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One person's pest is another person's dessert! For those of us who intentionally cultivate #Blackberries...

14 Plants to Grow Alongside Your #Blackberry Bushes to Keep Them Happy

By Kate Chalmers
March 11, 2025

"Blackberries are among the easiest fruits to grow. In addition to providing an abundance of delicious fruit, blackberry bushes boost biodiversity and can be used to create a natural hedgerow.

"However, as with any plant, choosing the right blackberry companions is essential. Careful companion planting can boost soil health, deter pests, attract beneficial insects, and guarantee huge yields of delicious blackberry fruits."

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#Gardening #SolarPunkSunday #CompanionPlanting #FoodForests #Berries #GrowYourOwn

14 Plants to Grow Alongside Your Blackberry Bushes to Keep Them Happy
Homestead How-To · 14 Plants to Grow Alongside Your Blackberry Bushes to Keep Them HappyBlackberries thrive with the right plant friends! These companions will keep them happy and productive. Save this pin for berry-growing success! 🍇🌱

@ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill also #BlackBerry's #PlayBook #Tablet was released as a accessory screen for their Phones, which gave it "#WiiU-Effect" in terms of marketing.

  • Plus #RIM relying hard on business clients and their proprietary applianced mail systems and having big carriers upsell to business people made them look outdated & quite literally out of touch once #iPhone went mainstream.

I mean, the hardware was never their problem and #SMS-Typists swear by their #BlackberryCurve's #keyboard but BlackBerry's #toolchain - just like #SymbianOS's - was just hideous to the point that devs like @fuchsiii didn't even want to try making #Apps for those devices.

  • Unlike #Mozilla fucking up #FirefoxOS by refusing to sell devices to #developers, by the time RIM & #Nokia came from their high horses, their market shares had been squeezed into mere "rounding errors" by #iOS and #Android as it was way cheaper and easier to get #Apps developed, tested, sold, bought and use them than on their devices.

#Sony even released some #Symbian #S60 devices but since they didn't have the same signing keys, one couldn't even #sideload apps (not to mention they didn't had the #OviStore on those either!)...

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@JessTheUnstill One of the big fuckups for BlackBerry was just the delays in getting BlackBerry 10, plus the Z10 and Q10, to market.

I got to use BB10 for a couple of months, and it was nice. It was built on QNX, with a modern swipe/gesture based UI built with Qt.

Arguably a better OS than the iOS and Android releases at that same time.

There was a feature called the Hub, which wax a unified inbox for your email messages, social posts, and text messages. Plus a modern app store, and separate personal/work profiles built into the OS.

There was a version without a physical keyboard (Z10) and with (Q10).

The problem is they didn't start working on it until 2010, and BB10 wasn't released until 2013.

For about two years before BB10 came out, BlackBerry didn't release any new phones.

Had BB10 come out earlier, it *might* have saved the company.

The wild blackberry is forming new leaves. It is not everybody’s best friend due to its invasive character, but we learned to love it. We have a part of the garden full of wild blackberry and it has so many upsides! We make delicious jam of the fruits and in this season we collect the young leaves, ferment them, and make a herbal tea.

Next to this, it serves as a natural fence to keep the dears off our land, it provides shelter and food for all kinds of animals and the roots of the brambles help to prevent soil erosion on the slope. It is a bit of work to control them but it is worthwhile.

#herbaltea #blackberry #permacultue #gardenlife #jardin #alsace #ronce #tisane
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@christoffel66 Voor mensen die zich afvragen waar het onderdeel “Wie kan mijn nummer zien” over gaat.

Met #Signal kun je ook met elkaar appen zonder dat je jouw telefoonnummer hoeft te geven. Je kunt ook naar een gebruikersnaam appen. Net als vroeger met de #BlackBerry, maar je kunt hem in Signal ook nog aanpassen.

Dit lijkt mij bv handig voor #docenten met een (jaarlijks wisselende) klassen #Appgroep

Er zijn meer voordelen, ook qua SecOps, maar dat is teveel om uit te schrijven in een post.

YUM! So glad to finally have this arrive. The new Dr. Pepper Blackberry is so good!

It has a great smell from the second you pop open the top and the taste is absolutely delicious as well.

This could actually get me to start drinking carbonated drinks again.

Now, I need to get another bottle of Crown Royal Blackberry to try this Dr. Pepper Blackberry with. My friends in Arizona say that combination is amazing.

I recently drove a car whose whole control and entertainment system was a gigantic iPad-like thing mounted to the dash. It caused me to have a realisation about the #Ui and #UX of touch screens.

There is no way to touch a touchscreen without it treating that touch as intentional. What I mean is: without taking my eyes off the road, I can grope across the dashboard, find a knob or button—by touching it—without activating any function. Touching the volume button or temperature knob doesn’t DO anything until I do it with more force and intentionality. Not so for a #touchscreen.

My mobile #phone (an #iPhone 13) has no dead space in its face. There’s no part of the phone face I can touch without it assuming I meant to do that and I wanted to activate whatever was under my finger. Old iPhones that had physical home buttons also had dead space to either side: a safe space to hold the phone without DOING anything.

Computer keyboard have little raised pips on the F and J keys so you can find them by touch without looking. I do this all the time. But I don’t type the letters F or J. Touch screens have no such affordances.

I look at the #blackberry keyboard in this photo and I see a raised space bar. It’s an #affordance that lets you orient your fingers, and orient how you hold the phone, without looking.

I miss buttons.

mobilesyrup.com/2025/02/15/bla

MobileSyrup · BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expiredLet's all close our eyes and go back to 2009 so we can feel the thrill of typing our first email on the go.