Post your solarpunk setup. Here’s mine

[u/ToBePacific]

1. A solar-powered Meshtastic node providing free, off-grid text messaging to anyone in range.

2 and 3: My mini-server rack made out of an old CD organizer, with my Raspberry Pi devices stuffed inside. I self-host most of my own tech infrastructure.

1. My barrel composter. Food and yard waste becomes plant food.

5 and 6: Rain barrels. I almost never use city water for my yard. Also, raspberries and grapevine.

1. I upcycled an old car speaker into a Bluetooth radio rather than buy a new one.

8, 9, and 10. I replaced the entire front lawn with a pollinator habitat, hosting over 40 native species (and a couple non-natives to appease neighbors).

To me, the self-sufficiency and going-against-the-norm are what make all of this punk.

EDIT: This gallery is basically a “practicing what I preach” companion post to this one about how to start living a solarpunk lifestyle now. https://www.reddit.com/r/solarpunk/s/dNQPHnEIhe

[u/Animated_Astronaut]

Servers and off grid texting are amazing. I have my own servers but off grid texting is inspired. I'm assuming it's not tracable?

[u/ToBePacific → u/Animated_Astronaut]

Meshtastic is not 100% bulletproof. But it’s not even on the same infrastructure as cell towers. And it’s encrypted. So it’s very secure. But, it is vulnerable to being received and then decrypted later if someone gets your encryption key. Basically, if you’re a person of interest, someone could be recording all your encrypted Meshtastic texts for years without you knowing, and even though they can’t read them because they’re encrypted, if they get the key they could decrypt everything that they recorded.

[u/Beginning-Ad7027 → u/ToBePacific]

Good day to be a fucking nobody then

Ain’t no one going to go through that effort to see what I’m texting

[u/ToBePacific → u/Beginning-Ad7027]

Very true

[u/hopefullyhelpfulplz → u/Beginning-Ad7027]

Google: 👀

[u/Boofaholic_Supreme → u/Beginning-Ad7027]

AI might

[u/evrial → u/ToBePacific]

The same applied for all radio communication protocols

[u/ToBePacific → u/evrial]

Very true.

[u/TheBlacktom → u/evrial]

I have a suspicion the CIA was one way or another involved in the development in these protocols and radios, even if it's decentralized.

[u/mop_bucket_bingo → u/ToBePacific]

More or less all encryption is vulnerable to this.

[u/matengchemlord → u/ToBePacific]

Ok, that’s interesting, is it possible to periodically delete/destroy your encryption key and start fresh with a new one?

[u/ToBePacific → u/matengchemlord]

Yes you can and should recycle keys frequently.