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Cake day: January 15th, 2025

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  • Yes, it’s very difficult to recognize young mushrooms. I think it’s a really nice way to think of mushrooms as mutable living things, and learning to recognize them at different points in their lifecycle (rather than comparing them to a random snapshot) is a lot of fun.

    Is there a way to tell if a mushroom has fully formed?

    For me it has been helpful to cut them open lengthwise to understand how the cap takes shape and opens up, rings are formed etc.

    That said, some type of Armillaria seems like a plausible guess to me from the pictures.







  • Lenovo ThinkPads work very nicely with Linux, and there’s a large second-hand market. The T and X series are especially great I find.

    The usual advice about avoiding soldered RAM holds in general, but right now used laptops are being bought just for stripping RAM. So I think putting up with soldered RAM in second hand devices (I’d go for at least 32G) can be a smart move because it may be a better deal (and often a smaller form factor).