Tech here, married to a dev, friends with several devs.

LLM are shit coders. They are absolute ecological rapists and garbage vaporware for 90% of the uses people try to wedge them into.

The capital investment for software is not extremely high. It’s standard wages and learned skill. IG was bought, cherry picked and twisted to suit meta’s data thieving desires. There are literally millions of people producing and sharing code and software for free just for shits and giggles. GNU has been a very real thing for generations now.

Also: gatekept tech knowledge is not required for the harmony of which you speak. People aren’t being excluded from a solarpunk utopia because they can’t write an app. All that is required is a willingness to put in the work to do things in a way less damaging - and using the slop commonly misnamed AI is the antithesis of that

Remember: fuckers only have power you give them. Scramble your emergency fallbacks, yes. Put out the fires first. But don’t stay reactive and defensive. Move along your path regardless, leave them as the wreckage they are on the side of the road to progress. Eventually we will reach a point where they are ineffectual noisemakers

Look for a supermarket with one of those juicing machines - you can just keep reusing the same bottle each time, the scan code doesn’t change

Have a good squizz here - australian site, but the solar 101 is universal

The dude has a massive hardon for solar and dedicated to education

Hope you’re not wearing those bras, they go bad and it’s terrible support.

Depending on the size, wonderful to repurpose as rat hammocks, light-hearted siege engines or yarmulkes though

Fucken hell. Does that include things bought second hand? Literally the only new things i buy these days are underwear / bras and socks.

No. Those fruits are all way too uniform, the crowns are wrong and the plant they’re jammed onto is a bunch of twiglets

I’m older than the internet, i have books and backups and know how to build fhe ol’ pringle can yagi

Then answer to that one is obvious - to create free facilities and let communities form themselves. Right now youth centres have disappeared, teens are hurried out of any gathering space, play areas are regimented out of any joy or priced to prohibition and you end up with young people being left with the activity options of isolation, or group activities that are antisocial or involve substance abuse

It’s not even the fact it’s cheap and easy, it’s just a bunch of idiots overinvested and now they’re desperately trying to make it A Thing so they can recoup losses.

Mcdonalds tried to shoehorn it into drive thru orders. The place that popularised a set menu you select a a controlled list of items from. Wtaf.

Not helping

In a system geared to reward sociopathy the most radical act is kindness

Bottom up? A perfect place to park my bike!

https://www.tumblr.com/fictionhead/691515632519397376

I’ve literally seen tumblr rip apart that ad but go off i guess

Rainmaker do the same thing, but they’re a knockoff

Irrigatia are the Eu/ US brand, try searching on that.

It’s literally the same two brothers working together, one just lives in Australia and had to rebrand due to existing trademark kerfuffles

A lot of it is built around the waterwand / irrigatia system - fantastic units, cannot recommend enough.

Still setting up the new house - so far got the entirely solar powered lighting for my workbench in my office going, and parts of the solar watering system as well as the solar powered garage vent

Gonna repurpose the maze mini tanks from the old place to increase our total storage - setting up an interlinked system with floats so that the 2kl gutter fed tank will automatically keep the smaller ones topped up (which then feed the irrigatia and wicking beds).

Also planning out the solar powered lighting for the basement…busy busy busy…