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Guenther_Amanita 🍄

A weirdo doing weird things on the internet.

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  • Testing alcohol by scent or by flame are neither guaranteed nor safe methods, however, to test for the presence of methanol more effectively, you can apply sodium dichromate to a sample of the beverage. To do so, mix 8 mL of a sodium dichromate solution with 4 mL of sulfuric acid. Swirl gently to mix, then add 10 drops of the mixed solution to a test tube or other small container containing the alcohol. Swirl this container gently a few times, then waft the air from the mouth of the container towards your nose by fanning the air toward you with a hand, with the container placed roughly 8-12 inches from your face. Take note of the scent: If it is pungent and irritating, methanol is present in the alcohol. If the scent is dominating and fruity, only ethanol is present, and the beverage is safe.

    Source: https://www.sciencing.com/test-alcohol-methanol-8714279/






  • What’s your fertilizing and flushing routine?

    It may be possible that you don’t have a “real” deficiency, but a nutrient lockout due to wrong pH or imbalance of salts.
    The lower leafes are most affected, so it seems like a deficiency of mobile nutrients like nitrogen or magnesium for example. The leafes are also drooping, which might indicate an oxygen defiency (overwatering), as you already mentioned.

    Did you measure the EC or pH? What did it tell?

    How does you setup look like? Does the plant stand in a cache pot, or directly in the outer white one? How high is your nutrient solution level usually? Do you use a water level indicator?

    And where is it located? Does it receive enough light?

    Removing the rotten parts that radically was a great idea :)





  • You can check out !balconygardening@slrpnk.net.

    I’m doing !hydroponics@slrpnk.net, but I also have quite a few pots of soil (dirt) there.

    They are mainly there for co-plants that attract beneficial insects and help to improve the biodiversity of this concrete hell I live in.

    This “intact” ecosystem with healthy organic living soil, beneficial plants and other stuff also has the benefit that it attracts predatory insects like ladybugs, which naturally kill any lice and other harmful pests without any pesticides.

    Oh, and it looks nice, and I always can gift other people I like some flowers if the need arises, for example as a last-minute birthday present ;)

    I will also create an insect protection community here on SLRPNK if you’re interested :)


  • Thanks!

    It looks quite healthy but the transition from hydro to not-hydro (geoponics, i guess?) will trigger a lot of physiological changes and internal reshuffling of nutrients. It’s inevitable.

    If you click on the post I linked, you see that the plant barely had any roots left, because they were completely mush when I bought it.

    The substrate you meant is called “LECA” (expanded clay balls), which wick up the hydroponic nutrient solution. It’s just another form of passive hydroponics :)




  • Yes, the expanded clay substrate is new.

    They’ve been in an organic medium (bark and coco I believe) at time of buying, but looked pretty much dead when I got them, as you can see in my previous post I linked at the beginning. Most of the roots were mush back then, but they started regrowing very healthy now.

    The higher levels of fertilizer didn’t seem to be harmful as of now, since it’s still in the non-toxic zone.
    My plan has been to keep it higher for now, to compensate the lack of roots, and to reduce it further more to a normal level as soon as they’ve regrown fully.

    So, you would say I should reduce it now to a very low level?

    Is foliar feeding better? I don’t want to loose the already yellowing leaf, that would suck.





  • The Uncanny Valley is real.

    I was undiagnosed my whole life until early adulthood, and therefore always tried to pass as NT, because I never knew what’s wrong with me.

    I trained myself for years to mimic NT behaviour, including facial expression, gestures, voice tone, and much more.
    Everyone here can probably relate to that how incredible hard it is to achieve that, but I somehow did! Great! Right? Right…?

    NOPE!

    While I was 99% there, the 1% missing made everything worse.
    Those are the tiny tiny nuances that you just can’t replicate, like microexpressions, or some minor mistakes you made, like looking at the wrong direction while “thinking” or whatever shit they made up.

    And those tiny incoherences are what will destroy everything. Many people will dislike or mistrust you, and the worst thing about that is that they don’t even know why!
    They’ll accuse you to being a liar, because you act sketchy, or that you are “fake”, or whatever you can think about.

    I’m currently in the process of un-learning all of that and stop being someone else. Sure, many people will dislike you just for who you are, but seriously, if someone doesn’t have a good time around you just because your voice sounds too flat or because you don’t laugh back at them then fuck that person.
    We have 8 billion people on this planet, there will be at least one person out there that appreciates your weirdness


  • No, don’t. Good idea at first glance, but horrible on the second, at least from my experience.

    While work will be way more pleasant, it might be too pleasant, and you’ll spend more energy and focus than you might realise.
    Your boss will notice that too, and give you a heck lot of more work to do than your colleagues, for the same wage.
    You’ll work and work and work, and then you wake up with a burnout.
    No one, except you, will notice that.

    And then you can’t give 200% anymore, but only 100% from now on.

    In your bosses eyes, you have gotten just lazy and not interested anymore, just because they’re used to you overstraining yourself.

    And last but not least, they’ll dump you into the trash because they can’t extract even more resources out from you, and no one will care. You are just a human resource, that’s why the department in companies is called that way.

    Don’t be stupid. Don’t be me!


  • Guenther_Amanita 🍄@slrpnk.nettoLinux@lemmy.mlAMD vs Nvidia
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    100% AMD, for sure. AMD won’t make much problems and works ootb.

    Nvidia on the other hand… if you already have a Nvidia GPU, then the proprietary drivers work pretty well, but even those won’t work flawlessly and still cause problems for many people.
    And the FOSS drivers are still in the early stages and won’t cut it. So why spend lots of money for a piece of hardware that won’t give you the performance you paid for?

    Also, Nvidia clearly doesn’t care about PCs or its’ users, so why support such a shitty company with your money?