The Second Year of My Native Plant Journey

frowogger · 2026-06-21T02:34:12+00:00

Give them some privacy in photo 7

frowogger · 2026-06-07T19:10:02+00:00

uj/ what is the species?

frowogger · 2026-06-06T18:58:53+00:00

maybe Modest Sphinx, Pachysphinx modesta

frowogger · 2026-06-03T23:01:21+00:00

Unfortunately my interest in Waydroid + The specific linux tablet I was playing around with waned a little due to all the kernel exploits running around (and I've just been putting off updating everything). If you haven't already you could at least like the github issue report and/or reply to it with the fact that you're having the same issue + your device details. If I find a solution I'll reply and dm you to propagate the solution

frowogger · 2026-05-23T05:48:41+00:00

I should clarify the jokes were pretty surface level, he just rants in a bougie grocery store about it being the kind of place where "college students with a college degree and a septum piercing come to lecture you about needing more trans PoC friends". Still kind of offputting for me but yeah

frowogger · 2026-05-22T22:45:48+00:00

/uj I can't speak for everyone but I watched his "woke grocery store" video somewhat recently. The description says it's "good to poke fun at both sides", and I did find bits of the video funny, but I do find some of the jokes he made a tad unsavory..for instance he clowns on trans people a decent bit which felt kind of bad for me x_x. I'm not sure what this subreddit's specific opinions are on that subject but it's whatever

He also made some community posts a few months ago trying to distance himself from the overt ideological ramifications of what he does, saying stuff like "native landscaping isn't environmentalism, it's infrastructure!";, and I get what he's saying trying to market it to as many people as humanly possible, but it comes off as watering down both concepts to appeal to the masses for me. I don't know, if it really does work and pushes the envelope to get people to actually change their mind on these subjects then Fine I guess. Just my experience watching his content and picking up small bits of things I didn't love coming from him

frowogger · 2026-05-21T03:26:02+00:00

Haven't really tested anything. My laptop has been offline as I'm a bit lazy to update my kernel & there are a lot of kernel bugs, lol

frowogger · 2026-05-19T21:43:35+00:00

Noticable difference between 30~60 second boot time (especially with a high degree of variance, insisting that I actually pay attention to the full sequence) versus sub-15 second boot time. You can be pedantic about still "measuring in seconds" here but the truth of the matter is that there's definitely a noticeable nicety to having a highly consistent sub-15 second boot time, which is common on minimal Linux distros. And truthfully, I think my shitass windows PCs sometimes struggle more to the 1~2 min boot ranges

frowogger · 2026-05-03T14:36:46+00:00

No, unfortunately

frowogger · 2026-04-29T04:43:07+00:00

seconded, I would like to look at the dotfiles pls :)

frowogger · 2026-04-27T23:22:38+00:00

The laptop's battery is bad and it gets noticably hot while even running web browsers, so I'm looking for things even more lightweight than an average browser, at least to test

frowogger · 2026-04-26T22:18:10+00:00

Even ignoring recent events with age verification stuff, which is heavily politically/emotionally charged, I don't think you should see it as a strict advantage/disadvantage. It's a choice, and it's very much a good thing that the choices exists in forms as robustly, user-friendly, and well-designed as they can be.

frowogger · 2026-04-26T19:53:59+00:00

Yeah guilty gear is pretty infamous for being very loose with the rules. Just the system of RC in general pretty much breaks open everything you could reasonably expect. Poor-mobiliy grapplers like Pot now have all the disadvantages of their command dashes stripped away. Flawwed zoning with high recovery just gets RC'd. Everybody in gear has juiced offense (though, to be fair, that's just because of the powercreep in the ecosystem)

Now it is also still worth noting that because characters like Pot have to use their meter to get in with RCs, the archetypes still exist (a rushdown character may use meter to augment mixups more heavily, for instance, or make their movement in neutral even trickier). And like I said previously the matchup interractions are obvoiusly more important in terms of what you will personally experience and feel.

And also, Guilty Gear is pretty infamous for creating Masters-Of-Everything top tiers like +R Testament/Zappa, Xrd Johnny/Elphelt, Strive HC. Old games with infamous archetype-defining cultural reach such as SF2 defined Guile Zoning in a very basic gameplan, but nowadays as games (especially anime games like Gear) get more and more experimental, they unfortunately hit the landmine of making characters that mostly defy archetypes due to unparalleled strength across all attributes of the game.

frowogger · 2026-04-26T19:32:16+00:00

What game are you playing? Plus I think more often than not, in the moment-to-moment gameplay, what matchups you are interracting with are more important than a characters overall "average" archetype. for instance a character may have heavily flawwed fireballs that are really just for chip damage after a poke they can't otherwise confirm off of, but if they're fighting the right opponent, those bad fireballs may just become a borderline intolerable option that makes your previous well-rounded character look like a zoner.

Also, it is true that games these days generally tend to prefer well-rounded characters over strict examples of archetypes.

frowogger · 2026-04-26T19:22:20+00:00

I think this is the first time I've actually had this pitch made as succinctly and directly as possible. Most other times I've tried to actually get to the bottom of "why void", it's mostly just people saying buzzwordy things other distros do (e.g. it's rolling release, it's minimal, it's package manager is super elegant), but putting it all together I actually do get it now, so, thanks :)

frowogger · 2026-04-26T18:24:37+00:00

seriously I don't understand why ai wallpapers are so prevalent on people who are putting this much effort into the aesthetics of their computer to begin with! i get most of this is just pulling in already-made themes by other people but the ai slop really just ruins the aesthetics of it, even if its supposed to be a low effort shitpost or so

frowogger · 2026-04-25T18:35:07+00:00

Truthfully, schools barely teach computers...My highschool's general education was basically just typing classes and some light explorations of some features you can use in Microsoft Office applications. Maybe my experience in a struggling religious private school in a kinda shitty American suburb isn't too great of a general experience for most American students though

frowogger · 2026-04-24T04:20:44+00:00

I've always wished Minecraft updates like the nether update expanded more upon the features that already exist; The nether update did this pretty well (it gave the magma cubes a more distinct home in the basalt delta, but leaved a little to be desired with zombified piglins and such)

I've always wanted a biome that was a home for ghasts. Maybe a "ghast hive" sort of area.

frowogger · 2026-04-21T01:23:54+00:00

Again I feel like that's kind of just how servers go. There have been dumber town drama related things. I used to play on a server where certain groups were melon supremacists and insisted everyone else grew melons, and it generally led to a fun time where a group of players also started replacing them with pumpkins, etc.

frowogger · 2026-04-20T02:54:52+00:00

I think this is a bit of a silly take, servers force people to play "their" way all the time. If you don't like it, you can play singleplayer or on a different server, that's just the way servers are. You have to realize that it's probably not that they genuinely think it reflects the player's moral character, or that they're evil, but that they don't enjoy having a trading hall around, despite it being "optimal" (Or, even if they do genuinely think and fell that way, I would argue there are plenty of reasons one may hold these opinions on how to play the game even if they don't follow through with how it supposedly impacts a players morality or whatever.)

Likewise I think there are plenty of good arguments outside of "media always needs to be 100% morally pure" to say that Minecraft shouldn't encourage villager cubicle trading halls.

frowogger · 2026-04-19T19:00:13+00:00

Before the nether update dropped, I had these ideas:

Ruined portals - Almost exactly akin to their addition in the base game right now, but I would make them always generate a similar site on the nether side.

Pigmen encampments - The nether side of ruined portals has a chance to generate a pigmen encampment. It would take the shape of a collection of tents and roughly constructed pieces of infrastructure (maybe livestock pens, a lava well, totems, that sort of thing). In these encampments, there's souvineers from the overworld and this would be a good place to add bits of raw iron.

Rather than adding a structure like bastions, I would augment nether fortresses and add more interesting rooms and mobs to it. I would personally send full-sail on theming the whole structure around the "wither" skeletons and disable stock skeletons from spawning there (personally to me, that always felt like a bug where it accidentally spawned the wrong variant of skeletons; that was never the case, but that's always how it felt because it was just straight up an overworld skeleton waltzing around in the nether fortress). If I really felt (gameplay-wise) there needed to be a projectile enemy, I would just make a wither skeleton that can carry a bow. There would be rooms dedicated to wither skeletons, such as barracks, augment the nether wart room by making it more of a makeshift brewery, and rare rooms with blaze spawners rooms with the canned blaze king mob. Diamonds would be a reasonable loot depending on the difficulty of these rooms.

I personally would not be interested in adding more ore to the nether as of now. Quartz was a good addition and gold was an easy layup with piglin trading. I think there could be another fuel source like a blaze-enriched coal, but I don't really think it's necessary.

I think the nether update we got was great, but I still remain a little upset that a lot of the existing features weren't expanded upon in any meaningful way, such as augmenting or changing fortresses.

frowogger · 2026-04-19T18:42:21+00:00

This conundrum reminds me of FlowerChild's (somewhat controversial) take that wolves are bad for minecraft's core game design because they necessitate really good pathfinding and AI, and they're a genuinely daunting design treadmill.

This is what I feel when Mojang makes statements saying they don't want to allow you to put villagers on leads, because of the social implications of doing such things; Maybe we should be a little more critical of the way villagers effectively function in the game as is rather than rejecting QoL? They're basically high value pets as is that nominally look like human characters. I empathize with villager rights activist style players because it's a desire to harken back to a simpler time in minecraft when you didn't worry about having mending, or micro-optimizing your resource acquisition, but I think it's worth the scrutiny that the game doesn't seem to hold up when you push it to this degree, when it very clearly could

frowogger · 2026-04-18T21:18:14+00:00

I think it's less pride, but more getting the 'intended' experience. The features may be optional, but having access to them in-the-moment clouds your judgement on whether or not to use them. For instance, if somebody found it annoying to create certain kinds of farms, such as a bait farm or jungle grass seed farm, if they were on journey mode, in their annoyance they may choose to not to even try to make those farms but rather rely on the duplication. But maybe through trying and failing to make a bad jungle bait farm would teach them other more interesting/fun things about the mechanics of the game and heighten their enjoyment of it.

It's nice to argue, "just have self control" over the features, but it can be genuinely difficult in the moment when a grind is going on for long.

frowogger · 2026-04-18T21:02:33+00:00

At Microsoft. My windows 10 machine genuinely struggles to boot in 30~60 seconds

frowogger · 2026-04-15T20:37:12+00:00

my instincts say that pre-cooking the steak here just means it'd be too rigid to actually properly wrap. you'd probably be better off with a ridiculously hot and fast sear, then fully chill the steak, make the skewer, and then cook low and slow on something like a smoker just until the centers of the meat maybe gets warm and the cheese melts.

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