Can I Get These Lilly Pilly's Back Into A Hedge?

Can I Get These Lilly Pilly's Back Into A Hedge?

Our new house has a very tall Lilly Pilly hedge. The previous owner occupier would have planted them as a screening hedge, but the property has been a rental the past 7 years. And the hedge has not had the required maintenance. To give scale the trees are against a standard 1.8m fence.

Along with the height they've also been planted I think to close together. The photo angle doesn't quite show it, but they're at 70cm spacing.

I'm contemplating getting a tree lopper in to remove every second tree. And cut the remaining trees to about 20cm below the top of the fence, in the hope that they will re-shoot from the trunks. So that the trunks will eventually have enough growth to fill out back into a screening hedge.

Is the hedge recoverable? Or should I cut my losses and remove all trees and start again?

Cheers

u/Plat-O_18 — 11 days ago

Have You Used the Base Back Up Tool to Move to a New Location?

Have you successfully moved a (large) base to a new location in Haga with the Base Back Up Tool? I don't mean transferring servers and snapping it back to the original build location. But placing it down in a completely different spot?

I have a large base that I really like, but I've been in roughly the same area of the map for a long time now. I feel like its time for a change of scenery, but wanting to keep the base.

I've found a location that looks to be a similar size of open, fairly flat ground. My plan on the current base is to remove as much of the building surrounds to leave only the core structure. When I built it I used only pillar foundations, which as far as I can recall should auto adjust to fit the new terrain. In theory it should work, just a huge pain in the butt to test the theory...

Curious if anyone has successfully moved their base?

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u/Plat-O_18 — 3 months ago

Outdated Client - Any Suggestion Before I Reinstall?

Solved: - Looks like its a UI error as a few people commented, I've been able to login. The first time I logged in today I had clicked continue automatically and I got the outdated client error pop up. After verifying files etc I only ever went as far as the main menu and saw the notification, I did not try clicking continue again. Once I tried again it worked.

I'm not able to load into the game as I keep getting the Outdated Client warning after last night's maintenance.

I've tried restarting Steam, verified file integrity, cleared down load cache and restarted my machine several times with out success. I've also deleted the battle eye folder to get it reinstalled.

I would prefer not to have to reinstall the game but this seems like my final option. The DA build ID in my steam client is matching the build ID on Steam DB. And my Steam client is saying the install was updated earlier today, about 1.5 hours before I first tried launching the game. It seems like my client is up to date but the server is not recognising it.

Any suggestion on what I could try before I go through the hassle of a reinstall? Cheers.

u/Plat-O_18 — 3 months ago

First Big Building Screw Up

660 hours in and made my first major building screw up.

Decided to renovate the hangar on my old base which was also my main storage area. Moved all my containers into a different part of the base and went to work demolishing that section of the base. I didn't like how that base was feeling so decided to move to a new location a build something new.

Once the new base was complete I started transferring everything across and had this nagging feeling something was missing.

I had a large storage container to hold everything I needed for the Deep Desert. Including materials for a Large Spice Refinery, multiple large wind generators and moisture traps, plus my spice crawler broken down. It was a large hangar so to demolish it quickly I removed all the foundations out from underneath it to collapse it in one go. The contents of that storage would have fallen to the ground without me seeing it.

I'm far enough along the game that I can replace that stuff, but man.... still stings a bit.

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u/Plat-O_18 — 4 months ago

Western Shield Fortress

Each new base I think this time I will build something in keeping with the game, then I go off on a tangent and build something that doesn't work given the environment. This base feels a bit closer to Atreides style, with Water Shipper accents.

I wanted to build something that was big and imposing and looked solid. My initial plan was to build a fly threw hangar, the "11 o'clock" spawn point is immediately below, fly in the front and out the back to the map edge. The hangar kept getting bigger and I realised I would need a second building.

The base is proving much more functional than I expected while building. I like to minimise distances between things. The run from the hangar to the main complex is a little more than I would like, but mezzanine style floors makes getting between storage, fabrication and refining floors really easy.

Normally I build the wind turbines into recesses on the building walls. But tried something different this time and tried replicating the look of wind farms with windmills scattered on the hills. Think it kind of works.

The overhang on the main building is enough that the interior gets watersealed status without a shield. Though added shields to be safe.

Currently can store 1 million mL of water, with heaps of room to expand. Two large ore refineries and two medium chemical refineries. I've kept only the small spice refinery as I don't process much spice in Haga.

u/Plat-O_18 — 4 months ago

Easy Going and Fun Single Player

I feel a bit bogged down at the moment and need to play something a bit lighter. I'm looking for an easy going and fun to play single player. Doesn't need to be a forever game or anything that takes 100's of hours, though open to those as well.

A Sci Fi, Space or Cyberpunk genre is my preference but not a hard and fast rule. I typically prefer 1st person over 3rd, but again not a hard rule. I do like RPG's but don't love ones that are dialogue heavy.

Can have a learning curve but ideally doesn't need me to be googling every 5 minutes on how to do something.

Doesn't need to be a new release, anything really from the last 10 years. Older could be better as I'm hoping to not spend too much $35-$45 AUD ($25-$35 USD).

System specs: CPU 5600X & GPU 9070XT

What I'm currently playing:

  • Dune Awakening
  • Cyberpunk 2077 (3rd play through)
  • Star Citizen

Games I've Played that I enjoyed:

  • No Mans Sky (really enjoyed for a while then hit a wall)
  • Satisfactory (though I reach a point where my brain can no longer process the complexity and I stop)
  • Factorio
  • Horizon Zero Dawn
  • Horizon Forbidden West
  • Skyrim
  • Fallout 4
  • Portal 1 & 2

Games that I didn't enjoy (couldn't get into)

  • Witcher 3
  • GTA V
  • Starfield

Thank you for any suggestions.

Edit: Added NMS

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u/Plat-O_18 — 5 months ago

No one at home or social circles are interested in networking and this was vaguely interesting enough to tell someone.

I recently upgraded my home router from a Ubiquiti USG to a UCG. This was a much bigger improvement than I expected, saw a really good bump in Wifi speeds.

Anyway, like all new shiny things when they're still new and interesting you play with them more. I logged into the UCG last night to see how things were looking. When I discovered a DP-Link IP Camera had been connecting on and off to my IoT network.

I don't have any IP Camera's and my network is pretty well locked down, so one randomly appearing on the network kind of freaked me out.

Logs showed it connecting intermittently through out the day, sometimes for only a few seconds to a couple of minutes. And when connected there was very little traffic, only about 45Kb. And it only ever connected to the access point at the front of the house.

I was trying to figure out how I would track down this camera? Had my neighbours set something up and connected to my network somehow by accident or more concerning was something nefarious going on? Tracking down the camera was going to prove hard given its intermittent connections. Then I thought to put the MAC address into a search tool, with the MAC coming back as belonging to Visteon. Which upon investigation I found they make automotive infotainment systems.

At this point it all fell into place, I remembered I had found the car could connect to Wifi a few months back, so connected it for the fun of it. The WAP at the front of the house is immediately in front the car port. And I could see the connection times this morning correlated to the comings and goings of the car.

The car has been on the network for months, but it must have previously had a generic label. The UCG must have recently updated the labels incorrectly, as the IP Cam label stood out like a sore thumb, as I noticed it within seconds of loading the client list.

So like most things in life there was ultimately a simple answer, but it caused some excitement in the mean time. Thanks for reading!

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u/Plat-O_18 — 5 months ago
▲ 3 r/GMail

I currently have over 18k of e-mails sitting in the Promotions category. And I would like to delete them.

I primarily use Outlook to manage my GMail. As the Promotions category is not synced to IMAP, emails moved to Promotions do not appear in Outlook. As a result they have built up to an unmanageable number.

If I open the Promotions category in the browser and tick the select all box at the top left, it selects the 50 e-mails visible on screen to delete. This will require me to repeat 380 times to delete all the e-mails. Is there a way to select them all in one go that I'm overlooking?

I also tried to remove them by creating a label and applying it to the e-mails. This partially woreked, allowing them to sync via IMAP into Outlook. I deleted them, however it has only deleted them from the label and not from the Category.

The e-mails are not causing any significant problem, they're just consuming space. Its mainly become personal now as feel like I can't let this defeat me. Any suggestions on how to bulk delete are welcome.

Edit: added some addition detail

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u/Plat-O_18 — 5 months ago