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? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Used > new tech. The others are on point.

It's not us single consumers doing a difference, and sometimes you need a little bit more flexibility these days. How do your daily needs change the equation? A more recent used PC? Business laptop? This could also point towards the Pi, if you like fiddling and experiments.

This goes slightly off-topic, sorry, but I'm throwing in shared computer resources. A tiny PC plus a community/non-profit data centre with virtual machines helping with our work load/gaming/...this could be sweet permacomputing, right?