A lot of the digital stuff I read on fedi strengthens my beliefs in permacomputing: (also) tech and approaches you have full, or almost full, agency on.
#permacomputing

@bitzero sounds like a vote in favor of owning baremetal systems, situated in an accessible datacenter. no hyperscaler influence, no concerns about unexpected changes to SLA or EULA, and no problems with enshitification of service.

@winterschon
Exactly. And the step further: having bare metal systems also at your home/office, for applications that don’t need datacenter-level redundancies.

Your little pet datacenter that will serve you well also post-collapse, when you will be the tech shaman of your community. But this is another story

@bitzero @winterschon a local datacenter can also reduce our need of external connectivity. While a colocation is nice and is also cheap these days (ideal for DR?), i believe we rely too much on public IP transits that are our of our control and might be subject to change of policies by the Telco providers.

P.s. while I also had a new colo as i don't have a space for my stuff,.so I am trapped in this loop myself.

@bitzero to foster permaculture, we also should make our part to create web sites that does not require ex bloated javascript. As we are covered from the OS perspective (like NetBSD), we should focus on less memory hungry browsers (like elinks). I am quite concerned about the future of Firefox and I wouldn't mind a simple browser.

P.s. I tried Gemini and I liked it, although the server side is quite not stable when I tried it. But imho markdown or simple html over http/1.0 would.do

@tara @bitzero TIL about elinks, it looks awesome!