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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.

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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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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[–] schmorpel 6 points 9 months ago

Anyways as my chickens have already been fed and it's too early in the year for planting tomatoes, why not sit at my machine that eats whole forests so that I can look at cats and argue with people far away. But in color please, and with moving stuff and special effects! Trying to read slrpnk on a Raspberry Pi seems a little hardcore. I'd welcome turning image and video into something special and valuable again and return to text-based communication.

The other day I was talking to some people who share an interest and I mentioned that I had started to collect my literature about the topic in an online library reachable for all, and I was really excited - and just harvested blank stares. 'We just watch youtube videos.' .__.