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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Allegedly gold finches are around me year round but I never see or hear them in the winter. I get so excited to see their bright yellow faces with black unibrows. Glad you're seeing their colors pop too!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

They've become real hissy bois since the chicks were born

 

Bonus photo of mama bird protecting her babies!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's getting a little frustrating that every company seems to want a few dollars per month from me. I get that it is expensive to maintain servers and keep programmers on staff to write and maintain the software, but I really hate being nagged by everything I own to buy more stuff.

I also wonder how silly all of these subscriptions are. Especially for running. Do you need your Garmin or Polar watch to tell you what workout to do and when? Or should you follow a well established routine like Pfitz or Daniel's running formula (or something more casual)? Do you need your data synced to the cloud and shared with Strava? Are the virtual "kudos" from others what's keeping you motivated? Do you need your watch to tell you how that workout went compared to past workouts? Or should you figure out how to listen to your body and make that evaluation yourself?

Maybe these subscriptions are useful for beginners who don't know how to do the above. I'm just a little curmudgeonly and I really just need a watch that gives me distance and time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe their diet would shift but a lot of animals eat ticks. Frogs and toads, many smaller birds like warblers and probably house sparrows and robins, chickens love them, and of course opposums and mice.

Similar for mosquitos. I see the house sparrows around here catching mosquitos all the time. I'm pretty sure dragon flies feed heavily on them too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow I haven't read a good chunk of this list, and I thought I was a sci-fi book afficionado. Thanks for adding to my summer reading list! Might start with either Parable of the Sower or Never Let Me Go.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I did my first track workout on Thursday. Felt good so went for a run yesterday. Took some wrong turns (live in a new city) and ended up doing 15 miles. Today is supposed to be my long run but I might just do a recovery run because I'm so tired!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried that out and posted the picture in another comment in this thread (https://lemmy.world/comment/10346090). I think it's better but I have some more to learn. Your photo is brilliant!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks, that's exactly how I took the photo. It was approaching sunset so I think the colors are a little yellow because of that and just how brown the river is. I adjusted the colors like the other comment suggested and I think it looks better:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks, I've been practicing getting the focus sharp. It's a tough battle between my phone's autofocus vs manual bino adjustments and keeping the phone+bino stable. I still feel I have more work to do on that too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I see cormorants all the time here too, I just loved how this one was screaming at something. On this walk, I saw only one cormorant but 60ish Canada geese (with a ton of goslings!), so the cormorant felt rare today. I also saw a blue heron but he flew too far away for me to get a good picture.

 
 

Spotted in the Ottawa wildlife refuge in Ohio, USA

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I would also recommend checking out salome. It has a parametric CAD module like you would be used to in SolidWorks. It felt a little less finicky to me than freecad , and I also think it has more controllable STL generation compared to freecad.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think sometime went wrong with your KDE frameworks description. Looks like the some python notes got in there instead.

Love seeing all the updates! OpenSUSE has been working great for me.

 

I've been passing by this house once every few weeks on a walk, but the chickens have always been near their coop in the back. One of them finally came up to say hello!

 

I was a little surprised by the beauty in Shawnee National Forest. Lots of rock outcroppings and long trails to be found. At least, compared to the rest of Illinois!

 

Hello, I have some fret buzz on my first and second frets of my E and A strings. I am trying to fix this myself because I want to learn. I think this means I need to adjust the truss rod, right?

However, the bolt thing to my truss rod looks completely stripped:

I can't really turn it.

Does that mean I need to make a new nut now if I want to get rid of this buzz?

 

This is one of my old neighbor's chickens. She is probably one of the prettiest I have ever seen. I forgot her breed, anyone know?

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