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

XMPP chat: https://movim.slrpnk.net/chat/lowtech%40chat.disroot.org/room

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

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

Website: http://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/permacomputing.html

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

submitted 9 months ago by rcbrk@lemmy.ml to c/permacomputing

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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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║Debian GNU/Linux  ║
║ttyACM0  Login: █ ║
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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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[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] TheFerrango@lemmy.basedcount.com 7 points 9 months ago

Newsletter? Surely you meant their BBS

[–] CounselingTechie 3 points 9 months ago

Make sure to have a good coop for the messenger pigeon