Yesterday I had a day off and made some mango soap. I meant to document the whole process but my batter thickened up so quickly, I couldn't. It was hardly surprising with 20% mango butter in the recipe. 😅
#SoapMaking
Despite hype and optimistic projections, the humanoid robot industry faces hurdles, from battery life and design to limited demand for large-scale deployments (Evan Ackerman/IEEE Spectrum)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-robot-scaling
For the first time we got fruit (2!) on the Akebia quinata ('chocolate vine"). We planted a different clone last year for pollination and although the flowering time overlap is small, at least we got these.
Pleasant vanilla pulp (bitter seeds) a bit like cherimoya and relatives. Worth growing? A nice plant but hardly a viable fruit crop in Manchester.
Been playing around with openSUSE TW on a laptop for a few days and noticed the battery life was horrendous.
Apparently I forgot about installing the trusted old tlp. All is now well.
I did also notice that tuned seemed to be the default, which zypper demanded to be uninstalled in order for tlp to be installed instead. Admittedly I hardly know the difference.
#linux
A Multilingual Python Programming Language
Saad Ahmed Bazaz, Mirza Omer Beg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09591 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09591