OK, so here’s the update. thanks to all the suggestions - I combined a few ideas, and came up with the following solution.

The observer triggers as items drop, this does two things at once:

1. Drives a pulse extender which immediately retracts the secondary piston
2. Pulses the primary piston after a short delay to push the items into the space that the secondary piston just made

As the clock decays fully the secondary piston fires and pushes the items.

An added bonus here is spam protection - so if items drop consecutively more quickly than the clock decays, it simply resets the clock so you don’t get pistons firing together, or too quickly. This way nothing ever ends up on the top of the slime/honey blocks. I’ve added a front-side view for those curious as well.

Thanks for all the help and tips!

Fixed!

WTH - nooooooooooooooooo

wow, I re-read what I wrote originally - that was some terrible work! Hopefully much clearer now!

oh shoot! Good catch, I will edit the main post.

I have a newer Zenbook and can confirm when I first got it, and wiped windows to put Ubuntu on it, audio didn’t work from the speakers. Headphones worked just fine. There’s a blog from some Asus dev community documenting the issues and resolution. I’m on mobile right now and can’t find it. I can confirm it was addressed on Fedora a few kernel releases back though and that all is well. I’ll post the blog link shortly. Per post above please provide your model number.

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Ok I got ya. Doesn’t that then limit the effective use of the hierarchy to the instance you’re on and the hierarchy you’re familiar with? In that the further removed you are from your home instance’s hierarchy the less likely things will match up. So ultimately searches loose effectiveness I think?

Anyhow like someone else said, not trying to disparage the idea - it’s interesting and I’m enjoying the various input and thoughts folks are bringing.

Structurally the idea has some merit. I think the challenge that you will encounter especially in a federated environment is gaining agreement on how to fill that structure and the hierarchy that you’re implying and demonstrating. Using the pug example, you’ll likely find very little argument on a good hierarchy, but using a more contentious example, let’s say gender, how will you gain agreement across instances on what the hierarchy within the data should represent?