u/Fuehnix

I'm interested in getting photos and seeing exotic species in their natural habitat, rather than in the zoos. Big fan of all animals, inverts, and plants, but I have a soft spot for reptiles, birds, and primates.

Places of interest:

Borneo, Galapagos Islands, Solomon Islands, South America jungle, Chinese national parks (wife is chinese, I have 10 year visa already and have been a handful of times, but mostly just hanging around Shanghai), Vietnam, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Australia.

Emphasis on ethical tourism, I don't want to support people who force interactions with wildlife or exploit nature. I have pet a lemur, kangaroo, and penguin at San Antonio Aquarium, and let me tell you, it was so depressing because I could tell the animals were not happy. I'd rather see them from a distance through the lense of a DSLR camera like a nat geo videographer than pet wildlife with some sketchy tour guide.

Tell me your experience with where you went, did you use a travel agency, what was the itinerary, any disappointments or tips to share?

Aptera gets like 800 watts of charge from solar which translates to like 40 miles per day of range. Granted they're way lighter, smaller, and more aerodynamic than prius, but they're also basically imaginary and may never release.

Still though, their claims were supposed to be validated by third party testers.

When looking up why prius didn't follow Aptera's approach and add solar on the hood and rear windshield, I came across a 2019 article showing this car, where supposedly Toyota set up a Prius Prime with 860 watts of solar and achieved 27 miles per day of charge.

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1123920\_toyota-covers-prius-prime-with-solar-panels-to-test-mileage

Yet what they have in 2026 is 185 watts and up to 6 miles per day (though people report its more like 4 on average?).

Not only does Toyota not offer anything more than that measly 185 watts, everybody online is like "It's completely impossible to add aftermarket solar to the Prius. Huge waste of money too. Solar is pointless"

It's kinda weird seeing such close mindedness from prius and EV subreddits. Like maybe it doesn't make sense for you, but I feel like the market, while niche, should be big enough for this to at least make sense as an aftermarket possibility.

Let's imagine that you could achieve what Toyota tested in the past.

27 miles of charge per day, maybe like 20 miles per day if not peak. And then maybe it costs a few thousand dollars extra.

Is that a game changer for you? Worth giving up the rear view windshield? lol

So I just bought and put some clusters of native milkweed on my apartment balcony. And I have a bunch of other plants, like a dwarf banana tree, giant taro, gardenia, baby bok choi, onion, chia, and a few other grasses that the milkweed guy sold me.

And I got some cool visiting bugs coming by, but I saw that they pretty much look at my plants all excitedly, and then they're like "🙌 yummy plants! ... 🫤 Oh.... Thats milkweed... And onion.... And what are these other things? Nevermind, I'm leaving."

One on hand, I'm glad they are leaving my taro and banana tree alone, but on the other hand, I wanna play a part in supporting the local ecosystem.

I think a lot of plants that get eaten by caterpillars like milkweed, tomato, and others are actually toxic to most invertbrates and their predators too right? And that's like the whole point of why they eat those plants?

But if I want to support more than just a few species of caterpillars, what can I plant that provides general purpose food for the ecosystem.

I'm in the Chicago metro area and able to plant large pots, but not raised garden beds, so anything that can be fine in a 22 diameter inch pot and survive Chicago winters is ideal.

I'd also be down for setting up certain soil mixes that could support larvae. I noticed that when my plants drop their leaves and nothing ever comes by to eat the decaying leaves so they just kinda stay there for like a year.

Bonus points if it attracts cool bugs and would be able to stay alive in spite of having some munched leaves.

I want to load large MOE models onto a Mac Mini m4 I have with 24gb of unified memory. I have a 330gb SLC SSD dedicated to AI which is supposed to be more durable for read write cycles. I'm able to get GPT OSS 120b to run on this system as a proof of concept, even though its 64gb model, but it uses 50gb of SWAP volume according to mactop monitoring. It barely uses the 330gb SSD I have where I'm doing a bin for the kv slots and GGUF files.

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Supposedly, mmap is supposed to do what I want, but it doesn't really work in my experience.

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I'm having so many issues with hallucinated parameters for llama.cpp from AI. Spent days debugging this, so I'm really hoping for some help from real people. Even if the answer is just confirming "no you can't".

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Anybody able to share their experiences?

We didn't do assigned seats, and we didn't have bride/groom sides, so people just sat wherever. But if you allow "wherever" to happen, then inevitably, you'll end up with rows of seats in the front/middle just being empty.

Have your venue, friend, or day of wedding coordinator take action and encourage people to move up when sitting at your ceremony. Otherwise you'll end up with many empty seats in the background of your photos like my wedding :')

My wedding was a while ago and it's not a super big deal, but it is a mild frustration because our best wedding photo, with us going down the aisle together, has like more than a dozen empty seats in the background. Just recently went to an event that had someone assertive take charge and push people forward to avoid that and thought "oh, I wish I had this at my wedding!"