Our Maine Coon came as a rescued “present” by the local police, who did not know what to do with her. So I was not at all prepared for a long-furred creature.

Summers here are really hot, but her hair is so long and wooly that it felts in place before it can work its way out. In the first year, I had to cut her hair with a mower. ;)

The second year, I was prepared and started combing her. She enjoys it, and I get a lot of harvested hair that way. Sometimes in winter I pull out my tiny 16g top spindle and spin a bit of it. You can’t go too fine, or the thread will unravel. For sturdy and fluffy, I recommend spinning around a thread of sewing yarn or mixing in some crimpy wool fiber.

Don’t ask me about spidle spinning my Maine Coons hair. ;)

You can also branch out into gardening flax, cotton, hemp, reseda, krapp and indigo …

No, it was the other way round. I first sewed all pieces to a flat fabric, then cut and assembled the pieces and dyed the outer fabric and lining. After I got the uniform dark colour I was looking for (it took three tries), I put in the wool batting (I used an old roving with a lot of meadow still in it), and sewed that up.

Only then I realized that I had to quilt, in order to keep the roving where it belonged. I designed the front flap first and got a bit carried away. After stitching that, I did the back, with slightly less dense motives, and last the interior flap. There I told my designer-self that the intense front-flap needed some negative space to get full effect (and as to not overtax my aching fingers), so I just put in enough leaves to keep the roving from slipping.

The sleeves are without batting, they only are cotton on cotton and therefore less prone to slip, so the cuffs were all that was needed. Happily, or I would still be not-finishing them today. :D

This is really nice work. Thank you for sharing.

No, sorry. We are playing Age of Rebellion rules during the Old Republic, because the children wanted to be Jedi.

I second with Vampire: The Masquerade, The Dark Eye, Shadowrun and StarWars RPG in my family. Teach your kids to play and they will never have time or money to waste on drugs. ;)

I’d be very interested in a tiny turbine that gives off 500W per hour to cover the basic power consumption of the house when there is no sun shining. But most stuff I see is junk, and the other stuff is way too powerful for what I need.

If you’d look two posts below this one:

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/537419

The question was posed and therefore answered in German. I do not think any excluding was intended, and translation help like deepl usually is only an URL and a bit of copy/paste away.

Milan himself tries to keep Meta out of his life, but he does not think panicking without solid data is the way to go. He wants to keep an eye on how the situation evolves, and if Meta is practicing non-moderation like on facebook, he will not federate with them for that even before entertaining deeper ethical questions.

I got them made at WASD Keyboards. They have a prepared design file for 104 key ISO (and some more layouts) you can use. My board carries 108 keys, but I don’t mind the programmable keys looking different than the main set.

Quality wise, they look good, and I like the slightly rough feel. “Side print” is Qwerty in my own hand, with acrylic marker, for the kids. Profile is Cherry.

Running a mongo database, an express server in VSCode with nodejs, the Angular app, also in VSCode with nodejs and the browsers proved a bit difficult for my existing (and ooold) refurbed Dell latitude. It might have been the last windoofs update that brought it to bay, too. I don’t know.

Thank you for the wargames, I am going to try my hand.

Thank you all for your suggestions, I will have a look at used thinkpads or tuxedos. Scratches never bothered me.

You are all very helpful!

TheGiddyStitcher started a list of crafting communities:

CROCHET

[email protected]
[email protected]

CROSS STITCH

[email protected] (also welcomes embroidery posts)
[email protected] 

DICEMAKING

[email protected]

LEATHERCRAFT

[email protected] 

KNITTING

[email protected] 
[email protected] 

SEWING

[email protected] 
[email protected] (reduce waste through sewing)
[email protected] 

SOAPMAKING

[email protected] 

TATTING

[email protected] 

MISC

[email protected] (a celebration of lace, in any craft)
[email protected] 
[email protected] (general arts & crafts, may not be accessible to many users)

Additionally in German: [email protected] Handarbeiten fein und grob, which is open for all crafts

The pattern I started with was Anna Dalvi’s Anubis. I have it in print, “Ancient Egypt in Lace and Color”.

But you might also get it online on her Website or Ravelry.

Just be cautious, I am not a very patient knitter. After some time, I just went on with knit one, yarn over till I ran out of yarn.

I hope they aren’t as huge as they look.

Reddid was / is a lot more lively, with enough posts in a day that I had to turn off notifications. Lemmy has not as many users around the world, and subocribing to a lot of communities does not equal reddit traffic at all.

I feel this is restful, and it offers the opportunity to learn new stuff. Also, by subscribing to different communities on different instances, you mix it up and make everything link together more tightly.

There might be a future when you have to currail your subscriptions, but just now, you are doing everything right.

Could you please hand me a map to this conversation? I feel lost.

Das Abgreifen von Daten, die über Activity Pub importiert werden, kann immer ein Problem sein. Jenseits von “spiel nach EU-DSGVO oder werd verklagt” fällt mir da nichts Wirksames gegen ein. Wenn man einen Beitrag loslässt, gibt man damit auch die Kontrolle darüber auf. Das hat uns ja schon das Usenet beigebracht.

Im Sinne von Leben und leben lassen würde ich sie einfach mal machen lassen. Das Fediverse ist frei, also muss man auch damit leben, dass die Protokolle frei benutzt werden.

Wichtig wäre aber, darauf zu achten, dass die hoch finanzierten “Professionellen” nicht zu viele Extrabratwürste auf das Protokoll aufflanschen, die andere dazu zwingen mitzuziehen oder zu sterben.

Bei Mail hat es ja gut funktioniert.