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.
I see, thanks for your nuanced reply. I'm glad to hear you're in a process of transition, and given your situation I can understand using the tools you're used to for now.
I'll share your post to mastodon as well as a matrix group chat where workers' co-ops, cooperative online service providers, and movement orgs are organizing the digital transition workshop mentioned in my previous comment.
I love the initiative. Am organizing something similar for (primarily anti-fascist / left movement) orgs, mainly in Scandinavia.
Seeing this workshop rely on proprietary, centralized, privacy disrespecting, fascism-vulnerable services (bit.ly and zoom); makes me unlikely to engage though.
I recommend you check out these efforts, it'll make it easier for you to practice what I think you're trying to preach:
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
Sure, I get that. Dams often involve lots of concrete, which emits insane CO2 during production; and dams devastates large areas of nature (or human settlements).
Just felt it weird to state that natural gas is required for a stable renewable power grid, when hydro exists.
Wherever hydro is possible, it's almost certainly better than natural gas in most aspects.
Fascism is rising again like a century ago, and we need to stand against it. A lot of people need to go from 'not fascist' to 'antifascist and organised to resist' real quick; if we're to avoid fascism engulfing the world in cruelty and arbitrarity for the next fifty years
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?
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.
Interesting link and tidbit. Was put off by the 'real name' bit. Somewhat less put off by it after reading the Ho Chi Minh City wikipedia page
Updooted.