The Last Stand: The War Between Wall Street and Main Street over California’s Ancient Redwoods

yeah thats the one. I’ve got a copy laying around here some where.

Just talk normally.

Don’t forget the supply chain and logistical support required to keep people able to…lets call it “Living their best lives”…

Lets just say that when people are going to be “Living their best lives” in the woods, often for weeks and months at a time, they don’t have time to work for money, they don’t have ready access to grocery stores or free stores. They need resources in terms of food, camping supplies, medical supply, boots, rain gear, and recreation and mental health. They also need rotation in that you really don’t want people “Living their best lives” indefinitely, you’re friends need time away from the work. No matter what they claim, they need time NOT “Living their best lives” to be most effective at “Living their best lives”.

This means you need a multiple crews of 3-4 individuals that can rotate through 1-3 week intervals of “Living their best lives”. Don’t try and sustain campaigns “just for the sake of it”. Most of the work of “Living their best lives” isn’t actually out there in the woods “Living their best lives”, its the support network required to those small groups sustained.

There is a great book about “Living their best lives” called The Last Stand, which goes into some loose detail about the timber wars of the 1980’s. It doesn’t cover the gory bits, but if you got a chance to visit the Emerald Triangle in the late 90’s, some of this work was still ongoing (even though it never made it to the news), and many of the surviving old timers were still around to be learned from.

Lenovo and Dell laptops are the best for Linux for some time already. Thinkpads get the spotlight but the Latitudes are no hassle too.

A costco HP I grabbed in a pinch has been rocking linux without any issues from day one.

Seems like they are sacrificing revenue to guarantee they’ll be able to execute in the delivery. It’s not the highest bar, but it is a bar.

I mean it’s basically Lemmy with a different wrapper.

Sigh…

Why are companies being allowed to engineer economies is the part of the narrative we need to be questioning.

I would honestly say proxmox is the right answer.

It’s been top teir the past 2 weeks

Kden is just. Amazing. Still some unintuitive wonkiness, (looking at you transform). It’s like, between this and qgis, I can’t figure out which is a more perfect piece of software.

I’m generally looking for more industrial uses, or ones that can generate some revenue while not being crazy overhead. Farm related uses would best, and I have done a deep dive into fertilizer production which could be viable. And where I live, crushed aggregate is often used as a base for new greenhouse or shade house installs.

Basically, I already have a potential agrovoltaics solution that I can do with the shade, which infact requires significant shade, but where it’s cheap enough to build this kind of system, there ain’t a huge amount of grid infrastructure, so it would be better to use the power in place. I was thinking rock crushers/ aggregate production because it’s something that depending on if the project is grid connected or not and depending on what the power company is willing to pay, could create aggregate or sell the power directly.

I really don’t want to support crypto but unfortunately, as a plug and pay solution, it’s a pretty easy and direct one.

Other ideas we’ve tossed around are refrigeration and food preservation, but the problem with those is that they need the power when they need the power, and so it’s not exactly a way to sink excess supply.

It’s tough because the overhead demands of any additional power sink almost always require 24 hours operation. Basically, the cost of a system to do “something” with your extra power is almost always such that you should probably just be running it 24/7.

Still open to more ideas but it will need to be able to pay for itself for me to get people on board.

Yeah I’ve seen the plasma arc thing. I’m vaguely associated with some in the agrovoltaics research community and have considered reaching out. It’s not available to retail consumers yet

Yeah but I can’t turn electricity into clover

There is no meaningful way I can do something with hydrogen outside of as a feedstock into another process.

Things I’ve considered that would help me, running a gravel crusher, or if there was some scaled down hauber Bausch machine. I use a significant amount of gravel and I am always in need of fertilizer.

I truly want to find someone I can do at the home scale with electricity, which isn’t buttcoin, to take advantage of overproduction.

Living their best life

Idk @fu@hostux.social that seemed to work

Stop calling it sideloading.

Its called “installing software”, on a computer, that you own.