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Thanks! I pulled it from one of the more popular solarpunk flags. Out of all the ones I’ve seen, many of which feature the sun-and-gear motif in some configuration, it’s my favorite symbol for the movement; It’s very simple and visually clear, and easy to render with one color.
A stack of ewaste laptops I’m fixing up to give away, and this jailbroken Chromebook I reinstalled with Alpine Linux which has become my writing computer whenever I’m out and about.
In the northeast there used to be a fair bit, but I think a lot has been torn up in the process of making bike paths. A lot of the small towns I grew up in still have intact tracks running between their centers, I’d love if these pods made an appearance, if only to show folks that trains can be useful to them.
Man I wish our trains ran anywhere near that constantly. They stop the public transit around midnight in my city, but that doesn’t stop it from being tremendously useful during the rest of the time. You learn to plan for it, and advocate for improvements whenever you can
That beats connecting the speaker jack to the mic jack and recording with audacity.
Just wanted to say I really like this idea, especially as mixed with local mesh networks. I agree with the point about storage, and mostly I’m just really looking forward to reading about some of these services, and seeing what this could look like in the future.
Good luck!
And the ones from trigun
Thanks!! I’ll check it out!
To be honest, I don’t think I plan to do anything else with this project, but I still have the libreoffice document with selectable text and I’m happy to share it if you or anyone wants to use it to make something new.
https://mega.nz/file/edcmEAbA#EPFIg2YGU0e9L_SjVp6UT-Q6dMbmBLVDCdVab_-IrUE
These sound amazing and I’m definitely saving this recipe!
Thanks, glad you like it!
Whoops, this should be higher rez, didn’t realize movim was compressing it
https://mega.nz/file/mR8iGbII#fVw3lCzdpxsyp60cOl50-HO93sYHpZm-Y125XnnPXn0
And the pdf version is available here: https://jacobcoffinwrites.files.wordpress.com/2023/07/spice_list_printable.pdf
Awesome! I hope it helps! Best of luck
I’m kinda glad I don’t have time at the moment to get obsessed with a new topic (though it’s lurking in my future now) - this is really cool. I used to mess around with RTLSDR stuff, this looks like it’ll scratch the same itch and possibly be more useful. Meshnets seem like a wonderful solarpunk technology and I really look forward to seeing where this’ll go.
I’m glad they’re moving forwards with this, hopefully it helps prove the concept and builds some more trust. I’d love to see what the technology looks like after the industry’s been going for a decade or two
The solarpunk genre in general might have some good stuff for you - my favorite so far is Murder in the Tool Library, but the Terraformers might be closer to what you’re looking for.
The airship company Flying Whales did a whole set of promotional images years ago. Scenes of them delivering the supports for high tension power lines, mobile hospitals, windmills things like that.
They get better if you imagine that each one is actually an elaborate supervillain airship-based heist and they’re stealing houses and cargo and such.
Also I think their design has changed since these were made.
I think they mean in terms of a good fit for the values - a coal fired power plant might be a technology that doesn’t fit a solarpunk society.
But this is also a cool opportunity to reexamine older technologies to see if they make more sense in a slower society that prioritizes minimizing or internalizing externalities and consuming fewer inputs (energy and materials) than our current one, or if they could work better with modern computer control, materials science, or other improvements that didn’t exist when they fell out of use.
Movim is awesome! PoVoq put a bunch of work into getting it set up and linked with Lemmy so if you have an account here, you can just start using the microblogging platform too! I use WordPress for my art and writing and Movim for my making-and-fixing-type projects, and I mostly prefer Movim - the interface is nice, it’s free, doesn’t spatter everything I write with gross ads, and it’s not corporate. I’d very much recommend it.