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#offgrid

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frank :anarchy_bi: (he / they)

@shrugdealer $frnk / liberapay.com/exposur.es !

i'm building #offgrid, #resilient digital #community gardens / #commons like wikis, messageboards, etc to maintain access to knowledge and #communication during #climate #disasters or #repression!

AND

i'm working on a big migration for exposur.es, a safe haven for #queer, #trans, #disabled #artists, #SWers, #SexEducators, and others who have been the vicitm of #censorship on platforms like #Meta's #Instagram and #Bluesky from #Pixelfed to #Bonfire!

any and all support keeps these efforts going & growing!

@mutualaid

Liberapayexposur.es's profile - Liberapayexposur.es is a safe haven for artists to share their artwork unimpeded by censorship and liberated from exploitative corporations.
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Maciek B.

Anyone tried building PVT panel out of PV panel cheaply? #diy Off the shelfs are much more expensive and PVT seems like a win-win-win*, you cool the panel for better efficiency while heating the water. #solar #offgrid #SolarPV

I am also wondering if heating the panels in the winter just enough to let snow fall off would be an option.

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in_sympathy

Happy Easter to those who celebrate 🪺

Ok, I’m about to get my first #meshtastic device. Choosing one from #muziworks: either an R1 with external antenna or H2T (also with an external antenna and GPS).

Will be using it for fun and if need be - for communication in case of blackouts. Also will definitely take it on hikes.

Which one should I get?

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#muziworks_r1#muziworks_h2t#offgrid
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Stevan

There's a job I have been successfully postponing for some months done. I decided to install a pair of 400w panels on the #offgrid battery shed, thinking we'd catch some light reflecting off clouds. In fact, it was a daft idea, and the panels never put out anywhere near their rated power.
So I exchanged the old pair of 190w panels for the 2x 400s, bodging securing it as my plan A worked out in the small hours of the night didn't work. Already we saw near-rated output today.
2/...

A pair of very dark solar panels next to 4 panels that are much more blue. It doesn't look much but this pic represents much huffing, puffing and headscratching, partly to get them there and partly to invent suitable tie-downs.
The pair of 400w panels. They are very dark so have lightened the background.
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Kote Isaev

If hollywood will really return to "traditional values" as Le Figaro writes, and expects there will be more movies about rural life, and religious themes involves, should we expect:
💀 cheap horror movies a-la 1980s?
💀 boring films-to-snore-during?
💀 rural mystique about (folk?) witchcraft?
💀 "wild ghosts or evil witches vs brutal pastor" trope in rural setting
Will side effect of this be more people dreaming about #anarchism via #anarchoPrimitivism #offGrid #offGreed communities?

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⚡🔌ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy♾️

Some numbers. $2,500 is left on our fundraiser. We're halfway. I'd freaking love to hit that.

But if we can't, bare-bones I need $300 for a generator rental (we are off-grid and fully self-powered. More funds and I'll do bigger solar this gear), $100 for educational decor, and I pulled $700 from my (meager) savings for poorer campers already.

$1,100 would do a LOT.

gofundme.com/f/there-u-glow-ra

Two people dressed in femme outfits leaning in opposite directions each helping two younger kids with a soldering project on folding tables outdoors in a pop-up tent. Behind them hang colorful posters talking about electronics.
A woman in an aesthetic outfit is standing in front of a large group of colorfully dressed people showing off something on an iPad. Behind her are various glowing LED projects.
A glowing blue tent with a rainbow sign at the top that says "There U Glow" at the top has green overlayed text. The text reads "An all femme and queer founded, designed and run electronics camp in Portland, Oregon We are aggressively grassroots and rudely dedicated to femme folks who are freshly interested and/or fiercely expert in technical skill. We kick ass and open our source in equal measure. Keep track, we won’t stop." At the bottom is "www.thereuglow.club"
#womeninstem#TechNews#TechTrends
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marie verdeil

BRUSSELS — BOOK LAUNCH — 29.4

→ How to make books more sustainable? During this evening, Low-tech Magazine will present our "Compressed Book Edition", this time in Brussels, at Architecture Curating Practice's gallery.

→ Inspired by the image compression on its solar-powered website, Low-tech Magazine squeezed the article catalog of their three-volume chronological book series into just one book. Compressing the content — an editorial and design choice — produces a larger reduction in resource use than printing on recycled paper could ever do.

🕰 18:30 Doors open
19:00 Book presentation and introduction of Low-tech Magazine
19:45 Q&A
20:00 Book sale / snacks & drinks / discussion

📌 Architecture curating practice,
et al. architect-run space
37 Rue des Tanneurs / Huidevettersstraat 137
1000 Brussels

(talk will be held in english)
Poster by our current intern Hugo Lopez

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#lowtechmagazine #lowtech #solarpoweredwebsite #solar #obsoletetechnology #bikegenerator #opensource #selfhosted #krisdedecker #degrowth #offgrid

a Poster features the 3 volume chronoloigcal series of low-tech magazine squeezed by wooden clamp, illustrating the principle of compression we applied with the book.
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Mx. Luna Corbden

I'm actually finding a lot of 3D printed solutions to things. I also got 3D printed shelves for my old RV fridge on eBay, since the originals are hard to find.

I'm getting a 3D printed siphon attachment for a hose as well. Moving water from one place to another can be a bigger problem than you'd think.

#RVLife#OffGrid
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