Seeing how reviving old PCs is a hugely important thing to use Linux for, it's really strange to me how difficult it is to find out which distros works best on old hardware!
People say many things, but it's hard to find real benchmarks. Tried Lubuntu and Zorin Core on one laptop I have here, and it was not OK. AntiX seems fast enough, but unfortunately too nerdy to give to a non-nerd.
Thought this article from Low Tech Magazine was very interesting, and encourages me to think of ways to reduce temperature, besides just AC, during the upcoming heatwave:
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2025/06/dressing-and-undressing-the-home/
Results of the one-day boycott of big retailers like Target, Walmart, and Amazon had mixed results.
It's important that we keep up the pressure. I'm not buying anything more than essentials, and buying local as much as possible.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/04/did-feb-28-economic-blackout-work/81191601007/
Why are all the clothes polyester?! Why do we need to wear plastic? We can literally grow clothing material from the ground!
Your future's in the trash can: How the plastic industry promoted waste to make money : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/26/nx-s1-4942415/your-futures-in-the-trash-can-how-the-plastic-industry-promoted-waste-to-make-money #plastic #microplastic #pollution #plasticwaste #plasticwastemanagement #recycling #plastics #climatechange #anticonsumption #anticonsumerism
Recent study finds 'garbage lasagnas' forming in open landfills across US release staggering amount of air pollution: 'Decades of trash that’s sitting under the landfill'
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/landfill-emissions-methane-waste-study/ #pollution #airpollution #anticonsumption #methane #climatechange #climatecollapse
What's your dream job?
Why would I dream of labor?
Where are you going?
To rethink my life
#anticonsumption #anticapitalism #anarchism #solarpunk
Stop buying useless shit #anticonsumerism #anticonsumption #degrowth
Capitalism brings innovation! Look at all of the innovation! Taking an essential and borderline-free resource and privatizing it for massive profit, leading to scarcity!
Help needed in housing hunt with radical hopes and aspirations
Thanks to the online shopping skills of my beautiful partner, we've scored a huge, cheap second hand bulk set of Lego Duplo pieces on Trade Me.
The toddler will love this present. We'll build so many rockets and robots!
