LisPi on Nostr: Some of the silliness I've seen around permacomputing has me rather put off from the ...
Some of the silliness I've seen around permacomputing has me rather put off from the term, even though I know the silliness isn't necessarily representative. (Or are the reasonable writers the outliers? The "canonical" resources on the web seem to take the more reasonable route...)
Mostly the collapse nonsense. One legitimately does not want to survive global civilizational collapse, to start with. (Depending on the writers, this seems to be blamed on disaster-hyping by fools.)
Honestly, Solarpunk seems to be roughly equivalent but without the (post-)apocalyptic LARPers hanging around.
One thing that doesn't get brought up enough in writings I happen upon though is that a lot of the energy requirements for silicon chip production could easily be avoided by simply *moving away* from silicon, for things like graphene. Suddenly the onerous silicon crystalization processes & quartz refinement would become entirely obsolete & irrelevant. Better yet, that would also eliminate many of the geographically-concentrated monopoly-favoring dynamics currently in play (which is probably being leveraged to hinder research into such alternatives).
Mostly the collapse nonsense. One legitimately does not want to survive global civilizational collapse, to start with. (Depending on the writers, this seems to be blamed on disaster-hyping by fools.)
Honestly, Solarpunk seems to be roughly equivalent but without the (post-)apocalyptic LARPers hanging around.
One thing that doesn't get brought up enough in writings I happen upon though is that a lot of the energy requirements for silicon chip production could easily be avoided by simply *moving away* from silicon, for things like graphene. Suddenly the onerous silicon crystalization processes & quartz refinement would become entirely obsolete & irrelevant. Better yet, that would also eliminate many of the geographically-concentrated monopoly-favoring dynamics currently in play (which is probably being leveraged to hinder research into such alternatives).