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This is a community for promoting sustainability in tech and computing. This includes: understanding the impact that our tech/computing choices have on the environment; purchasing or re-using devices that are sustainable and repairable; how to properly recycle or dispose of old devices when it is beyond use; and promoting software and services that allow us to reduce our environmental impact in the long term, both at work and in our personal lives.
This isn't a competition, it's a reminder to stay grounded when making your decisions. Remember: The most sustainable device is the one that you are already using.
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Utah lawmakers unanimously approve German-style balcony solar
New legislation in Utah introduces a new category for small, portable solar generation devices, allowing residents to integrate plug-in solar systems into their homes more easily.
Up to 1200w can be back-fed into the 120v sockets in normal homes. No net metering or other permission required, as long as it meets UL/NEC standards.
Demand side load management - of USB
Thanks to Emporia's excellent tools, I have outlets and usb chargers in my house that only work when I'm generating excess solar. I don't need my power banks every day so they get plugged into those outlets.
Oh, and my car. My car only charges as fast as my solar generation permits. I love Emporia.
I built a quick web tool to compare home heating emissions for different heat sources.
I put this together to help me understand how fluctuating emissions from the electrical grid and outdoor temperature impact the environmental performance of a heat pump compared to a natural gas furnace.
Would love feedback!
Today, we at SFC, along with our OpenWrt member project, announce the production release of the OpenWrt One. This is the first wireless Internet router designed and built with your software freedom and right to repair in mind. The OpenWrt One will never be locked down and is forever unbrickable. ...
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15774903
No need to circumvent anti-consumer mechanisms and risk bricking. This router is liberated by design.
How to archive a website in a future-proof way (involves PDF hybrid)
Firefox used to have an in-house format called MAFF (Mozilla Archive File Format), which boiled down to a zip file that had HTML and a tree of media. I saved several web pages that way. It worked well. Then Mozilla dropped the ball and completely abandoned their own format. WTF. Did not even give people a MAFF→mhtml conversion tool. Just abandoned people while failing to realize the meaning and purpose of archival. Now Firefox today has no replacement. No MHTML. Choices are:
Chromium-based browsers can save a whole complete web page to a single MHTML file. Seems like a good move but then if you open Chromium-generated MHTML files in Firefox, you just get an ascii text dump of the contents which resembles a fake email header, MIME, and encoded (probably base64). So that’s a show-stopper.
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You don't need a new computer for up-to-date software ... just the right software!
cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/be4foss/statuses/112332015705832479
You don't need a new computer for up-to-date software ... just the right software!
Come to #Umweltfestival 2024 in #Berlin to learn about the role of independent #FreeSoftware in the sustainable use of hardware.
🗓️ Sunday 28 April, 11-19h
📍 Straße des 17. Juni (Brandenburg Gate)KDEEco together with #FSFE (@fsfe) and Bits & Bäume (@bitsundbaeumeberlin) will be there! Some in the #GNOME and #postmarketOS community may be joining as well :)
Using coffee or tea as printer ink
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/3036509
There is apparently a printer that can use spent coffee or tea leaves to print. I love this idea but I would not buy a printer when so many are being thrown away. I pull them out of dumpsters with intent to repair them. So the question is, can they be hacked to work with coffee or tea?
Canon actually disclosed how to hack their cartridges as a consequence of a semiconductor shortage due to coronavirus. So this suggests #Canon could be a candidate for this hack. Has anyone tried it? How precisely do we have to match the viscosity of homemade ink to the original ink?
Superstars or Black Holes: Are Tech Clusters Causing Stagnation? - American Affairs Journal (Pluto: An article about technology stagnation.)
In 2011, the economist Tyler Cowen published The Great Stagnation, a short treatise with a provocative hypothesis. Cowen challenged his audience to look beyond the gleam of the internet and personal computing, arguing that these innovations masked a more troubling reality. Cowen contended that, sin...
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1958803
The article argues that some federal government intervention earlier during WWII jump-started the tech innovations we saw from the 1950s to 1970s.
It also talks about how the Internet seems to be the only really new game-changing innovation since the 80s and seeks to explain why this is the case.
Among other things, of course, such as the nature of "tech clusters" such as Silicon Valley and Austin, Texas.
FOSS Water Purification, Structures, and Sanitation (Off-Grid Communities) 📖💧🏠🚾🌱
In 2023, we added 4 new open-source hardware projects to address community's human rights, including access to safe water, shelter, and sanitation
Happy 2024! The Eco-Libre project published our 2023 Annual Report for last year.
Eco-Libre is a volunteer-run project that designs libre hardware for sustainable communities.
Eco-Libre's mission is to research, develop, document, teach, build, and distribute open-source hardware and software that sustainably enfranchises communities' human rights.
- Eco-Libre's mission statement
We aim to provide clear documentation to build low-cost machines, tools, and infrastructure for people all over the world who wish to live in sustainable communities with others.
This guide explains everything you need to know to build stand-alone photovoltaic systems that can power almost anything you want.
Low tech magazine
In a bid to reduce global electronic waste, Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves. What makes its technology so sustainable?
Apple’s stunning support for right-to-repair isn’t the whole story.
Apple stunned the world when it came out in support of California’s right-to-repair law. But software locks and other obstacles seem to signal that the fight is far from over.
If you're interested in learning how to build your own renewable energy devices, this DIY vertical axis wind turbine is a great place to start.
Using solar panels without backup infrastructure makes renewable energy production much more affordable, efficient and sustainable.
Using solar panels without backup infrastructure makes renewable energy production much more affordable, efficient and sustainable.
What it's like buying, installing, and riding an e-bike upgrade.
Turn your bike into an electric bike.
Electric bikes might sound like fun, but there are several impacts they'll have on your life and wallet that you might have forgotten about.
Two seven-year smartphones.
Fairphone shows it's possible for companies to support devices longer than three years. Now it trickles up.
Repost from OSnews.
FWIW, I don't agree just because of the screen but it's still better than anything on the market today.
With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste.
Lol. Just buy a Seiko.
Repair shops must disclose if they're using "non-authorized" parts.
