IngeGNUe <[email protected]> writes: > This computer right here: > > https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop > > Eco-friendly, upgradeable, portable, secure, affordable, no NDAs, no > proprietary anything (except for MALI, if you insist on it), fully > documented hardware. Can be used as phone (maybe phablet), tablet, > laptop, desktop, "low-power co-located servers", anything you can fit it > into. > > This is one of those projects which will change the way we do computing > on GNU/Linux. Please read and if you like it, I hope you will support it!!!
Hmmm, I wonder if it would turn out to be as eco-friendly as intended in practice. The people who want to reduce their footprint I think should keep whatever they have now running and not buy anything new. Plus when you need a computer their tonnes of old crap to grab cheap before it hits landfill. I could see something like this letting me trick myself into buying before my current machines are fully consumed or buying new when I should look to used. It would be nice if it influenced the industry to move to machines where you can upgrade just the thing that's lacking maybe. Or would it? I find my old laptops remain perfectly adequate and I haven't looked into upgrade options: their upgradability certainly is not a feature anyone has advertised to me. Having cheap upgrade options and having those options publicized might also make me more tempted to consume more not less. Of course, if it's really more fixable when one component fails that's plainly good. My own experience with hardware was to be an upgrade junky in the 90s. With some headaches you could get a new motherboard, change the video card add SIMMs or DIMMs, upgrade the modem, etc. I'd end up getting all this stuff I didn't really need cause you could do it somewhat incrementally. Then I splurged and bought a powermac. Partly I paid so damn much (at one time) for the foolish thing I didn't want to buy new hardware for years. But also it lacked upgradability (or that was my perception maybe combined with an irrational feeling that it was a unit with a single identity less so than an aggregate of parts) compared to the PC clones I'd previously dealt with. That helped me kick the habit. And as mentioned above the limited upgradability I have now with old laptops instead of desktops helps. Odd, somehow this old crap just keeps running and running. Do computers still break? ;) My cynical side fears this is a little like Macintosh or automobile marketing, as in it's a computer whose first purpose, the purpose sparking the sale, is to satisfy the soul who wants to express who he or she is via purchases or in effect it working out that way despite the good intentions of the founders. Hmmm, if that gets more people to use GNU+Linux, okay, but maybe the way it works out in the market would not end up being a net plus on the environmental or conflict mineral side. -- Mike Small [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
