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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] 4 points 1 year ago

I buy old used Chromeboxes for less than $50 on Ebay, and then liberate the BIOS so you can install any OS you want. Some of them draw less than 5W at idle and maybe 11W under load. Here's the BIOS hack:

https://mrchromebox.tech/