I imagine there is an #SFBA#Oakland#MutualAid program for electronics redistribution and/or repair? A librarian friends personal laptop is a netbook that’s experiencing some intermittent hardware issues around the WiFi, and I no longer am confident / enthused in my own diagnostics and repair skills; and spoons are sparse.
It is nearly impossible to play solo. I failed my first mission on the "Easiest" difficulty because I couldn't figure out how to deal with the bugs that swarm the extraction point.
I "won" my second mission by running in circles avoiding the bugs, since I couldn't kill them fast enough or find and close the holes.
This reminds me why I don't play shooters. Oh well.
I also played a bit of #Destiny as an adult; which kind of broke ground on the whole "Main Story + Post-Story Events + Seasons with story + cosmetics + equipment" as a revenue / play model.
And while nostalgic, I don't play games to be "Challenged" (life is hard enoug!)
As a Child of the 90/00s Internet; the current model for building and maintaining digital relationships is... Well...
Shite.
As a teenager, I was a member of a community of thousands of nerds who loved pushing computing hardware to its limits across several websites.
Two had private sections where hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of computing equipment was swapped, bought, and sold; with little fraud and "drama".
How can we design the #Fediverse make healthy relating the norm?
@Zee@toolbear so a few thoughts on this. One thing I've come to understand is that we greatly underestimated how much our previous communities were based on being niche. It was full of mostly nerds with the same obsession. It was homogeneous across several axes. That's just not true anymore. Even niche communities can be found by a much wider range of people. And there is less cohesion in terms of why people are showing up.
@toolbear and I definitely pulled to hard because I want everyone to show up and co conspire. sorrt about that, I hope it didn’t make your energy / attention stuff harder
I've been watching mostly @danilo talk about their experience with the Vision Pro, and I think both Anil's and Danilo's analysis align, in particular around:
The Vision Pro is about making digital experiences "life sized"
It's not really a good example today of what it will be
It has a future, which could be either reasonably bright or paradigm-shifting brilliant.
I've seen many interesting posts sharing your insights and passions on mutualism and cooperative models. These being realized in the Convene OS system. Looking at the various concepts in the repo, there exists an intricate domain model that is being implemented in the codebase.
Maybe this exists, but it occurs to me that the domain design could be a separate artifact independent of impl.
So that others can build adjacent ecosystem tools in their own language.
@smallcircles that is something we’re planning to support once we get to a spot where any small group could fork Convene, deploy it to their preferred infrastructure, and earn a living wage by serving a few thousand members of their community.
In the meantime, our efforts to scale horizontally are focused on developing folks capacity to contribute to the reference implementation.
Transitioning revenue-positive, but not "vc-scale" technology services to worker-ownership has been a big part of my strategy for the last 4 years. It's so exciting to see it pay off!
HT to @anaulin and Damien Burke for all their hard work bringing our first full acquisition to fruition over the last year!