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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Last November, the allotments at the bottom of my hill flooded for the first time since I arrived 4 years ago, this year it’s arrived in October.

    Last year it wasn’t until March until they were walkable. I wonder how long it will be this year.

    It got to about 4ft last time and seemingly poisoned the land as no-ones crops grew this year. Interestingly plums and pears did pretty well.


  • If you really want that passive poison effect, you need to get fiestaware: bright orange/yellow ceramics where the concentration of uranium is way higher and it’s used as the glaze!

    It’s known to leech into acidic foods, such as tomato sauces with pasta.

    I also feel like we can also add antique top hats to this; I recently found out that my grandfather’s childhood top hat, which I used to play with all the time growing up, contains mercury nitrate


  • Wow, thank you for the very thorough write-up!

    I was wondering how you’d get it past the point where it’s just equal pressure to the other cannister; I assume that’s the reason for freezing the one being refilled, and I’m guessing the cannister that’s being refilled needs to be a smaller than the one that it’s refilling from?



  • You aren’t wrong, but as someone who managed to screw up and damaged the copper traces when trying to resolder an old mini-usb back onto my old keyboard; you do really need to have a good understanding and a lot of practice with SMDs and temperature control.

    I went from a less than 50% success ratio when resoldering SMD LEDs to about 95% success after I bought a £20 mini-heatgun with a narrow (5mm) nozzle


  • +1 for prusa if you want to spend more and get something that just works with no fuss, if you’re wanting to go cheap&cheerful an Ender 3 will be a good option as well if you don’t mind the occasional bit of tinkering for about half the price, as it’s probably one of the most supported printers by the community and newer ones come with Auto bed leveling and half of the fancy stuff you had to add on back in the day.

    I’d spend any money saved building/buying an enclosure and something to run octoprint with (Raspberry pi or a spare android phone)








  • At minimum I’d suggest getting something to insulate them from the window sill, this could be PIR board or a silicone mat, but the heat mats I’ve used in the past have been very effective, the ones I’ve used are about 18w, which isn’t a huge power draw.

    No clue how cold it gets where you are, but the tomatoes and beans certainly seem like they’d benefit.

    Heating lamps are effectively a waste of power.