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. @[email protected]’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.
I think this more reads like “How to fight non-native species with native species”.
The definition of invasive doesn’t really lend itself to an easy change-out. Truly invasive are the plants that modify the entire ecosystem, brings trees down, swamps everything else, spreads easily, difficult to eradicate etc.
I work in the invasive plant industry and I wish it were that easy. Sure, some jobs are “remove the exotics” but that’s simple work compared to the true monsters.
Glassblowing was another big one. Plus framing for stone construction.
Colonialism seems to born out of the need for more wood since it underpinned all energy, trade, and construction. We can see now how fossil fuels are working out for us instead.
There are some good examples of bay side cities being abandoned due to siltation of their bays, some kilometres worth of silt. Massive centres of trade and then nothing due to erosion because of a lack of trees.
If John/Primitive Tech can focus on efficient energy usage then all the better.
You can but sometimes it’s nice to not see it.
You just message it with the community “[email protected]”, I believe.
He also demonstrates how industry was responsible for significant deforestation around their centres. It has also been linked to collapse of civilisations.
A good book to see how critical wood was to people: https://aforestjourney.com/
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?
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.
The reason you use a metal drill bit and not a wood drill as a wood drill bit pulls into the wood, the metal drill allows you to dictate how far you go with a in/out motion. Doing roots, you usually only have access to the top and a little bit of the sides so the cambium is quite thin, you can make small “cups” with the drill on the top and sides for “injecting” the chemical. Use a nozzle or spray bottle, a sauce bottle might work, a dropper etc. Don’t spill it out of the cup you’ve made or it’s wasted.
The secret to killing Privet is Metsulfuron but I wouldn’t use that where any food production was happening. Privet hates Metz.
I replied to the above comment and then deleted it. While it is a good philosophy for a number of weeds, “invasives” by definition stand out from the crowd.
With herbicide, other than choosing the correct one, the most important part is the technique in application, the amount irrigated into the wound (without spillage), and how quickly it is done. I’ve seen plenty of people treat things and then step up to worse herbicides because they didn’t do it properly in the first place. Ideally, you would learn how to ringbark (Americans use girdle but there are 3 types of American girdling under that definition that all relate to trees and no way to tell them apart), which would have removed all need for chemicals. It’s too late now. The chemical free way from this point on is excavation or light/sugar starvation.
You’ve been suggested a drill and that is how most standing trees are done these days. Drilling into the roots and/or root plate is reasonably standard. Again, it’s technique not just drilling holes deep into the tissue (waste of chem). I will edit in a pic that is somewhat related, you are conducting different works now but the pic would have been how it was done to start with. A chainsaw is fine, just a good irrigation of the correct chemical ASAP should have worked. Shallow drill holes with a 10mm-ish metal drill, staggered through roots that are shooting or alive, filling up the hole twice with chem (fill hole within a second or 2, wait, fill it up again before 15 seconds expires).
Here is our fact sheet on control methods:
https://www.daf.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/77420/small-leaf-privet.pdf
Ignore the text, that’s just me not cropping it properly:
You really need to define what’s happening so we can understand what you need.
Are they new seedlings? Is it cut stumps resprouting? Are they large trees?
Where I work in cleared rainforest, Small leaf and Large leaf Privet are 2 of the most prevalent woody weeds throughout. I’ve probably removed over 100K through varying means. Would be good to know how many actually…
2 months of a La Nina Summer. Definitely not the hottest.
Edit: Downvoted for a factual statement of the weather in January/February of 2023 in Australia. Welcome to the new Lemmy.
It’s a mining company.
“You wouldn’t know her, she goes to another school”.
That’s a good one. Hints at written/verbal records.
Thank you very much for that.
Lahaina used to have significant wetlands and lowland flats.
People just describe almost the entirety of Lahaina town as this forested area filled with breadfruit.
Lahaina, the former capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom, was once a thriving, ecologically diverse landscape full of fish ponds and diverse crops that included sweet potatoes, kalo (taro), and ‘ulu (breadfruit). But colonization, and the extractive agricultural systems that came with it, had a devastating impact on reshaping the landscape ecologically, culturally, and economically—not only depleting soils of fertility but making much of the island more fire-prone.
In some of the old Hawaiian language newspapers, Lahaina used to have significant wetlands and lowland flats. They would say, “Lahaina sits in the house of the Ulu trees,” or the ancient breadfruit grove Mala Ulu o Lele.
People just describe almost the entirety of Lahaina town as this forested area filled with breadfruit. And as the plantations came in, they were cutting down a lot of these trees. It got to the point where they passed a law that made it illegal to cut down an ulu tree. And so plantation owners started to pile their bagasse, their spent sugarcane pressings, around the base of the tree and burn it.
Those trees probably had a very significant effect in terms of the region’s moisture. Deep-rooted trees are able to tap into the water table. If you look at the rainfall, Lahaina was always way too dry to grow breadfruit. But the fact that you had this huge breadfruit growth and all these wetlands essentially speaks to the fact that the trees were tapping into this subterranean water table, lifting moisture up to the surface, redepositing some of that moisture through leaf litter, allowing for additional rain capture, for reduced evaporation, increased carbon in the soil, and holding additional moisture.
You basically just had an entirely different ecology of that region for two reasons: the undisturbed flow of the river, which allowed the recharge of the subterranean water sources; and these extensive treed landscapes in that area.
I’m in the humid subtropics. If there is any grass by Year 3, I’m very hard on myself. Basically since we are a naturally forested state, pasture grass should be dead, or close to, by then.
It means we have to use a lot of trees as the exotic grasses are very persistent.
Good luck.
https://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/mauisoil/b_oxisol.aspx
Not much that is a precise take on what was behind Lahaina but I found the above that shows it might be a weathered system of lower hardy natives, including cactus (Cactus, kiawe, lantana, and koa haole.) 2 of those are weeds of here - Lantana and Leucaena.
Low point of rain is 20 inches, 500mm, about half of what we get. 32 on the high end which is our low end.
Here are some nearby sections:
https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/ecosystems/nars/maui/west-maui-2/
https://www.maunakahalawai.org/mauna-kahalawai-west-maui-mountains
https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/ecosystems/files/2013/07/West-Maui-Fact-Sheets-and-Topographical-Maps.pdf - East of Lahaina is the Panaewa Section
https://universal-blue.discourse.group/c/bazzite/5
Discussion forum for the readers.