Doom stops when people have hope. Teaching people how to climb to a solar punk future is the solution.

We need solar punk political candidates.

Well the minimal bars for electronics is:

0 - The repair manual exists and is readily available with full schematics of the item in question. 1 - Replacement parts are available for purchase. 2 - Compatible replacement parts are made by 2 or more 3rd party companies 3 - Designs for replacement parts are available 4 - Local maker space is able to make the needed replacement parts.

If you can't get level 0, you probably shouldn't buy it if you expect to keep it working for life.

That is just the gateway drug to bootstrapping.

Check out https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap

if you want the real hard stuff.

We appreciate the slrpnk admins <3 them all.

Down time is fine, I support the goals

You are never alone, we carry those that care about us in our hearts.

You are loved and accepted for who you are.

And yes, it can be hard to be yourself some days.

But you are brave and strong enough to admit to yourself who you truly are; that means you can achieve any dream in your heart in time.

Focus not on external validation for a bit and think of all the new wonderful experiences that you can have being your self.

Life never happens on anyone's schedule, you just have to give yourself time to feel, live and be present.

Also get a copy of your cat's vaccination history (and make sure none are missing) if you want to take them to Sweden with you.

They already did: https://www.commanderx16.com/

you just probably want something better.

and that is the problem building higher performance requires more advanced lithography and that is expensive and until recently was not even an option for a hobbyist (without taking a mortgage on their house).

Given current stagnation, you need only wait about 10 years for that viable option.

Skip the batteries for now, get a few solar panels and an inverter. Skip depending on a fridge until you can get batteries in. But more details about your must haves, want to haves and nice extras would enable more exacting calculations.

Details on basic setup can be found here: https://anarchosolarpunk.substack.com/p/offgridsolar

There is no such thing as clean energy; it is ultimately a question of what waste products we want to deal with and how long we expect them to last.

Ironically coal was originally sold as a green alternative to cutting down trees and making charcoal.

But if we repeal the ban on nuclear recycling, 95.3% of supposed nuclear waste becomes fuel we can put right back into reactors (as it is just unused fuel). The only actual waste products are the transuranics.

https://www.thmsr.com/en/clean/

Guerilla gardening

Guerilla gardening is find a scrap of land that’s being wasted and turn it green, in the hopes that whoever owns it won’t care or can’t be bothered to tear up what you’ve planted.

Whatever it is that you plant, if you intend for it to be a source of food or shade, you should intend for it to be permanent, and able to survive without your continued care. Ideally fruit or nut trees, berry bushes if trees are not an option and if all else fails perennial vegetables, herbs or flowers. Even something as simple as clover is going to help your local pollinators. Time is a big factor. Do you expect your plants will last a season? Will they get dug up next year? You don't want your effort, or these plants, to go to waste, so don't commit a row of fruit trees to the earth when you know soon enough they would be destroyed mindlessly. If all you've got is a summer, go ahead and plant annuals. Throw down those tomatoes, plant some corn. Be showy, so the locals begin to realize what could have been.

Regardless of how long you expect your gardening to last, how you go about it is another key idea. There are two simple ways: you belong there, or you were never there.

You Belong There:

This is an easy enough outfit: jeans, work boots, and a reflective vest will keep most people from second-guessing you. If more than one of you are out and about on a piece of land, try to match your shirt to add even more legitimacy. Cap this off with a truck and some equipment and you'll be virtually invisible to anyone. Make sure one of you is doing all the work while the other lounges by the cooler with some Oakleys on.

You Were Never There:

Obviously enough, here you're trying to not be seen. Plant at night or in a secluded area. Guerilla gardening doesn't mean you're just taking over a median or a patch of grass beside an exit - you might be taking advantage of extant green space, as well. Say you've got a patch of park that's disused, and nothing but grass? Make it worth the space. And again, it doesn't have to be an orchard to be successful guerrilla gardening. Red clover can go a long way toward improving soil, and helping out the area bee population.

If you're planting near roads or industrial areas, it's best to test the soil before you try to plant anything edible. If the soil is in question, there are a variety of plants capable of phytoremediation - meaning the plant can help clean up the place. Just be sure to pull the plants and dispose of them properly rather than let them decompose in place, thus returning the contaminant to the earth.

Well, I know but your aim is getting better.

The cost of hydrogen is not the fuel cells but that hydrogen is made from oil.

Well, I would have to say the one that always used to make you laugh the most.

Why do teenage girls always walk in odd-number groups?

Because they literally can't even.

Sadly, I never got you to laugh at 2, 3, 5 and 7

now that is some prime humor...

rxvt-unicode with tabbedex.

I refuse to use a terminal emulator that needs more than 100MB of RAM to display 80x24 green text on a black display

permacomputing tends to be much more about the software than the hardware.

Always get the four freedoms first https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

Securing technical liberation and building a path for us as a community to understand and control the very technology we depend upon.

in software these days it is: good, cheap or fast; pick one (if you are lucky [usually things are just bad, expensive and slow as f&*k])

unfortunately we will run into Jevon's paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

It isn't the making of more efficient things (which we should do)

It is the changing of human attitudes towards consumption that we need to solve.

First, there is no such thing as unskilled labor; if any job could be done economically competitively by unskilled labor, it would have stopped being a job that exists. The fact that they choose to pay you proves that you are skilled. Once you exceed 5 years experience, the degrees stop mattering for jobs that get real work done.

If you are worried about finding a job, there are classes that teach people how to interview and they tend to be worth the money.

Please be kinder to yourself

Lots of love

-Dad

I was proud of you the day you first said dad.

I was proud of you the morning you first started to crawl

I was proud of you the first time you took a step

I was proud of you when you had your first day of school

I was proud that you stuck with education when I knew you were smart enough to succeed without a teacher telling you what to learn. Sorry that I wasn't that great at expressing that. I am still working on that.

And yeah, I probably should have spent more time telling you that. I guess I still have a good bit more to learn about being a good father but don't for a minute mistake that failing of mine as that you are not the son that I am proud of.

I am proud most of all that you are a good and decent person and not just for the first time.

Every day.

-Love Dad.

Just focus on being your honest, authentic self.

No one trying to be cool, is cool.

The cool teacher is the one who authentically loves to teach and you'll only discover that if you find that you love teaching.

Also, trust me; you'll want to teach Queen. It is a classic for a reason.

-Love Dad

PS, call your mother more. She worries.