Let's mix #permacomputing and decoupling from US technofascism! This T420s was my workhorse in 2013; then a friend used it for years. It's still more powerful than the VPS currently running all my websites.

It's been out of use with a flaky power connector. Turns out this is a frequent issue! Replacement modules are still available on AliExpress, and there's an iFixit page about replacing it.

Let's see if it can get a second life as a self-hosted server.

I have learnt about Dijkstra using Leonardo numbers (basically like Fibonacci, but his first name was Leonardo) to virtually treat indexed array as binary tree in 1981... and my head kinda exploded:

So you can have binary tree without pointers and all this stuff! Just by knowing how far ahead you need to look into array.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothsort

#permacomputing #dijkstra #programming #sort #algorithm

Come to our annual show and install some #Linux on your mitgebrachte old hardware. 6.–8. Februar, #HBKsaar in Saarbrücken
#DigitalSouvereignity #Permacomputing #InstallParty #Artschool

@gnumdk @sebsauvage

Je suis un peu dépité de voir qu'aucun #Fairphone n'est supporté par #Droidian …

(et probablement aucune chance que mon « vieux » #FP3 soit supporté un jour — je trouve ça carrément triste que les matériels un peu « anciens » ne puissent pas bénéficier de ce genre de solutions, qui me semblent pourtant philosophiquement cohérentes avec la durabilité, le #permacomputing et la sobriété)

#lowtech #permacomputing

Wrote a blog post about the Kindle Wall Display I hacked together!

https://ragman.net/musings/kindle-display/

In it I go over:

* why I think making stuff out of old tech is one of the coolest things techies can be doing right now

* how and why we should all jailbreak our kindles

* the nuts and bolts (bits and bytes?) of how I made it

Hope you enjoy!

The #PermaComputing Meet-Up in Berlin is tonight: https://post.lurk.org/@computersandblues/115969026349107816

Tomorrow at 17:00 in Munchen, at the 'anti-fascism now' symposium and exhibition opening, I'll present the #permacomputing Brewing Collectives project, supported by @Error417

https://brewing.permacomputing.net/

Mariana Delgado will present El Proyecto Sonidero and Sara Martinez & Nicolás Henao-Bonnet will show their media hacking project Bitrot. All this followed by a discussion on 'Scores Against Tech Fascism' with @mediengruppe_bitnik 😍

At: Lothringer 13! https://www.lothringer13.com/events/symposium-antifaschimus-jetzt

@occult @prahou #permacomputing preserve the chips! :)

https://criticalclimatecomputing.com/projects.html

give me dirty computing (computer powered by dirt)

#permacomputing

@pkw I might suggest #oldcomputerchallenge #permacomputing #unix_surrealism, #plan9 depending on your taste

instant-on tiny PC based on ESP32-S3 with its own editor, compiler, and online apps installer

https://slrpnk.net/post/33460185

Saw in passing the notion that #retrocomputing is not entirely about nostalgia - it's a visceral reaction to the utter shitshow of computing in the modern age

I'm starting to see how nicely it dovetails with #permacomputing as a holistic immune response to the terminal illness of platforms and planned obsolescene

Maybe I always knew this but just hadn't put words to it yet

The next #permacomputing #berlin Meet-Up is on Tuesday 3.2.2026 at 19:00.

The meeting is at /rosa in Heidelberger Str. 28, 12059 Berlin:

https://www.panke.gallery/rosa/ (@netzkunst)

This time we are excited to be joined by and learn from @Codeberg.

Codeberg is a forge website for hosting the development of free and open source software. Unlike other major forge websites, Codeberg is run as a non-profit association and is administered democratically by over 1,000 members worldwide. Andreas Shimokawa, one of the founders of Codeberg, will be joined by Daphne Preston-Kendal, current presidium member, to discuss the history of the site and its future: the idea, how the site was founded, what our goals are, and where we see challenges and problems.

There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions.

Non-nerd-identified, newbies and perma-curious are always welcome! Please join us for an informal discussion of ideas and real-world practices around Permacomputing.

Please boost and spread the word! :boost_requested:

The ‌iPhone‌ 5s came out in September 2013, the ‌iPhone‌ 6 in September 2014.

Released yesterday, iOS 12.5.8 extends the system certificates, so they will continue to work after January 2027.
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/26/iphone-5s-software-update/

#Apple #PermaComputing

Hi @wezm,
#lol, very nice! You may like how I write administrative letters like I'm a #permacomputing #office: https://unix-freunde.mro.name/archiv/2025-08-18T224722-Schreibmaschine%20groff_--_www.html #groff

"If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it? "

https://lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scale-storage/

#permacomputing #lowtech

during this week’s aliexpress replacement screen debacle (bad digitizer) i had noticed that the lcd seemed pixellated up close, with visible jaggies on fonts. i chalked this up to my eyes getting used to a new screen.

last night i put my original apple display back into my iPhone SE. i had replaced it years ago after it got a minor scratch. it sat in my backup parts pile for exactly a situation like this.

the original screen is absolutely pixel perfect. no jaggies at any distance.

i am utterly baffled. what on earth kind of lcd display did aliexpress sell me? it claimed to have the same resolution as oem. did it lack subpixel antialiasing of some kind?

i wish i had thought of taking pics with the aliexpress screen. it is night and day with the original apple display. anyone would notice the difference.

update: @lina nailed it. shitty INCELL lcd and digitizer! check my boost after this post for a yt vid on a truly shite incell lcd

it is the INCELL/AUMOOK brand lcd:
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mMMrPpf

#permaComputing #diyrepair

@bohwaz
Il y a l'écosystème #uxn, et y'a plein de choses à faire et à discuter autour de ça : #permacomputing, #frugalcomputing, limiter volontairement la puissance des ordi et imaginer une société qui en tire parti, la notion de réseau spécialisés optimisés pour chaque type de donné et leurs interactions possibles, réfléchir au nombre de couleurs nécessaires pour faire une interface graphique efficiente et agréable, faire de l'électronique peu puissante, qui dure plus d'une génération, qui pourrait se faire en limitant l'extractivisme colonial (#z80 like), son recyclage, bref des sujets dont je rêverait voir les chercheurs du #cnrs par exemple s'emparer)..

what are the 3 lies every diy repairer tells?

1. it's fixed
2. oops. missed something. i fixed it now.
3. figured it out. ok for sure it's fixed this time.

after a few hours of use the digitizer stopped responding to touches. a reboot temporarily fixes the problem, but it comes back half a day later.

😩

sent off a refund request to aliexpress. this is why i really, really don't like ordering parts from there. it will take weeks to get a new replacement.

#diy #repair #permaComputing