Permacomputing

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Computing to support life on Earth

Computing in the age of climate crisis is often wasteful and adds nothing useful to our real life communities. Here we try to find out how to change that.

Definition and purpose of permacomputing: http://viznut.fi/files/texts-en/permacomputing.html

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Sister community over at lemmy.sdf.org: !permacomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

There's also a wiki: https://permacomputing.net/

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Firefox is a waste of global resources. Move everything back to TTY. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by rcbrk@lemmy.ml to c/permacomputing@slrpnk.net

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Don't use Firefox, use Lynx.

Better yet, boycott http etc entirely.

Gopher or die.

Why are you still using a backlit display? Pipe your terminal into a passive character LCD and go to bed when the sun goes down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsOaahWFfug

Alt-ASCIIart image for those already on a 20x4 display (modified to fit in a 20x4 display):

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This is your life now.

Modern computing has revealed itself to be mostly unreasonable.

Go outside; potatoes need harvesting, the birds are eating your tomatoes, and the chickens haven't been fed yet.

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[–] toaster@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

Flip bits with a needle and a button battery or gtfo /s

Cool project btw!

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are making compelling arguments, I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

[–] TheFerrango@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 points 1 year ago

Newsletter? Surely you meant their BBS

[–] tinspin@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think we definitely need to drop the browser in a trash can... But HTTP/1.1 should be salvageable just like JSON. Personally I feel the Java Applet was the USP of the browser. The JVM is the emulator!

[–] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm actually a fan of this lol. This blog has tons to say on low-power computing. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ The biggest bloat on your computer is the modern web! Everything could run on a Raspberry Pi if not for it!

[–] vala@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know this is a joke but this is oddly appealing to me.

[–] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It started as a joke, finished as a journal entry.