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I dairy farmed for 14 years, and my wife and I got out in the winter of 2023. We've seen ever increasing scarcity of water in our region, because the surrounding mountains don't ge…

I used this software when my mom was battling ALS: https://www.optikey.org/ which ran on a At the time, the other options were much more expensive (> $10-15k) which were sadly out …

I imagine that a lot of the Australian farms are going to be in the outback, where the quality of the land and feed for the cattle is marginal, and you have to farm extensively (ie…

It's a very rewarding lifestyle and I have a lot of good memories of it. It's meaningful work and it gave me a good sense of purpose. I'm in my mid-40's now though and my body just…

The -13C wasn't the straw that broke the camel's back. Sometimes it's not a matter of throwing money at the problem until it goes away. Farming is hard, and dairy farming is even h…

After I've sorted out the what-to-do-next issue, perhaps I'll consider putting it down in my cheese making memoirs. In the interim, here're some gratuitous photos from the farm: ht…

I did this myself thirteen years ago - I quit my well paying software job, bought a bunch of goats, and built a cheese business. I'm just now in the process of winding our dairy an…

I started a goat dairy about 12 years ago, while software consulting on the side while we built up the farm. We built a cheese processing plant 8 years ago to start adding value to…

I would interpret that remark to mean more than "Yes, I'm the president of the ECB, and my son is free to make his own choices, even if I regard them as stupid ones."

In the grand scale of things, we're pretty small. We milk just under 100 dairy goats, and have about 150 goats total on the farm (the other goats being a couple of breeding bucks, …

I usually shear just before lambing, which is right now for us. Whether or not you need to shear will depend on the breed of sheep - some can lose their coats on their own, some wi…

I worked full time as a software dev from about 1999 until 2010. It was never really all that fulfilling for me, although I was pretty good at what I did. I was laid off in 2010, a…

Presumably because many provinces in Canada have logged most of the old growth forests in the last century or so.

My son's daycare closed permanently almost a year ago, and my wife and I had to adjust to have a 3 going on 4 year old at home with us 24/7. While it hasn't been easy, it's been a …

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That's also my experience with a 2009 MBP. Swapped out the HD for an SSD, maxed the RAM, and put in a new battery, and had an adequate machine for most daily tasks. It showed it's …

I would agree with this as well. My best crusts rise from 36-48 hours in the fridge, after which they're baked almost immediately at 450-500F for 10-12 minutes.

I arrived at a very similar spot after having spent about 10 years in tech. Many of the jobs I'd found myself in seemed to be comprised of busy work, or work that didn't actually c…

I believe you can do it off the command line relatively efficiently by piping output straight into gzip. ie) perl -e "print '0' for (1..1000000000)" | gzip > zipbomb.gz This will c…

I use it to generate and play with interface layouts, then run the .ui file through pyuic5 to convert the interface into Python code. I've got a number of Raspberry Pi touchscreen …

Ah, yes; it was the manifold that I was looking at and wondering what it was. Thanks for the explanation!