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Saving Spotify Playlists

I'm planning on using Zotify to download a couple playlists of music I've added over the years. Before I do that, I'd like to be able to make a copy of the playlists before downloading any music in the off chance my account gets flagged by Spotify.

I would like the playlists be ready to use with other services or music seeking apps like deezer or soulseek. I've tried searching but a lot of results bring up sketchy websites that ask for your Spotify account login and I'm cautious of that.

I'm just doing this as a an extra backup step and hopefully things go smoothly with Zotify.

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How do I get virtual sorround sound working?
  • I asked a similar question and I was lead to this post.

    I got side tracked and eventually lost motivation to get it working. I might give it another try in the new year. Hopefully this is what you are looking for. I assume your distribution is using PipeWire, otherwise you may have to look into HRIR for PulseAudio.

  • Raspberry Pi 4 Home Assistant OS has no Internet during start up installation
  • I've been running into issues with trying to post the log file data. There's something in there that causes the reply button to hang indefinitely.

    This is the log file with the Config USB plugged in. This is the config settings I used.

    For reference, This is the log file of the installation without the Config USB.

  • Organizational benefits of neurodiversity: Preliminary findings on autism and the bystander effect
  • I ended up getting fired for calling out all the sexism, racism, homophobia, favourtism and abusive managers. The then new covid policies ramped up everyone's negative traits and I couldn't ignore it any more.

    I ended up speaking with the corporate HR about the situation and they made an honest effort to help me but I was fired before I got a chance to speak with a very high up person.

    I got a lawyer involved and while not much difference was made after the settlement, I somehow forced the HR manager into early retirement. It amazes me considering my goal was only to get her into a work behavior training course. I never knew such pettiness could accomplish so much.

    All my co-workers shat all over my efforts for the 10 months I was engaged with all of that at the workplace. Also received a fair amount of hate from my co-workers after I got fired too which was neat.

  • Raspberry Pi 4 Home Assistant OS has no Internet during start up installation
  • I got the information by connecting to http://homeassistant.local:8123/

    I get the following screen:

    I put the log file here since it comes out as a long run on sentence in lemmy.

    I have another SD card with a functioning version of HA OS that's currently controlling my lights and switches. I don't remember how I got the internet working with it but I can still connect to http://homeassistant.local:8123/ as well as directly through the wired IP address so I don't believe the port is damaged. Unfortunately I can't update it because I get an error about no internet connection. I can still add add-ons and such so It's a bit confusing to me.

    I only have a laptop computer so I don't actually own a keyboard. I don't know anyone nearby who I could borrow one from either.

  • Raspberry Pi 4 Home Assistant OS has no Internet during start up installation
  • I created the USB drive in Linux, as well as the file and assumed it was okay.

    I did this: aa@DellG5:/media/aa/CONFIG/network$ file my-network my-network: ASCII text

    I'm not sure if that helps, I just checked from here.

  • Raspberry Pi 4 Home Assistant OS has no Internet during start up installation

    From the installation log, I get the follow message:

    [supervisor.host.network] Requested to update interface end0 which does not exist or is disabled.

    I've tried creating a CONFIG usb drive following the information here. Even with the appropriate wired connection config file I still get the same message.

    I don't have a spare keyboard so I wouldn't be able to use the CLI to enable the ethernet. At this point I am not sure how else to approach this problem.

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    Popular gay YouTuber deletes online presence after video accuses him of rampant plagiarism
  • I'm usually not into social media drama but I did watch the video. It's set up in a way so you don't have to know any of the people mentioned and don't really have to care about the people mentioned afterwards either. It does take a really close look into modern plagiarism, specifically through YouTube and video essays. I thought the way all the information was really well presented.

    Hbomberguy starts off with an example of a plagiarist who responded poorly to his accusations. This was a set up for the following examples and call outs of plagiarists which further explored the various reactions and attempts at damage control to preserve a creators reputation. That was the main focus for the first half of the video. The second half then focuses on James Somerset which others have already explained in this thread. What I found interesting was how James Somerset was very much a culmination of all the prior examples. Yet he was able to navigate his way around the accusations while continuing to profit off other peoples honest work. The fact that James Somerset is removing himself from the internet shows how thorough Hbomberguy was in documenting the plagiarism.

    The video also touches on a things like Content Mills and AI Generative Art which still falls under the topic of plagiarism.

    I'm not an artist or creator in any capacity, I just found the video interesting. Especially how the examples or accused reacted to the discoveries of plagiarism. However, I think artists and creators could probably benefit from watching this video to understand the possibilities of what happens to your work once you release it to the internet. Plagiarism seems to cause a lot more grief and frustration once you start to look further past the act of a person simply taking someone else's work.

  • Home Assistant + OpenWRT + Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi 4
  • The actual router rented out by the service provider. I don't think they would be happy with me messing with their property.

    I also lived somewhere else where I didn't have access to the main router so I use the extender as my personal network for file transfers, a few lights with a couple switches and my terrarium thermostat. If anything happens to the main router, I can just turn my extender into an access point and still have my personal network.

    TP-Link requires an account to use my own extender which annoys me. Their app redirects my connection to my extender through their cloud service. It's not my VPN because I can still connect through the browser. Seems shadey and I don't like having the account already.

  • What's an easy yet useful skill that everyone should learn?
  • Unfortunately I feel this conversation has become deadlocked for a number of reasons.

    You have clearly dismissed a fellow person with a valid observation and left no room for open discussion. When given the opportunity to express why you do not agree, you continue to be dismissive.

    You have ignored the topics that has been brought up and are being discussed. In this case emotional intelligence, particularly among men.

    You have not made an attempt to clearly connect your various points into a cohesive argument.

    You have not expressed what you have studied in your own words. To express ideas in your own words would show the rest of us how you perceive and understand a topic. This would be a great base for having a meaningful conversation.

    Lastly, you have done nothing but blindly praise an individual on a podcast. If the words in your initial post are true, we should never worship anyone.

    Taking a step back away from everyone and everything to think of why we react to other peoples words may help us to understand ourselves better. And that's a good thing.

    At this point I am done. As a fellow individual with ADHD (and Autism), I wish you the best on your mental health journey and I hope you approach it with an open heart and open mind. Thank you for giving me a new perspective for me to think about and hopefully understand in the future.

  • What's an easy yet useful skill that everyone should learn?
  • In order to engage you in meaningful discussion, I need to understand your thoughts and perspectives more from your own words.

    Why do you not trust the personal view of another lemmy user? We are on a social platform made for discussing a variety of topics and we will always encounter different views. Hopefully this leads to exploring and expanding our own views on the topics we bring up.

    I would also like to stay on the topic of men and emotional intelligence which was brought up by LoreleiSankTheShip. I currently do not see how neurodivergence and generational workforces fit into this discussion unless you can clearly state the connections for me.

    I do agree with you that the importance of mental health and it's approaches are not very well explained. However, empathy carries a lot of weight in the discussion of mental health and should not be undermined or under valued.

    Lastly, it's easy to link a video of an expert, but experts are human and can fall for personal biases too. If you can explain to me your interpretation of what this expert is saying, we can begin to have a thorough discussion. Otherwise, I fear we may be deadlocked and nothing more will come of this.

    I did watch your recommended clip and am still struggling to understand your view point.

  • What's an easy yet useful skill that everyone should learn?
  • People in general can learn something from stoicism. From a philosophical standpoint it can be a good place to provide tools for improving yourself from within. However, I also find it hard to accept that men are inherently emotionally weaker than women for many of the reasons mentioned by LoreleiSankTheShip.

    Modern societies extert incredible pressure on people to conform to unreasonable expectations which greatly repress individuality. These pressures start early and are persistent. Emotionally intelligent men exist and have always existed. I could easily believe many of these men couldn't even begin to define or explain stoicism. Their emotional intelligence could have been learned from family, friends, partners or community.

    A broad and over generalized expectation of modern men are that they be strong and courageous. That they act as independent individuals to care for their family or community. Traits which could be mistaken for a surface level of stoicism.

    What we are seeing today in is very much a lack of emotional intelligence. There is a very noticeable deficiency in emotional intelligence in men when compared to women. Unable to reflect inwards about their motivations and outward actions. Unable to empathetically understand how their actions affect those around them. Unable to to identity, verbalize or express the emotions which are happening within them. As a result, men don't have the proper understanding of themselves to begin the process of improving themselves. Trans men offer a unique insight into this as they have had the opportunity to experience two worlds of gender expectations.

    But humans are social animals. Many mammals exhibit social needs. We can look to our closest friends such as cats and dogs and see how true that is. We've reached a point where our social communities are fragmented and broken. The ideal of a strong man is heavily expected to replace that missing sense of community.

    It's become and issue so deep and entangled that it's hard to know where to even begin. I wish there was a simple -ism to unravel this mess but a person is complex. Eight billion people with eight billion unique perspectives is a level of complexity we just don't know how to even comprehend or manage.

    We can start by teaching emotional understanding from within, by being good examples, by creating and maintaining communities or by calling out bad behavior. Unfortunately, these actions can be attacked. It's an uphill battle and the hill is looking very steep.

  • Trust in nature – and stop raking up your garden leaves
  • The indigenous people of Australia used fire is a part of their land management. It helped clear the land and managed land between crops, regrowth and wild animal populations. Also, some seed pods require fire in order to open thier pods. Otherwise the seeds won't be released. I had the opportunity to live in Australia for two years and got to learn about some of this.

    This video nicely illustrates what has been learned about pre-colonial land management by the indigenous people.

    To me, it appears they had a deep understanding of the land. Something that had been developed through careful observation and passed down through traditional knowledge. Knowledge that had been disrupted and destroyed. Leaving behind so many broken people.

    It deeply saddens me to know that such intimate knowledge of the land had been destroyed. It makes me wonder just how much local knowledge has really been destroyed through colonialism or other expansive and destructive forces.

    Even with all that said, we today can still learn from these people. We can still learn from the land around us. We can draw inspiration from all this in order to build a sustainable future. We can start building our own knowledge again to pass down to our future. It doesn't have to involve raking our leaves and shipping it somewhere else that's out or sight and out of mind.

    My hate for mowing and raking runs pretty deep.

  • Trust in nature – and stop raking up your garden leaves
  • I've never seen anyone rake s forest floor and the forest seems to be just fine. Nature has been doing it's own thing for a couple years and seemed to have figured out what works.

    Us humans could learn so much about the world if we spent more time observing it in action. Instead we spent our time bending it to our will. Disrupting beautiful complexity while blissfully unaware of future consequences. Replacing nature with unadaptable machines that are high in maintenance. Machines which are prone to wearing out and breaking down. Replacing nature with our own complexity that doesn't break down as nicely as a leaf or branch.

    Nature in action is beautiful in it's own right. No one should be judged for spending their precious time on this world observing nature. It's a wonderfully complex and adaptive machine with many moving parts and doesn't require any synthetic lube to run.

  • Home Assistant + OpenWRT + Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi 4
  • Fortunately the ISP provided modem/router has DNS support. I managed to install Adguard as an add-on in Ha OS. I just need to figure out why HA OS refuses to change my IPv4 address to static mode. After that I can change the DNS address and hopefully I can get rid of ads in my house.

  • Home Assistant + OpenWRT + Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi 4
  • That makes sense. I guess it's not necessary for me to put OpenWRT on there. More than anything, I'm just severely annoyed I must log into an online account just to access my WiFi extender's settings. I can deal with that issue at a later time.

  • Home Assistant + OpenWRT + Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi 4

    My current setup is a TP-Link wireless extender. From that I have my own little network that connects my computer, wireless devices and a Raspberry Pi 4. The RPi4 runs the Home Assistant OS for my small network of lights and switches. The TP-Link extender does not have enough memory to support OpenWRT which means I am dependent on the proprietary android app to configure it.

    I thought I could use the integrations in HA to add OpenWRT and Pi-Hole but it looks like those integrations are for communicating with instances and devices not within the HA operating system.

    What I was hoping to accomplish was to run HA, OpenWRT and Pi-Hole on the same RPi4 device and re-use the TP-Link extender elsewhere in the house to serve ad-blocked internet that extends beyond my little network of devices.

    Would running multiple services like this be too demanding for the RPi4? And if it is possible, where is a good place to start?

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    What is the skill/talent you have that you get praised for but you fiercely keep as an hobby/interest with no plans to expand on it?
  • I had been involved with the labour board over a wrongful termination dispute. I made complaints about about an abusive workplace and was shitcanned as a result.

    During the final settlement where the lawyers were fighting over what my settlement payment would be, my lawyer and I had a bit of a discussion revolving around mental health.

    She suggested I should consider a move into mental health services as I was essentially writing off continuing my trade apprenticeship by this point. She noted that I am a good listener and have a very clear understanding of mental health. She even offered to get me in contact with those in the mental health field.

    It's been heavily on my mind to go down that path but a part of me is intimidated. I've been able to help a few close friends who all experienced some heavy mental issues over the past couple years but these are people who I've become close to and am able to help them through a deep understanding of them.

    I tend to get attached to people easily and I'm not sure how I'll be able to separate work thoughts from my own thoughts meant for my own time. What heavy burdens will make it home with me?

    Would I be good at working in such a field? According to my lawyer and those closest to me, I'd be great. But what am I going to do about my own mental health if I follow that path path? I can barely handle children and I'm the biggest kid in my own life. It's already a monumental effort to keep myself fed and not spontaneously running into traffic.

  • Can flatpaks be installed and accessed from another partition on the same drive?
  • Fortunately I updated my BIOS from windows before switching to Linux and as of recently, I still have the latest version.

    I added amdgpu.runpm=0 and that did increase stability considerably. My system froze up way less often which was great.

    I also found that adding processor.max_cstate=1 has made my system even more stable and I haven't had a freeze up in days now. This page gives a nice run down of what it does.

    I wouldn't be surprised if there is a freeze up in the future but overall my system has been a lot more stable making everything far more enjoyable.

  • Where to see the northern lights this winter

    I'm in the beginning stages of planning a trip this winter to see the northern lights. The days are getting real short and I'd love to take advantage of that.

    I'm currently in southern Ontario and would like to head north a bit to get away from all the light pollution. I'll also be travelling alone so heading off to a park is probably not a wise decision for myself. Also, since I'm going alone, I'd prefer staying at a hostel where I have a chance to meet people but that's not a strict requirement. I know hostels are not a big thing here.

    Any information, tips or experiences to share would be greatly appreciated.

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    Can flatpaks be installed and accessed from another partition on the same drive?

    My laptop seems very finicky with linux and enjoys periodically freezing. Some distributions are more stable than others and I'd like to keep testing other distributions without reinstalling/ downloading/transferring all my apps and steam games constantly.

    What I would like to achieve is to have my small handful of flatpak apps and flatpak steam games on a separate partition to quickly access while I test and troubleshoot issues.

    Is that possible to do with flatpaks?

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    How do I Backup game files in Flatpak Steam?

    I'd like to change my distribution but when I attempt to create a backup through steam, it just creates an empty folder with the game's name.

    I'm assuming this is because how flatpak contains the app.

    How can I make a backup of my games so I don't have to redownload everything again?

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    After system updates, steam games won't switch from integrated to dedicated GPU when playing games

    I have a Dell G5 SE 5505 laptop running Linux Mint

    System Information

    System: Kernel: 5.15.0-82-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.4.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.8.4 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy Machine: Type: Laptop System: Dell product: G5 5505 v: 1.16.0 serial: Chassis: type: 10 v: 1.16.0 serial: Mobo: Dell model: 0M8C1F v: A02 serial: UEFI: Dell v: 1.16.0 date: 04/21/2023 Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 24.9 Wh (86.5%) condition: 28.8/51.0 Wh (56.4%) volts: 11.5 min: 11.4 model: LGC-LGC4.474 DELL 415CG0C serial: status: Discharging CPU: Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 9 4900H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 rev: 1 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 4 MiB L3: 8 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 1402 high: 1478 min/max: 1400/3300 boost: enabled cores: 1: 1397 2: 1395 3: 1397 4: 1396 5: 1397 6: 1397 7: 1396 8: 1397 9: 1397 10: 1397 11: 1478 12: 1441 13: 1397 14: 1396 15: 1396 16: 1368 bogomips: 105404 Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm Graphics: Device-1: AMD Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT] vendor: Dell driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:731f Device-2: AMD Renoir vendor: Dell driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-2 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1636 Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 Monitor-1: eDP res: 1920x1080 dpi: 142 diag: 395mm (15.5") OpenGL: renderer: RENOIR (renoir LLVM 15.0.7 DRM 3.42 5.15.0-82-generic) v: 4.6 Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1 direct render: Yes Audio: Device-1: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab38 Device-2: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 07:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637 Device-3: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor vendor: Dell Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Processor driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 07:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 Device-4: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 07:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-82-generic running: yes Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Dell driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 2000 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 IF: enp5s0 state: down mac: Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 vendor: Rivet Networks Killer driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723 IF: wlp6s0 state: up mac: IF-ID-1: moz0 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-3.1:3 chip-ID: 8087:0029 Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.2 sub-v: 237e Drives: Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 179.87 GiB (18.9%) ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: PC SN730 NVMe WDC 1024GB size: 953.87 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: temp: 46.9 C Partition: ID-1: / size: 914.69 GiB used: 179.86 GiB (19.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0 mapped: vgmint-root ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 976 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/dm-1 mapped: vgmint-swap_1 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: N/A Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A GPU: device: amdgpu temp: 45.0 C mem: 48.0 C fan: 65535 device: amdgpu temp: 45.0 C Repos: Packages: 2344 apt: 2308 flatpak: 36 No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozillacorp-mozillavpn-jammy.list 1: deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/mozillacorp-mozillavpn-jammy.gpg] https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillacorp/mozillavpn/ubuntu jammy main Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 1: deb https://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/linuxmint-packages victoria main upstream import backport 2: deb http://ubuntu.mirror.rafal.ca/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse 3: deb http://ubuntu.mirror.rafal.ca/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse 4: deb http://ubuntu.mirror.rafal.ca/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse 5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse Info: Processes: 433 Uptime: 2m Memory: 14.99 GiB used: 2.11 GiB (14.1%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.4.0 alt: 11/12 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.13

    I'm currently running Linux without updates for a couple weeks now so I can continue to play. However, Any update I install causes any game to stay stuck on the integrated GPU instead of switching to the dedicated GPU. Some games will just close while others will run but it's super slow and choppy.

    I've tried running steam with the dedicated GPU option but that causes steam to launch, attempt to open the library window several times before the system freezes for a moment. After the system unfreezes, I can move the mouse but nothing on the desktop is responsive.

    I also get the freezing issue without running with the dedicated GPU when I launch steam but found that launching directly to the steam settings window from the menu reduces the chances of freezing.

    Any help would be appreciated.

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    How to enable virtual surround sound with PulseAudio?

    I've recently switched from windows to Linux Mint after learning about how much support steam has put into Linux gaming. I've found my way around packages and alternatives to set myself up similar to my windows experience except for 7.1 surround sound that Razer offered for my 3.5mm connection headphones.

    From what I understand, PulseAudio has a module that can be added to simulate surround sound.

    The documentation also says to select an audio file that sounds best to me but I have no idea what to do with it, and no idea where to place that HRIR.wave file.

    I've only used Ubuntu very casually in the past so this is slightly above what I understand. My experience using with using a terminal is limited to super basic things and deleting apps on my android phone from PowerShell in windows so I only really half get what I'm supposed to do at the moment. Any help would be appreciated.

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    Mushrooms in my garden

    I have no idea what they are but I'm just excited to see mushrooms growing in my garden over the past couple days. It pleases me to know my soil is happy and healthy.

    This is my first garden and I've decided to use clover as ground cover. It'll take a couple years to determine if it does what I hope it will accomplish. So far I'm quite happy with how things are turning out and am learning so much.

    I'm currently and impatiently waiting to try the first cherry tomatoes but the first bunch should be ripe within the next week.

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