Perpetually unable to reconcile the attractive visions modeled by #permacomputing with their astronomical technical barriers. What are the rest of us meant to do?
@HXLNT i’d be curious to hear which visions and which barriers you’re thinking of, it’s something I think about often as well
@jakintosh I dream of a world where home computing is as unique and personalized as home cooking. But, to extend the metaphor, freely-shared recipes are most useful to those with access to ingredients, utensils, and previous cooking experience. IMO, the #permacomputing tenets of simplicity, independence from corporate computing, longevity, etc. can be best achieved when paired with technical skill and knowledge-building efforts.
@HXLNT @jakintosh And community! There's a reason every French village has a communal bakery
@HXLNT @jakintosh (actually I think most aren't communal anymore but they once were, and communal brewing still exists in Germany)
@doiheart @HXLNT this is a good point, and relevant to what I've been thinking about recently. I feel like the biggest potential for permacomputing principles is the notion of "social computing" where you can think of a "genetic family" of functionally interoperable personal computers that end up evolving within certain communities. and so, my thinking goes, permacomputing might be best thought of not as a technical exercise for individuals, but a central component in a community of practice.
@doiheart @HXLNT the virtual community around uxn (merveilles and beyond) is a great example of this kind of community of practice, but I've been thinking about how to plant the permacomputing seeds within a physical community, for example as technical infrastructure for an ecoregion to kickstart local knowledge systems and alternative economic flows, to think of the local "permacomputer" almost as an organism grounded in the physical region that it gave birth to it
