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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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[–] Sleepyforestwizard 5 points 1 year ago

I’ve been down this road myself. The newer pi’s seem like they could handle being a daily driver depending on your resource needs (mine are small). I bet you could even acquire one used at this point. I ended up going with a laptop being discarded by the local school system. My plan is to use it til I can’t, then I’ll probably work on a pi battle station. There are some great videos out there of people using the pi as a daily use pc, with success. Still I suppose it depends on your needs.