This is the content of a single locker, most of it is not working, donor devices & boards 🛠️

The question is: Do we have a hording problem? 🤔

#solarpunk #permacomputing #arewehorders

#thinkpad t500
#junkyardcomputing
#permacomputing

Had some scrapped spinning storage lying around so fixed up my old t500 as new daily (the only scrap ssd left had issues).
Nothing here cost me a penny, so I should perhaps qualify with #frugalcomputing , too.

found another monitor #dumpsterdiving - 22", 1080p, 250 nit, VGA only, works fine. thanks for leaving the power cable attached, much appreciated!

one of these days I might finally learn how to clean a monitor. that day is not today.

tried alcohol, soapy water, some chlorine mix, wet wipes, every time the same crap... can you tell by these pictures which is the dirty one and which is "clean"? I sure can't, though I got the dirty rag to prove the work.

when the screen is lit, it's not noticeable. still, I'd like to possess that arcane skill...

#permacomputing #diy

Ostrom's 'Tragedy of Commons' seems incomplete regarding opensource:

Farmer's have never experienced all their crops getting inspected and cloned 24/7 by robots from a handful of superfarmers.

Luckily there's an antidote since the 90s:

robots.txt

Just joking :)
It feels like the "dont copy that floppy"-people went "sloppy that floppy" to lure us into their slop-malls.

My current personal antidotes are: #permacomputing #localfirst #personalcomputing #retrocomputing

As of yesterday we have fiber to our little patch in the forest. This means I no longer rely on a crappy 4G uplink and can move on to the next phase of my digital independency journey: set up a makeshift #permacomputing "datacenter" in the barn made out of old laptops and move all my services from a fancy server in a datacenter somewhere to that.

#SelfHosting

here's another #rescue: Apple Macbook Pro 13 Retina Late 2013. it's got the ancient i5-4288U with 8 GB RAM. no SSD. battery looks aftermarket. buncha screws missing. otherwise, good condition.

"Pro" is a misnomer for these A1502 models; they're basically a marginally faster Air with the Retina screen - dualcore, 8 GB, fail to see what kinda pro activities this is good for.

oh, yeah: it's dead, jim. well, we'll see about that.

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#macbook #refurbish #repair #DIY #permacomputing

WDYT about GNU

https://lemmy.world/post/47574815

here's a buncha parts I got off a local junker.

got a lot of hardware I need to add finishing touches to. I'll be doing detailed writeups on #repair and #refurbish in the following days for these things:
- macbook air 13 2015
- macbook air 13 2017
- macbook pro 13 retina
- macbook pro 15 retina
- macbook pro 15 2011
- sandybridge desktop

hopefully I'll make them all roadworthy, check back in to see the progress. past rebuilds are pinned in my profile

#macbook #permacomputing

a wrapper for #proton's pass-cli to make it a bit more user friendly

#smolweb #indieweb #terminal #cli #permacomputing

https://mel.sh/pass-cli-for-you-and-me/