Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

After some time I’ve found a way to upcycle Chromebooks to run the latest version of Ubuntu and boot to an external USB drive while maintaining the ChromeOS. The WiFi chips in these models also can create their own wifi networks so they can be short range routers.
What does this actually mean? Instead of requiring new hardware like a raspberry pi, we can take old Chromebooks that schools get rid of in the thousands and actually reuse them to create portable micro servers. Pack them full of offline books, maps, wikis, etc.
There is a major upside compared to using an old Chromebook over a raspberry pi, mainly that it's actually cheaper and can be free depending on how you source your chromebooks. I got 10 at $30 each which is cheaper than a pi or a pi alternative.

The battery life is also insane. I used it for close to 12 hours and it didn't even hit 50% battery loss. They also take very little time to charge so I'm interested to see how much power they might take up while attached to the off grid solar array.

So the plan is to make the docs and work some more on making these into portable offgrid information stations and packing them with info. https://anarchosolarpunk.substack.com/p/offgridserveruses
#solarpunk #permacomputing

I can't decide on colors here - blue or pink? 😊

Spring is everywhere - and I want to show it in this print - warm and cosy days, calm and peace. 🌿

#illustration #lino #printmaking #linoprinting

The IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report released today. Here are the key takeaways and figures.

First, climate change has already caused widespread and substantial losses to almost every aspect of human life on this planet, and the impacts on future generations depend on the choices we make NOW.

So given this dire news, surely we are well on our way to cutting our carbon emissions, no?

No.

The synthesis report is crystal clear: we are not doing nearly enough to avoid dangerous impacts, let alone achieve the targets of the Paris Agreement.

@jonn a Mozilla-specific API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/webRequest/filterResponseData

For Chrome I'll probably need to inject a wrapper for fetch() into the document and do some back-and-forth with the background script. Certainly doable, but more work.

@jonn well, that's why I'm mitming the API (which hopefully doesn't change much) instead of trying to inject stuff into the website (which is probably harder anyway since it's all webpack-ed and not very accessible).

The downside is that I can't split up the context request into two separate ones, so i'll have to track who you follow and since when and assume your server has their contexts in full already. Until then opening any remote toot is slow.

Which doesn't bother me personally but that's cause my own instance is slow anyway (and I start the remote context request in parallel to the original one).