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Written by * on 2025-01-16 at 09:21

[#]permacomputing is #degrowth for computers. it's acknowledging that growth doesn't come for free, but has a cost (in environmental damages, fragile manufacturing processes, complexity, …), and asking: what if that's good enough?

I don’t have a single usecase for which I would need this much processing power. In fact, I could still use that i5 from 2011 and it would do everything I want it to do perfectly fine. I didn’t need to upgrade, I just wanted to. And I don’t need to upgrade now either. That Ryzen 3600 system is still plenty fast, and it will be for the rest of the decade at least. I’m writing this post right now on an 11 year old laptop. I write all my posts on this laptop. It’s fine. It works.

https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/01/i-will-never-need-to-buy-a-new-computer-again/

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Written by Jonathan Schofield on 2025-01-16 at 09:33

@computersandblues strong agree https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/112932414063982775

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Written by * on 2025-01-16 at 10:35

@urlyman i think it really has some momentum and i'm glad it influences different recent discussions, for example how sqlite is increasingly taken more seriously, and how frontend framework fatigue or more broadly the issue of website bloat has been talked about

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Written by Jonathan Schofield on 2025-01-16 at 10:39

@computersandblues good to have found you and your perspective.

Here’s to the growth of degrowth! Or whatever we decide to call it… https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/113633391924470068

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