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.

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Reviving Chromebooks with Ubuntu: Autonomous Servers, Planned Obsolescence, and Permacomputing (anarchosolarpunk.substack.com)

submitted 1 year ago by schmorpel to c/permacomputing

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Chromebooks came up a little after I worked for the big Garseholes as a ~~translator~~ typing monkey. I didn't believe the hype anymore and never bought one. But this looks like a good option if you happen to have one sitting around.

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[–] Sleepyforestwizard 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is such a great read. I’m a long time raspberry pi enjoyer, but we do have so many sbc units out in the world discarded. I’d love to tinker with this.

[–] schmorpel 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I took a long break from my electronics tinkering because it always just seemed to be 'use modular proprietary stuff for your DIY' and 'order Chinese bits for projects you'll never build' plus the mindless automation of everything. I will start turning whatever old stuff I have around into net-worthy stuff at some point (just started to learn about self-hosting, so treading slowly here).

[–] cerement 1 points 1 year ago

it won’t replace a Pro Micro for a mechanical keyboard, but a Chromebook could easily replace Raspberry Pis for 90% of what I see them being used for …