100% agree, even though i'm mainly a developer/designer, this is now my #1 priority. what's the point of developing more and more stuff if there isn't a sufficiently big and active community to use it? like you alluded to.

i don't think there's 1 sure-fire way to make this work. i do think some of the methods you outlined might help. i'd be curious to know exactly what upscrolled and farcaster and some of the other guys did to get traction.

for my part, i'm experimenting with commerce. dissident soaps, black rifle coffee company, etc seem like companies that are already pretty closely aligned to the bitcoin/nostr mindset, which is the hard part. what if we set up a retailer that sold some of their wares? moving units might get them to pay attention, join nostr, and become active. and perhaps being their customers along with them (over time). this is what i have in mind with my reboot of @npub1ckwzu....

my other follow-on initiative to that is to create a lifestyle brand to promote open-source software. make foss look cool, not nerdy. another big problem we have is that these tools we like are nerdy and fiddly, and that's something most people don't want to deal with. getting rid of that image, and emphasizing the driving purpose of FREEDOM in all of foss is paramount imo. freedom is cool af. it needs to be branded that way, particularly with respect to software.

Low Tech and Low Time [Preference] FTW

@nevent1qqs...

SNAGGED. Sounded irresistable. Only 2 left!!

@nevent1qqs...

oh so this cyberdeck is something you're getting off-the-shelf? i was under the impression a cyberdeck is something you build diy-style, a la /r/cyberdeck

what's your concept for it?

looking good, but for approved apps only!

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Been trying to use gitworkshop.dev to host a repository with a single file -- README.md. But browsing through other repositories on there...it's 50/50 whether the repo will load or not. Half the time the repo will load, and the other half it just indefinitely hangs. Wonder why...

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what surprises me most is that most people don't seem to care...for example, i haven't seen a single cybertruck review mention it. rivian offers much better-designed interiors, but people only mention it as a minor benefit (if they mention it at all). i don't get it. i think people are being duped yet again, just like silicon valley duped them years ago with free software (in exchange for their privacy and sanity) and are only just now realizing it when it's too late.

100%. i'm speaking as a consumer trying to make rational choices based on what's available on the market. i don't like the way evs were conceived and incentivized, but i also think it would be irrational for a consumer to avoid them for that reason alone

sure but the deloreans were made out of steel and looked a hell of a lot better...i think the brutalist aesthetic was chosen for two reasons

1) marketing to go along with their "cyberpunk" theme

2) to promote their anti-human worldview

I've been an EV critic for a long time. They still have their issues, and you will never stop me from having at least one gas/diesel car for enjoyment (and emergency). But after a few months of living with a couple different models, I can see the appeal for some specific scenarios.

But there's something else that bothers me about Tesla specifically, aside from the relentless vertical integration with parts, service, and maintainability (which is not specific to Tesla, EVs, or even the car industry since enshittification is happening everywhere these days).

Why are Teslas so plain, sterile, bland, and soulless? The Cybertruck dials this up to 11 with its cold, post-apocalyptic, brutalist appearance.

Why? There is no technological reason for this. It's a philosophical choice that says a lot about the company's vision of the future.

Where's the beauty? Where's the sophistication? Where's the color? Where are the natural materials? Where's the real wood, quilted leather, amazing seats, buttons, dials, browns, greens, and other sophistications that make a car a gorgeous, inviting place to be? It's not that Tesla executed this badly...they didn't even try. All their cars are like this, whether you buy a base-level Model 3 for $40k or a top-spec Cyberbeast for $120k.

Profit maximization is not a good enough explanation for this. It was a conscious and intentional choice the company made, and they market it as "futuristic". If this is the "future" that Tesla envisions (and designs for) then clearly it's a dystopian future where humans aren't welcome...where human senses are unimportant and irrelevant, where beautiful comfort is traded for cold utility, and where humanity is subservient to technology. It's a dark and depressing worldview. And one I will have no part in.

I'm an optimist. My personal opinion is that WAGMI, and I will always be on Team Human.

Anyone that isn't can swiftly GTFO.

yeah gnome...i already use fedora with kde on macbook air through asahi but think i like gnome's simplicity better.