[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Very cool! I think I might do something similar but might first try with regular pots. Not sure I want to jump into hydroponics right now.

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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Hey so I'm sort of getting involved in my local XR (Extinction Rebelion) group but I have to say after a couple of meetings I'm feeling like it's not really my type.

I appreciate the enthusiasm and I like the ideas of how the organization runs in a decentralized way but I feel it's very demonstration oriented. Nothing wrong with demonstrations but I starting to think that the time for that has passed.

I had a sort of idea of the group also having initiatives to promote empathy with the cause, teach about what people can do both on a personal and large scale. From personal decisions to give them the knowledge to use their local political power to make changes. I know that's a bit utopian. Also I don't have many alternatives where I live...

I don't know. Is XR just a PR thing? All about making people either hate them or love them? Do you think groups like this make a difference?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm with you on that. I feel like open source is the best possible way to security audit and test issues. As any issue will be out there to see, most proprietary code ends ups being years of duct tape which wouldn't fly if a large community of different backgrounds took a look at the code

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Make a T-shirt with that

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

This is a niche topic and I'm not sure this is the right community. Let's say we start to move on to a society less focused on capital. Not perfect but on the way there. There are still companies and there is an overall economy running around small businesses. How would a small business get started without access to "capital"? What are the alternatives?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Has anyone read this book? I'm currently reading it and I find it an incredible way of looking at the transition to a Post Capitalist society in the 21st century.

I think the idea of a progressive transition to micro production in which small companies and eventually just communities being able to do things that are currently assumed to be dependent on mass production a great stepping stone to a decentralized and solarpunk future.

Also do you think there is a relevant amount of people in the instance interested in these type of books of this genre to justify a community?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'll counter that with the community being the people you want it to be and not the forced work place culture. You can have the same community for years while changing jobs in the meantime. I don't understand your argument regarding cars. Fully remote allows one to orchestrate his own live to never have to drive. If you have no commute and you have access to things near you, why would you drive? I understand that it depends on the person and live conditions. But from strictly flexibility perspective you are more able to decide how you live than the alternative.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Me too. Currently I do find that I have a minimal relationship with my current team which isn't the end of the world but at one point I had a team that I never met in person that was the best team I ever had and I was only there 6 months. I think like with in person relationships the person's involved matter a lot. Also the will that most of team has to make an effort to know each other.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I agree with the aspect of losing human connection which I think is the greatest downside. Did you ever considered sharing your space with a friend or someone you know that's also a remote worker to provide at least a source of companionship? I'm not saying daily but weekly or biweekly. I do that with my brother and sometimes friends and it helps a lot. And it creates a kinda of community even though we work for different companies.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Why do think you tend to work longer hours? I never had that that issue but I feel is very related to the work itself.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

What's your book name? And where can I get it? Where did you move to?

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Is anyone in this sub or instance a remote worker? I have been one first partially and then completely for a few years now and I began to think as a kinda of solarpunk way of live that has the potential to propel humanity to a more decentralized and sustainable way of life, specially since I plan to move to a smaller town because of it. What do guys feel about it? Do you do it? Don't do it but would like to? Do it it but miss interaction?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm extremely sceptic of carbon credits as a whole. The logic is just flawed. Not because the way you can make carbon credits but because it effectively created a marked where you can buy rights to pollute. For most companies that will be just a matter of economics. If I can make more money by polluting more if I make enough I can just pay to offset the carbon I added to the atmosphere. And seems a bit sad for a country to concede land to a company even if given resource extraction alternatives makes it not that bad.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Very cool! I'm mostly excited to see the boom of the solar energy industry. Not just for selling but also for personal use. Feel like a whole new thing is coming that somehow not tainted by another industry hidden interests

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Hey there! So after taking your advice this is the result. Ended up going with the following setup, nothing too over the top:

  • OS: Debian 12 - bookworm
  • Color Scheme • Everforest - Good vibes!
  • Icons • Papyrus
  • Terminal • Alacritty
  • Desktop • Gnome
  • Gnome tweaks and extension for shell theme and dock
  • Showoff stuff • cbonsai, catnip (sound visualizer) and ranger (as suggested), still doing the dynamic wallpaper thing but because it's for KDE Plasma I'll have to find an alternative or code it myself.
[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah it said safing when I read it and I thought it was just a word I wasn't familiar with. Ok that's a cool constraint that I might use

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Hello everybody!! This is my first post on this instance, glad to be here! So this is a bit of a tangent from most topics I saw here but I wanted to get the opinion of people that's immersed in the aesthetic of solarpunk.

I'm modding debian (linux) to create a sort of solarpunk software aesthetic. For this I take any suggestions you might have, backgrounds, color palettes small placeholders text anything.

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GuilhermePelayo

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