Compost thermometers have a 20” (51 cm) stainless steel probe that allows you to read the temperature at the center of the pile. When the core temperature climbs over 155° (68° C), oxygen will be depleted within a few hours, so it’s time to turn the pile....
Then I can drag out the container and drop a new on in. I wonder ... with a system like that ... I wonder if it is possible that you might never need to empty it. Organic matter keeps breaking down and breaking down and eventually becomes nothing but gasses. One might say that...
Dropbox sort-of does this – they allow you to specify certain folders that aren’t synched to specific devices, but if you want to get to those non-synched folders you have to go into the clunky web interface. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just see those other filenames as if...