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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[–] heiroblast 1 points 1 year ago

Love this. I'm a put-linux-on-everything tinkerer who's made countless things work just by stripping off the junky OS that's usually failing due to planned obsolescence -- I still have a macbook from 2011 that stopped running MacOS in about 2017, but has been happily running linux ever since.

I was really angry when I got ahold of a decent chromebook in 2019 and found I couldn't put linux on it, due to deliberate design decisions made to lock the hardware into only using the [expletives] excuse for an OS that is ChromeOS. But it looks like I won the waiting-game, because I put that laptop away rather than throw it out, and last weekend I pulled it out, did some reading and found out that smart folks have now caught up to its little games, and it can run linux now. Exciting! it'll be a great little energy-efficient server-machine once the upgrade is done. Chromebooks age like fine wine :D