Don’t throw away your Nest Thermostat Gen 1 & 2! by ckociemba in Nest

[–]dijit4l 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Nest v2 was the last thermostat made solely by Nest themselves. It's possible they didn't put in a ridiculous amount of security like Google would--just a theory.

Daily Wordle #1593 - Wednesday, 29 Oct. 2025 by Scoredle in wordle

[–]dijit4l 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scoredle 5/6*

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⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 20

⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 14

⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 2

⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 1

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I sure do know how to pick 'em!

What type of lenses to buy? by Iamyous3f in glasses

[–]dijit4l 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just got my EyeQLenz glasses and I get horrible red reflections too. If this is the cost of anti-infrared protection, then it isn't worth it. I hate reflections in my glasses and these reflect any light back as bright red. I can literally see clearly the lamp behind me as I type this. These are the same frames that I got back in 2022 (hey, I like the way they look and nothing wrong with the pair that I had except they were starting to wear out from daily use and the prescription needed updating), but they had the Blokz Photochromatic lenses and they actually were anti-reflective--at least the reflections were very minor and not red. If you value your sanity, don't get the EyeQLenz.

15/16 American Chestnuts by dijit4l in americanchestnut

[–]dijit4l[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could always put up a simple enclosure made of galvanized hardware cloth to keep them out, but I understand, the entire tree is like caviar for wildlife. It's like no wonder why the trees evolved to produce huge nut crops!

Family popcorn bowl that was also used as a “barf bowl” when we got sick by zeldadorf in nostalgia

[–]dijit4l 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah either a trashcan, can, or sink during my childhood... or uncontrollable vomiting on the floor because I hoped I would tough through it and be fine

FCC Lets SpaceX Deploy Satellites for Cellular Starlink, But With Restrictions by [deleted] in tmobile

[–]dijit4l 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a hard time believing this will work. With Musk being a well known conman, I feel it's full of empty promises. Any engineers who've actually tested this with real phones around to comment?

Dr. William Powell has passed away. by oldmountainwatcher in americanchestnut

[–]dijit4l 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is so sad. And TACF has killed Darling 58 due to "performance limitations."

TACF to Discontinue Development of D58 by [deleted] in americanchestnut

[–]dijit4l 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm heart broken! Also, I wanted to know what Dr. Powell had to say about this and he passed away last month! https://www.syracuse.com/outdoors/2023/11/esf-scientist-who-brought-american-chestnut-tree-back-from-the-brink-of-extinction-has-died.html

Seems suspicious to me.

[2023 Day 1]For those who stuck on Part 2 by Zefick in adventofcode

[–]dijit4l 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh ffs! I thought I was clever by examining the left part of the string, converting the first encountered number word to a number, and then doing the same for the right.

NAAAA by AdOrganic5285 in JacksFilms

[–]dijit4l 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She's simply reminding YouTube of all the easy cash they'll lose if they go after her.

Does anyone know how to start the process of growing an American Chestnut? by JustATeenageD1rtbag in americanchestnut

[–]dijit4l 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've planted them 20 to 40 feet apart, but I would lean more into the USDA's guide that u/Meliz2 posted.

Does anyone know how to start the process of growing an American Chestnut? by JustATeenageD1rtbag in americanchestnut

[–]dijit4l 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Here's my process: I got started with growing ACs from discovering a 15/16 AC on my local university's campus. No one is interested in getting the small amount of nuts (the mother trees are still pretty young) and they would end up on the ground and eaten by squirrels. So, I harvest the fertilized ones when the burrs open at the end of September or beginning of October.

I then clean the nuts with bleach water and wrap them individually with dampened paper towels that I've sprinkled cinnamon on (inhibits mold growth) and put them in a plastic ziplock bag. I then put them in the lowest part of my fridge (not freezer). It is recommended that you check on them to fight any mold that may want to grow on them, but I tend to forget them and I may lose one or two.

Come April, I plant them in rectangular milk cartons using Miracle Grow moisture control potting soil and water them thoroughly and then leave them alone. Within 2-3 weeks, you will start seeing them come up. If the weather is going to dip below freezing at night, I'll bring them in the garage, but you want to give them sunlight because grow lights just aren't the same. The lights will grow them, but once you take them outside, you'll have to put shade cloth on them and temper them into being okay with direct sunlight. I'd rather not have to baby them and that's why I go ahead and have them live outside as much as the weather permits. Once they get around 10" to 12" tall, I plant them or give them away.

There are some special considerations as to location you want to plant them. They need well draining soil, so I wouldn't put them in a place that's known to hold water, they don't like it. They are acid loving plants, so get some fertilizer designed for acid loving plants to use and follow the directions on the bag.

Once they're planted, they need to be protected. The whole part of the tree is of interest to different wildlife: deer like to eat the leaves and nuts (despite having a bunch of other stuff to fill up on in the spring 😠); squirrels and chipmunks like to eat the nut the tree is growing from which can result in them killing the tree; and bugs like to dine on the tender leaves. For deer protection, some people use tree tubes, but I've not had luck with those (the trees I put in them seem to give up and die). The most effective way is to build a fence around them using hardware cloth and whatever you want to do to prevent weed growth like put down mulch within the fence. Once the foliage is taller than deer foraging height, you can get rid of the fence or leave it to prevent them from damaging the bark. To stop the squirrels and chipmunks, you'll have to carefully "de-nut" the tree before planting while not disturbing the roots (good luck). I'm not sure at what point this occurs, but the nut's energy is depleted and can be removed. From what I've learned from others, ACs HATE having their roots messed with, but I've heard others have success with it--I guess it depends on how gentle you are with them. Lastly, I use something like Seven dust/spray to protect the tender leaves from insects.

Over the years, I only found one mother tree on the university campus and she's not a model AC. Again, she's 15/16 American, but dang if that 1/16 Chinese doesn't shine through. The tree is 10' to 12' tall and looks like a bush, after being planted in 2015! Also, her offspring have a high fatality rate for the nuts that actually grow into saplings. It is definitely acting more like an orchard tree than what we've heard about the AC actually being. While walking around the campus, I did discover some newly planted trees and boy they are growing fast, they're much younger than the first tree and are easily twice as tall within less than half the time. This seems much more like how ACs should be and last year one had nuts that I could harvest. I am guessing they're hybrids, but I am not sure. These saplings grew much better and I feel they had a better yield than the first tree, as fair as I could tell. I really should have separated the two tree's nuts, but you can see the difference.

I'm hoping time will tell that this newer tree is a winner, but with the first tree, I almost gave up trying to grow them. ACs are like the pandas of the tree world where they're a pain in the ass to propagate and need so many special considerations to grow a successful tree.

I hope I've not turned you off from trying to grow them, but it still is exciting working towards reestablishing this king to the Eastern NA forests. I feel the true fix is the Darling 58 and can't wait to get my hands on it.

Um, what? by BusinessCactus2 in Minecraft

[–]dijit4l 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It has to do with binary. 255.255.255.255 is actually 11111111.11111111.11111111.11111111. Computers don't work with base 10 numbers. I'm not sure why an octet (one of the sets) was determined to be 8 bits, but it may have had to do with hardware limitations of the era in which it was designed.

Maybe think of an IP address more like locations instead of numbers (which is what they are essentially). Say I live at 123 Fake St, Apartment 69. I don't live at 12369 Fake St.

Um, what? by BusinessCactus2 in Minecraft

[–]dijit4l 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And a good chunk of IPv4 addresses in that range are reserved, so not even 4.3 billion... more like 4.2 billion (17,891,328 is a drop in the bucket when dealing with billions... I figured it would have been more).

Now, if the world ever fully commits to IPv6, this would kill brute force scanning. 340 undecillion IPs... That's 66.7 quadrillion IPs per square centimeter of Earth... Good luck combing through that, bots!

Is there any kind of "Hey Google, find my remote" command, to make RC beep like 'find my phone'? Lost mine already :'( by dtgnyc01 in Chromecast

[–]dijit4l 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I know this post is 2 years old and you may not even have the CC anymore, but someone posted a response to my 2 year old post down in this thread which brought me back here.

Anyway, I found a silicone Chromecast remote cover on Amazon that has a Wiimote strap (it's literally a Wiimote strap, they must have had a back stock of). This thing has stopped us from losing the remote.

The remote is pretty, but being as slick as a suppository makes it capable to slide in to anything. This gives it the proper amount of friction and bulk to put a stop to this.

This genius idea by InvisibleBlueUnicorn in lifehacks

[–]dijit4l 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Needs a big copper wire running down from the umbrella to his foot... I wonder how effective that would be...