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Consider a summary statement though. Not a big fan of a link with no text.
Consider a summary statement though. Not a big fan of a link with no text.
There was an article a few days back with microplastics working through “untouched by humans” layers of lake silt.
Stay positive, friend.
I did make another reply, did you see it?
Ever increasing transport costs and maintenance, old age succession, internal economy, constant property price speculation as per standard capitalism, landlord class/renter class, drifting ideals once the permaculture buzz wore off, weeds and other degradations.
Beautiful regenerating natural landscape with gently integrated human habitation, rich water resources, social events, diverse exotic useful plants, wildlife, potential.
https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/best-way-to-install-a-vpn-on-universal-blue/134
The OSTree layering option worked for me, well… I can get it to run once I turn off the ovpn I still have sitting in Fedora’s network settings. @j0rge@lemmy.ml’s comment I fumbled around with and I’ll wait to see if it updates.
Most of my time is spent in Linux Mint but if I ever have to reinstall, I’ll switch over to a ublue flavour.
Commenting from a laypersons’ perspective for new users, with my minor Linux experience and an inability to remember commands, don’t be frightened in giving it a go. If I can do it, anyone can. I run Fedora Kinoite on a second harddrive, use the BIOS Boot Menu to boot in, and then “rebased” to the UBlue Kinoite image using the provided commands once I read about it.
Almost everything is on Flatpak so I don’t even notice a difference with much. I had trouble layering the Mullvad VPN app (originally just using ovpn profiles) and I’m not sure I did it right in relation to updating but it seems to work.
Basically, I don’t understand much about it but it’s a completely usable operating system from my perspective.
Thanks for the write-up. It was helpful in increasing some knowledge.
The place operates under a Body Corporate (or similar to a HOA), land is held in common (600 acres plus) and freehold lots make up the rest. You pay into common land management, you can work some back.
The best thing is the gravity fed reticulated water system fed from header tanks all at same altitude across property. It was the first of its kind designed. All houses have firefighting hydrants too. Dams are large and integrated into road surface. A recent project was Fibre to the Home done with a single pass tractor and blown fibre.
The freehold lots should have been put into trust so they don’t get bought and resold repeatedly for ever increasing prices. Originally they were $20K, now an empty lot is worth 450K and houses have hit 800K. Some lots have cycled for millions.
Internal roads are expensive to maintain as houses are spread out over ridges, leaving river flats open to agriculture. Could a light rail make sense? A single electric bus? It was the 80’s/early 90’s, cars have always been front and centre here.
Succession plans. An aged care facility should have been built, now there are people in their 80s rattling around in their houses and their lots go into disrepair. If property was held in trust, new younger owners could move in and with that, the energy to make change. As it is, most are renters and don’t give a fuck, and fair enough. No one young can buy in so new owners are always old.
Due to age, and some other factors (young people need money to work), no one volunteers for common land ecological maintenance which means barely anything gets done. Parties for personal enjoyment outnumber working bees by a factor of 100.
It was a back to the land, not really a cooperative business, not many streams for money making that would benefit more than a few. It’s just a subdivision in the bush that has a lot of plants planted in the 90s and early 2000s. It’s a high mix of exotics but wildlife has returned heavily so successful in that regard considering it was degraded when they started. It’s a mostly stunning place that has water needs sorted. There isn’t enough money in food production to warrant the planting of food production though small successful business have come and gone in market garden, bamboo, and nurseries.
I live in a “back-to-the-land” “ecovillage”. It’s a disaster and not very “eco” (depending on how you define it) but would I live anywhere else? No, I love it.
It was early permaculturalists having a shot with design and got a lot right, and some wrong. If the world didn’t double down on fuel extraction with the peak oil scare, then maybe it could have worked like any small rural township but personal cars are still dominant here. It’s just too far away from anything to work in that regard. A cooperative on a train line with fertile soils might be better.
If they added 1 or 2 more lanes, then traffic would be sorted for good. /s
It’s not fixed unfortunately. We are on 0.19.1 and having issues.
The fix is to regularly restart which clears the federation queue.
I got it during a websearch. Changed VPN server to another city and it went away. Mullvad.
Beaver. Always beaver.
Australia is mostly degraded, channelised shallow creeks and erosion problems. Bam, beaver does all the work for us.
Can beavers survive in the subtropics?
I live in an area that was 95% cleared of rainforest. Our clearing rate is now near zero (but not zero), much success for everyone.
Are we going to restore it?
No. Farmers don’t want to.
A Pixel (with long security updates) because GrapheneOS is the operating system to use.
It’s limiting but that’s the way it is.
In Australia, there were some news articles stating that if an elderly person can’t explain the scratches (blood, body parts) on their car, you should take them to a Doctor to get their licence revoked. But only if you can force them to go somehow.
Looks like Aussie.Zone has the most mentions of koalas.
https://www.search-lemmy.com/results?query=Koala&page=1&mode=communities
The Aussie Environment and Australia communities are probably the best placed to get started on koalas. I wouldn’t suggest making a new community yet until you need to, there are a lot of unused ones due to the lack of users. Koalas suit the theme of !environment@aussie.zone (how do I know? I posted all the posts there).
Yep, I’m where I am, subscribed to zero communities but I can check out what’s happening nationally using Local. If the instance got massive, that would change but it’s fine as it is.
I guess the science instances, the art instances, the solarpunk instance, or even porn instances etc use Local heavily.
You’ve doubled up. The coffee is biochar.
Austria? Well, then. G’day mate! Let’s put another shrimp on the barbie!
Mostly a bot?
Is this the future?
https://universal-blue.discourse.group/c/bazzite/5
Discussion forum for the readers.