akakak [they/them]
Gemini is almost impossible to monetize
The web has become such a dumpster fire that I am trying to stay within the confines of archive.org and the gemini protocol for my own sanity. This is while praying that the IA doesn’t fuck up their clunky imperfect but predictable design with a js monstrosity with 72pt fonts that searches every-time you press a key. The Gemini protocol is cool but you can only read so many gemlogs about burn out and depression the odd time there is something interesting like this gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/2022-02-07.sabin.gmi
Ncommander is a nice and up and comer if you don’t mind watching him play with hardware and software for hours on end without the pro editing of LGR. His christmas live feed was nice as he was trying to save old hardware.
Salvaging old hardware is still the most sustainable way to use computers. The embodied energy in manufacturing hardware is so much worse then what a x86/amd64 CPU will ever use in it’s lifetime as well as the ecological crime of dumping the stuff in third world countries. The 3-5 year artifical lifespan of computer hardware is the phoebus cartel of our era when we all know desktops still lasting twenty years.
I am probably horribly wrong but If there was a cohesive global plan to reduce emissions ASAP would require that computer hardware production be frozen to commodity parts based on existing slots/dimms. Over time commodity hardware would replace DVRs/Game Consoles with the triumphant return of the home media PC and your ISP’s shitty router with something running OpnWRT or OPNSense that you don’t need to replace every six months. They will eat more energy but solar and wind are getting cheaper and cheaper. Their hardware’s performance will be stunt but that should be replaced with actually competent software development.
Bob Black is spinning in his feces
Futurists are painfully pretentious
Then just say you are asking for an opinion.