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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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Cheap, durable, low-capability androids with user replaceable batteries exist. Install a de-googled version and google tracking is mitigated, though your carrier is still keeping tabs on you. "Dumbphones" still have software and need to be periodically updated against vulnerabilities.
That Atom actually looks really cool, thanks for introducing me to it.
I really like the rugged aesthetic and would have it on me for tunes while dirt biking.
Just for research I powered up my old ~2006 flip phone (yeah I do have a tech hoarding problem) and though it doesn't have wifi, one of its functions is a browser, so it's definitely still getting an IP address in one form or another. With the 3g discontinuation, I'm pretty sure even if a device doesn't use a data plan, it still gets an ipv6 address. Do carriers even support analog voice anymore, or is it all delivered digitally? I know AT&T priority push-to-talk traffic is digital transmission, even if the device doesn't have a data plan.