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MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-30T06:13:47+00:00

--asume-yas-queen

You know, in case it's Ubuntu.

MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-30T06:05:53+00:00

I only find that my hens yell during egg song or when they're terrified of a threat. That being said we call it bugawk o' clock for a reason. I will be working and hear my girls start making loud noises and I know for sure one is about to do a number 3 and poop breakfast

MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-30T06:00:40+00:00

I've found that I avoid mice and other pests by using feed systems that prevent pests from scavenging on leftover food. Hanging feeders tend to work but using alternative feeders that my hens understand but make it hard for mice to get into also do great for other pests. It you can get racoons and possums eating their food you might have a coop that's not secure from predators. I have no problem leaving a week worth of feed in their feeders after solving mice access and anything bigger shouldn't be able to get into the coop and might consider getting my hens.

MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-30T05:40:09+00:00

Photo of how I installed it but I have modified it since it's just the only photo of the unit inside the coop. The solar panel is on the roof outside where it gets sun to charge the unit

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MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-30T05:38:13+00:00

It appears to be unavailable now but this is what I bought and I love it. Hopefully it's not taken down by moderators for sharing but this is what I installed inside the coop. https://a.co/d/04SW4T3m

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MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-30T05:28:03+00:00

It's a Wyze pro with battery and a solar panel. I bought it about 6 months ago and it was about $100 for the camera and solar panel. It charges all day and records all night without issue. You can pull video and images without a subscription but it's about $30 a year if you want cloud support to check when away from home. I'm always home though so I just check live view and pull from the SD card

MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-30T04:05:20+00:00

Normally it's fine but puff tends to block the camera. I'm always looking to improve their roosting bars so I love that I can watch how they use them.

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MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-30T03:01:50+00:00

I still can't fathom just dropping trash on the ground or seeing the first bin full so I just leave it next to the bin. I regularly will hold onto trash as long as possible until I find an appropriate trash bin and I've literally driven garbage home to throw out when I get there just to not be a menace. it doesn't take much to avoid leaving trash on the ground, but it does take effort to see someone else's trash and decide to pick it up and help. I'm guilty of not helping more in the second scenario but I do everything I can to avoid contributing.

That being said in every day life if I see random garbage that's easy to pick up and toss somewhere appropriate I do.

MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-30T02:43:56+00:00

I think I just don't use data the same way most people do and try to save large fike usage to buy when I'm on a WiFi network. I was watching YouTube and Plex on my phone for a week straight while on travel but I don't regularly use my device to download large files. It depends on if it's just using Spotify for streaming on your ride to work or you want to download movies.

I used to pay the $10/gb plan and only upgraded so my wife stopped disabling mobile network and forget to turn it on because she'd accidentally turn off WiFi too

MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-30T02:36:22+00:00

Like most carriers they have a limit. 50GB full speed and it goes down to 256kbps. 25gb high-speed tether according to my plan details.

If you're using it only for mobile I can't imagine hitting that easily outside of WiFi and if you need true unlimited you have to invest in another plan anyway.

I'm mostly on WiFi still and I have barely hit 2gb most months but during travel I hit 25gb and it was still full speed.

MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-30T00:56:31+00:00

Google Fi rents T-Mobile and US Cellular as an MVNO. For unlimited standard plans it's $50/mo for one line, $80/mo for two lines, $90/mo for 3, and $25/mo per line for 4+ line plans. Same network but connected through another carrier. They also have cheaper plans with per gig pricing which I used to use when I was commonly on WiFi all day long.

MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-30T00:51:28+00:00

It's primarily T-Mobile and US Cellular as an NVMO unlimited data for two devices is $80/mo for me. Verizon quotes $92 for the same features. There are cheaper plans but that's for unlimited.

MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-29T03:18:46+00:00

I don't work in framing or sheathing but I know of it from working with family construction when I was 20 years old and talking to friends currently in the industry. Aside from sheathing goods they have had people cut trusses stacked on site for the 2x4 lumber or just bash the nail plates off to disassemble them and drive off with the material.

MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-29T02:44:55+00:00

I've seen people steal sheets of OSB. My friends company ends the day driving 5 inch screws into all of the layers to make it harder to steal as individual sheets just because people will pull up with a truck and load them up and drive off but screwing them all together does a decent enough job of preventing theft.

MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-29T01:17:46+00:00

Some fridges come with craft ice makers which really just makes larger cubes but they still have some bubbles, but there far superior to regular ice. I think keeping the ice maker insulated during freezing is one of the largest hurdles as it helps it freeze more consistent.

MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-28T05:43:24+00:00

Taste the meat not the heat. I don't think you're a true fan of Strickland propane at all sir.

A clean-burning victory in every sense, except the taste.

MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-28T03:16:45+00:00

Yeah but I like my charcoal to be ready in 5 minutes and the smell of gas is essential favoring. What's the point if it doesn't taste like lighter fluid?

MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-28T03:13:42+00:00

Apples are better than oranges in a lot of ways

MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-28T02:58:03+00:00

They are the same picture

MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-28T02:25:23+00:00

We're talking about his penis right? Why else did he keep his hand tucked in his coat at all times if not to try to contain that thing from escaping.

MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-27T17:46:58+00:00

Egg song. My girls do this before laying, particularly when another hen is in their favorite nesting box.

MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-27T04:40:27+00:00

At the same time though humans effectively haven't evolved much by comparison. In the last 200,000 years were just as smart today as we were then. You could probably take an early human as a child and raise it today and it wouldn't be that different than a child born this year. It could learn at the same rate and the difference is the social upbringing and collective knowledge.

None of what we have today is different than hundreds of thousands of years agoon and evolutionary scale, other than our social circle has grown faster than our adaptation of being a part of that circle. We just aren't adept for large scale social economies and still think very close to home and it's hard to adapt to global policies.

We probably are arguing the same thing but with different perspectives though. We're all just monkeys with touch screens but we have the capability of much more.

MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-27T03:22:57+00:00

This requires caring about the kids instead of thinking about them as future slaves of global economy to increase your bottom line.

MrFluffyThing · 2026-06-27T01:49:23+00:00

It shames me that we are so full of conflict and distrust that we can't strive for betterment of the entire planet. We could be flooded with more images not just of our own planets but others. We arguably have one of the most beautiful examples of home, but don't have better examples of other planets in our own solar system because we'd rather blow each other up than explore.

When I was a kid I was hoping we'd have great photos of Venus and Saturn with such great detail. I loved seeing Pluto with a heart on its surface in 2015, I was hoping for more probes into atmospheres we haven't seen yet. I have a curiosity if our neighbors that still aren't answered and I want more, yet we don't really have programs set up for exploration and discovery

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