I find stuff at the dump and make long winded rants against consumer culture.
#dumpfinds #righttorepair #fuckbillions
Quit buying shit from companies that destroy the earth in the name of making the already rich even richer.
Hey Apple, Great ad. It perfectly encapsulates what an iPad is...a shit product juiced from the tears of real creativity - A soul crushing, art destroying block of useless shit forged from real tools.
Maple Bacon strongly opposes recent efforts by the Canadian government to ban the sale of the Flipper Zero and other so-called 'hacking' devices.
Learn more about the proposed ban and how to effectively oppose it here: 👉 https://maplebacon.org/2024/02/flipper-zero/
Windows 10 end of life costs more CO2 than Greece produces in a year
Microsoft will end of life Windows 10 in October 2025. At that point a lot of computers will need to be replaced if people want to continue to use Windows.
Software companies end long term support for software all the time. This isn’t news in itself.
The problem arises when minimum requirements for the next version of Windows forces people to also upgrade their computers.
According to Canalys 240 million computers will be impacted by this forced upgrade.
Looking at the CO2-eq emissions in the lifetime of a computer, including the production, transportation, and end of life in a landfill, this comes to about 331kg.
The math is simple enough to do at this point: 331kg CO2-eq per computer times 240 million computers, which comes to about 80 million tonnes CO2-eq.
This is more CO2 than all of Greece produces in an entire year.
(Average CO2-eq emissions per capita is 5.6t, their population is 10.3 million, for a total of 57,7 million tonnes CO2-eq).
References:
1. https://www.itpro.com/software/windows/windows-10-end-of-life-could-prompt-torrent-of-e-waste-as-240-million-devices-set-for-scrapheap
2. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370158642_Sustainability_Assessment_of_Electronic_Waste_Remanufacturing_The_Case_of_Laptop
#Climate #ClimateChange #eWaste #Microsoft #Windows #ClimateCrisis #Emissions
The DEC PDP-11 is best known as the (refrigerator-size) minicomputer from the early 1970's where Unix came of age, but TIL it made its way into the arcades in the mid-1980's. 🕹️
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11
The Atari System 2 used a 10MHz DEC T-11 CPU, an implementation of the PDP-11's instruction set. The "T" stands for "Tiny", its codename.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_System
The original Paperboy (1985) ran on the System 2, as did Super Sprint (1986).
The G4 Cube found a perch, today, next to the Lisa 2.
#Mac #Macintosh #PowerMac #G4 #Cube #G4Cube #Lisa #Apple #AppleLisa #shelves #computerrooms #poster #magazines #ByteCellar #photo #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #vintagetech
@plexus I ran something like this for 5 years, for all kinds of computer hardware. Called it the Hardware Co-op.
Volunteers would help process donations and earn a computer that way.
It ran from a church basement, was open two or three hours per week.
We may have improved a few marriages after local geeks emptied their gear closets to bootstrap us.
JP
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