along those same lines, used Chromebooks – Google ends support after only a couple years so school districts all over the place are generally stuck with palettes of e-waste
along those same lines, used Chromebooks – Google ends support after only a couple years so school districts all over the place are generally stuck with palettes of e-waste
“To protect private property and serve the upper class.”
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
—Dom Hélder Câmara
“I had not realized … that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.”
—Joseph Weizenbaum, creator of ELIZA
would need something interesting “to grow into” – mainstream recording industry hasn’t been offering us anything more than regurgitated formulaic slush for years (decades?) now …
well, up until this week, China
(you can also check statuses at https://slrpnk.net/instances )
trying to imitate the SLK keycap profile?
(don’t know how amenable they are to individuals versus corporations (or just affordability in general), but a recent news article mentions Ukraine is looking at Govsatcom, Eutelsat, and Iris2)
(one of the older tropes in Linux-land is giving new life to old hardware just by replacing Windows with Linux)
(one advantage of Flatpaks over AppImage is Flatpaks bundle their libraries – most AppImages won’t run on musl libc systems)
(there’s also an older, but still working, protocol called packet radio – does require a bit more technical expertise though)
an extreme option could be something like the Varvara / Uxn virtual machine by the Hundred Rabbits collective (created after having to deal with Adobe updates and Xcode updates over a barely functioning cell connection) – emulators are available for all sorts of hardware
blog: Weathering Software Winter | youtube: Weathering Software Winter
also !selfhosted@lemmy.world (most active) and !selfhosting@slrpnk.net (less active)
announcing Discord Classic and Discord Immortal
Johnny Wander – Ananth (from MacHall) and Yuko Ota
(insert his rant about Adobe’s abusive practices.)
there’s also James Lee’s take
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