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Solarpunk ethical work within IT?
(slrpnk.net)
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.
Definition and purpose of permacomputing: http://viznut.fi/files/texts-en/permacomputing.html
XMPP chat: https://movim.slrpnk.net/chat/lowtech%40chat.disroot.org/room
Sister community over at lemmy.sdf.org: !permacomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
There's also a wiki: https://permacomputing.net/
Website: http://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/permacomputing.html
Graceful degradation sounds nice. Is that the proper term for "re-stupidifying" smart appliances? Where would I start if I wanted to learn how to exorcise a printer and make it accept non-brand cartridges and connect only to LAN? I did some 3d printer stuff years ago, I guess real printers (and possibly other appliances) are somewhat the same?
No, it is more about keeping partial functionality when things break or become unavailable.
One could argue that the printer's unavailability due to its unwillingness to eat common cartridge is a sign that it's broken ๐