Heads up #PermaComputing Berlin friends. Our next Meet-Up is approaching:

# permacomputing & postmarketOS #

13. July 2025 at 19:00
@offline
Lichtenrader Str. 49

Artist and Designer Chaline Bang ( @chalinebang ) will talk about her personal adventures and collective experiments in permacomputing. She is a member of the Rotterdam-based research group _permacomputing evenings_ and will share how they learned to build servers out of obsolete smartphones using postmarketOS. The group conducted experiments into practical techniques and aesthetic approaches as well as organizing public events with outside researchers.

http://berlin.permacomputing.net

La permacomputation est une littératie écologique · Entretien avec Aymeric Mansoux, par Servanne Monjour (2025)

https://journals.openedition.org/revuehn/4747

Un peu plus tôt cette année j'ai eu le plaisir d'être invité par @Servanne_m pour un entretien publié par la revue Humanités numériques @RevueHN

Un grand merci pour cette opportunité, sa patience (!), ainsi que le travail éditorial et de traduction.

Cette publication numéro 11 intitulée « Sobriété numérique – Varia » contient également un entretien avec @antoinentl sur l'édition numérique: Prendre soin de nos dispositifs techniques est une approche militante de l’édition.

https://journals.openedition.org/revuehn/4701

@iffybooks "offers a small selection of #books and #zines on hacking, free culture, gardening, and adjacent topics.

At Iffy Books we believe in empowering people to be less reliant on #BigTech companies."

https://iffybooks.net/

email list:
https://iffybooks.net/email-list/

Data Ecofeminism
by Ana Valdivia
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3715275.3732027
#permacomputing

hi #permacomputers, #hackers, #bricoleurs

Starting to tinker with old/disused smartphones to self-host. However, upon buying a couple second-hand phones, I'm often faced with Google's FRP protection: you can only use the phone by connecting to the previous owner's google account. Factory reset doesn't solve this.
Do you have any trustworthy resources on bypassing this? terminal tools? forums?
Seems essentials to increase phone's lifespan.

thankssss

New EU rules for durable, energy-efficient and repairable smartphones and tablets start applying

https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules-durable-energy-efficient-and-repairable-smartphones-and-tablets-start-applying-2025-06-20_en

End of 10

If you know someone, friend, family, colleague, etc, stuck on windows 10, and you are nearby Amsterdam, De Versterking can help you switch to Linux at their anarchist repair café!

Tuesday, 24 June, 2025 - 18:00

"Support for Windows 10 is ending in October, and many older computers cannot upgrade to Windows 11. Installing Linux on your old computer can prolong its lifespan and help reduce e-waste. Bring your computer and we'll help you with the installation process."

https://radar.squat.net/en/event/anarchist-repair-cafe/2025-06-24/end-10

#permacomputing heads might be interested by the manually operated punch-card database from "The Buffalo Creek Disaster" (Stern)

Upcoming #permacomputing meeting (edition 3) in #vienna!

- Tuesday, July 15th 19:00
- This time we'll meet outside at Auer-Welsbach-Park (close by Schönbrunn)
- "Batteries included!" (scnr) because ... our topic will be batteries: Building open source batteries, batteries and the energy transition, lithium mining, ethical ramifications, and so on.

Anyone interested in the topic of http://permacomputing.net/ is very welcome, whether you're just curious or already a seasoned permacomputer, we're glad to have you! :)

Exact meeting spot in the park is still tbd, but our batterista of the evening @Ansimorph will be able to supply it at some point between now and the meeting itself, so keep an eye out for that (I'll relay it too then).

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Help save Philly's local solarpunk bookstore! Iffy Books, which has offered everything from books on permaculture to first aid workshops to open hours for soldering assistance, needs your help. Please share this letter widely!

I've been grateful for the opportunity this space offered me to rekindle my relationship with digital art for merch and run solar art and queer zine workshops. Iffy Books is irreplaceable in our community. To keep offering programs and resources that foster climate activism, right to repair, and skill sharing in Philly, we need to take action now.

https://post.lurk.org/@iffybooks/114704476101632628

Oddly... having second thoughts about going to #VCFSW.

I don't know if it's a #2025Anxiety thing or just general ennui, but all I can muster is a half-hearted, "maybe?"

You know what would be even better than a retro tech convention? A FOSS / #PermaCulture tech convention. THAT would be trippy.

Like, I love retro tech. I lived through that era. Sitting in front of the machines that meant so much to me growing up is a wonderful feeling.

But I guess nostalgia alone doesn't really soothe the dystopia-anguished heart. Not for long.

I miss going to #LinuxUserGroups. There was one in OKC in the 2000s, and it was always a lot of fun.

Instead of looking backwards at retro tech (which will always be awesome, just to be clear), just imagine a #FOSS/#PermaComputing symposium/convention of awesome nerds like @jacqueline, @neauoire, @mntmn, #BunnieHuang, and maybe some folks from @frameworkcomputer

That would be AWESOME!

What if architecture prioritized repair, care, and maintenance; cut ties with fossil fuels; and did the necessary work to truly decarbonize, and decolonize the building industry? What would that look like?

For some architects, degrowth has meant calling for a “global moratorium” on new construction, an idea that the most ethical thing an architect can do in 2025 is simply to stop building new buildings, instead thinking more strategically about how to make best use of the stock we have around us. In other circles, it’s meant cutting ties with the fossil fuel industry; building buildings with timber instead of concrete; and sourcing construction materials from local or regional manufacturers rather than global supply chains.

https://youtu.be/EYzN_tgut88?t=3966 ← The CHM's oral history of #LynnConway was just put up on YouTube. I've linked to a timecode well into the video, where she sums up exactly the sort of "communities over products" thinking that inspires me to find technology satisfying. #PermaComputing

Hey everyone,

the permacomputing principles have received an important update!

https://permacomputing.net/principles/

Next to our attempt to articulate things a bit better, we're now testing a new structure to give examples of how each principle could be translated into more concrete steps regardless of levels of technical skills and literacy.

It's still a big work-in-progress , and for sure not the last iteration.

This new text benefited from input, feedback and the writing/editing of: annaa @cmos4040 @decentral1se @jveenk @kattrali @latentspace @l03s @leoscarin @michal @msavoritias @manetta @neajul @pixouls @praxeology @sandu @sister0 @viznut and myself.

Big Thanks to @mordremoth for last minute sharp remarks and to everyone shaping, hacking, breaking, growing and fermenting ideas and practices around this topic!

If you're interested to join this happy mess, check https://permacomputing.net/Community/ to get started.

#lowtechmagazine on a 2013 Samsung Galaxy. Looking fresh, altough no margins (why?) and no javascript (the image toggle doesn't work)

dabbling with old phones and #postmarketOS for a project with @rein &
@creativecoding

Eager to talk to studied #Permacomputing folk about the possibility of a (streamed) lecture on the topic in the next few months. It would be an intro to the topic to an audience of mixed technical literacy, with little or no knowledge of the field.

Hyper fier d’annoncer que ma communication « Practical Retrofitting for Obsolete Devices » a été acceptée à la conférence LIMITS2025.

La conférence se tiendra en ligne les 26 et 27 juin, vous pouvez vous inscrire ci-dessous si vous voulez m’entendre parler de Psions, de MiniDiscs, de vieux appareils photo et, évidemment, de mon Olivetti PTP820 :

https://computingwithinlimits.org/2025/