queerlilhayseed

Only the dead have seen the end of zero-days.

And the transition from one to the other is pretty seamless.

What I’m saying is that a lot of people don’t have the money for new cars period, it’s not like they can just choose to forego one year and pick themselves up some solar panels. Even if they have enough to afford a used car, it’s not typical for people to have five figures of liquid capital just… around for non-necessities. Even if you can get credit for a loan, that’s another monthly note that you might not be able to afford even with the energy bill savings, if your entire paycheck is already insufficient to cover necessities. The people who can afford to burn money on new cars are very much the exception.

I am sure some do but I don’t think it’s the norm. Just judging from the people around me, I see some small solar installations and a few larger ones, but by far most places don’t have any visible panels.

You say it like that’s a common thing in the US. Maybe it’s more common here than elsewhere but it’s not typical. Most people who buy cars don’t get new cars.

Parking lots are a bit of a puzzle. This is speculation, but I suspect the slow uptake has a lot to do with the contractual relationship between the landowner and the business operator. Sometimes businesses own their own land, but I think in the US this is more an exception than the rule. These can be decades-long lease agreements that stipulate how the land can be used and what can be installed, and I bet that the installation of power infrastructure would have to be hammered out in a renegotiation with each party trying to get an advantage over the other.

The upfront costs aren’t negligible, they’re the only reason I don’t have solar panels on my roof right now. It’s not just panels themselves, it’s installation and wiring and making sure it plays nice with grid power and making sure it won’t catch fire and all that. They aren’t huge costs and they’re certainly recoverable in the long run, but that doesn’t mean much if you can’t afford to get started.

The US could become a green powerhouse overnight if we just blitzed solar installations. Rural towns could become energy independent and fund their local government with solar power production, large cities could buy power from their local area and provide repair and materials recycling. In rural areas power bills could become a thing of the past. Households that use less than they produce could generate income from net metering. Farms could power their entire operation with panels above or adjacent to crops, selling excess power as well as produce.

Instead we have greedy old fucks fighting over the decaying corpse of the fossil fuel industry and trying their best to stop the world from turning. Fucking infuriating.

That sounds really nice. The peer network is definitely more of a long-term thing, but it would be really nice to have a strong municipal peer network in addition to long-range providers. I’m not saying ISPs need to go away entirely, but I would like the world to be in a place where they could disappear and the internet could still function.

Easy is the goal, but it turns out mobile OSes are hard to make, harder when the entire for-profit ecosystem is actively trying to undercut free solutions. Right now I’m working with old devices that, while they are running postmarketOS, are still pretty janky and have a lot of missing functionality. Still, a lot progress is being made, by an army of regular folks who pitch in when and where they can, and somehow the boulder of free software slowly but inexorably rolls uphill. It’s very cool to watch.

Not incoherent at all, that sounds really nice. One of my ambitions is to have my “main” cell phone just be a postmarketOS device that can receive calls and texts and select encrypted data from home base. Eventually I’d like to be able to just flash an image onto a cell phone and have it hooked into my VPN and basically just have it communicate solely with my home server, but that dream is still a ways away.

It would be really nice to have a community where everyone had household compute that was their “main” computer. They could be the hubs for communications that’s always on, and you could set it up to communicate with an otherwise anonymous public handheld, or just leave it until you get home and decide to get online. handhelds wouldn’t need to be repositories of sensitive data, they could just be thin clients that could be safely wiped and restored (without needing a corporate entity’s help or permission) in the event of damage or theft. Home networks could become overlapping network nodes, reducing or eliminating the need for regional or global internet provider services. We could really run the internet ourselves.

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It’s fun when my government decides which administration officials to shitcan via press leak vibe check.

Nah, it’s nothing that complicated, it’s just a bash script

while [ 0 -eq 0 ]
do
        wall | head -c 16 /dev/random
        sleep 1
done