Devjavu

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[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ok, so by biome I meant the biome and not the area. Is it a clay like ground? Are you in a salt marsh? Ideally you could provide a name or even just a type.

Depending on soil composition and environment I would then like to recommend things like:
If you have a lot of silt, so mineral heavy, and that is unusual for the environment, work the top layer of dirt and get some compost in there (few centimeters deep even) to increase bio matter availability, then use nitrogen and water binding plants like clovers to further increase soil quality. This can help in your case because they sometimes put shitty ass sandy soil under and around concrete so it drains better.
That's an example that may not apply and may be a bad choice. There's a lot of things you can do.

On the topic of drought:
You probably, again depending on biome, want to get low silt, high carbon soil. The ways you can get that are a lot and the best way depends on, you guessed it, the biome. It holds on to the water better. You can also use plants that keep the water in soil longer, clover is good at that. It's kind of the perfect plant to make an area fertile again. If it grows, that's a good first sign. And if it looks dead, chances are it's not. Drought resistant plants, actual shrubs, they help. If it is really bad you might want to get a large rain barrel just to keep it going until it reaches a stable state.

Your country has the National Vegetation C-something (NVC), which will tell you which plants are found in your area. You can then buy some proper seeds for those conditions from an appropriate seller. https://wildseed.co.uk/mixtures/complete-mixtures/
You can't just plant any wild seed pack.

I would like to know the makeup and depth of your soil, as well as if there is anything underneath it, maybe concrete? Is there water nearby, how close and what kind is it? Could you go to a similar area nearby that has growth and compare? How long are drought periods? What are temperatures and precipitation like throughout the year in some actual metric? Ideally you'd look that up on open meteo, since I doubt you want to give me the coords of you city. If you really want some help you would take some pics of soil samples from home and local meadow as well as the plants that grow there and send them to me per dm.

Would love to help you get a buzzy garden. A healthy ecosystem doesn't even need to be full of the annoying buzzers like wasps, you get to decide that. Do it for the Beatles. I wrote that wrong didn't I.

[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This has consistency? I need to know more.

[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

For the trans people: We love you just like everybody else. Know what? I love you more than everybody else, because you fucking deserve it, knowing what these fucks make you go through.
There's people that like you the way you are nearby. Needs to be said from time to time.

[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

On the healthiness of your yard: Dry patches are fine, there are plants for that too. The important part is leaving it alone. I would recommend to mow maybe once a year max. I know, it gets real logn, but that way nature can work wonders. The glass and clover root network will widen and sprawl and fill that space in. And if there is still too much dry dirt there, then other plants will take over. Clover is already more resistant than grass, other weeds are even more resistant. Do an experiment, see what happens. I recommend looking for local dry area plants. We have Heide for that, not sure what it is in english, I'm a german native.

Could you define the weather region, local biome and Surrounding biology? I can not precisely help you with that otherwise.

[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

MAN do I wish I would get that response. Instead I don't stare at people, mainly cuz I'm shy. It also doesn't bode well when I would, as just because I'm shy doesn't mean that women are not scared of my appearance, which sucks.

[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Another currency.

[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago (5 children)

If you ecological invasiveness, which is an issue with squirrels in some countries, thats fair. But theres ways you can work around that and still have a nice, healthy yard.

[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Cool stuff, but that doesn't fix that. She needs a new school in a different place.
She also needs financial compensations. Ideally in the 10s of thousands. Let her have that money as well, fuck it.

[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Actually, since that's 10% and the number of "HA"s is 80, that would be HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is literally true. Sure, your memory might tell you that you suck at drawing, but that's what it is about. A lot of it mental. You might not be able to draw something perfectly and if you draw a face, oh boy will it look like shit, but can you draw a stick? Can you draw an apple? How well can you draw an apple? How can you improve on that? Artists sure as hell didn't start out the way they are now. They have histories on their art, look at their progression. And be sure to know that they had to work up the courage to share their art and didn't do so after years.

You're a human. You developed to do this kind of stuff. You had to learn to write, so you did. If you like writing you even learned to do it well. If some random ass guy can learn to draw with their foot, then you can learn to draw with one of the most precise evolutions of the animal kingdom.

[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago
  1. True that, I had not thought of that.
 

I live in the EU and the company I work at has been bought out by an american company. They now want me to sign a document that lets them transfer my personal data from my employer to the USA. They want my Name, full address and birthday. It says that they need this for some "compliance regulation" which includes the prevention of terrorism (the ol' classic). I feel uncomfortable giving them "explicit permission" to share this data even if it is done under "highest possible security measures" which, if they are not possible, might as well be none. I just started my apprenticeship, so they could fire me without providing a reason if I do not sign. Any help is well appreciated.

 

I am a little sick of the seemingly lost focus on existing products. As a developer myself, I understand that software development takes time and is resource-intensive, especially if what you are working on is unique and has never been done before. However, the focus of your available resources seems to not be set right, in my opinion. As a result, I will list a few things that I absolutely cannot stand about the way that Proton creates products in the hopes that I, along with many others, can show the weight of this reoccurring issue.

Starting with Linux systems. Yes, I am aware that the smallest group of customers uses a Linux desktop. This is not an excuse to have basically no decent Software support for it. The only clients even usable currently on Linux are the web clients (duh), the bridge, and a very unstable version of Proton VPN, along with its future self, the alpha or beta release. Now, I have to say here that Proton does seem to shift more focus over to Linux, which is quite nice to see. The VPN client alpha is among the best working, far better than IVPN or Mullvad, with an obvious lack of features.

As a whole, I don't think that this is the biggest issue anyway. People using Linux are usually quite advanced users and are capable of using a WireGuard config file, which is often the better choice anyway.

In my eyes, the largest issue, which I have noticed just by reading posts a couple of years old, is that some features are planned on a platform (for parity or accessibility) and will then be followed up with mostly nothing. To me as a customer, this seems like bad management. Features in the iOS app should not take two years to be implemented in the Android client, and vice versa. You release more products and then largely ignore pressing issues. The reason I choose Proton services is not because I want a new Password manager that is replaceable by three other technically equally good or better alternatives that have zero issues, but because I want to replace services that have no good privacy-oriented alternative. Like the email service you guys got famous for in the privacy community.

If improvement of the portfolio is so important, maybe instead of pumping out products, the mobile apps should be at least accessible for the rather large number of users that do not have access to Google services out of their own choice (of which I am not one). Maybe two mobile clients should not get the same feature in the span of a few years. This example is not an issue of lacking resources. You have a rather large team working on different projects for the same platform. On Android, implementing push notification support without Google's APIs should be rather straight-forward, especially since you have already done so in the VPN application. Yet, for several years now, there has been no update for it. This simple change would make the mail client viable for the f-droid repo. There are open-source projects that are maintained by hundreds of people at a time. You should shift your focus, and I believe you would likely succeed in creating actual finished products by focusing on one product at a time.

All of this being said, I still want to thank you. The reason for all this inconsistency across products and platforms is likely due to the high complexity of said products; I am aware of that. There is simply no other company that does it quite like you guys do. All I know is that despite the issues I face every day, I gladly try to use your products when they do work. I would not want it any other way.

Your services are hard to use (not from a UI/UX point of view), and I hope you can work on this incredible base you guys have built. The few issues I have listed here are not the only ones on my list, but they aren't new to you guys either, so I will shorten the text wall.

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