Reviving Chromebooks with Ubuntu: Autonomous Servers, Planned Obsolescence, and Permacomputing: Half tutorial, half manifesto.

Step-by-step instructions with additional commands and things to look out for. Along with steps toward a better future.

https://anarchosolarpunk.substack.com/p/chromebook-revive

Chromebooks reach end of life and stop getting updates. They tend to either be trashed or scrapped. Let's make them boot to an up-to-date and secure OS and give them out to anyone who needs them. Make them into portable webservers, make your own off-grid networks. I talk about the issues, but also steps we can take to reframe our relationship with technology by changing our social relations. This connects with the revolutionary vision of the early internet & computing and the cross-over of the counterculture.
https://anarchosolarpunk.substack.com/p/opensourcesocieties

In the face of climate collapse we can move away from profit driven and destructive practices in tech - and towards decommodified, interoperable, modular, and appropriate technology that is shaped by the people, and made to last with as little impact on the ecosystem as possible.
#permacomputing #solarpunk

Yom Pi sameach to all my fellow geeks who are celebrating!

#chag #holiday #greeting
#SeasonsGreetings