreddits aren't going black for good/until /u/spez stops changing posts he doesn't like and backs down you're only wasting user's time. Gritting your teeth for a few days is easy; doing the same until someone blinks is another.

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