schmorpel

I thought this was an article, but I’m glad I checked it out. It looks like a really very well put together course (too comprehensive to call it tutorial). With guides for people who just want to learn part of the stuff. Had no time to dig deeper, but if you (want to) selfhost and are active in building resilience go have a look.

Today the frankenmouseboard got a new cable. Of course this kind of maintenance only happens once in a blue moon,after procrastinating a huge project up until the last day to then find out it involves clicking Ctrl+C 2500 times and the old cable is finally too old to work anymore. Couldn’t be arsed to go downstairs to fetch proper tools so I just chopped one of my charging cables to length with a kitchen knife (will have to replace when visiting town), looked up a diagram for the cable colours, and fucked it all together with sticky tape.

Interesting, thanks for sharing! I was taking Loratadine against allergies for years. Not anymore, the allergies have sorted themselves out. Now my bones are coming apart. I can hear them rattling every month when my period comes around. Not funny, but quite funny.

Left, middle and right. There’s a scroll wheel but that stopped working and it ended up being non-essential. The wheel itself turned out to be too flimsy. Next time a working scroll wheel would be cool!

Yes, but first I have to build a few and test them - they are result of a few years experimenting and thinking about the problem from the perspectives of ease of building and using it, repairability, flexibility, price … It has the option to stack frames as high as practical and cover a stack of frames with either mosquito/flynet or shading fabric or a combination of both, and add any heat source to the bottom of a stack. The current heat would be great for drying all sorts of stuff and put this to the test, but unfortunately the same heat is crap for any mental and physical activities, so this project has been progressing slowly. But it is one of the parts of my small gardening and processing cycle. Equally slow is my documentation of this cycle. I’ll try to come up with a drawing of this idea!

That is true. Whenever I see these designs I feel like I would like to develop a hybrid model - to use with either solar heat or other heat sources when needed.

Or for a low low tech solution, a drying rack that can handle a fire under it. Things will be smoked rather than dried, but that’s not necessarily a disadvantage.

You can build stackable wooden frames, staple a net curtain to them and put them in the sun, or use those plastic fruit boxes, always covered with a net on top against insects. Placing your frames or boxes on or between rocks provides extra heat after sunset. Or the extra lazy method: place your drying net under a fruit tree, wait for fruit to drop, drag into sun or halfshade as is convenient.

When energy is low and overwhelm is much the simplest solutions are often the best.

And for indoor drying in winter a repurposed shoe shelf (or yet more stackable boxes) placed near your radiator might do the trick.

Eastern Europe and Russia: grey filter

Modern reincarnation of Ea-Nasir: ‘Muahahar, this time I’m going to add a symbol to my copper products and reduce the copper content gradually! And I’ll paint my symbol onto every wall and draw it onto the tablets in people’s homes! Once they notice the shitty quality they will have forgotten that better copper existed.’

In this contribution we analyze the process by which the commodity itself—decorated pottery vessels—was developed >into a brand not by added symbols but on the virtue of its visual identity, material consistency, technological continuity, >centralized production, export circulation, local imitation, intentional commercial scope, and cultural reputation.

not by added symbols

What we have today are fake brands - what we would like to have again are brands that show their identity by being good quality in the first place.

Smell, fuzziness, colour, texture. And also guts of steel and an unholy track record of dumpster diving and self sufficiency - I had to learn how to trust my senses.

How many flying arrows can you count? Now calculate your probability of survival!

This is what I do diligently when I see a slow thumbnail and have a second to spare. I hope others do the same and we vote this shit into oblivion.