surrendertogravity

About 4 years ago I got a 13.3" Thinkpad laptop to replace an old Chromebook for portable development, and installed Arch + i3 on it (btw). After a bit of ricing the configs, it started feeling really homey. I love using workspaces here! They feel perfectly suited for laptop screens which have minimal space, allowing me to keep my browser full-screen and my IDE full-screen while still quickly switching back and forth to reference one or the other.

On the other hand, I don't really use workspaces when I'm on my desktop PC (I use a 27" monitor). I just installed KDE to get ahead of the Windows 10 EOL, and while I looked into combining i3 and KDE, I haven't really felt the need for i3's workspaces or using KDE's virtual desktops. With a 27" monitor, I feel like there's enough space to split my browser and IDE half-and-half on screen, and I'm ok using a file browser or terminal window as floating windows. Another consideration is that I'm always using a mouse on my desktop, so switching between workspaces with the keyboard wouldn't feel as natural.

What about you? Do you use workspaces differently between devices? Does screen size affect your choices at all?

More color cycling landscapes here, a Q&A with the artist here, and the artist's website here.

More color cycling landscapes here, a Q&A with the artist here, and the artist's website here.

Link to the brush downloads and more info about Ogilby maps.

Wow - this style of map is incredibly visually pleasing! I can imagine it being used for fantasy novels focused entirely on one trip the characters make, for a travel route in DnD, and beyond.

My partner goes through bars of soap fairly quickly, so I’d like to find a shower soap bar sold in bulk that’s around $1-2 a bar but without the horrible scent of Dove soap (it’s very artificial and too overpowering). Any recommendations?

Really looking forward to this! I don't know if they've published a target release date before, but if development has reached a point where the end is visible, that seems like a massive milestone in and of itself.

Really looking forward to this! I don't know if they've published a target release date before, but if development has reached a point where the end is visible, that seems like a massive milestone in and of itself.

TL;DR: I'm a relatively new houseplant owner and just spent several hours with rubbing alcohol and cotton swabs de-scaling my relatively large umbrella plant (schefflera). Has anyone else dealt with scale before and successfully gotten rid of it? I'd love to hear your stories!

I'm relatively new to houseplants - before recently, the best I've done was a lucky bamboo in college... that I killed because I didn't water it enough. Two winter holidays ago, my partner got me a ZZ plant and a snake plant, both of which I've so far successfully kept alive (though the snake plant has some issues for another post).

Since then I've been gifted several other plants - a large umbrella plant last fall, and this May a peace lily, spider plant, and aloe. I hadn't ever really looked at my schefflera very closely other than to admire the new leaves it rapidly sprouts, but several weeks ago I thought it would be a good idea to let the plants get more sun on our apartment balcony... the schefflera was clearly wilty and unhappy after several hours so I brought it back inside, along with the peace lily. I noticed some sticky stuff on the leaves, but didn't really pay it much mind. Fast-forward to last Friday when I'm watering them and notice the backs of some of the schefflera's newer leaves are looking blackened. I looked closer, and noticed what looked really tiny white wriggly things on some of the leaves.

That freaked me out so I ran out and got some 3-in-1 insect spray from Home Depot and applied it liberally to the plant after sunset. I'm not a fan of chemicals but I was really concerned and just wanted to murder whatever I saw immediately. I'd noticed a couple scab-y like things on the peace lily (that I wiped off, and which should have clued me in to what this was...), so I sprayed it too.

I checked in tonight and realized - holy shit those scab-like things are ALLL over my umbrella plant?!! Several google searches later I learn it's brown soft scale, immediately grab some rubbing alcohol + cotton swabs, and go over every single leaf wiping off those buggers. Some were so small, though, that I'm definitely worried I didn't get them all. I also have no idea how long the umbrella plant has been infested... my first thought is that the scale came in on the new plants I got in May, but I don't know if it could have reproduced to the extent I saw on the umbrella plant in 7 weeks? The bottom leaves of the plant fell off every so often since I've had it and now I wonder if it was due to this...

I'm feeling terribly guilty, but glad I did catch the infestation eventually, and I think as long as I keep an eye on it for the next couple of weeks and possibly spray it some more, it'll be okay 🤞

I've always lived in an environment with fairly smol moss, but I was lucky enough to visit Scotland in 2014 and one of the environmental differences that really struck me was how luscious the moss and greenery was!

(I'm not a moss expert so forgive me if this isn't actually moss. 😅)

favorite songs in order of appearance:

• geometry and theology
• red oleanders (straight 🔥)
• ecclesiastes

(also posted here)

this is the second clutch of eggs for Apple and Strudel - it's fun to check in and watch the chicks grow up and then fledge :)