I made a live wallpaper using an Android app called Magic Fluids (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.magicfluids) that is fully black, but creates a flame effect every time I tap the screen or slide my finger across it. Yeah, edgy and tacky AF, but it really is a pretty cool effect and I’ve been using it for years, so whatever.

Put it on the pile: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_lines_in_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War

Amen to that. I’m not a busy CEO of four companies, I don’t need or want an assistant, digital or otherwise. I want to read through articles and watch videos, I can scroll/fast-forward through myself if I feel like it. And while we’re at it, I don’t really need or want personalized anything - just give me ALL the search results and I’ll sort through them myself. Luddite? Maybe, but I literally cannot think of a case where this would be useful or helpful to me…

So he basically banned education and sex from sex ed classes, got it. Next step - banning Arabic (gasp!) numerals from math classes and prohibition of mentioning any other countries apart from USA and Israel during geography lessons?

A big reason I replaced my old S10+ with a battery that wouldn’t even hold half a day with Xperia 1 VI is that it has both the headphone jack AND an SD card slot. Might be the only flagship left that has both…

That one is Mammillaria hathiana, also known as Old lady cactus :)

It does, doesn’t it? Too bad it’s just going to look like two cacti next to each other after planting, but oh well…

Wonder what the excuse for not hitting 60FPS in all or even most) games will be this time… I mean, I still play a lot and I do like my PS5, but it’s way beyond ridiculous at this point.

They used to have invite threads on Reddit - that’s how I got mine when the API changes were announced. I think it was in Reddit alternatives subreddit? Not sure, haven’t been back since. If there’s still a thread (and if the subreddit even exists still), asking there might work.

Thanks! And yeah, we sure do - hope this one stays healthy, being different species and all - fingers crossed!

I don’t know (or, frankly, care much) about the “why”, and I like Lemmy the way it is, but if your looking for deeper discussion and longer posts I do recommend Tildes, if you can get an invite: https://tildes.net/ It’s not open to the public, so the post volume is quite low, but most responses are well thought out, longer and often thought-provoking. I don’t post much there, but enjoy reading it a lot.

That one is a Whitesloanea crassa - kinda similar to pseudolithos that I love very much, but completely suck at growing, so they get deformed or just straight die on me more often than I’d like to admit… :(

It’s a tephrocactus - most of them look pretty crazy and I love them for it :)

It was sold as Aeonium dordantale, but it might be aureum too, as Plum mentions!

The “spiky” one on the left is Euphorbia susannae, next to it is Crassula argyrophylla, and the one that looks like a little rose is Aeonium dordantale if I remember correctly.

Server doesn’t really matter much (to me), but I’m on toot.community because I’m mentally a child and like the funny name :)

App-wise, I really enjoy Moshidon, been using the nightly version for a while now: https://github.com/LucasGGamerM/moshidon

Not all of them, but I’d say most. How it works is your select a healthy strong cactus for the rootstock (the bottom part), cut off the tip, cut off the bottom part of the scion (the small cactus on top), place it on the rootstock so that the internal capillaries of both match at least partially, secure everything in place with some rubber bands or bandage and wait a few days. If everything goes well and it takes, that’s it. Scions tend to grow way faster when grafted than directly planted in soil, and it can also help delicate cacti, since grafting means they’ll always get an optional amount of nutrients as long as the rootstock is alive and well.

To be honest, they probably are. My pet theory is that they’re trying to do what do many politicians are doing - drive away everyone but the strongest base electorate that will stay with them no matter what they do. And then, the grift starts. I’m reasonably sure sooner rather than later they’ll start charging a subscription fee to use Windows, and people and companies will bend over and pay it…

I solved this issue by following multiple tags that interest me. People tend to tag their posts on Mastodon it seems, so discovering posts about, say, wine and cacti is as easy as following #wine #cactus #cacti #redwine #oragewine and so on and so forth - it’s working pretty good for me without an algorithm recommending stuff to me, maybe it’s worth a try?

Great tip and good point, thank you very much! I’ll definitely keep that in mind!