Notices by Thomas (tg9541@mas.to)

Waldenburg from the Hohenlohe plain. During my 100 km ride today I had stereotypical fall weather: quite strong wind, in the hills with gusts, rain and some sunshine, temperatures between 6 and 9 degrees C. Much slower than under better weather conditions, but in a few weeks today's weather will be what I'll call good weather.
#cycling #fall #Germany #Hohenlohe

I own a miniature "netbook computer", the best selling type of computer from 2009 to 2011 (I believe) that's been unused for 8 years. Unlike the last generation of netbooks, with larger screens and normal sized keyboards, my Eee-PC 900A is a real 1st gen netbook: the keyboard is the right size for touch-typing toddlers and the 8GB flash is, like, small. It has a 32bit CPU; Bookworm is the final #Debian release supporting it. It now runs the latest Firefox ESR. Slow, but it works.
#netbook

Nicandra physalodes, or apple-of-Peru (in German simply Giftbeere, "poison berry"), by the side of the road. This inflorescence is unusually late, which is almost certainly the result of mowing in summer.

I like the flowers of this plant; it's been more than four years since I last found one in the wild.

I count flowering plants as I spot them throughout the phenological seasons, trying to learn to identify new ones every year. This is a belated # 197.

#cycling #nature #flowers

@libreleah My kids learned basic colloquial Japanese that way, and English vocabulary through the subtitles. They practiced two languages at once, no teacher, no begging, no grades. I never had to worry about English grades anymore, and cursing in Japanese was a bonus.

@badnetmask Yes, Task is nice but there; if it were not for sometimes breaking changes in Task when Make would just work, even years later.

@mattotcha The link is broken - this one works:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/10/police-raid-london-quaker-meeting-house-very-worrying

@KateCelyn here are a few more #SheepOfMastodon - just for you :-)

@KateCelyn Here are some more sheep for your timeline from the Löwenstein hills in southern Germany :-) #SheepOfMastodon

Elecampane (Inula helenium) in the wild, spotted while #cycling in the hills. This herb has many interesting priorities, culinary uses and medical application. #nature #plantspotting #Germany

@lionelb I'd like to have one in my garden, too!

@nix I've been doing that for 20 years at home: exclusively FOSS software. A revelation was KiCad with FreeCad for electronics design: by learning to use it I could really acquire new skills. There is also FOSS and "Not-so-FOSS": I've moved from Ubuntu to Debian. Other than that I also produce or help produce some FOSS, both hobby and commercially. FOSS creates value to society.

@CloudyMrs Here is a thing I found on-line:

"Divide your Irises every 3 to 5 years. With age, Iris rhizomes get crowded and entangled and they won’t bloom as well."

I don't know, of course, how long you've been growing the irises at that spot.

My search term was "iris blooming alternation"