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I assumed that Gboard spell checker contacted servers constantly and have it switched off for whatever good that does. I recently tried enabling it to play with other options and noticed that it works when my phone is entirely offline.

Does anyone know if it works locally or does it just send a bunch of data out once I give it internet access again?

Bonus question: Does anyone know of a privacy respecting spell checker for android? It looks like Florisboard can work with Hunspell through Nuspell but not on Android. Is that right?

Fake subtitles over Seinfeld about IOT.

I am looking to just dip my toes on a couple of other platforms. What I am finding while trying to choose an instance for Funkwhale (or Friendica, Pixelfed, etc) is that there is very little in the way of descriptions for finding something to match me and I would just be choosing at random.

I am using the official sites' server recommendations/lists to look through and am really getting no info that is helpful to me. Does anyone know of other resources?

My best option at this point is to use a throw away account to get on any server then spend just enough time interacting to find a good one and try to join it. Does that seem reasonable?

With a sweat bee on it for good measure

Shown in its native habitat

This plant works hard to clean the water I keep out for wildlife. This one grabbed up so much nitrogen/phosphorus that it got pot bound in one year. I split it in half so each half has twice as much room to grow this year.

tldr: urban woodland edges around Boston are accumulating carbon faster than expected because the soil microbiome is less functional than in more rural systems. How long that will work as a C sink is unknown.

This is one of the best tasting and easiest things I make. If you don't want to buy harissa you can make your own pretty easily and keep the cost down. The measurements don't need to be precise at all, so I only translated to metric using numbers I thought I could multiply in my head. Let me know if I made a mistake.

Ingredients

For cooking

3-5 quarts water or veggie stock (4-6 L)

2 cups dried chickpeas (0.5 L)

Kosher salt and ground black pepper (to taste)

5 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil (75 mL)

1 large yellow onion, chopped

6 garlic cloves, minced

2 tablespoons tomato paste (30 mL)

2 tablespoons ground cumin, toasted (30 mL)

6 tablespoons harissa (90 mL)

2 tablespoons lemon juice (30 mL)

For Toppings

8 ounces (250 g) crusty bread (stale works), sliced 1/2-inch-thick (1cm)and torn into bite-size pieces

2 tablespoons lemon juice (30 mL)

Extra-virgin olive oil

Harissa

2 tablespoons ground cumin, toasted (30 mL)

1/2 cup drained capers (120 mL)

1/2 cup chopped pitted green olives (120 mL)

1/2 cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves (120 mL)

1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro (120 mL)

Lemon wedges

Method

Cook olive oil, onion, garlic cloves, tomato paste, ground cumin, harissa, salt, and black pepper in a pot on medium until the onions soften. Add chickpeas and water/stock and cook until the beans are done - 1 hr or so. Reduce or add water until it is as thick as you want it. I like it as a very thick stew. Stir in lemon juice once everything is cooked and remove from heat.

Toss bread cubes in olive oil and toast on stove or in oven. Remove when toasted but before they get hard. Or use them untoasted if, like me, you don't want to wash another dish.

To serve put some bread cubes in a bowl and laddle the stew over them. Add the toppings in the ingredient list.

The stew portion freezes well, so you can scale the recipe up if you want some for next week too.

I have been running lineageOS on my OnePlus 2. I liked it, but Lineage has stopped supporting my phone. There are two options that I have been able to find as replacements - postmarketOS and /e/OS. Any thoughts on those or other recommendation? Anything that gets security updates, is open source, and is functional meets my needs.

Here is a video demonstrating how to make inari (tofu pouches filled with rice). Sushi purists might take issue with some of his technique, but they probably don't need to watch this anyways :)

This is a copycat recipe from a restaurant. They serve it on top of rice, beans, olives, cilantro, and green onions. We put it on anything that needs a little something extra and change up the spices to match. It is supposed to be thick like a cheese sauce, but it tastes like its own thing. Anyways:

Materials

1/2 cup Canola Oil

1/2 cup Almonds toasted

1/2 cup Chickpeas cooked and drained

1/2 cup Water

1/2 cup Freshly squeezed Juice of 1 Lemon

1/3 cup Nutritional Yeast Flakes

2 cloves Garlic crushed

1/2 teaspoon Salt

1 teaspoon Curry Powder

1/4 cup Cilantro chopped

Instructions

Place oil, almonds, chickpeas and water into a food processor or blender. Process until smooth.

Add remaining ingredients. Process again until smooth.

Store, covered (not too tightly, at first, the yeast may need to expand), in the refrigerator, until ready to use.

Text copied from: https://secretcopycatrestaurantrecipes.com/cafe-yumm-yumm-sauce-recipe/

The large flowered collomia (Collomia grandiflora) is just starting to bloom around me. They are annual and have cool blue pollen (typically pollen is yellow). You can see the pollen on the anthers at the center of each flower.

I am going to keep tossing these out into the ether unless I hear differently from the group. I have been doing flowers just because their showy, but if anyone has requests let me know (eg trees, sedges, garden plants). Also, I have been avoiding having pollinators in the photos on the assumption that any animal makes most people ignore plant. Any thoughts on that?