Have to agree, it’s been a law of diminishing returns since then.

Genuinely worth it for that alone :p

Solarpunk is pretty explicitly anti-capitalist, since virtually all of the damage to our biosphere with global warming, the animals on it, and the conditions we humans exist under, are mainly due to capitalism.

It is essentially eco-anarchism, which focuses on building the world we want to live in right now via prefiguration, to eventually create an anti-authoritarian decentralized communist society, perhaps somewhat similar to what the Anarchists achieved in 1936 Spain.

You could try making pixel-art flags in Pixelorama, since that’s usually easier than doing high-res art at first.

But if you’d prefer to do higher res stuff, Krita is an excellent free drawing/painting app, and Inkscape is great for using Vectors instead.

Using Vegan Meat Alternatives: They generally don’t create nearly as much of a mess when cooking, don’t have any risk of contracting prion disease (mad cow), lower your risk of cancer, and can even be cheaper than real meat like Beef.

Using low-power devices to save energy: Lower power bills.

Raising the indoor temp during the summer, lowering during the winter: Lower heating/cooling bills. If your house is well insulated and you have small bedrooms, in the winter you can even lower your indoor temp to 60 or 55f (do not go below 55f, else it’s possible the pipes in your walls will freeze and potentially burst) and just use small affordable electric heaters in your personal rooms to keep them at around 68f, combined with some comfy warmer clothing.

Ah, good point, I’ll update the title.

It would be nice to have milestone-based series of these templates. Like what are the first 20% of tiles to place. The next 20%. And so on.

That’s a good idea, I’ll see about working on that.

I made a team account on the Canvas pre-planning template and added our templates to a blank spot that no one else has claimed yet (I can also still edit them or move them around).

https://chocolatecakecodes.goip.de/cotemplate/ui/template/20260520-Canvas26_main

Now that we’re closing in on the opening and we’re pretty well decided on what we’re drawing, I’ll likely create a new thread for us to collaborate from, describing how to start and hopefully with a couple step-by-step 20% templates too.

There’s also a Matrix chat that canvas created for teams to organize with each other and collaborate on, but I’m not sure how many of us have Matrix accounts, since we mostly use XMPP.

I was thinking that perhaps it would be best to move closer to the Pawb.social templates, as I suspect we could rely on them for help somewhat in a mutual aid pact, since we’re both lemmy instances. Thoughts?

Also @tburkhol@slrpnk.net.

EDIT: I think I’ve successfully negotiated a spot above the Pawb.social and yiffit.net logos, since they were active on the matrix group. They were really chill about it, and I think it’ll be greatly beneficial to have allies near us that are cool with us being there, are easy to contact, and may even help us out (and if we have the spare pixels, we can offer them mutual aid as well).

That is true… Perhaps there’s a way we could manage both?

My template is fairly small, and much of it is empty space, which means we should be able to complete it fairly quickly. We could then begin assembling your design near it, and I think I might be able to ‘claim’ space on the canvas template image for both.

If we begin to run out of time, we could leave the banner parts uncolored, meaning we’d only have to draw the banner outline, letters, and flower, which would cut down the number of required pixels quite a bit.

Edit: Also, tried messing around with the colors of the banner, in case we do have time to fill them

Hm, I tried combining them, but personally I don’t think the result is as aesthetically pleasing, Terra’s design works better with the flower.

Nice work, Terra! Love the cool banner style around the sunflower, and a great message! :D

I did a couple touches to it to increase contrast, and moved the B down one pixel to line up with the I across from it.

As it doesn’t seem likely we’ll get any more template submissions, I vote we use yours :)

Smol version:

No? If you’re unfamiliar with Anarcho-communism, then I’d suggest taking a look at this documentary. It’s a political philosophy that goes back to the 1800’s.

Thanks for the heads up :D

I found that the Canvas event actually has stats available for how many pixels were placed by each instance in previous events, and how many users participated. In 2024, 13 of our users participated and placed 3100 pixels.

From what I recall, only self-burnt CD’s and DVD’s degrade quickly, while self-burnt blu-rays last significantly longer, even if not m-discs.

Never thought to use an e-ink display as a monitor, great idea!

Also 100% worth using auto suspend :D

Ultimately worker coops by their design limit the amount of excess money that can be siphoned off and concentrated to CEO’s and shareholders, so capital holders would likely refuse to invest in co-ops in fear that were they to become the standard way of organizing businesses, they would get a smaller and smaller piece of the pie globally, as more wealth is distributed to the workers themselves instead.

The current system of capitalism is inherently designed to oppose all forms of more equal distribution of power and wealth.

If co-ops were to become successful in spite of that, the capital owners would likely attempt a military coup to literally fight back against it, just as they attempted during the Business Plot in response to FDR’s economic reforms.

The capital holders hold a tremendous amount of the power to influence the globe to their will due to their concentrated wealth, which is only possible to accumulate due to the accepted exploitation of labor. They will do everything in their power to prevent the loss of that power, even if it means sub-optimal profits.

I picked up an old used SFF (Small Form Factor) office PC a couple years ago to use as my daily driver instead of my gaming PC. Based on a Kill-o-watt power usage meter, my gaming PC would idle at around 40w, while the office PC (with a fairly power efficient i7-7700 and integrated graphics) idles at 10w, so 3x more efficient. Now I only ever boot up the gaming PC when I actually need its performance. As a side bonus, the DDR3 RAM it uses is still very affordable on the used market. It browses the web and plays videos really well, and even plays most games I’m interested in nowadays :)

For anyone else interested in doing that, Dell, HP, and Lenovo are the big makers of those SFF PC’s, and they can generally be had pretty cheaply on eBay, but you can also sometimes find them locally at recycling facilities or the local dump drop-off area. You may want to avoid anything older than the 6000 series of Intel CPU’s, since the older ones don’t support modern video codecs (meaning they’ll use more power playing youtube videos, decoding them on the CPU itself instead of the build-in decoder), and they aren’t as power efficient overall.

I also found that reducing your monitor’s brightness to around 50 to 60% reduces power usage significantly, though that may not be viable if you are in a room that gets very bright.

I’m not entirely sure how big we could realistically make it. It’s possible we’ll get some outside help once the event begins from our neighboring artworks, but probably best to assume low-ish participation, and be a bit restrained in size.

Guessing just on gut feeling, I think we could probably manage up to 30x30 okay, and maybe 40x40 if we get a few people who really get into it. My own proposal is 28x26.

That’s not a bad idea, and it would be quite easy to draw in various sizes. In past events there was usually an area of the canvas where people drew various flags together, maybe we could add this near those, while also doing a specific SLRPNK themed piece as well. If we keep it small-ish, that should be doable :)

Here’s my quick proposal for a template (sized up 1000% so it’s more easily viewable here). It’s our website name in slightly stylized lettered using the colors from our green sun logo, combined with an orange-y sun behind it. It’s 29x28 pixels large, which should make it pretty manageable for us to achieve.

EDIT: Updated design to add contrast outline

I drew it using the free and open-source Pixelorama tool (which is available on all platforms). If anyone wants to try editing or adding to it, here’s the original size: