2026-09-25 12:51 UTC
@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems @spacehobo@teh.entar.net @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems Which also ends up feeding into a permacomputing critique of "cattle, not pets" thinking. Over the long haul, disparate and aging hardware should still be put to use! And that requires thinking in terms of pets, not cattle.
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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems 2026-09-25 12:53
@MaddieM4@raphus.social @spacehobo@teh.entar.net @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems you know how most wild animals make horrible pets? it's the same with embedded hardware designed to a price point I have only one life and spending it on getting a bucket of e-waste to cooperate would be wasting it, both literally and metaphorically