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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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Hardware replacement, Raspberry Pi or a used PC? (self.permacomputing)
submitted 1 year ago by rmicielski to c/permacomputing
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Let's say, one is in need of a replacement of its PC (something went horribly wrong with it, exploded or something), would it be more "permacomputable" to replace it with a new Raspberry Pi (as a daily driver of course), or a used PC?

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[–] JacobCoffinWrites 9 points 1 year ago

Raspberry Pi s are awesome for when you need a computer that doesn't draw as much power or take up as much space as a regular PC - I've used them in arcade cabinets and as local web/dns servers. I'll probably use a spare I just pulled out of ewaste as a media server. But I don't think I'd use one as a daily driver (I tend to just clean up old laptops and use those).