There are so many wild blackberries growing around where I live that growing berries seems like a waste of my own space. I forage for berries instead.

Most people don’t aim for their gardens to grow high value crops at a low constant expense.

Organic rosemary appears to be around £0.20 per sprig, I bought a plant for under £5 several years ago and that is my entire expense on buying rosemary. I have several of them growing now all propagated from that plant. Easily in profit on that.

Of course if you factor in other garden costs you could say it’s a negative overall, but I didn’t have to buy them if I was only focusing on the costs, I also got some things because it looks nicer. Like stone tiles for pathways and wood borders. If I was going all in on running it as cheap as possible then I would have spent nothing at all in the past few years.

Absolutely agree herbs are a good starting point. Make some roast potatoes with rosemary salt. The most expensive part is probably the rosemary.

What do you normally buy? If you live on potatoes then your food bill is very low and you should grow potatoes to bring it down.

But potatoes are also very cheap to buy, which makes them a poor choice if you want high value per m². Herbs are what I started with in my garden. Rosemary, sage, chives and mint. Got some bay trees that I started from cuttings last year, hopefully they will become productive at some point.

Then got an allotment this year, high value crops I have are:

Jerusalem artichokes - tubers that are used like potatoes but rarely see them in shops and when you do they cost a lot. Related to sunflowers.

Taunton Deane kale - a perennial kale that grows up to 2m tall.

Hope to keep growing both for years to come.

Why use spray? I have a roll on insect repellent.

Have been wondering about using some citronella lamps, not sure how effective they are though.

Pretty much. We don’t matter to them at all.

Opportunity cost. Better to get the most valuable stuff you can rather than something just because it was one of yours.

EVE is peak capitalism and warfare. Best represented by the Caldari state - which is a nation of mega corporations.

No, beyond a few discount bin games, I have downloaded all my games since the early 2000s, long before I had money to buy new games myself.

More chances of an unlikely event happening. Plus you now have shitloads of organic matter there.

I don’t see why anyone in either game would give a shit about the other. Why would I give you your ship parts back? I’ll just sell it at the market rate. You could offer me the market rate but why even bother contacting me for it when the market has them for the market rate already.

Sure it puts the games clearly in the same universe with a shared market. But its just joining 2 spreadsheets together.

Now if the arrangement was sharing the salvage and still living EVE ships can provide fire support to a team getting salvage that could be more of an actual integration between games that matters. Even a small ship in EVE has a bunch of 200mm autocannons with the larger ships going up to a couple metre wide shells.

FPS players could be given some kind of anti ship weapon installation to fight for as their method of fighting back too. Electronic warfare or some torpedo launchers should do the trick - which would look like an ICBM silo to anyone on the ground near it.

We? I am already doing it. It’s everyone else that is the problem. Infrastructure requirements for bikes and walking is so much cheaper.

Is that all of them or just some? Got a couple of the wireless 2C currently and probably going to get a few more at some point. Not sure how others compare.

They have software? Had a couple of them for a while and never even considered a need for any software.

Aren’t they Bluetooth rather than 2.4ghz? Not sure why you would want that instead though, isn’t Bluetooth a better choice?

Cover pastures with solar panels, cover car parks with medium density mixed housing/commercial buildings and parks.

I’ll stick with factorio if that is the case.

I still feel like my 2070 is largely overkill. If GPU prices become reasonable I may consider an xx50/60 or equivalent if it’s a moderate improvement and lower power consumption.

No wonder web pages are getting so bloated

At this rate I will end up downgrading when something breaks instead and just turn graphics down a bit.

That seems like a really shit battery life to me. 40km or so range isn’t unreasonable for an ebike and that would be just 200 charge/discharge cycles - absolutely terrible.

Had the warranty expired? Maybe you just got unlucky. For such an expensive of a battery I would expect far more.

My hybrid bike was also £600 and seems to be doing fine. Now doing about 50km a week.