I'm going to have a fun story to tell about getting a bike shop in Chicago to accept bitcoin. I just have to wait until the story is over before I tell it. Things could still go wrong at this point...
Just put my 4th batch of #fruit in the #dehydrator. Three and a half dehydrators full of #peaches and a half load of #pears.
Each load yeilds about 3 quarts of dehydrated fruit. How much goes in varies from one fruit to another, but for peaches, I'd estimate that to be about 14 lbs of peaches (ΒΌ bushel). Plus about an hour and a half of labor per load. Oh, and it took two hours to bike over and pick them up from the orchard.
And that, my friends, is why I don't sell dehydrated fruit. The math doesn't work. There's no way to compete with the mass produced stuff.
To process a bushel of peaches, we're talking about 8 hours of labor, $54 in peaches (at $1/lb), and probably about $6 in electricity and some wear and tear on the dehydrator/knife/cutting board/mandilin/chef's glove (which I'm ignoring). All that to yield 12 quarts. At minimum wage, that's $15/quart (which is about ΒΌ pound). That's way more than what you'll pay in the store. There's no way I'm going to fetch that price and even if they could, I'm not interested in **marketing**, packaging shipping, etc.
So if it's such a bad deal, then why do **I** do it? Because I don't pay for my own labor. That puts the cost at about $5/quart for me. That's cheaper than most things you'll find in the store, I build valuable skills, I know my dehydrated fruit has only one ingredient, I support our local orchard, we have AMAZING snacks all year long, and I get my exercise in the process.
And for those doing the math along with me, yes, I am saying that a bushel of peaches (54 lbs) dehydrates down to about 3 lbs. It's crazy.
#homesteading #business #diy
Just saw someone post something that inspired me to add another tool to my toolbelt in getting businesses to accept bitcoin.
My current strategy is to ask if they accept bitcoin. I already know the answer will almost certainly be no, but it let's them know that there is interest.
Most of the time they say I don't know, we use this and point to their credit card reader.
But the new, additional method is to already be buying something and wait for the sales person (who may also be the store owner) ask you if anything else catches your eye. Tell them "not unless you start accepting bitcoin". Again, don't bluff. If they say, "OK", be ready to slap down the coins on more merch.
Some people still can't tell the difference between CDN #vulnerabilities and HTTP/1.1 vulnerabilities. π€£
I guess the ol' saying is still worth its weight in gold...
"It is difficult to get anybody to understand something, when their salary depends on them not understanding it." β Upton Sinclair
I've finally started to get some intuition with #3dPrinting issues.
I was at our local #makerspace today and the Lulzbot Mini 1 was failing to bed level. I watched it closely snd saw the nozzle never made context with the corner pad.
I though, "it doesn't seem to know where the bed is" which immediately led me to "z-axis offset wrong?"
A few M851 commands later and lots of testing and I was able to get it high enough to pass the leveling process, but low enough to maybe print okay. We'll see.
I also think I understand how to fix it so the nozzle passes the leveling process but isn't so high off the build plate when it goes to actually print (lowering it more causes the leveling to fail).
So next time I'm in, I plan on trying to print some shims to raise the entire bed assembly. The only concern I have is the belt drive, as the shims will not raise the height of the stepper motor.
It felt pretty good to be able to deduce the problem from first principles instead of guess & checking!
