Sounds good, I wish for your path to be easily tread, and surrounded with good comrades

Awesome! Any particular reasons you’re pursuing a workers’ coop model, rather than a multi-stakeholder coop model or users’ coop model?

In that case I suggest going with https://mayfirst.coop/ or https://riseup.net/ if what you want to do fits their profile (struggle for freedom, grassroots democracy, co-operatives, equality, environment, against imperialism, against capitalism, against fascism (f.ex. Trump), etc.).

If what you want to do doesn’t fit that profile at least somewhat, https://hcoop.net/ might be more your thing.

You could check out https://social.coop/about if you’re looking for microblogging.
If you’re in Denmark https://ukrudt.net/ and https://data.coop/ run a variety of communication services for members.
Likewise with https://konstellationen.org/ in Sweden.
If you need email there’s https://kollektiv.email/.
If you have more organisation-type needs there’s https://mayfirst.coop/ and https://commonscloud.coop/

Would be good to make a directory of cooperative digital services providers. Maybe there is one somewhere?

Their website doesn’t link to their git repo, but it exists: https://github.com/opencloud-eu

I’ve always wanted a Voron (https://www.vorondesign.com/). There are plenty of shops selling parts kits, and some selling prebuilts. We’ll see what we makerspace members agree on, if we’re even getting more FFF printers. We share house with a board game club, so there’s a lot of local interest for getting a resin printer. That’ll likely come first in any case

Aight, Prusa’s out. Won’t be choosing them for our community makerspace any longer

Maybe check out https://mirlo.space/ , https://subvert.fm/ and https://resonate.coop/ ? They’re all cooperatives of various sorts, treading a path towards actual economic and social sustainability in music.

Google is enshittifying Pixel and Android with noone poised to stop them, so it’s a bet where the odds of a getting a good long-term experience are stacked against you.

Would you consider a different manufacturer with less user-hostile behaviour, like Fairphone or Shift?

Fwiw your old op6 will make a mighty fine server

Cool, I haven’t tried either of those.

I’m the type of person who likes to upgrade my systems via the terminal because I like to know the detailed processes, but I’ve also burned myself numerous times; hence my preference for declarative and immutable/atomic solutions.

It’s (quite) a bit more of a hassle, but I’ve lost trust in GUIs.

k3s is fairly simple (as far as k8s distros go). Helm is good to start with but for the long run I recommend using kubernetes manifests directly (i.e. kubectl apply -f pvc.yaml, deployment.yaml, etc) rather than helm, because there are quite a few gotchas with helm which can cause trouble. Besides that, it’s good practice to use the --secrets-encryption flag on the server node(s), and if you’re deploying agent nodes it’s good to use bootstrap tokens (k3s token create)

Working on a split staging/prod hybrid-cloud k3s setup using nixos, tailscale, systemd-nspawn and fluxcd. If someone has advice for running k3s in unprivileged (mounts idmapped) nspawn containers, I’m all👂.

This will run

• (openwisp)[https://openwisp.org/] to make it feasible to provide lots of less tech-savvy people in the local community with secure, simple, privacy-respecting wifi using free software and recycled routers.
• Various libre software I’m helping community, unions and political orgs adopt. Notably Discourse and Peertube.

Denmark did a genocide against the Inuit peoples, according to the UN convention on prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide: https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.1_Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.pdf

Wuhuuu!

Jerboa crashed mid-comment so i’ll be brief.

Save yourself pain and increase your happiness by

• using btrfs or zfs (snapshots, checksum and self-healing is great)
• using declarative approach rather than imperative, and keep a copy of configs elsewhere (I accidentally nuked my system multiple times, you should expect to do the same)
• keeping backups. If zfs, https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid and syncoid are great https://discourse.practicalzfs.com/t/setting-up-syncoid-for-offsite-backup/1611
• have an extra tiny machine running the same system and workloads, where you test potentially risky stuff before doing so on the prod server
• metrics solutions like prometheus and grafana are your friend

This increase is too abrupt, I don’t trust its accuracy

DepYou could attempt the non-selfish kind and just donate it all to an independent health/rescue org like Red Cross/Red Crescent.

You could also go the kinda-selfish route like Alfred Nobel, known in his time as the merchant of death. Make an elaborate award&grant giving scheme for exceptional contributions to society in a variety of fields; boosting said contributions for many years. Would only recommend this route if you’ve got more than enough coin to spare, as the overhead of ensuring ethical operation is significant.

If you’ve got a house, you could transfer ownership to a trust/foundation/housing coop, to make it available for living at below market price.

I’d donate to various free software & open hardware projects important to societal improvement; like Mozilla, certain fediverse projects, PostmarketOS, Fairphone, etc. Also anarchist orgs.

Nooooo

Well, there’s REISUB https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

Uuuuh. There are only a couple lagrange points, unlike the massive amount of normal satellite paths available in LEO and HEO.

We absolutely should not allow any single actor (apart from the UN, maybe) to lay claim to the precious lagrange real estate

I’m not a native English speaker, so there may be some nuance I miss out on. But as far as I can tell, the implication of what you wrote was

• “Cuba is isolated because it wants to be”
• “Doctors are fleeing Cuba in large numbers”
• “Conditions are bad in Cuba”
• “The US gets alot of doctors from abroad”

I have good knowledge on point 1, limited knowledge on points 2&4, and somewhat decent info about point 2. I’m not disputing points 2,3&4.