My gut says capitalism. So I would be extremely interested in examples where:

• There was a large open community, hosted not-for-profit
• The community is now thoroughly dead, with no serious capitalist alternative or clear successor

4-chan isn’t dead, is still pretty open, and doesn’t have a real competitor for what it is. Certain forums and chatrooms would qualify if reddit didn’t exist (but reddit really clearly killed several of these).

Practice those tasks in a large, already functional open source project. Try to shadow people who already do them. Very relevant link for libreoffice contributors of all kinds

Relevant more general guide (which doesn’t look too out of date) here

Lastly I’ll mention joining organizations adjacent to what you are already excited about working in. I do research code and joined an organization for data scientists in academia. They do regular training and events in things like UI design and documentation.

I’d like to note that the ‘heavily’ part is probably beyond the executive; you could get 1-2% more after a few years of legal battles I suspect. But to make the burden relevant would probably require congress.

yeah! that! as opposed to anti-trust like vaccine denial, or pretending to have found aliens.

Enforce anti-trust laws in a systematic and non-partisan way.

Per request: “nice post”

Wow these are great!

Librera (android pdf+ reader).

I spend a lot of time reading pdfs on my phone, this has done an excellent job. Well featured, responsive, and seems respectful of the battery.

Ads or payment if you buy from the playstore, but free on F-droid and source code is here.

LocalSend link

KDE Connect Link

depending on how much want to do, I have seen kits for ~$30. Pretty sure I’ve seen some small kits taken for camping, so they can’t be too pricy. And if you can’t afford it, just start bringing it up around town! Maybe somebody will get excited and do it for you.

Fortunately containers can get bigger =)

While we aren’t all the same, there’s a difference between things that require holding 8 complicated things in mind at once, and things that require a little language learning and the intelligence to solve a crossword. This is closer to the latter - like doing a crossword in Spanish. You need to know a bunch of little things, but learning them is basically all tedium and not brilliant insights. (Taking these puzzles, creating a dozen new variants, and solving all of those probably does require managing a lot of complexity. But to understand the work of others, is not so bad)

If it’s any consolation, you are almost certainly within ~3 years of understanding the solution and a dozen variants. It’s not a super deep area. Probably doesn’t really require calculus (you need continuous as in ‘the lion doesn’t teleport; that’s cheating’, but I think not much more).

I’m a little sad nobody with the relevant mathematics background has jumped in. These puzzles are considered; a simple version is the lion-hunting-man where both have the same speed and infinite turning speed (eg, this paper, where the arena they play in varies).

Favorite so far was probably Talos Principle 2. It was excellent, best movie of the year. And the puzzles were fun too.

Somebody dropped a fair bit of cash and got Balders Gate 3 running for everyone. It’s been big enough to fill a lot of time, but probably wont solve the problem when we’re not all on vacation.

Factorio is a dangerous, but very fun, suggestion =)

Didn’t realize it could do more than 2! That’s wonderful!

As is the open variant: Minetest (Mineclone mod if you want vanilla)!

I didn’t realize Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime did more than 2! That’s great!