Permacomputing

“It feels like everyone is now choosing its side. You can’t stay in the middle anymore. You are either dedicating all your CPU cycles to run JavaScript tracking you or walking away from the big monopolies. You are either being paid to build huge advertising billboards on top of yet another framework or you are handcrafting HTML.”

Inspired by the posts here, I've recently tried to set up a garage electronics workstation, and part of that involves setting up a PC. Inspired by the posts here, I pulled out my old laptop and stuck Debian on it. The good news: Debian runs fine on Mate, and all the hardware which matters works properly. The bad news: The laptop not only screams like a banshee continually (the age and usage have worn out the fan bearings), but it also has a dual core processor with about a quarter (half the cores at half the IPC) the performance of a Pi 4, and half the RAM at 2gb. Wish me luck everyone.

Chromebooks came up a little after I worked for the big Garseholes as a ~~translator~~ typing monkey. I didn't believe the hype anymore and never bought one. But this looks like a good option if you happen to have one sitting around.

Hi, I'm more of a spontaneous founder and moderator of this group, not really an expert around permacomputing. I'm not sure who runs this wiki, I just found it, but let me know if you happen to be here and let's connect!

Not sure whether this is the right community to post it to, but I think it's an interesting read.

And here are some related communities:

• !planetsmolnet@lemmy.sdf.org
• !gopher@lemmy.ml
• !gemini@lemmy.ml

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?