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!

And the ones from trigun

To be honest, I don’t think I plan to do anything else with this project, but I still have the libreoffice document with selectable text and I’m happy to share it if you or anyone wants to use it to make something new.

https://mega.nz/file/edcmEAbA#EPFIg2YGU0e9L_SjVp6UT-Q6dMbmBLVDCdVab_-IrUE

These sound amazing and I’m definitely saving this recipe!

Thanks, glad you like it!

Whoops, this should be higher rez, didn’t realize movim was compressing it

https://mega.nz/file/mR8iGbII#fVw3lCzdpxsyp60cOl50-HO93sYHpZm-Y125XnnPXn0

And the pdf version is available here: https://jacobcoffinwrites.files.wordpress.com/2023/07/spice_list_printable.pdf

Sorry about that, does this work better?

https://uploads.slrpnk.net/upload/099ea969b8b11f8f01bf401d7fc15101f571f842/w47MjvoKn26i2DzJZMrAUsffGKv6pcntQ1vIcvhO/EWdFU9F.jpg

https://movim.slrpnk.net/blog/jacobcoffinwrites%40slrpnk.net/i-made-a-chart-of-spices-and-their-substitutions-qwiYaU

Awesome! I hope it helps! Best of luck

The solarpunk genre in general might have some good stuff for you - my favorite so far is Murder in the Tool Library, but the Terraformers might be closer to what you’re looking for.

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

Transmet and Cowboy Bebop (I count this though I know not everyone does) too.

I would! It’s early, and I don’t think it was made to be cyberpunk. But the themes are there - the small blue-collar crew contrasted with the absurdly powerful corporation, and the distrust between them. The way the company casually turns their ship against them. And the aesthetics are there - Alien was one of the films that set the standard for used future aesthetics. I’d say cyberpunk for me is a mix of themes and aesthetics, but I’m good with including settings as well - the world of Alien and Aliens is cyberpunk, and I’m okay with calling a story set in it cyberpunk as long as it has some of the other elements. I don’t think I require the characters to be punks, I’d say a lot of cyberpunk characters aren’t.

I’ll check it out!

If you’d like another recommendation, No Dogs in Philly by Andy Futuro is, from what I remember, very lovecraftian and very cyberpunk. Unfortunately I can’t remember if it’s good. I definitely liked parts of it, though I think I found the main character frustrating for the same reasons as the protagonist from Necrotech. Both too tough and proud and spiteful to get out of their own way. Very noir but tiring too. It’s probably better than I remember, been years since I read it

I’m so glad you like it! I can’t believe how quickly he turns out pages for how good the art and writing is

Yeah I’ve seen it listed along with Repo Man as one of the few punk movies.

Six or seven books in and it hasn’t hit it yet. TBH it’s kind of the opposite, you kind of have to hit a certain annoyance threshold before the killing starts.

The Murderbot books feature a pretty diverse spread of characters, gay, nonbinary, and also people in polyamorous relationships, though that stuff usually doesn’t impact the main plot. Murderbot itself is about as asexual as it’s possible to get which probably explains that a bit. Their tone isn’t super cyberpunk but the themes and concepts very much are.

This is awesome

When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger is a kind of complicated recommendation for this. It features I think the most trans characters I’ve ever seen in one book, the main character’s girlfriend and most of their acquaintances are trans, and the story treats them decently as people with jobs and lives outside of that part of their identity. The problem, if it is one, is that they’re all sex workers. I can’t remember any trans character in the book who isn’t. This fits the story decently as they’re all living in the Budayeen, the entertainment and criminal quarter of an unnamed Middle-Eastern city, the only place where they, and small-time criminals like the protagonist, can exist with a minimum of hassle. But there’s some complicated history and pop-cupture entanglements around being trans and being a sex worker (and the limited other roles historically available to them) which might change how audiences read this forty years later. I honestly have no idea. I quite liked the book, it’s weird in places (for other reasons) but that’s what I read cyberpunk for, and it has a bunch of awesome cyberpunk concepts, a unique setting, and some creative misuses of technology.

I think the Gibson short story Johnny Mnemonic or Burning Chrome has a pair of guards, one of whom is trans, but it’s clearly been awhile since I read it. Gibson’s Sprawl books all had a kind of fascination with extending cosmetic surgery past sex and race, so it comes up in passing occasionally.

Just wanted to say thanks for the rec - I liked necrotech enough to buy the sequel