They may do best there, but I think there is wiggle room, at least for small scale cultivation.

My dad used to grow them in 9a and they grew pretty well. But they need to be covered up or brought in overnight if it’s going to get too cold.

What’s the phone number of the chicken farm? 4444719

Explanation: Cot cot cot cot c’est un oeuf!

(cot being the French onomatopoeia for a chicken’s “cluck”)

You might want to reconsider the first part. While you don’t want parm to be the primary cheese, a little parm added to homemade Mac and cheese really steps it up.

This reminds me of the first time I saw Wall-E.

There isn’t any real dialog until later in the movie, but at one point (fairly early, I think?) it showed a newspaper.

The headline was in French.

You’d think that this would have tipped me off that maybe I downloaded the wrong version from the net. But no.

My wife and I had recently been watching a bunch of indie (and sometimes foreign) films at the local art house theatre. So it was totally plausible to me that it was an artistic choice to have the paper in French. Some comment on the future of society, or something.

And that’s what I continued to believe until much later in the movie when there was full-on dialog in French (with no subtitles) and it finally dawned on me.

Oops.

About the time they got rid of the hard plastic cashew jars and switched to the bags, they also started selling a (more expensive) glass jar of cashews.

So for me, it does cut down on the plastic, since now I just refill the glass jar with the bagged cashews, rather than needing to buy (and dispose of) the plastic jar every time.

I might feel differently if I was actually reusing the plastic jars for something but I really wasn’t (not after the first few, anyway).

Do you know what species? I’ve definitely had oysters I’ve left too long look like that and then still fruited fine. Certain other species I might be worried about.

How to do they smell? Earthy and/or mushroomy? That’s good. If it’s yeasty, sour, or otherwise bad smelling, then maybe I’d be worried.

But otherwise, get to it. They’re ready to go.

The first time I grew oysters, I drilled holes in a 5 gallon bucket, and used aspen shavings from the pet store. But straw and a basket would work too.

I don’t remember exactly what instructions I followed, but it might have been https://freshcap.com/blogs/growing/bucket-grow or https://northspore.com/blogs/the-black-trumpet/growing-mushrooms-in-buckets-containers

Good luck! I’m not an expert by any means, but I do have several grows under my belt. Feel free to ping me if you have questions along the way.

My toes, Sis.

I’ll second the suggestion to start with oyster mushrooms (which you may still find at some grocery stores) rather than agaricus, but for different reasons.

Oyster mushrooms are really easy to grow. You can buy kits, or you can do it from scratch in a 5 gallon bucket or garbage bag with straw or wood shavings or similar substrates.

Agaricus, on the other hand, are more complicated. They’re not primary decomposers like oysters, they’re secondary decomposers. Which means rather than using a fresh substrate, you have to grow them on active compost. It’s certainly achievable by a dedicated hobbyist, but it’s not going to be an easy first time IMO.

If you want a good chance if success, start with oysters.

Edit: oops, just realized this post was months old.

If you don’t have an Intel CPU, then you shouldn’t need it. At least, I think it’s only for CPUs and not for other intel-based devices (NIC, graphics, whatever).

It’s prompting for upgrade because it’s already installed. It’s recommended (but not required) by initramfs-tools, so that’s probably why it’s installed (recommended packages are installed by default). oops, read that wrong. Intel-microcode recommends initramfs-tools.

You may want to run

apt-rdepends intel-microcode 

to see what pulled it in.

But you should be able to uninstall it, and then it won’t prompt you any more.

This is what happens Larry, when you find a stranger in the alps.

That was a hoot!

This pic made me smile.

I haven’t been to DebConf since before COVID, but I definitely recognize a few people in that pic.

I’ve been using Debian since 2000 (potato).

I’ve occasionally had to use other distros for work (Red Hat or Ubuntu, typically), or to verify/troubleshoot bugs reports in upstream packages.

But my preference is Debian all the way, for servers or workstations.

It’s stable, and it has a great community. Also ideologically speaking, it has the Debian Social Contract and Debian Free Software Guidelines.

Ah, ok. I guess I misunderstood.

I’m afraid I don’t have any other suggestions that haven’t already been made elsewhere in the thread.

Best of luck, and I hope you get it figured out.

Shot in the dark here…

You said that blacklisting the module brought back your device, but not the sound. Is it possible that pulse is selecting the dummy as the default interface?

Before reloading alsa and restarting pulse - If you go into pavucontrol and change the input/output devices to your sound card, does the sound start working?

If that’s the case, then you should be able to edit your pulse config to force your audio device to be default, regardless of whether or not the dummy is present.

(No idea about the dummy device, sorry)

If you’re ok with adventure/comedy, my wife and I recently watched The Lost City (2022). To be honest, I expected not to like it, but it was surprisingly fun.

In 1998, the young lady working the cash register at the taco bell near where I worked told me I have really pretty eyes. So I have that going for me, which is nice.

And if you know someone with a few different kinds practice with theirs before you buy your own

And if you don’t, some gun ranges have rentals. This can be a good way to shoot a variety of calibers and designs to see what you like.

When I was first starting out, I spent a lot of time at the BeeSource forums. I haven’t been there in a while, so I don’t know how it currently is, but I found it a good resource initially. FWIW, I always found the beekeeping-related subreddits to be pretty hit and miss.

There are tons of books available, possibly from your local library, but some are better than others. Wicwas press has a lot of good books, but I think they skew more towards advanced beginner and later, rather than the basic beginner.

But most importantly, there’s a saying that “all beekeeping is local”. While the basics are generally the same everywhere, the specifics vary depending on location. Not only things like temperature, humidity, and rainfall, but also what kinds of plants bloom, when and how often.

So regardless of any reading or other research you do, one of the best things you can do to learn is join a local beekeeping club. There will surely be members that have been there for a while, and you can learn from them what really works in your area.

Also, if you’re in the US, check with your local Ag Extension office. They may have resources or info to help you get started. Possibly even classes.

I’d start with local apiaries and/or small/mid scale beekeepers.

The trick will be finding one that will let you buy a smaller quantity (relatively speaking - you probably don’t want multiple 55 gallon drums of honey) at near-wholesale prices.

This might be tough, because small scale (hobbyist or side-gig) beekeepers often charge a premium because they’re not producing a lot, and value the hard work they put into what they did get.

On the flip side, larger outfits will likely already have contracts with a reseller, and may not want to bother with selling a mere 50-100 lbs as a one-off.

A good place to ask around might be a local beekeeping club/meetup. It would at least let you meet some of your local beeks, and maybe determine which are retail-only and which do wholesale.