I also haven’t used it in a few years. Chat systems in general don’t cooperate with the way my brain works.

It’s kinda like lemmy here, but a little more pain because not only do you have to pick your provider, but you also need to be very mindful of how your key pair is managed. Like… don’t just uninstall a client without going through the effort of trusting and verifying a new one first, or you may lose the ability to decrypt a lot of history and also break trust with relationships you have.

Security first is a major concern in the system, so it doesn’t leave a lot to the imagination unfortunately.

That said, once you convince yourself to set it up, and convince anyone else to do the same, it works pretty nicely. It’s like an inner venn diagram of discord, telegram and IRC.

Matrix works pretty good.

That’s a really long prompt just to have it roll a d2

You wield the power. Wield it well.

I can’t speak to your experience but I’ve been farting around on the Internet since the mid 90s and I promise nothing ever changes.

Smaller communities tend to be more concise, that is true.

But what you have here is the hand you’re dealt. Complaining isn’t going to change anything any more thank joking. You can be the change you seek here by suggesting a course of action that isn’t asking others to suggest a course of action to you. If you’re seeking a course of action, you can try asking here.

But commenters on tech news aren’t likely to be expert activists, especially in whatever issue is your top concern.

My best advice to you is

• practice acceptance of reality, not as defeat but as the first step to understanding and deciding an action

• determine how much capacity you, as a person, have to contribute to a cause

• determine one cause you care about and can be effective at contributing to

After doing those things, SEEK OUT like minded groups who have leadership and self discipline and are effective.

Let me reframe my previous comment:

If you don’t want to network in person locally, you will need to find a forum whose sole purpose is activism and direct action.

It will not be brought to you, and you will not be recruited. You have to actively go seek it out.

The forum you’re on now is called “technology”. Similar ones, like “news” or literally any other topic that doesn’t solely focus on mobilizing activists will not get you what you’re asking for here.

I appreciate your position. I don’t think you’re going to start a cultural revolution on any comment section. If you’re looking for a place to make real change, you need to network with local communities.

The the best you’ll get for “town square” value from internet forums is the expression of sentiment. People are angry, like you are, and they are using humor to literally reframe the narrative to point out the state’s fallacy.

Thank you for stopping the massive expansion of surveillance in Texas.

Yeah my original comment here was a lot more breathy than it should have been. I’m not critical of the article it’s definitely uplifting and accurate. But I think new battery tech on the grid would see usefulness even if renewables weren’t inconsistent, but that’s a whole different topic I suppose.

I guess my point is that I don’t think batteries necessarily compete with natural gas, but they do help make renewables slightly more competitive with natural gas.

Batteries and gas aren’t really comparable so I’m guessing this means batteries are expanded at a rate 10x higher than natural gas is being expanded, which makes sense because natural gas is such a mature staple that it doesn’t have that much opportunity growth.

Batteries are also not an energy source, but storage.

(Yeah I guess that’s technically true of all energy sources, but batteries are more like a tank than a consumable…)

Of course adding batteries to store energy from off peak renewables to ready them for the peak is the point of this, but I would point out I don’t think anything prevents charging batteries from fossil-fuel generated electricity. I wouldn’t be surprised if an economic equilibrium dictates this to be the case, even.

I think batteries will be highly valued equipment as a smoothing function to help reduce heavy load wear on any kind of generating equipment to help with peak loads, regardless of what’s charging them… possibly allowing fossil burning plants to run closer to a base load level at all times.

Different tool, different purpose.

You could make a client or browser add-on or something that just uses a separate account for all your voting.

I use a 2tb (iirc) in my steam deck. Perfect application for that… Low rewrites, but totally expendable/replaceable data.

Damn if that wasn’t a resurrection of the most forgotten memory.

I see someone has never worked in telecom

Hulu used to work this way with ad blockers back in the day

We have a variety of tactics and always adding more

I work for a different sort of company that hosts some publicly available user generated content. And honestly the crawlers can be a serious engineering cost for us, and supporting them is simply not part of our product offering.

I can see how reddit users might have different expectations. But I just wanted to offer a perspective. (I’m not saying it’s the right or best path.)