CadeJohnson
retired engineer, former sailor, off grid, gamer, in Puerto Rico. Moderating a little bit.
This idea of themed instances is quite common in the fediverse, I’ve noticed. Built in to the user experience is always a “local” feed - which although a user does not have to view it, it is likely to be of interest if one chooses their instance wisely. Likewise, a user’s postings appear to the other users who view the local feed. So if the user is not “in tune” with the leanings of the other users, and posts often, local users will tend to block the out-of-tune user – not because they dislike that user’s content or disapprove, just because they’re not interested and it clogs up their local feed. At least, that has been my experience. And in that context, it is quite difficult to find one’s “home” - there are many servers, but they only advertise their themes in limited ways and there is no centralized shopping market for servers. I suppose it will arise eventually.
I do not aspire to make screws or wires, though there are those who do (and whether or not they are in their right mind, is certainly an interesting debate). But I regard them as things that have been artfully (if extremely rapidly) made, and I try to appreciate the convenience of NOT having to make them myself! :D (hey, no emojis?)
maybe there is a way to rotate images, but I have not yet discovered it; sorry about that. It looked OK as an original. Once you preview, it is not possible to edit? I am noob.
yes, a vent stack; it helps air flow. There are three two-inch (5cm) holes at the bottom end to admit air. An earlier iteration of this design had screens over the holes to keep critters out, but it turned out to not be an issue so we have not screened the holes on this unit.
We saw a design for a solar dryer popular with Peace Corps volunteers - a heat-collector box with a small dryer compartment on top and three little trays in a stack. But I thought, why not put the dryer trays right inside the heat collector? I just checked the temperature and with partly-cloudy skies, it is 50C in the box.
I guess, but cannot tell for sure; I did not rotate the pic from the time I took it until I posted. One can “preview” a post, but once you click preview you cannot back up to make edits (at least with my configuration - Firefox on Ubuntu Linux) - browser back button does not work. A mystery!
If you will load iNaturalist app on your phone, you can snap a pic from in the app and with that and your location, it can usually predict the species or at least the genus. I don’t know southern Illinois, but I’d guess it is a variety of nettle.