I am convinced one of the most radically positive things you can do as a middle class/wealthy person is provide a little seed capital to start a worker-owned cooperative. Groceries, community pharmacy, medical office, gym, local newspaper, co-housing, whathaveyou - a lot of the folks who could benefit most from a co-op don't have the $ to start one even if they can contribute sweat equity.
Start something that frees us all from the rapacious corps & plutocrats.
I'd like to tell a quick story about successful troubleshooting.
A few months ago I rented a scissor lift to install lighting at my new office. When it arrived, the delivery person gave me a quick demo and off he went.
Well, when I went to actually use it - the lift went up by about a foot then stopped and screamed beeps of terror. It was broken!
But the display on the control read "18"
Rather than call the rental company, I searched "sinoboom fault code 18" to see what that meant.
@TechConnectify This!!! I work in IT, and while I appreciate not everyone is knowledgeable about IT, so many seem to lack even the beginning of any troubleshooting skills at all - not just when it comes to computer related things. Might be the reason people so often tell us there is "an error", without specifying any of the information that is right there - they don't seem to get no one has an innate knowledge of every problem and how to fix, but that there is a "process" for it.
@the_other_jon it's been a while since I used it (I don't really do road trips often) but it was fantastic every time I used it.
I just planned the trip using the web UI and then navigated from each suggested charger to the next one, and it nailed the SOCs within a few percent every time
> If you use clean energy sources for that added demand, you've used up some of the clean energy supply that could have gone somewhere else. Until we actually have more clean energy than we need, throwing lots of it at training and using "generative AI" models is just going to make the climate crisis worse.
For a long time I couldn’t imagine a world where Twitter wasn’t a daily hangout for me, and now my account is deleted. I couldn’t imagine a web without Google and now I don’t use it because they ruined it. I never used Facebook much, but it was a powerhouse for years and now it's a shit-filled shambling zombie.
These digital behemoths, they’re temporary. And their time is almost up.
While looking into the small web, I came across the Tildeverse, which is a collection of sites that provide homepages and other services for each of its members, with a focus on being a tight knit community. Like look at this one site, and in particular it's "what's everyone up to" section: https://ctrl-c.club/
I think that's really cool, and it's the kind of communities I think the Internet needs more of.
@petrescatraian I don't have any plans to visit the Balkans at this time, but if I do, I need to have a reason to visit.
Nobody wants to watch a video where I complain about all the things wrong with a place they've never been to. I would prefer to focus on something that is done well, and then mention some of the things they could do better.
I'm planning to build the first (dozen? I don't know) profiles in the waitlist personally, with an email questionnaire and FaceTime follow-ups if necessary.
Once I'm confident in the UX, we'll open up self-serve signups for everyone.
@erlend yeah, sorry all.. it seems like something is keeping the domain name from working on some networks. I’ll see if I can get it squared away this morning.
We at The Counteroffensive have been super loyal to Mastodon over the past year, becoming one of the most frequent posters on #Ukraine news and original reporting.
Now we need your help -- This is the graph that keeps me up at night.
It represents The Counteroffensive’s projected revenue for the year. I’ve taken out the numbers, but the shape tells you the story -- we've taken a hit.