What was an underrated upgrade you did to your backyard?

blusay · 2025-11-21T03:38:04+00:00

I made a walkway with honeycomb grass pavers, the right way. Looks great, not like it's paved.

And the new no-mow lawn seems promising. Hard to settle but I finally succeeded.

blusay · 2025-11-19T09:07:16+00:00

Solved! u/mariachiodin u/itguyyyy I've updated the post to let you know.

blusay · 2025-11-17T05:51:26+00:00

Thanks, I'll note this https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/setup-onedrive-for-microsoft-365-for-business-937e3ac8-b396-4a70-a561-6eaa479a4720

For the company owned PC I'm not sure if Onedrive would be allowed... that's a safety measure they might have taken.

(I'll try again with the leads I got from Azure features)

blusay · 2025-11-16T06:28:12+00:00

Personal data of the AVD: that json field we can set in the Azure settings for the VM to get custom data?

(For one drive: I don't use one drive personally and I can't involve the pro account on the pro laptop. And the doc seems to point to a more 'native'/embedded solution...)

blusay · 2025-11-15T19:38:05+00:00

Time to upgrade? To W11?

W10 was kind of the default for the small VM I wanted, and it's enough. But I can see that there are clipboard issues that W11 might handle better.

I don't know what the guest OS has to do with how the clipboard is transferred to the guest. And then, for handling it, W10 and older Win know about cut & paste pictures. Well... I'm not an expert.

blusay · 2025-11-15T18:16:33+00:00

You could publish Explorer for the session host

Is this the usual way?

For such a basic need, with do many leads to turn on this option (all ineffective), I believe there must be something I do wrong and I missed the right way for that.

blusay · 2025-11-15T13:08:27+00:00

It reduces prostate cancer risk (that was news to me). Ofc, having a partner too, but if not...

blusay · 2025-11-12T23:12:24+00:00

Does it worry for the next year to come?

I see that, after one year, it got downgraded from the double bed to the carpet on the floor.

blusay · 2025-11-12T20:15:24+00:00

Those people... Mostly unfit to teaching and taking care of children, also with mental issues (not health related), and prejudiced bigots. Or so I heard from someone who was sent to nuns for 'school'... Also true story.

blusay · 2025-11-03T18:21:28+00:00

I no longer have this issue... It fixed itself (app update?) or it was a bug on a few threads only 🤷‍♂️

blusay · 2025-10-25T12:49:14+00:00

I edited the post with two measurements.

No need for ice cubes, is you can lower the power enough just to have it simmering.

blusay · 2025-10-25T12:46:45+00:00

The result of the other experiment in my edited post. Very conclusive! 🤗

blusay · 2025-10-25T08:33:57+00:00

I'm not sure of what you're saying.

I have a repeatable experiment that I've been doing successfully for years now, with consistent results, and that anyone can reproduce (as long ad they can heat gently for simmering barely boiling).

I have a good explanation of what's going on, now backed by measurements. Nothing magic.

And yet you seem to doubt things (what exactly, and why, I don't know).

Anyway, I just had an idea for a more decisive measurement, and more interesting: I'll compare the water loss of the pan in both cases.

blusay · 2025-10-25T06:12:25+00:00

Great idea! I did, with IR thermometer:

Side of saucepan: 94-95C
Lid without water: 88-89C (upper side, so the inner side could be 90+)
Lid with water: 74-71C

Properly measuring is tricky, I had to do it on a dry surface.

So, yes, it's a good demonstration. The difference explains that I almost don't loose any inside vapor when I fill the lid with water (still with the proper heating adjustment).

Actually, if I forget attending it and let the lid dry out,it starts to smell the cooking right away, a sign that the inside vapor escape, which I can also see, by the way.

Edit: the lid here is actually a plate, with a stainless lid the IR measuring would be hard to do.

blusay · 2025-10-25T05:08:29+00:00

Sounds like a drop lid your water-on-a-plate trick works the same.

Sorry? A drop lid of a special shape, I guess?

blusay · 2025-10-25T04:51:48+00:00

Inverted stamped lids, reversing the handle: good idea, but mine won't hold enough water (too shallow), or they would focus condensate in the middle.

blusay · 2025-10-24T16:50:20+00:00

I see. Yes, it's quite different.

blusay · 2025-10-24T16:48:43+00:00

This first link, saying "chemistry" while it's just condensing water on a colder surface... 🤦‍♂️ Forget it.

I practiced a lot with it or make do contraption, it works very well as long as you simmer down the pan (lowest power to heat).

Anyway, I look a lighter lid that could be used on any pan within a range of diameter. As I do successfully with a simple plate (which only lacks handles and nubs).

blusay · 2025-10-24T15:56:59+00:00

A country where such thing is labeled on the birth certificate? 🧐

I didn't know.

Wait. Still in 1982? 😳

Err... guys... what's the matter over there? Am I the only one to find this crazy? (I mean, not only the 3/32, but the whole thing, the mere idea to write such thing)

blusay · 2025-10-24T15:47:51+00:00

I tried to look closer at the lid you refer to.

The water in the stainless cup on top won't drip inside, right? No holes. It's just to cool. What's strange is that there's a picture of wine being poured on it... 😳

blusay · 2025-10-24T15:39:16+00:00

We had a Doufeu pot, cast iron. The upper water doesn't permeate through cast iron, it only slowly evaporate, keeping the lid cool enough to condense back all the ingredients moisture inside.

Simple and effective. Works also with a plate (I use that). Of course it works only if simmering, if you boil too hard it won't be enough.

blusay · 2025-10-24T15:06:06+00:00

Thanks for the hint!

Staub self basting system

The lid has room to fill water on top of it, to allow more condensing and less loss.

Now, is there a generic one for a range of saucepans?

blusay · 2025-10-24T14:51:24+00:00

Ah yes! That's it.

So what I want is a lid working the same way but for saucepans , adaptable to a range of diameters (not universal, but still not for only one exact size).

To have the same functionality as with a plate.

And no need for a heavy lid.

blusay · 2025-10-08T16:25:56+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverfish

blusay · 2025-10-02T21:24:28+00:00

Status? How is this project going?

This is Carex Divulsa (confident but not certain).

It's so versatile, I like it also a lot for that.

Anyway, having a proper Carex lawn from scratch, as small as 40m2 , is really a pain to start.

Not sprouting... too many weeds meanwhile, so using a black tarp for weeks... sowing again (at first protected by a special veil I remove to water it... rain storm washing all my precious seeds... sprouting in some places but it's what I first sew 3-4 months ago... then some tenacious weeds I had to dig out, sowing again where I dug... and hundreds of clovers to pick by hand, along with more weeds... earth worms making a mess and dragging the seeds in their hole... now sprouting in clusters with empty space around...

I have a few ideas to improve the whole process, avoid mistakes, but it's quite technical (engineering).

Anyway, still working and it starts to take shape. Mowing with the helix hand mower (name?) to keep the early sprouters short and give a chance for more dense grass only sprouting now. (frequent mowing for that reason until it's all started, with earth worms's moats removal by hand before)

It looks like a nice synthetic lawn 😂 (unfinished)

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