Never thought to use an e-ink display as a monitor, great idea!

Also 100% worth using auto suspend :D

I picked up an old used SFF (Small Form Factor) office PC a couple years ago to use as my daily driver instead of my gaming PC. Based on a Kill-o-watt power usage meter, my gaming PC would idle at around 40w, while the office PC (with a fairly power efficient i7-7700 and integrated graphics) idles at 10w, so 3x more efficient. Now I only ever boot up the gaming PC when I actually need its performance. As a side bonus, the DDR3 RAM it uses is still very affordable on the used market. It browses the web and plays videos really well, and even plays most games I’m interested in nowadays :)

For anyone else interested in doing that, Dell, HP, and Lenovo are the big makers of those SFF PC’s, and they can generally be had pretty cheaply on eBay, but you can also sometimes find them locally at recycling facilities or the local dump drop-off area. You may want to avoid anything older than the 6000 series of Intel CPU’s, since the older ones don’t support modern video codecs (meaning they’ll use more power playing youtube videos, decoding them on the CPU itself instead of the build-in decoder), and they aren’t as power efficient overall.

I also found that reducing your monitor’s brightness to around 50 to 60% reduces power usage significantly, though that may not be viable if you are in a room that gets very bright.

I’m not entirely sure how big we could realistically make it. It’s possible we’ll get some outside help once the event begins from our neighboring artworks, but probably best to assume low-ish participation, and be a bit restrained in size.

Guessing just on gut feeling, I think we could probably manage up to 30x30 okay, and maybe 40x40 if we get a few people who really get into it. My own proposal is 28x26.

That’s not a bad idea, and it would be quite easy to draw in various sizes. In past events there was usually an area of the canvas where people drew various flags together, maybe we could add this near those, while also doing a specific SLRPNK themed piece as well. If we keep it small-ish, that should be doable :)

Here’s my quick proposal for a template (sized up 1000% so it’s more easily viewable here). It’s our website name in slightly stylized lettered using the colors from our green sun logo, combined with an orange-y sun behind it. It’s 28x26 pixels large, which should make it pretty manageable for us to achieve.

I drew it using the free and open-source Pixelorama tool (which is available on all platforms). If anyone wants to try editing or adding to it, here’s the original size:

Not sure, really. Anyone can propose a template image here within the next 3 days, then decide which we like best (hopefully something that doesn’t use too many pixels so we can ensure that we can maintain it).

I’ll try to take a crack at drawing up something for us to follow if no one else does.

I think you should be able to follow @canvas@fediverse.events for updates from mastodon (alternative direct link here) :)

Awesome! :)

I believe it starts Friday on the 17th, and will allow people to put down pixels for 48 hours before closing again.

It’s certainly possible to write a punk story in a steampunk setting, but from all the steampunk media I’ve encountered (and I was very much a fan of it years ago, and still enjoy it today), most of the time it’s chosen as an aesthetic choice or as a backdrop for alternate history.

I’d be interested to hear any recommendations you have of steampunk works that focus on the punk angle, though, if you had some in mind.

Cyberpunk generally has a high focus on the punk aspect. I.E, anti-authoritarian, personal freedom, anti-hierarchy.

Steampunk has punk at the end purely because it’s a riff on the word Cyberpunk, not because it retains any inherent anti-authoritarian punk-ness. It’s more so just a label shorthand for an aesthetic and rough technological level. Dieselpunk does the same thing, using punk not to signify actual punk ideals, but instead uses it as shorthand for ‘aesthetic’.

Solarpunk retains the punk aspect of Cyberpunk, but instead of dystopia, imagines a more utopic vision of punks succeeding against the corporations/governments/hierarchies, which is achieved through community building, a DIY ethos, prefiguration, and an appropriate use of technology.

This post was duplicated twice (that’s what the other user’s were informing you of in the other duplicates). I removed the two other duplicates and kept this one as it had the most upvotes.

I suspect they’d need to do some power lifting to avoid accelerated osteoporosis in the lower gravity, as the bones do indeed require to be put under strain and shock to stay healthy.

At this point, if Israel was a nation in a civ game, their perks would be no civilian unhappiness penalty for annexing foreign cities, and negative opinion from other leaders for warmongering reduced by 90%.

54% of U.S. adults read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.

Here’s a great example of how that compares to other adjacent grades.

The purpose of giving Catalonia as an example is to show that an alternative to capitalism that doesn’t descend into authoritarianism is possible, as many are not aware that it even happened, and that Anarchist theory, when put into practice, really did work and wasn’t just hopeful pie in the sky ideas.

It shows that putting in the work to lay those foundations, even if it is a marathon spanning decades, is worth the effort.

They will never stop. A better life has to be built by the working class in-spite of the rich, and that can and has been done, but it takes a lot of work from all of us pushing things forward with worker coops, joining militant unions, and building community in your local area.

A deleted post will still remain visible to the person who posted it (it’ll have a little red trashcan icon next to the title to show it’s deleted), but it should no longer be visible to anyone else. And as Cris_Citrus mentioned, a deleted post can sometimes take a while to federate out to other instances so that it’s deleted on their end too.

I also don’t think it’s a bad question, and it appears to be generating an interesting and useful discussion, so thanks for posting it :)

As someone who only used Onlyoffice briefly, to me they both seemed to do the same tasks about as well as each other. I didn’t notice Libreoffice’s age except in the settings menu. For actually just doing normal stuff, like word processing, it felt comparable, besides some minor stylistic UI polish in Onlyoffice.

Are there any specific pain points in Libreoffice that you can recall that Onlyoffice does significantly better in?

I imagine Onlyoffice’s settings menu is better (I’m not a fan of Libreoffice’s settings), but for average use, what areas does Onlyoffice do better UX-wise? I believe Onlyoffice is better at handling microsoft office documents, but hopefully that will become less relevant with this movement to get away from US products.

They look and feel fairly comparable, IMO.

Onlyoffice

Libreoffice