Says the person who felt a childish need to write such a comment 🤷

Maybe just a hint to get you thinking out of the box, but cat doors really don’t need to be at ground level. They will happily climb somewhere to get in and out.

Nice picture, but without context it doesn’t tell us much.

The shellac and beeswax sounds indeed interesting for various puposes. I knew a similar technique for water-proofing fabic with dissolved silicone, but it is hard to use that to fix leaks in place after installation and is also obviously not very environmentally friendly.

Probably better to run a cable to have a router on both sides of the house. Wifi extenders are notoriously unreliable.

You are arguing a strawman. Both the article and me are talking about people voluntarily chosing to not have children. I don’t see anything wrong with that, and neither with promoting the idea that this is totally ok.

And no, it isn’t just the top few thousand. Even if those were gone tomorrow we would still have very similar issues realistically speaking. But sure, limiting the excesses of the top few thousands would also help and is a politically reachable goal. Solving the over-consumption of the top 2-3 billion needs an strong change in mindset, and politics alone will not be able to do that. But at least many of these 2-3 billion are already getting few children voluntarily.

The problem is not that we do not have the resources, but rather the way humans chose to use them. Multiply that by 8 billion and we get a problem, although realistically the bigger problem are the top 2-3 billion or so that control so many resources.

In a world with a significantly lower population, the planet could absorb the issues we cause much better.

I don’t see how this fact has anything to do with eugenics 🤷

It’s fine, no offense taken.

But what I mean is that resiliance often doesn’t mean better uptime, but having alternatives at hand and knowing what to do in case of an outage.

But thinking “this could be down for a week with no warning” also implies that I need to keep a fallback mechanism if I am using it to organize any sort of event with people.

That is probably a good idea regardless of the external service you use. The best is IMHO if you have a group of people for an event to host something yourself, but of course you are welcome to use slrpnk.net as long as you can accept the above mentioned risk.

That said, overall our uptime is quite good, so it is nothing I think you need to worry about all that much.

Even before that 😅

But it’s fine, they can have their online safe-space for circle jerking about Stalin and Mao if they want 🤷

Hmm, I find that argument not very convincing. Except for some online nutcases no one on the left seriously argues for voluntary human extinction 🙄

It is rather the lack of long term planning that brought us to the current situation that the planet has way more humans than it can easily sustain.

Trying to organize a soft landing by slowly reducing the population, especially in areas that have a high resource use foot print, seems rather like long term planning to me. And it also makes it easier to welcome others from regions that will likely become uninhabitable due to climate change in the medium term future.

In addition, I find it rather hilarious that someone seriously thinks humans procreate because of long term thinking 😅

But then Lemmygrad would have to shut down every day after working hours as in the socialist worker’s paradise these things are taken very serious and no bureocrat will work even an minute longer than the official working hours. /s

Joking aside, yes… hosting on older hardware and on a regular fiber connection does mean that if hardware breaks it can take a while to replace.

We have a bit of redundancy with PSUs and so on, and this specific issue we had now could have been avoided (and will be in the future), but we do trade off some reliability for the fun of DIY self-hosting (and it is also much cheaper).

You could probably build one that functions as a bike rack for a fully functional bicycle, similar to those work-out ones that reuse your real bike.

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/03/how-to-build-a-practical-household-bike-generator/

Well, it’s not a bad start. Maybe turn some part of you yard into a tree nursery and plant them somewhere?

Or if you know how to fix older cars try to help others with that and see how such community efforts evolve?

Please make a report next time instead of replying with a comment as that just boosts the spam further in the “active” ranking of Lemmy.

Good enough for cooking, yes.

I once passed by an avocado tree so full of fruit that its branches nearly broke. So I found the owner who allowed me to harvest as much as I wanted, which meant I had a lot of guacamole for quite some time 😊

It might be too cold for methanogens to be very active, but I suspect over time they will turn lose biomass into methane under these anaerobic conditions. Other bacteria further up in the water column will probably gobble it up and only CO2 will reach the surface, but the end result will be not more than a delay of the CO2 release by a few decades (as an optimistic assumption).

Generally I find following the #solarpunk hashtag on the (microblogging) Fediverse already to yield some good results to find interesting stuff. #permacomuting is also an interesting hashtag usually.