Great, detailed post! I have been quite interested in the duo 100 rabbits and their focus on software that is energy-efficient, tiny, but still highly functional. Their virtual computer is easy to port and thus can be used on older, less powerful devices (even the nintendo ds or gba) as well. This approach, which favors electronics which we already have instead of rushing to the next thing is breath of fresh air to me. I also discovered Low tech magazine, which advocates also for longtermism, and using older, less powerful electronics. Anyone know other sites or people making programs or content focusing on longtermism? I’d greatly appreciate it!
I also started rethinking my approach to gaming. I always kept my bulky “gaming” laptop in order to play more graphically intense games, and even thought of upgrading, since some newer games (like Death Stranding) won’t run on my gpu anymore. But from now on, I’ll try to play those games which don’t want to force me to buy a new pc part or maybe a whole new machine, but rather make their games playable on lower end devices as well.
I know very few video games are sold through warehouses that are shipped these days. But, I used to work for a warehouse that sold video games. If the thin clear plastic covering on one tore, it was cheaper to throw it out rather than have it covered again and there was no selling it without that covering (unsure why- no demand, I’d guess). So, we threw them into our huge shipping container-sized trash cans and then soon had problems with vandals going through them after hours to get the games and possibly resell them. Sometimes we’d throw 100 games away a week -because of small accidents tearing the fragile covering. Sooooo wasteful…
Related to Permacomputing, which is well described here: http://viznut.fi/texts-en/permacomputing_update_2021.html
