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  1. Posted

    Honestly? As an OS it's fine. It will do everything 7 does and a bit more. 8 and 8.1 were terrible attempts at making a "hybrid" tablet and desktop OS.

     

    10 does have issues around privacy though, of course, and there is more to do to "strip it down" (who the fuck wants any of those stupid MS/Bing sports/news/weather/etc apps, seriously?) but a lot of it can be disabled. Check out https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/ by the SpyBot Antimalware people.

     

    You'll pretty much be forced off Win7 at some point by the updates and the only real way to stop it is to disable updates entirely and then manually load in each update, checking to see if it was loaded with a Win10 updater buuuuuuuuuut I honestly wouldn't recommend that because chances are you're going to forget and leave yourself open to Win7 exploits as they come in. I'd rather lose a bit of privacy to an org than have my system unpatched and open to the masses.

     

    As much as I love linux (and use it as my everyday OS), I just can't suggest it to anyone that does more than browse the web unless you're willing to change your entire workflow. 95% of your apps won't run on linux and 50% won't have a truly equivalent counterpart. Even things like MS Office vs OpenOffice/LibreOffice aren't 100%. There's often stupid headaches involved in using files between them.

     

    tl;dr I'm not against upgrading to Windows 10. I run it on my desktop. I have no issues with apps. It looks nice. It runs well. Privacy issues can largely be blocked.

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    So we had some hiccups with the tunnel... The ribs aren't strong enough to hold the weight of the spine. :ana:

     

    Solution: The "support poles" are now actually going to be 100% load bearing poles and are going in first. The spine then attaches to them and then the tops are bent down onto and attach to the spine. This is on hold for a week until the old man gets back from meetings in Sydney though...

     

    In the mean time... the raised beds are getting filled up with some real nice soil. No Bunnings trips for all of this luckily. Being in the country means we're just down the road from the a wholesale gravel/dirt/bark/compost place :) Trailer loads for $20 (1 trailer = 4 beds).

     

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    A bit wonky but will look way nicer with a spine and support poles on :) (Should out to @Torsten for his help)

     

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    And these... they're called flexi pallet collars or something? They stack perfectly and were free + petrol :lol: and this is only half of what we got!

     

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    Thinking I may add a two high, two long 'bed' in the middle too and put some dwarf fruit trees in there. Just don't want to block the path too much as this will be the entrance to the tunnel.

     

    Will ultimately be fenced in with a gate just to the left of where I'm standing in the last photo. Will see how much work I need to do to keep the wasclly wabbits out...

     

    Now to find a supplier of a shitload of shadecloth who can weld it for us... and order the weed mat. and the gravel. and compost/soil/whateverthefuckimgoingtoputinthebeds. and decide what to plant in the beds.

    Sometimes I think I did this in the wrong order...:blink:

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    15 minutes ago, AbleKay said:

    looking good, been wanting to put some of that (irrigation?) tubing in my back yard for vines to cover but not sure how tight a space they would work in. Ive got a 3m wide yard but presumably narrower gauge pipe would work... haven't found much online about this did you have a reference?

     

    We're using irrigation piping, 2" I think? I don't have the numbers on me and I'm not going outside right now :P  With a smaller yard, I'd definitely consider something smaller. Won't have any growing on mine as they'll be holding up shade cloth :)

     

    9 minutes ago, AbleKay said:

    do you know if the curve balances/ becomes more symmetrical over time?

     

     

    In our case, I think we're just a bit over the self-rigid/symmetry sweet spot. It's going to require a lot of fastening and shit to get it to sit properly.

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    So here goes the start of the tunnel. It's much bigger when you see it in person instead of drawings on your screen. :blink:

    Lots more levelling, working out how to properly secure the damn thing and of course building left to go. Pictures for reference purposes only. Final project subject to change.

     

    100% open to the advice and wisdom of everyone who's done this before. We're making it up as we go really.

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  17. Posted · Edited by at0m

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    It looked like a lot more before I started planting them... :blink:

    Some of them are rooted, the majority are cuts from existing plants at my old place (left a few stumps and smaller ones there)

     

    I love the look of the monster in the front. Fucked if I remember what it is though, labels were lost a long time ago.

    I may have to do an ID run (and get some more :rolleyes:)

    Definitely need a load of gravel soon too. Looking a bit bare and open for my liking.

     

    We've been pulling shit out all over the place too. The previous owner of the place planted a lot of shit which isn't doing so well now that we moved in and don't water it daily so anything that looks like it's not doing crash hot from lack of water is going to be/is being replaced by drought hardy natives. We'll need more gravel for those beds too... 

    Would love some suggestions for replacements (SA, natives preferred, looking to water once a week max in summer).

     

    Those fruit trees from the original post are all gone now too. They were severely neglected and would be, imo, too much work to repair them, the soil and everything else. Additionally, we don't know exactly what they were sooo... they're gone. We now have a super nice, flat, clear stretch about 18 x 7 (give or take). So in their place I'm thinking something like...

     

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    Very rough draft buuuuuuuuuuut it's what we're after I think :) Shade tunnel + outdoor raised beds + hydroponic benches + shaded raised beds.

    Size is about 6x18 but I'm seriously considering taking it down to 6x12 (halving the front garden) because I'm just not sure if I can use all of those beds buuuuut we'll see. It may get even longer and include a small shed... who knows.

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  20. Posted · Edited by at0m

    So today I did a bit of tractor-gardening. If you compare it to some photos from my first posts, you can see the changes we've made :) 

     

    This is going to be the cactus bed. I dislike how shit it often looks at the beginning of a process like this but I'm sure once we dump gravel all over it (and have things planted of course...) it will look a million times better.

     

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    The little raised bed style thing is planned to be used for smaller cacti so they don't get lost in the mix.

     

    Here's a bonus cat and another vertical pallet garden too. I put a bunch more effort into this one as it's a paid job :)

     

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    but seriously that is beyond a fucking joke. are they going to make steaks all well done too? 

     

    nope because steaks aren't misc ground animal parts. Everything except the highest quality or self-ground mince is pretty shit-tier meat.

    Not defending it, just explaining their reasoning. I <3 juicy rare burgers.

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    With the intention of growing a lot more (cacti and others), I'm realising I'm going to have a hard time keeping track of all of the seeds and their data (source, dates, etc). Right now all my baggies are stuffed into a tin and that just won't do.

     

    So what I was thinking is something like a bunch of these bead containers, filled with sorted baggies and then stacked into some box I'll make with a lid to keep it dark.

     

    Or maybe just a whole lot of these?

     

    Would love to hear what everyone here is doing.

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