Treevan 🇦🇺

https://universal-blue.discourse.group/c/bazzite/5

Discussion forum for the readers.

Consider a summary statement though. Not a big fan of a link with no text.

There was an article a few days back with microplastics working through “untouched by humans” layers of lake silt.

Stay positive, friend.

Thank you for making Cunningham’s Law a reality.

I wonder if you would have made that post without it.

Seeing as you didn’t answer the person that asked for the info, it seems clear.

Removed by mod

https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/best-way-to-install-a-vpn-on-universal-blue/134

The OSTree layering option worked for me, well… I can get it to run once I turn off the ovpn I still have sitting in Fedora’s network settings. @j0rge@lemmy.ml’s comment I fumbled around with and I’ll wait to see if it updates.

Most of my time is spent in Linux Mint but if I ever have to reinstall, I’ll switch over to a ublue flavour.

Commenting from a laypersons’ perspective for new users, with my minor Linux experience and an inability to remember commands, don’t be frightened in giving it a go. If I can do it, anyone can. I run Fedora Kinoite on a second harddrive, use the BIOS Boot Menu to boot in, and then “rebased” to the UBlue Kinoite image using the provided commands once I read about it.

Almost everything is on Flatpak so I don’t even notice a difference with much. I had trouble layering the Mullvad VPN app (originally just using ovpn profiles) and I’m not sure I did it right in relation to updating but it seems to work.

Basically, I don’t understand much about it but it’s a completely usable operating system from my perspective.

Thanks for the write-up. It was helpful in increasing some knowledge.

https://universal-blue.discourse.group/

It’s not fixed unfortunately. We are on 0.19.1 and having issues.

The fix is to regularly restart which clears the federation queue.

I got it during a websearch. Changed VPN server to another city and it went away. Mullvad.

Beaver. Always beaver.

Australia is mostly degraded, channelised shallow creeks and erosion problems. Bam, beaver does all the work for us.

Can beavers survive in the subtropics?

A Pixel (with long security updates) because GrapheneOS is the operating system to use.

It’s limiting but that’s the way it is.

Yep, I’m where I am, subscribed to zero communities but I can check out what’s happening nationally using Local. If the instance got massive, that would change but it’s fine as it is.

I guess the science instances, the art instances, the solarpunk instance, or even porn instances etc use Local heavily.

Austria? Well, then. G’day mate! Let’s put another shrimp on the barbie!

The study is open access.

Abstract:

Nano-/microplastics accumulate in aquatic bodies and raise increasing threats to ecosystems and human health. The limitation of existing water cleanup strategies, especially in the context of nano-/microplastics, primarily arises from their complexity (morphological, compositional, and dimensional). Here, highly efficient and bio-based flowthrough capturing materials (bioCap) are reported to remove a broad spectrum of nano-/microplastics from water: polyethylene terephthalate (anionic, irregular shape), polyethylene (net neutral, irregular shape), polystyrene (anionic and cationic, spherical shape), and other anionic and spherical shaped particles (polymethyl methacrylate, polypropylene, and polyvinyl chloride). Highly efficient bioCap systems that adsorb the ubiquitous particles released from beverage bags are demonstrated. As evidence of removal from drinking water, the in vivo biodistribution of nano-/microplastics is profiled, confirming a significant reduction of particle accumulation in main organs. The unique advantage of phenolic-mediated multi-molecular interactions is employed in sustainable, cost-effective, and facile strategies based on wood sawdust support for the removal of challenging nano-/microplastics pollutions.

Fascinating picture.

Every tree is precisely where trees don’t normally grow well without some effort.

Perhaps when the landscape designer did the top down view, having trees in the grassed area looked weird.

Unless you pick an instance where the local feed is important to you. It can go either way.

The dream would be that I could sort them into a feedreader and select articles out but that won’t happen. Nor would I want a bot doing it either.

Unfortunately, no one else posts so for the meantime, I just have to keep going or let it die.

I made myself a thread of interests I add to over time:

https://aussie.zone/post/228212

Key Points

• The author is unsure about how much alt-text is optimal for images.
• They have no problem writing a lot and have the means to do so.
• The author uses Hubzilla, which has no limit on post or alt-text length.
• They prioritize accessibility and provide full transcriptions of all texts in a picture.
• The author posts pictures to illustrate their posts, not as the main focus.
• Virtual world pictures often require more description due to unfamiliar objects or locations.
• There are two schools of thought on alt-text: clear and concise vs. full description.
• Alt-text can enhance accessibility for all users, not just those with visual impairments.

The author discusses the use of alt-text in the Threadiverse and Fediverse. They highlight its importance for accessibility and non-technical viewers and advocate for refusing to boost posts without sufficient alt-text.