I saw one small beetlish thing, not sure if it’s the same one. We must import our bananas, they don’t want to grow here.

I’ll assume you meant winter. It’s my first winter with bees, so I don’t have much any experience. I’m glad these survived, and I resent that mouse that ate my 3rd hive (or whatever it did in there).

I’ve heard that bees will shiver themselves warm enough, if they have food. Therefore, they need to have food, obviously, and lots. I also hear that moisture is more dangerous to bees than cold.

Which reminds me, I really should read a beekeeping book cover-to-cover, instead of just picking up pieces of lore as I go…

Which process? Cleaning? My hives are about 2x bigger than necessary, so I have room to shift stuff.

1. Light up the smoker. Scare them with lots of smoke. Not sure why this works - there are different hypotheses around.
2. Sweep the floor in the spare end of the hive
3. Remove ceiling boards. Take out frames, brush off the corpses. Reinsert them into the spare end. Stay calm as they buzz around me like crazy. Move slowly and avoid jostling them. This part requires the most of dull.
4. Sweep the other end of the floor, which used to be under the frames
5. Poke dead bees out of the entrance
6. Move all frames back to their preferred locaticon

In this instance, it’s clearly nature over nurture. This is a cultured breed, or was, at any rate (I don’t have evidence that they swapped out the queen).

Combs are unpokable (there are cells on either side, with a partition in the middle). I could probably get the dead bees out with tweezers, but didn’t have time to do that. I’ll let bee undertaners take these out. I only scraped off these that were easy to remove, or in a pile under the frames.

Why not just run Postfix+Dovecot? If everyone runs a single-user server, it becomes a P2P network. Also, it’dn’t depend on Tor, which is an external dependency.

Also, what role is Tor playing in privacy? If the chatting parties are cryptographically verifed, only message content remains private…

And then @lightnsfw@reddthat.com heard about NixOS, where the whole OS, along with all services like Matrix or nginx is configured using a couple of text files, all versioned in Git…

How exactly are you getting rid of Google with this? The music is still loaded from Google servers, thus subject to blocking or disappearing.

My employer offered to upgrade my many-years-old Thinkpad to a newer one, but it just did not stick (WiFi drivers in Linux were unstable). I returned it and kept using the old one. Why change what works.

diff <<EOF  
pastestuffhere  
EOF  

while this is running, paste the other stuff into terminal. I’m assuming diff reads stdin, if not given a filename.

vim’s :diffthis

After we nuke it, it’ll be unpopulated, and there will be no one to complain. Easy!

You got it the wrong way around. Nukes are going to throw lots of dust in the air, which will reflect solar energy away before it has a chance to heat the planet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

Reads like it was written by a LLM.

It’s mighty unlikely to brick a PC with Linux, but there has been at least this case: https://lwn.net/Articles/674940/

There’s no law of gravity, it’s just curved spacetime! *jumps off a cliff

How did you convert it? Slapped on a standard PS2 to USB converter, or something fancier?

Eh, OP says:

I am familiar with Linux and comfortable in terminal

… and is constrained by little RAM. My stance stands.

Step 1: be psychologically prepared to break it all. Don’t depend on your services, at first, and don’t host stuff for others, for the same reason.

Yunohost? Good for trying out stuff, I suppose. I haven’t tried it myself. You could also try Debian, Alpine, or any other. They’re approximately equivalent. Any differences between distros will be minuscule compared to differences between software packages (Debian is much more similar to Alpine than Nextcloud to Syncthing).

4GB of RAM? Don’t set up a graphical interface. You don’t need a desktop environment to run a server. Connect to it via SSh from your regular PC or phone. Set up pubkey auth and then disable password auth.

I recommend setting up SSH login first, then a webserver serving up HTTP, only, accessible via IP address.

Next comes DNS - get a name at https://freedns.afraid.org/

Then add HTTPS, get the certs from LetsEncrypt.

Finally, Nextcloud. It runs kind of “inside” your webserver. Now you can back up your phone, and share photos with family, etc.

I sure did, and looked up some of the more intriguing references. There’s a reason they call it “The good book”!