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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Servers Get a Second Life for Sustainability - As data centers proliferate, researchers look for ways to limit environmental impact (spectrum.ieee.org)

submitted 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) by ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to c/permacomputing@slrpnk.net

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This is essentially a glorified article about not needing the latest and greatest, and limiting shortcomings with the right combinations of used components and software. Nothing groundbreaking, but hopefully represents a slowly shifting zeitgeist into saving energy and carbon emissions. The Researchers estimate their methods would reduce global emissions by 0.2%.

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[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Reduce, reuse, recycle.

They can reuse servers by giving them to me

[–] 0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I can take some too if it's too much for you alone.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

Of course, my friend. A home lab for every home