I see people posting under #NoBillionares and suggesting providing things to people for free as [part of?] the solution.

As an open source developer, I get it. I am living that. I also have property taxes, food, electricity, healthcare bills, and so on.

Things like growing food is hard work, and even with UBI, someone has to grow it or there's no food to buy no matter how much money people have. Doubly so if grown in a sustainable way. We can't even grow enough to feed our own household.

So if there's someone out there who sees this, and can point me towards a person or group of people who are doing this in practice, and it's not a "what if..." or "imagine a world where..." type thought experiment, I'd like to read more about it.

For context, I grew up in Amish country, and I do have a reasonably good understanding of how they have their society set up. I'm also familiar with Cooperative Jackson and the work they do now, and aspire to do in the future if all goes to plan.

And nobody who uses Raymond Financial can buy any shares of any of the Bitcoin ETFs. (They haven't approved them yet.)

So there is still more to come from a logistical point of view, not even counting the marketing of these new offerings.

Oh if you want ideas, I've got tones of those!

A recipe database that has different ratings for different people do it can suggest a meal everyone can have and everyone will like and also uses up ingredients that need to be used up before they go bad.

A thermostat that looks its calendar to see what events it was invited to, sees who else will be there and what temperature range they prefer. Then it chooses the most energy efficient acceptable room temp, and starts heating or cooling far enough in advance that it can use the minimal energy to accomplish this (e.g. stage 1 heating, blowing air from a warmer room to the one that needs heated, etc.).

Or an automatic crop watering system that is purely mechanical and ensures that the garden is always watered and doesn't rely on motors, pumps or electricity.

Or... well you get the idea 😂🤓

Yeah, apparently. I have some security bits, but I don't know if it'll have a 5-pointed star, let alone one of the correct size.

If I don't have the right bit, I'm using the angle grinder. No point in using up the nice little dremel bits on this.

I noticed you seem to have some ingredients that don't come from the pantry in the "pantry meal" videos (e.g. ground sausage). Are you planning on doing any videos on things that are entirely shelf stable?

I kept thinking it was a torx bit and was confused as to why T-6 was too small, but T-7 was too big.

I just counted them up and I'm actively working on 10 projects. No wonder I feel so frazzled every day.

Gotta get this wrapped up

And another at the independent media center! I'm just going H.A.M. while I'm downtown today.

And how did I get here? I rode my bicycle! It turns out some people who like bitcoin and care about the environment... we don't just talk about it, we live it!

Posted one in the makerspace. Made sure to leave the backing on so someone can relocate it later if they find a better spot for it.

I want to make sure I respect the makerspace and let them choose if it gets put in a more prominent place or it just stays on the bulletin board.

Stuck one to the pole holding up an awning over the bike rack at the food coop. This location deserved a big sticker!

Wow, the vote for better money flier got rejected from the idea store. I tried posting it again and the person at the register said no. I asked if it was against the rules and she said she didn't know why, but she was standing next to the person who said it couldn't be posted. Bummer. It'd at least be nice to know the rules and how I can comply.

This is just cruel.

Awesome. Another feature request (almost certainly post Q2) is to interoperate with Grocy. It'd be cool to be able to have Grocy slurp up recipies from nostr.cooking and also be able to export to .cooking

Failing that, being able to import from standard recipe formats would be the next best thing.

I have a LOT of ideas around recipes, databases, food management and all things related!

You can follow a hashtag, but that's about as close as I have been able to get. It's why it's so important that people use hashtags in their #nostr posts.

Yeah, I'll probably get a UPS box if I start getting a bunch of Signet or (3D print) sales so I can use that as the return address. They're like PO boxes but they look like an apartment address, so it works when people specify "no PO boxes [because we are big meanies!]". I just need to have enough sales to cover the extra cost first.

Is that where they just hold it at the post office and wait for you to come pick it up!

Or have me send it to someone else's address and pick it up at a friend or relative's house. Doesn't matter to me. 🤣

While it's a hilarious decoration, I certainly don't "need" it. But if there waa enough interest, it'd be like putting together a group buy, where interest is gauged before expending resources on the project.

Well it's on printables.com if you want to visit yoir local makerspace to print it out. It requires a filament change mid-print though, so it'll require someone who is at least moderately advanced at 3D printing.

Oh, I like this. I was trying to do this a few months ago and couldn't figure it out, but I just tried now and it seemed to work exactly as I'd expect it to. Thanks for the tip!