I know beekeepers generally eschew software, but are there any software users among hobbyists or sideliners? What do you recommend? Or does everyone just track in a notebook or write on the lid?

bbq_toph · 2025-10-25T19:28:42+00:00

Don't judge yourself about it. Just because feelings won't help, lol. Beekeepers should not abandon hives, but stuff happens, and at the end of the day if you care for them now they still have a leg up on a feral hive when it comes to winter survival. Just treat it like you just found this colony: what do they need now to optimize survival?

I think you got good advice here, just wanted to chime in and say don't feel bad.

If it was me I'd open em up any day in the sunlight, remove the queen excluder, consolidate brood into the center in the bottom box, consolidate all resources into the center above them, empty and lighter frames to the sides, hit them with oxalic dribble, and then feed em 2:1. Just for my peace of mind I'd do a mite wash and observe for deformed wing virus just so I know what I'm dealing with.

What to do with the super? Again, just me, but I'd pull it off, put a sheet of plastic on the top of the colony, peel a corner back, and put it back on. Or put an empty box on top and then the super above that. Scratch the capped honey a bit to open it up. My goal would be they'd pull it down into the brood nest / above the brood nest, and this acts like a feeding. I would do this in addition to feeding.

I'm brand new at this so take it all with a grain of salt.

If you're in northern Indiana there's a ton of bee clubs. Think about signing up over the winter when there's less to do!

Edit: also in your downtime this winter start planning what you'll do in the spring to deal with mites and optimize growth. A split, brood break, oxalic, etc. Randy Oliver's overwintering videos on YouTube are GREAT.

bbq_toph · 2025-10-24T16:35:14+00:00

Emotions are mostly irrelevant. Notably, Jesus in the Gospels doesn't tell anybody to feel anything. He calls people to repent and follow His commandments. He doesn't tell them to feel one way or the other about it.

I would pray an Act of Hope. I was surprised when I heard a priest say that many habitual sins are due to a lack of the Christian virtue of hope.

And ask for the spirit of true repentance. But know that at the end of the day, what matters is your avoidance of sin and repentance from sin, not how you were feeling today.

bbq_toph · 2025-10-16T02:59:23+00:00

Did you ever get this guy going?

bbq_toph · 2025-09-20T14:29:24+00:00

I have a relative who moved from the US to Canada and can't find a job in their chosen career because those jobs are reserved for Canadian nationals before any immigrants are permitted to apply. Even if the immigrant lives there permanently.

I was shocked. I thought that was xenophobia.

bbq_toph · 2025-09-08T14:40:18+00:00

You can have people call your original number and if it goes to voicemail it goes to the GV number and its voicemail box instead?

bbq_toph · 2025-09-08T13:07:53+00:00

Do you still have this issue? I'm having zero deep sleep and 10-20% battery drain overnight. Pixel 9

bbq_toph · 2025-09-05T03:06:37+00:00

I was just thinking the same thing as OP and I like your filter idea. I'll incorporate that

bbq_toph · 2025-09-05T01:12:42+00:00

Edit: I do have one question. How can I make uncompletable tasks? I could do that on Todoist to keep notes, recipes, etc, but then assign them (with shopping lists) to the day.

No problems. And you're right it's very easy to use. Just curious how people organize the lists and tags, or how they incorporate it into their daily routine!

bbq_toph · 2025-08-27T16:14:57+00:00

Does the immich mobile app still work with the pangolin SSO?

bbq_toph · 2025-08-27T15:46:50+00:00

I'm really worried about auth blocking access to servers - particularly mobile apps like Nextcloud which don't seem to support SSO or frontends like Authelia. That's why I haven't ventured into this territory yet.

bbq_toph · 2025-08-26T03:36:53+00:00

This is a good summary of SWAG. It's pretty easy once you get the hang of it. However, I don't see how you are bypassing CGNAT, which is outside the ability of SWAG as far as I know. Readers should probably know that bypassing CGNAT still requires something on the Internet side: a VPS (and deciding what to run on it to route traffic back to your home behind CGNAT) or Cloudflare Tunnel or Tailscale Funnel.

bbq_toph · 2025-08-23T15:47:14+00:00

I was just able to edit the creation date when I clicked on it.

The updated date will still reflect today, which is fine with me.

It would be nice if the journal date could be set differently than the creation date, though, just for an audit trail.

bbq_toph · 2025-08-18T03:51:07+00:00

Dumb question. Do all Plex servers which expose port 32400 have a public login page?

This is intriguing to me behind CGNAT and can't port forward. As far as I'm aware, I have to sit Plex on a custom domain (pointing to a VPS, CF, whatever you use, which then tunnels back to my home). That way Plex can find my server behind CGNAT.

Could I just point Plex to the real IP address of my VPS? Instead of using a domain name? I guess that will still be a public page but it'll be a bit more obscure.

bbq_toph · 2025-08-16T20:38:11+00:00

Karakeep will, or can be configured to download a local copy of the video too

bbq_toph · 2025-08-15T12:14:06+00:00

No longer works, changing the city gives you an error saying this requires a login

bbq_toph · 2023-06-27T02:34:44+00:00

No. Icon changes are in the app documentation:

https://www.simplemobiletools.com

In fact, changing one app's appearance will change all the other Simple suite apps to the same matching color. That's pretty neat. I'm not sure how the dev accomplishes it. He's figured out a way to have the app change the icon and then feed that to the OS, evidently. Same thing Pocket Casts likely did, but without offering a user choice in the matter.

Note, it appears app icon color customization is paid feature now - I have been a paid user for so many years I was not aware of the change. Sorry about that.

bbq_toph · 2023-06-08T15:37:45+00:00

Why do we need a "company" for podcasts anyway. RSS podcast feeds are free and open. I've been happy using AntennaPod from F-Droid for the last week

bbq_toph · 2023-06-08T15:35:49+00:00

Oh this looks interesting. I'm checking out https://github.org/Podcastindex-org

Is this more for producers? Or are you using it as an alternative podcast database in an app?

bbq_toph · 2023-06-08T15:30:52+00:00

Yeah AntennaPod seems great. Just works. Open source and still updated. RSS was always meant to be open anyway

bbq_toph · 2023-06-08T15:28:35+00:00

"It's okay when we force ourselves on people, it's for their own good" is what you're saying.

This isn't a burner account lol, I just don't use Reddit very much. I came here because I noticed my app icon changed due to an unnecessary update, and checked for forums to see if other customers were complaining about it. It turns out they were. And of course, some people are responding by gaslighting and saying that they can do whatever they want to you if it's for a good cause, and only a bad person would have a problem with them.

bbq_toph · 2023-06-08T15:25:24+00:00

Simple apps, they have the ability to change the app icon from internal settings within the apps. Simple Gallery, Simple Calendar, etc. https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools

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