while economies of scale naturally apply to farming.

While that is generally true, David R. Montegomery’s book, Dirt, referenced some interesting studies which indicate that dense urban farming can potentially out-produce industrial agriculture by 10 to 100 times depending on size (the smaller the farm, the more potential for increased productive capacity). The only downside is that urban farming generally has more carbon emissions than industrial scale farming, but the pro’s it tends to give (healthier and more nutritive diets in food-deserts, community building effects, less reliant on outside sources of food for urban areas) are pretty worthwhile.

Relevant passage of the book referenced from an Edenicity video:

That video also referenced a really interesting experiment by someone trying to sustain themselves off a small garden with limited time and effort put into it: https://www.unsustainablemagazine.com/home-gardens-vs-farms-efficiency/

If his numbers are accurate, he was able to produce enough calories to sustain him for a year in a 35 by 40ft garden plot.

I’ve personally used 4 encrypted communication apps, here are my thoughts:

Signal: huge downside that it required a phone number (not sure if it still does), and the centralized nature of it makes me very wary of it. It worked reliably when I did use it, but I no longer use it.

Matrix with Element: As others mentioned, it leaks meta data. It wasn’t very reliable in my experience with encrypted group chats. Messages would constantly not be readable by other users in the chat, requiring frequent re-sending to finally get through. Overall I found it very frustrating to use.

XMPP: Experience can somewhat vary depending on the app used. With the Movim desktop front-end, I can sometimes have issues with encrypted messages not getting unencrypted (possibly just user error on my part), but with mobile apps like Conversations or Monocles, its been pretty much 100% reliable. Doesn’t drain my battery either. Would recommend.

Deltachat: I’ve used this the least, but I really like it. Super easy to connect to friends and join a group chat, its all encrypted by default so no real chance of encountering an unencrypted message, very nice UI, is available on all platforms as one app, and has been 100% reliable with low battery drain. Highly recommend if you don’t need to make voice calls (it can do texts, images, and supports voice/video files you can send and play within the app).

Hm, I wouldn’t have known rocket is faster, since lightning is instantaneous in real life.

Perhaps a speedometer at different speeds and color chunks (low adds first 3rd is filled green, medium adds yellow to the next 3rd, fast adds red to last chunk) would be more intuitive? Though that could also be interpreted as server capacity if the word speed isn’t next to the icon. Maybe a little icon legend somewhere nearby could help, or a question mark sign next to the speed icon that explains what it is?

Piefed is a different reddit-like software that federates with Lemmy. It’s a different take on the same thing that Lemmy is providing, but still compatible with everything, so a piefed user can see and respond to your comment even if you’re on Lemmy.

Piefed also has some neat features unique to it, such as:

• a very nice gallery view for image heavy communities.
• the ability to combine comments from multiple communities under one post, if the same link was posted to all of them. You can see an example of that here (notice how the comments have dividers for each community).
• the ability to create and subscribe to a pre-made list of communities, sorta like a multi-reddit.

That’s not a terribly good user experience if a user doesn’t want to interact with or see any comments from users of a particular instance, as then it would require the user to manually block hundreds of users over a long span of time.

You’re now the moderator of c/water! Thanks for the help ^^

User level community and instance blocks will stop you from seeing posts from those places, but it does not block their users or their comments, so you’d still be able to see them around in non-blocked communities.

The Dbzer0 folk also run a piefed instance, Anarchist.nexus, if you’d prefer to be using piefed with everything else the same.

Piefed has some neat features unique to it, such as:

• a very nice gallery view for image heavy communities.
• the ability to combine comments from multiple communities under one post, if the same link was posted to all of them. You can see an example of that here (notice how the comments have dividers for each community).
• the ability to create and subscribe to a pre-made list of communities, sorta like a multi-reddit.

Hell yeah! 🍻

(Also, I just noticed that In-person is missing a community icon, could make for a good little project to collab with Jack to find or create one ^^)

You’re now the mod of Public Transport, and co-mod of In-Person Activism (as @tae_glas@slrpnk.net also volunteered to mod it). Thank you very much for helping out! :)

I’ve added you and @JustJack23@slrpnk.net (who also volunteered) as the new moderators of In-Person. Thank you for your help! :D

It doesn’t really pass OP’s criteria if you need to install Nvidia drivers, though. It does not have a 1-click graphical installer like Mint and Ubuntu do.

He hasn’t done any videos on computers, AFAIK. His channel covers a wide range of topics, from washing machines, car blinkers, heaters, refrigerators, to christmas lights. You can see his backlog here.

Trying to make the case that a closed-source proprietary corporate product (EDIT: They were referring to Gmail, for those curious) where we can’t confirm if the switches do anything is somehow similar to a FLOSS program that can be audited or even modified, doesn’t particularly hold up, mate.

The comment by RedWizard originated from this Hexbear thread, which is full of users pretty blatantly smearing piefed.

Since all of the piefed features referenced by RedWizard can be disabled in the admin menu (AFAIK), they’re painting Rimu’s preferences for his piefed.social instance as though it’s an authoritarian decree that will be forced upon all (which is a bit ironic, coming from that group).

I’d recommend reading The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin if you’re interested in an in-depth depiction of how an egalitarian stateless society could function without money.

No worries, thanks for letting me know :)

they could have considered cosmic wm. it is mroe heavy than xfce needs, but they would have probably had an easier time.

Xfce’s lightness is sort’ve a major reason for it to exist, without that it would kinda just become a duplication of effort of the Cinnamon DE, IMHO.

Wayfire is mainly C++, and Labwc is written in C, neither of which seemed to be a desirable language for the dev willing to take on this task. It seems like they really wanted to work with Rust, which left Smithay. It may be more work, but perhaps the dev was willing to take on the extra work if overall it was more enjoyable for them to use make the project in their preferred language.