The best way in to permacomputing, imo, continues to be: Get an old used Thinkpad. Put Linux or one of the BSDs on it. Use low-resource options: LDXE, i3wm. Go about your business driving this thing however you want to. Learn to live within its limits.<p>This is truly the computer as bicycle for the mind.
The landing page doesn't actually describe what it <i>is</i>. Is it using old chips and writing low level code? Is it open source? You kind of have to <i>define</i> a movement somehow, right?<p>An example of what a permacomputing solution to a problem vs a traditional one would look like would do a lot of work here. Perhaps where "ପໄଓ -:*´" is...
I highly recommend reading this paper^[0] on permacomputing. It explains the concept in depth.<p>> In this paper, we argue for the potential of permacomputing as a
rich framework for exploring creative design constraints building
on a long history of applying constraints in art, design and cultural
practices.<p>[0]: <a href="https://monoskop.org/images/6/6a/Mansoux_Aymeric_et_al_2023_Permacomputing_Aesthetics.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://monoskop.org/images/6/6a/Mansoux_Aymeric_et_al_2023_...</a>
From the text in the link below, it appears that permacomputing
is primarily concerned about lowering how much energy you use
on tech, and refurbish and reuse old technology.<p><a href="https://permacomputing.net/getting_started/" rel="nofollow">https://permacomputing.net/getting_started/</a>
I don’t think this concept really needs a brand and manifesto, especially not one that will obviously alienate anyone who isn’t a Marxist, etc., etc., etc. It’s not a tough sell to tell people that maybe the permanent revolution / forced march of planned-obsolescent tech products isn’t a good thing for most people. Slapping a bunch of “COEXIST” bumper stickers on that is a better way to slow it down than to speed it up.
Lovely. More neo-liberalism in neo-hippy format. The next Burning Man: Save the planet, compute in older hardware.<p>Detractors: You can't be anti-capitalist without being on the other side. Also, you can't put individual issues above societal issues.