earthships and the ergonomic pdf

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earthships and the ergonomic pdf Anonymage 10/01/26 (Thu) 11:24:53 No.325832

behold! the fresh screenshot of an actual linux laptop using portrait mode to touch navigate a colorful 136mb pdf about the visions of an edgy architect who loves freedom and is willing to harmonize with nature who invented simply a better way to build houses, outclassing everything that existed before him.

lore: after uncomfortable years of searching i have finally found a comfortable way to read pdf. this is my solution: using a modern convertible laptop (lenovo x1 yoga gen5 250€-used) running actual linux on a x64 4cores cpu, 8tb ram, touchscreen with the keyboard folded behind it automatic deactivation to prevent accidental keyboardinput. the software i am using is librewolf (which is basically firefox) because when simply open a pdf as a browser tab, that has better touchscreen navigation then any other program i have used. i can pinch, zoom and move the pdf as pleasantly as on smartphones but i have the large screen with an actual linux that i can connect a real wireless keyboard and mouse to. with they keyboard folded behind it, this is just a large pleasant book that i either hold on my lap or i put it on a little tablet stand to hold it in a plesant angle in front of me on a table. it is amazing, finally a way to read that i don't hate. the years of wanting a nice way to read pdf but not having one are finally over.

after having looked at the technology for many years, i simply shake my head at people willing to build a dependent non-earthship when for the same price they could build themselves independent dignified human living in harmony with nature. being independent of public water, public sewage, public electricity and eventually everything else or at least for the most part.

Anonymage 10/01/26 (Thu) 11:31:57 No.325833

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this green color highliting was built into the browser's viewer. when i close the tab, it will ask me if i want to save this on the pdf so my highlites are still in it the next time i open the file.

for someone who believes in the validity of centralization this perspective is probable very foreign but for someone thirsty for freedom in a world that is colonized by violence these are the much needed innovations to carry one the divorce from the system a bit further.

Anonymage 10/01/26 (Thu) 11:50:52 No.325834

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if land was available, laws weren't theater to violently legitimize dependency and labour was accessible even to poor people, this is how intelligent, able people would choose to live.

the opposite of this would be thge consumer owners of an highrise-appartment who have a subway station or at least a garage built into their basement and have their groceries and goods delivered to them.

Anonymage 10/01/26 (Thu) 12:13:20 No.325835

Are earthships really feasible? Have you tried building something like that? It's a wonderful idea.

Anonymage 10/01/26 (Thu) 13:27:42 No.325836

>>325832
probably better suited to
>>>/hob/

Anonymage 10/01/26 (Thu) 15:44:58 No.325837

>>325835
>Are earthships really feasible? Have you tried building something like that? It's a wonderful idea.

i hope so, i watched around 7 longer documentaries about it plus countless 10-20min youtube videos and i do think they have thought of everything. shelter, water, electricity, waste, temperature plus built-in greenhouses that produce food and help with temperature isolation in colder climates.

i am very disappointed in myself, this summer i had the chance to go near one but i forgot about it when i was near it so i have not even seen one irl.

>>325836
>probably better suited to
>>>/hob/

for it to be a hobby i would think i would have to make any kind of progress in actually having one because currently i am just longingly stare at it from a distance through the magic orb.

it's not like it is a "YEAH HELLO MY NAME IS ANONYMAGE AND THIS IS MY 3RD EARTHSHIP, THIS ONE IS WAY BETTER THEN MY PREVIOUS ONES BECAUSE I MADE IT HIGH AND HUNG UP ROPES AND CLIMBING HANDLES EVERYWHERE SO I CAN CHIMP OUT IN MY GREENHOUSE AND PLAY TARZAN" kind of deal where i can speak from experience to other proud earthship owners. where i live it is a costly nightmare to satisfy the increasingly unreasonable demands of those who decide what kind of house each "citizen" is allowed to build in this nightmare prison-counrty i am stranded in.

Anonymage 10/02/26 (Fri) 12:54:18 No.325838

>In order to upload files you must disable your proxy at this time

man fuck that how come all the vpn servers i am paying for cant upload pictures. not every vpn user is a paid facebook employee trying to flood this place with evil. what a nightmare.

Anonymage 10/06/26 (Tue) 19:04:45 No.325863

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i have a south facing balcony and i have sun all day, i believe this to be true about the humans flourishing on the south side of mountains, how i wished for a small piece of mountain to do this. i wouldn't even know in which country i could do this.

Anonymage 10/09/26 (Fri) 23:32:08 No.325880

I like these but trying to build one legally is such a fucking nightmare it's not even worth it. So many good things ruined by shitty laws.

Anonymage 10/11/26 (Sun) 10:19:17 No.325900

>>325880
>So many good things ruined by shitty laws.

yeah. i have not looked deeply into it but it seems like this is way easier in "less developed" countries which is where i am gonna move. these are also places where i could afford the labour to have people help me build it.

Anonymage 10/16/26 (Fri) 19:49:52 No.325989

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i am one and a half chapters in and the dude explains with pictures concepts about earth rotation and heat behavior that have confused me all my life. the pureness of his methodology! without bloat he starts with his principles, looks at how reality functions and then he just methodically applies his principles to reality:

making the best possible use of the sun for summer and winter by building the earthship on the southside of a mountain with the glassfront in an angle so that the maximum amount of sunlight can pass the window in a 90°angle with minimum reflection when it is most needed in the winter and maximum reflection when there is too much of it in the summer.

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to me it is awe-inspiring that the dude put all these puzzle pieces together into a functioning harmony back in 1990.

when the dude had a question in 1990 about something basic, he couldn't just search for it, he'd have to put on pants and go to the neares library and make a day out of finding a piece of information that i in 2026 can look up in less then 30 seconds.

Anonymage 10/20/26 (Tue) 19:10:01 No.326032

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he quickly talks about the walls (made from earth-filled car tires) being load bearing, distributing the load evenly over a big area as opposed to point loads (pillars). i now look at houses that use pillars with somewhat of a disdain.

Anonymage 10/20/26 (Tue) 19:26:16 No.326035

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feast youe eyes on some medium sized and bigger sized earthships.

when you put one behind the other on a mountain then you can have the levels overlap so that you can have fruit- and nut trees in your integrated greenhouse.

i remember once seeing a documentary where some people build one with a big banana tree that could have never grown in the climate outside the earthship.

Anonymage 10/20/26 (Tue) 19:27:32 No.326036

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he reccomends the rooms not to be longer then a certain size because after that, the thermal mass in the car-tire-walls is not enough to keep the room warm enough at night.

also he reccomends the rooms not to be wider then a certain size but mostly because then it becomes too difficult to find support beams long enough that are placed on top of the walls.

Anonymage 10/20/26 (Tue) 19:35:13 No.326037

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apparently when it is winter, the frost can only reach a short way into the earth and below that, the earth is naturally warm enough so that it doesn't freeze. i didn't know this. the lowest part of the house ideally is below this frost line because otherwise the foundation can move around because during freezing water expands and this can move the house around and cause problems otherwise.

Anonymage 10/21/26 (Wed) 04:46:59 No.326042

>>325880
If you live in America, building one in the Southwest on a remote stretch of BLM land might be more feasible at least as a test run. Might also be a way to help mitigate the frost problems that OP mentioned regarding the foundation.