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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • Absolutely! I need to know more about my own local stuff (I’m in New England. We have trees and poison ivy, so that’s all I usually identify).

    The Pine Barrens have a bunch of cool stuff! at least two different Drosera - Intermedia and Rotundifolia. Also Sarracenia (North American Pitcher Plants) and Utricularia (Bladderworts) - one of Charles Darwin’s favorite carnivores - those little dudes live around most of the world except Antarctica. That seems like a super hiking spot, I’ll have to visit there with the wife and go on a carnivore expedition.

    Edit - wife is super excited to go, and we’re going to try to get there this year! Thank you so much! This is the kind of stuff I found on reddit, and I’m glad to find it here on Lemmy ;)





  • Niche stuff. I mostly came to reddit for discovering interesting/weird/rare plants and the best way to care for them. Googling has become absolute dogshit with obviously generated articles that are just parroting the same information (which for niche plants, can be false, speculation, and even harmful).

    I’m in a couple of Discord communities (which have jumped up in activity in the last couple of days), but those communities are a bit harder to find that four year old post about “what does this type of growth mean”, or something similar.

    I also used reddit for tracking technology issues in much the same way - very specific, hard to locate issues that only a few people might be experiencing and talking about in a searchable way. Everything from video games, to work related technologies.




  • I’ve been on an ESO kick for about 4 years. I start other games, but I’d rather be playing ESO. I have no interest in solo games, and I enjoy the mechanics. Outside of the bit of lag/disconnect in the massive PVP area (Cyrodiil), there aren’t any problems that are game breaking, noticeable, or noteworthy (except by minmaxers, who complain about everything in every game).

    I’m happy just plodding along in ESO solo, or in group, and have developed a large friend base there. It’s turned into a much happier alternative to WoW for me, and I don’t see myself doing much in other games for quite a while.