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Examples: casting iron, making blades, making paint, making plastics, making printer ink, making pharmaceuticals that actually work, etc.
It really seems that at this stage in the game we should be able to form "off-grid" villages that actually have a pretty good standard of living. Or is that all forbidden knowledge in this stage of our technological enslavation? ;)
https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Afterm...
I really admire this kind of mother day "renaissance man" :-)
1: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/tangled/
btw first time I notice you cannot edit your posts past certain time, apparently?
Sure, if you consider 1920s era technology to be a reasonable standard of living. Or I suppose you could cheat and import a computer or two? Not sure how you're going to fabricate high performance solar panels on your own though.
I don't know about a single Wiki but casting metal, making blades, and various pigments (so paints and inks) should be readily doable at home and the information readily accessible. Some end products have significant barriers in terms of equipment and skill though, so pick carefully.
Making plastic products might be quite involved and require specialized equipment depending on your desired starting point and polymer. (At the other extreme, 3D printing objects from purchased filament is easy but seems like it defeats the described purpose.)
A number of basic pharmaceuticals (opiates, aspirin, a few others I don't remember off the top of my head) can be readily manufactured at home if you have a garden and don't mind committing multiple felony offenses in the process. Most chemical synthesis is quite involved though and pharmaceuticals in particular tend to consist of difficult to work with organic molecules.
Pharmaceuticals and plastics are both pushing into the realm of organic chemistry which isn't very accessible without significant time spent studying. Unfortunately chemistry outside of a company or research institution has also been more or less criminalized at this point across most of the world. The vast majority of basic reagents will be classed as precursors to either illegal drugs or explosives. (Yay freedom!)
Each of those products requiring completely different tools, skills and materials.
The Open Source Global Village Construction Kit. Blueprints for building the tools to build up a village.
What I'm thinking is a real-life open-source "tech tree".
Books printed on acid-free paper or clay tablets do not copy as easily as bits, but are a lot more durable.
An alternative is to make lots of digital copies of sites like these. That’s cheaper than printing them, but a bit less durable.
I wouldn’t know which of these would be the statistically optimal (as in: information isn’t destroyed, will be found by those who need it, and can be read) method, but I don’t think YouTube is.
.. who makes their money monetizing the content of others.
I respect this guy for staying off the commercialized hosting site and having such a simple, functional website. That is even before my kudos to his work toward duplicating technology from the ground up, and then documenting both success and failure. The latter is something many programmers, including myself, tend to defer until the end of time.
It seems like even scientists struggle to replicate experiments.
source(just listing his age as "mid-30s" in 2017 but close enough): https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/15/youtube-primitive-technology...
* use of HTML tables, month-first dates
Anyway, if this is something you like, that's one way to get it on your own domain name, without compromising on 'bloat' or load times.
I disagree with a couple decisions, such as the font size, font tag, the table, and using non-breaking spaces to indent paragraphs, but I applaud this person for keeping it simple.
They probably didn't expect their code to be scrutinized, either. The content is great and I'm only being critical because I like it's simplicity so that got me to look.
To each, their own.
On mobile Firefox, the Reader mode does a great job of making the articles readable, though.
So, mobile-specific default CSS would probably be ideal, but this kind of site also shows off the advantages of just doing the simplest thing, and letting the agent optimize for the user.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">I bought into that hype back in the day. I don't anymore. They're a tool, they're not inherently good or bad.
When you don’t want that kind of styling you are better off not using tables, instead of making them work for you.
I guess that is exactly what you are saying though ;)
Depending on where you want to spend your energy and in what capacity, you can play with the clay and get analytical with the glaze or swap them, play with both or calculate with everything, your choice. We don't normally have these choices.
'Primitive technology is a hobby where you build things in the wild completely from scratch using no modern tools or materials. These are the strict rules: If you want a fire, use a fire stick - An axe, pick up a stone and shape it - A hut, build one from trees, mud, rocks etc. The challenge is seeing how far you can go without utilizing modern technology. I do not live in the wild, but enjoy building shelter, tools, and more, only utilizing natural materials. To find specific videos, visit my playlist tab for building videos focused on pyrotechnology, shelter, weapons, food & agriculture, tools & machines, and weaving & fiber.'
Funny enough, I do have a 4x8 pixel RGB display, which frustrates me because I've long thought of 5x3 as the only viable tiny font. I might get more use out of it with this 4x4 font.
https://simplifier.neocities.org/fluxset.html is very interesting, for example.