A link is great but xitter doesn't let anyone without an account even look at content from their page anymore. Is there an alternate place to see these?
There are different ways of approaching microblogs — reading, writing and interacting. You have @s and hashtags in mind already, they're a good way of finding conversations and engaging with people.
You'll find users who write interesting stuff about your favourite subjects — you'd want to follow those to get all their updates. That includes boosts/reposts, i.e. posts by others that those you follow share to spread a message. That will also help you find more interesting people and organisations.
Now, interaction. I have come recently to Lemmy from Mastodon instances, and I see quite a bit of difference in the etiquette and forms of socialising. Two generalisations that I can think of:
Mastodon and other fedi microblogs were built by users who were fed up by Twitter's lax moderation of harassment, so they built in safeguards against that; Lemmy was made in reaction to the commodification and heavy handed enshittification of Reddit, but largely expect the same conversations here. They are not the same mentality.
On Lemmy, you post a question or thought in a dedicated community to get answers or start a discussion. Each community has its own room where the discussion is centred around one subject. On the microblog side, you might imagine one big, sprawling social club where people mingle and form smaller groups to talk about one thing, then disperse and join other conversations. And sometimes they just talk about their pets or hobbies to nobody in particular.
Sorry, I'm writing this over morning coffee and I know I'm only covering broad fragments of the microblog experience as it differs from using a forum. I hope it helps though.
I had exactly the same problem when I moved from languages that were interpreted or combined the IDE and runtime environment into one, and starting to use languages which had their own external compiler. Unfortunately, open source project user documentation is often terrible for beginners (what I found above for Kate seems to be no exception), and IDEs often seem to be written by people who don't really expect anyone to actually use the included build options (to be fair, most folks seem to like using their own separate build utilities, so probably this is often the case)
If you can tell us which compiler or interpreter you're using (e.g. gcc, clang, Python), someone can probably tell you how to compile and/or run a single-file program from the terminal with a fairly simple command.
I believe both clang and gcc are present on my system right now. and yeah, the Kate documentation was a little lacking. they do have little pop-ups letting you know though
So the plant you have there is a Maranta leuconeura. I have one that looks just like it!
There's a couple things that could be going wrong. In general, here are the conditions it likes:
It likes indirect light. I keep mine by a south facing window that has an awning cutting the harsh light outside. Additionally, I have it behind a sheer curtain.
It likes to be kept in moist soil, and in a humid place. I don't let mine fully dry out before rewatering it, and I live in a place where the ambient humidity is often 60-80%. If you live in a dry place, water it often and maybe keep it in the most humid place with enough light (kitchen or bathroom is usually more humid)
and this is key, it does NOT like hard water. I honestly think this could be the problem with yours given what you said. Hard water has a lot of minerals, and over time, they build up in the soil. The plant might have been fine with tap for months, but now the soil could effectively be too "salty" for it.
If I had this plant, I'd do one of two things.
Option 1:
buy fresh potting soil
gently remove the plant from its pot
shake off the soil from the roots
rinse and scrape off any residue on the inside of the pot
replant in fresh soil
water with RO/soft water from now on (see note below), keeping it moist, in whatever spot it already lives
Option 2:
buy or obtain real reverse osmosis (RO) water (see note below)
water the plant so thoroughly with RO that the mineral salts dissolve and are carried away. This means soaking the pot in a large volume (like more than a gallon) of RO water for an hour or so, or watering it so water flushes out the bottom 5+ times in a row. You can tell if you flush the minerals out because there should be no grey dusty residue left on the soil or sides of the pot!
add a small amount of balanced fertilizer (like follow miracle grow instructions or something)
water with RO/soft water from now on (see note below), keeping it moist, in whatever spot it already lives
As backup, I might also try and root a cutting (again, in RO water) just in case it still dies anyway. Hopefully with these efforts it will revive, though!
Note on soft/RO water:
If you are looking for soft water, don't use water from a water softener (confusing, I know). This is because water softeners for humans replace the minerals with sodium ions. In essence, water softener water is just as "salty" as hard water, it's just different salts.
Instead, try and get deionized (DI) or reverse osmosis (RO) water.
Ideally, this would come from an RO system, which is a common kind of in-house water filter. If you live by a college, you could maybe ask for some from their science departments (especially biology or chemistry). You can also buy it online and have it shipped to you, but this is really expensive, especially considering that the maranta needs so much water.
Instead, I would buy a TDS meter (available on Amazon for like $7). It's a little stick device that you put in the water and it tells you how hard it is. With this, you could test a few brands of bottled water (avoid "spring water", or "remineralized" water-- go for "filtered" or "purified") until you find one with less than ~30 ppm / ~75 µS/cm dissolved solids. My grocery store sells water in big machines out front that reads 15 µS/cm, and it costs $2.50/5 gallons!
Honestly, I cheat and get lazy sometimes with mine and water it with tap. You saw yourself how long it takes for the solids to build up, and watering it with RO dissolves some of those over time. It's not like tap will kill it right away, but these guys sure are picky! :)
I'll change the soil, take a new cutting for good measure, and buy some bottled water after careful inspection in the local supermarket. The water here is indeed quite hard, and this explanation fits perfectly with how the plant has been behaving - doing really well in the beginning, and then gradually terrible as the soil deteriorated.
I have also moved it to a corner of the brightest room of the appartement. It used to stay in the bedroom, which is probably the darkest place I could have found, and then I would give it direct light in the window sill whenever I wondered if it was not getting enough light. Mistakes mistakes.
Ohhh the calathea. It’s horrible. We had a few of them and it was never “ good enough “ for them. When I gave up they came back to life.
And a few days ago while travelling I saw them at a campsite alive and well just outside.
I really like the plant how it looks but its a horrible diva to deal with.
Reminds me of this reddit post:
The only Calathea I got that survived (I have to have tried them at least 5-10 times now) is the Calathea musaica Network. Heartly little beasts. They are a lot more thicc.
Oh yea, they are super vibrant like that too with a bit of sun and not too hard to find. :) Pretty easy to care for and more resilient to underwatering than other prayer plants. 100% good for beginners, especially in apartments with half light.
No I think you'd be OK, remember they're tropicals so moisture isn't bad, it prefers it! Here is an undoctored leafie, and, btw, you can never go wrong with terracotta. :) She would look better if I misted her but no time for that.
Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do to fix this. Interstellar supports the kbin API, but your kbin server has not enabled the kbin API on their end. So you'll need to contact kbin.social's admin to see if they can enable support.
The kbin api has been out for a while, but there are some instances that still don't support it yet, including kbin.social. If you go to the login screen on the app, there's a list of recommended kbin instances that support both the API and external logins.
@ernest When can we expect kbin.social to support the API and external logins?
I really want to support Kbin and stay on your instance, but not having a mobile app is a serious deal-breaker. Supporting apps should get priority over introducing new kbin features IMHO. Kbin.social is the biggest instance, so I'd expect it to support all needed APIs?
I hoped Artemis would deliver, but it didn't. Now Interstellar is my next resort. Today I even considered ... <whisper> returning to Reddit </whisper> for a brief moment.
Comrade @RedWizard continues his excellent work over at Abolish.Capital , as explained in this post.
The drama leading up to it is silly and not worth getting into, but basically Philip got upset that they got banned from dbzer0 for defending a transphobe, decided to protest and block dbzer0 and Lemmy.ml from ibbit, then RedWizard decided letting Lefty_News_Wire remain at the whims of such an admin wasn't a great move going forward.
I just think Phil is an operative or alternatively, possibly dealing with serious MH issues, since on one hand they complain about Nu being transphobic then...are upset with getting a transphobic ban???
Anyway thanks for the update. And if you participate in any gatherings today, that it's supremely enjoyable.
Eta: I remember that thread. I got bored with it then and quit, and I'm bored now after less than five minutes.
I'm really impressed with your patience and ability to remain unruffled when being egregiously abused. How do you do it?!
My take on Phil is that they have particular views that they see everything through, and have infinite patience and leeway for that which should logically break their views. In short, they license themselves, and aren't that close to getting radicalized. We all license ourselves, but those more directly impacted by the failures of the system tend to be closer to radicalization.
And thank you, you too as well (if you participate in any gatherings, of course)
Edi: Regarding my patience, I'm just extremely stubborn, and try not to let that which I know to be wrong get under my skin.
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