Permacomputing

Borrowing from the philosophy of permaculture farming, there is the idea of permacomputing which is based on frugality, salvage, and considering collapse scenarios.

• Collapse OS is creating “Bootstrap post-collapse technology” so basically a computer for after modern society collapses.
• uxn ecosystem is a personal computing playground

• MTN Reform a fully open source laptop created for intensive tinkering + upgradablity in mind
• Framework Laptop a semi-open source laptop “high-performance, thin and light notebook designed to last” with Linux support.
• Sam Zeloof @szeloof of Carnegie Melon is making homebrew computer chips

A nifty hack posted by Chris Beckstrom is how to get rca video output from a #raspberrypi zero. In Chris' words “do a tiny bit of soldering and there ya go. Really nice way to avoid a million adapters if your destination is analog!”