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20 years ago Linux couldn’t play 95% of Windows games seamlessly without tinkering, couldn’t easily produce music without a lot of tinkering and few DAWs, couldn’t effectively video edit (Kdenlive is good now, and Davimci Resolve now supports Linux), and it had spotty WiFi card support.
All of those are now no longer a problem, and make transitioning to it far easier for a much wider swath of people.
This video does a great job explaining the practical usefulness of the ‘Collective dreaming’ that Solarpunk provides. In short, it gives us a collective goal to aim toward, which then prompts us to figure out what the best way of achieving that goal is with the tools at hand.
In that way, I would put forward that Solarpunk provides a useful framework to address the issues we face today. At its core it encourages decentralized grassroots community building to address problems (the ‘punk’ part), which is generally more effective than spinning our collective wheels trying to reform political machinery that is fully corporate captured, and I would consider a form of prefiguration.
And the ‘Solar’ part encourages adopting practical and ecological technology to address the issue of our planet becoming uninhabitable from our current political and economic models; adopting renewable energy (which often scales down really well, helping out the decentralized part), viewing a healthy ecology as essential infrastructure to a prosperous existence, stopping consumerism with Degrowth, etc.
In practice, Solarpunk basically lets us collectively see a plausible outcome if we embraced Eco-Anarchism (basically combining what Catalonia was able to achieve in the 30’s, along with a distinct focus on restoring our planet’s ecosystems).
That it isn’t some impractical sci-fi concept needing yet to be invented tech, but instead an achievable goal even with our existing technology, is a very encouraging and motivating concept, IMO.
This is a video specific community. If you do not wish to watch videos, I would suggest blocking video communities from showing up in your feed.
If you’d rather read an article about the subject in the video, you are free to search for one and post it here in the comments for others, if you’d like.
The name of the community is listed next to a post, even from ‘All’
Videos shouldn’t be posted in video specific communities?
Ah, in that case that sounds like a bug, since Movim should fully support group audio and video calls on Firefox.
If you can, it’d be extremely helpful to report that on the movim github, where the developer can help get to the bottom of it and prevent that from happening to anyone else in the future :)
The GPL would only let them close source their own code, but to close source any code that was contributed by others, they would need to explicitly ask permission from each and every user that added to the codebase, which generally isn’t feasible.
That prevents the original creators from being able to benefit from free and rapid community development and then close sourcing it all later. To effectively close source the app, they would need to re-implement every contribution themselves.
They would only be able to do what you describe with the GPL if they also required every contributor to sign a CLA which explicitly gives up ownership of the contribution to the project owners.
The MIT license allows anyone (including the original creators) to close source the app without needing permission from anyone.
Matrix has a lot of problems, some of them inherent to its design, including spreading metadata of encrypted messages to any server that participates in a chat room (this metadata includes the time the message was sent, size, sender and recipients of messages).
I’m not a fan of it, despite it being federated.
Not personally a fan of it since it’s not federated (and has no plans to implement federation) meaning its one centralized point of failure and one centralized point for governments to subpoena. It has no plans to implement any form of encryption (Movim has solid encryption, and Fluxer plans to implement encrypted DMs in the future).
Also very concerning to me is that it uses the MIT license, which allows for the company to do a rug-pull and close-source the code in the future so they can enshittify it. Only the GPL license ensures that it remains open-source and in the community’s hands forever.
I found with Movim that you need to ensure that both you and the other person have each other added as contacts (and both parties each accepted those contact requests) for the call button to show up, just being in a chat with each other isn’t enough (and that is quite painful UX, since there’s no information that explains that that must be done).
I think it won’t show a call button if it doesn’t detect a microphone either.
In the case of our communication apps, they do have to be open-source and GPL licensed, otherwise we’re crossing our fingers that they’ll respect privacy, and kicking the can down the road until it enshittifies.
Being able to be self-hosted and federated are also essential for long-term stability and preventing centralization.
The two best discord alternatives we have available to us that meet those requirements are Movim and Fluxer. I would not consider any other options.
The protests are good ways of meeting like-minded people in your community to form connections, spreading awareness of local mutual aid groups so more can join, or form ICE resistance groups who can join an encrypted chat to coordinate, alert neighbors, and talk strategy. It also is a good place for unions or union members to encourage others to unionize their workplaces, which can also ultimately work toward a national general strike.
They also are useful for people to see that many of their neighbors oppose the regime, which can give more confidence to gradually become more radical, and to not be afraid to resist, which was a significant issue in Germany during the rise of the Nazi party.
Just because the protests aren’t perfect doesn’t mean they aren’t useful to our cause overall, and being purely negative about them probably isn’t very useful.
Yes, admins can see every report that is made on communities hosted on their own instance.
Anecdotally, I put in a small under-sink carbon block filter for the kitchen which claimed it was good for 20,000 gallons. I thought that would be a really optimistic claim and I’d have to replace the filter every few months, but its been over a year and it still has the same amount of flow as it did when it was new, and seems to be removing the chlorine still (I can’t taste it, anyway).
Just gonna throw this out there; If you’ve never had a Nintendo Wii, I’d genuinely recommend picking one up and modding it.
My last console was a PS3, after that I went exclusively PC since every newer console seemed far too expensive for the very few exclusives that interested me, and they began to charge a monthly fee to play games online. The only console I didn’t have from that generation was the Wii, as I’d always written it off as a gimmick. But after taking a closer look at its library, it’s surprisingly packed with good titles, and the motion controls are a pretty unique way to interact with games.
I picked one up a few months ago off ebay, and even for a lot that included a Wii balance board, it was less than $80. Modding it was extremely easy, and after it was done, I was amazed to find that it has access to a surprisingly polished online homebrew store full of emulators and cool little homebrew games that download and install with a single click.
That means the console has access to:
All for less than $100. It’s an absolute gem of a console, especially when paired with sailing the high seas (which is really easy since the Wii has an SD card slot, so you can slam it full of stuff), and has quickly become my favorite of all time. I sold every other console I’ve ever owned, but I suspect I’ll be keeping the Wii for the foreseeable future due to its versatility and ease of use (especially for retro games, no messing around with RetroArch’s horrible interface!)
But it is possible to pick up a cheap used office PC off ebay and stick a used GPU in it, which would let someone play almost any game on the market for much less than a console.
I believe MX Linux shares a lot of devs with Antix, but offers full DE’s.
MX Linux (Debian based) has a KDE version, and lets you choose a non-systemd init during the install.
I think you forgot to add the link to the video, OP.