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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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Reviving Chromebooks with Ubuntu: Autonomous Servers, Planned Obsolescence, and Permacomputing (anarchosolarpunk.substack.com)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've made a small hobby out of fixing up ewaste laptops and giving them away (recently to a local refugee resettlement org) and I've been frustrated at how quickly apple and Google kill their OSs. Everything I get that still has a valid, supported commercial OS gets factory reset and updated, because I try to give people something familiar to them. Everything else gets Linux Mint running MATE, which so far seems to be intuitive enough for former windows users.

These laptops have so much more life in them than their OS support would have you believe.