> But i gotta say, living off grid is fundamentally solipsist. Abandoning society rather than attempting to live well within society will always be a dead end.

They haven't abandoned society. They are trying to improve it. I don't understand the solipsism criticism. It seems specious. There's a clear philosophical drive:

https://100r.ca/site/about.html

It's not too readable. It would benefit from a columnated layout. The fold is also too long. It should be an introductory block.

Overall, the "rhythm" is a bit off. The user should know what they're seeing even before they see it, at least conceptually. The design/layout doesn't section off dense sections from skim material. Front pages in general should be built for skimming rather than deep consumption (scanning). Scanning should appear optional visually.

There's a lot of "scan" material, but users who visit your site mostly just want to know what they're looking at - at least at first. So the deep material kinda just gets in the way of actual comprehension.

Another critique: too much visual uniformity. Every major section looks the same (poor "rhythm"). This leads the eyes to glaze over much of the site.

It sounds dumb, but our eyes don't "read" a webpage, we "see/feel" it instead. We see structure, layout, differences in colors, font sizes, patterns, bold headings, etc. We ignore the actual textual content. We only do actual reading when we're hunting for something specific (eg, a specific nav link).

The aesthetic itself is fine, but the layout and structure need work.

It's no different from learning vim. Just stick with it until the shortcuts become cognitively automatic.

It also helps to learn upfront the idiosyncratic terms and concepts like buffers, windows, frames, yanking, killing, etc.

Most of these terms map one-to-one to more familiar nomenclature like copy, paste, etc.

Buffers is a concept a bit more unique and integral to emacs. It's easier to understand in practice than in reading.

Most importantly though, emacs is a lisp machine, and exposes the highest level of granularity, and enables the finest level of customization for the user.

Emacs is incredibly powerful with ai agents. Because everything is a function, and emacs is introspectable down to its atoms - agents can write, review, execute, and evaluate the results in a closed loop. The evaluation part is usually what's missing from most agent-driven workflows. Either you (the person) needs to do a live evaluation or the ai agent derives a primitive evaluation using what's available (eg, screenshots, looking at html/css output to form a visual representation).

In emacs, everything is available, everything is a primitive function, everything can be inspected, the documentation (ie, contextual food for agents) is built-in, and emacs itself can be piloted entirely through function calls. This means that agents can fully control an emacs instance and run that closed loop (write, test, evaluate, repeat) with almost complete information - which makes the [given prompt] : [results conforming to spec] relationship much tighter than in most environments.