This is really cool! It sounds like it’s operating a bit like the Grain De Sail II carrying high value cargoes (campaign and cognac) which probably offset the somewhat higher operating costs. The Grain De Sail at least was transporting French wines to the US on one leg of the journey and raw coffee and cocoa for processing in Europe on the way back (I think another article was claiming they were planning to transfer aid supplies from the US to ports south on some runs but this article doesn’t mention it).

It seems like sail ships might still be viable for some of what they were traditionally used for - luxury goods and necessities that could only be acquired elsewhere. Container ships made it profitable to ship everything and more and more I’m wondering if that’s part of the problem.

Also I love all the upgrades and improvements they’ve made to sail ship designs for safety and to reduce the number of crew they need. These things are exactly the kind of anachronisms I feel like we’d see a lot of in a solarpunk world.

Just wanted to say I really like this idea, especially as mixed with local mesh networks. I agree with the point about storage, and mostly I’m just really looking forward to reading about some of these services, and seeing what this could look like in the future.

Good luck!

On an old raspberry pi 3b, a copy of a blog by one of my favorite writers (the original is long gone and was never archived, I happened to grab a copy with wget when it came back up briefly) so I can read it when I’m on my home network. And a pi hole dns adblocker.

I’m hoping to set up some kind of media system for streaming eventually, but we currently use a PS4 as our media center and it doesn’t look like our options for compatibe apps are great.

I’d definitely like to get a local Mealie instance going in the next year

Thanks! Yeah I don’t remember why I didn’t do headers, it definitely wouldn’t hurt

You’re right - I had to set the tab to ‘desktop site’ to get it to work (I have to do that to get imgur to work half the time so I already had it set that way).

Thanks! Thats high praise indeed!

Have you tried ‘open image in new tab’?

Thanks!!

Thanks, I’d thought about it but I don’t mind it getting shared or attribution getting lost - I pulled it together from stuff I found online after all. I don’t think I’ll care if I see someone taking credit for making it but I don’t know for sure since it hasn’t happened yet. But I’m trying to get good at just giving stuff away - and if people want to take it and mutate it further, that’s the natural progression of things.

I’d rather nobody sells it, but I don’t think I can make it freely available and keep that from happening.

If you’d like a printable version, I uploaded it here: https://jacobcoffinwrites.files.wordpress.com/2023/07/spice_list_printable.pdf

I don’t know if this counts as a personal media server, but it’s been nice. Years ago my favorite blog went down. This was terrible because due to a robots.txt issue the site had never been crawled or archived. After a few months it came back and I immediately used wget to grab a copy of everything. A week or two later it went down again to be replaced with a stripped-down version, ten years of content gone.

I had a raspberry pi and an apache-ready file structure, so I set it up as a tiny, intranet-only web server so I could reread my favorite stories and text plays on my phone just navigating to the static IP address. I keep meaning to add more content, since it’s already set up and running all the time, so I’ll be watching this thread for ideas.