I fully agree being able to build your own DIY batteries is indeed very solarpunk. I only wanted to clarify that we allow non-literal BIFL suggestions, as you mentioned that all personal ev’s are not technically BIFL (which is true).

The replies you are receiving are not from slrpnk.net accounts, but instead are from off-instance, likely from people who simply subcribe to this BIFL comm or saw it in in the /All view, and who do not consider themselves solarpunks.

This community also allows recommendations for items that only last significantly longer than usual, not just literally something that will last for an entire lifetime :)

MandaloreGaming is in a similar vein to Civvie and Ross’s Game Dungeon, all great game content makers/reviewers.

Think about the entire culture of the West, do you think anarchism would spread further than a few percent of the population?

Considering how close the US was to a socialist revolution in the 1930’s before FDR tamped that out, yeah I could see it spreading. Most boomers would obviously never go for it, but the younger generations who are the most shafted by capitalism are already becoming quite favorable socialism. They’d just need to be made aware that Anarchism exists and is a viable option.

Side note:

We actually have a Cool Zone Media community on our instance, !coolzonemedia@slrpnk.net :)

Hi @socialistpartyca@slrpnk.net, this video and all of the other videos on this youtube channel are AI generated, which goes against solarpunk ideals (AI use funds fascist AI companies and causes increased environmental destruction).

Because of that, I removed it, but I hope that doesn’t discourage you from finding good non-AI created posts in the future :)

Historically, based on every revolution or attempt at revolution, the end result is worse than the starting point. The most dangerous, violent, charismatic person makes it to the top and they become a dictator.

This is only the case for revolutions with authoritarian marxist-leninists at the helm, which do exactly as you describe without fail.

However, anarchist revolutions which are built upon decentralizing power as much as possible so that there can be no centralized leadership from which dictatorship sprouts, has shown the opposite; that it can result in a long-term egalitarian society where there is no charismatic dictator or vanguard. This was demonstrated most clearly with the Spanish Anarchists during the Spanish Civil War, who documented how they organized in a horizontal, egalitarian way.

Rojava in northern Syria and the Chiapa Zapatista movement in Mexico (both inspired by Anarchist political theory) also demonstrate that an egalitarian society can function well for long periods without a decent into dictatorship.

There’s a couple ways to use Lemmy and make it nicer to use, one is curating a well fleshed out subscribed list, the other is using all but blocking every community that doesn’t interest you or has topics you actively dislike, making it just as pleasant as your subscribed view.

Personally I do both. My subscribed view is just things I like and no news communities. My All feed blocks everything I don’t like, let’s me discover new communities, and gives me a dose of news when I want it.

Does it work through this Invidious instance? (it’s a youtube front-end/proxy based in the US, which played for me).

For the majority of people who didn’t yet have a BBS or internet connection (or a friend who would copy the shareware onto a floppy), they also sold a boxed version of the shareware version in stores for a low price, like 5 or 10 bucks I think.

I actually recently blasted through the first 3 chapters of The Telwynium by the same creator, and absolutely loved it (I’d say it was one of the best point’n’clicks I’d ever played, up there with Robin Hood from Sierra, which is the sole departure from them where the puzzles all make sense), so I’ll definitely be picking up the drifter at some point (and the steam release of the Telwynium which will have the 4th chapter).

I liked exploring it as a kid, but going back to it as an adult it kinda lost me with how gamey some of the puzzles were despite it trying to sell you on the idea that this is a lived in world. Like, who is going to design a door lock to correspond to some nearby whistling holes in the ground?

From what I’ve read, the sequel Rivan did a better job of making the puzzles feel more integrated into the world, but I only played that briefly as a kid and haven’t gotten around to trying it again.

The ‘Company’ in the list is apparently the publisher, not the developer. The Westwood Monopoly is indeed the one in the list, as it was published by Hasbro according to the wiki entry.

Yeah that’s very strange indeed, wonder what happened between them?

Unfortunately can be kinda risky, as a pixel that was originally purchased through a Verizon plan has a locked bootloader thst I’ve read Verizon doesn’t generally unlock even after they unlock the carrier restriction, making it impossible to install GrapheneOS on. For those that go the used route, make sure it was not a Verizon phone.

Ah, good find. I guess technically Mint isn’t totally FLOSS, but it does seem a bit odd for them to phrase it that way.

A ctrl+f search doesn’t show that phrase anywhere on that page?

Ahh, that explains it. Eternity was my preferred app as well, but the developer unfortunately abandoned it a year ago, and it hasn’t received an update since, making it incompatible with newer versions of Lemmy.

You may want to switch to a different app that’s actively developed. I personally switched to Summit since it has some of the best mod tools in an app, but there’s a lot of other good ones too, like Blorp or Voyager.

I purposefully made my example not function to demonstrate how it’s constructed. If done without the quotation marks, and the ::: spoiler is on its own line, it should work and show up in your app.

Here’s what it looks like before posting on my end:

You can read it here: The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin

To do a spoiler tag write “::: spoiler This Is My Spoiler Title” on its own line (don’t include the quotation marks)

Then put the text you want to hide below it, separated by white space (enter key pressed twice).

Then end the spoiler with another 3 colons, again separated by white space.

:::

And it should work :)