Norah (pup/it/she)

I don’t know, I personally saw it as dodgy marketing honestly.

It seems those ratings are the internal battery size at 3.7v, and then the 6,500mAh is the actual capacity at 5V.

So far I’ve been testing out low-power, handheld LoRa radios running the Meshtastic open source firmware on them. The data-rate isn’t great, at 37.5kbps, so slightly slower than traditional dial-up. It’s line of sight, but it can travel 250km with a handheld device. The handheld ones can be linked with bluetooth to a phone, or USB to a computer, to send messages to other devices. The really cool part is in the name thiugh, you can achieve greater distances by meshing with other nodes. There are also devices and designs made to be used as stationary repeaters, and they sip power. You can run one off a 5-10w solar panel, with an 18650 to keep it going when the sun isn’t shining. The community also kind of already has a bit of a solarpunk element to it in my opinion :) Oh, and they’re cheap! That repeater project is about US$50 but a handheld one is only ~US$20.

Multi-level marketing?

I could see them just having this as an option in a native client application. It could even let you pick and choose which instances, creators or videos you seed, perhaps even a “Seed This Video” button on the next video endscreen.

I think that less people would agree if it was a sort of “black box” of seeding, but I reckon a lot more people than you would think would go for it if they get to choose.

(Good) Pirates are already used to paying for their content with bandwidth and power usage ;)

I think that a level of “forc(ing) the hand” is necessary at times to keep a community aligned with it’s original vision. It can mean that people choose to unsubscribe, but they can make the choice to create a new community elsewhere if they want as well. Hell, maybe even a more “meme” oriented community here on slrpnk.net

Obviously that would also have to be a discussion to be had with the other moderators to come up with a unanimous vision.

That’s a pretty messed up thing to say to someone you disagree with. Let alone stigmatising mental health issues.

I mean you’re the moderator, not me. If these sorts of posts aren’t want you want here, then make a rule against them. I do enjoy the other posts here quite a bit, and wouldn’t want to see the space overrun by these sorts of “meme” posts.

I can believe that your opinion is valid, while still also believing that your comment here in this thread is not. Considering my instance has downvotes disabled, I decided to comment and reply as much. I am sorry for assuming you were American though. I’m skittish as I’ve seen way too many communities, unrelated to US politics, devolve into toxic debates about voting vs not voting in this year’s upcoming election over there.

I strongly disagree that the act of voting, in and of itself, counts as “contribut(ing) to your community”. Maybe that’s where our opinions differ.

The point of the post, from my reading, is that there are other things you can do that are quite punk outside of a political context. I’m not angry, I’m just mildly disappointed that you seemed to miss the point entirely.

I would also daresay that there are far more potent political actions you can take as a punk. Not to discourage voting, I’ve voted in every single election I’ve been eligible before. But personally I think it’s far more punk to attend protests and rallies to show politicians an overwhelming distaste for their cowardice.

So IMO voting is only punk when it’s done in conjunction with other actions.

Do I seem not calm to you? Or are you just using that as a way to put me down because you don’t like being called out for your behaviour.

I pretty strongly believe your comment added nothing to the conversation. I am just starting to become so tired of these low effort comments poisoning the english-speaking internet just because it’s a US election year.

I’m sorry, but did we read the same post? I couldn’t find where it mentioned that you shouldn’t vote. So I dunno, maybe run along to someplace else where people actually care for these sorts of low effort comments?