• Yaky@slrpnk.net
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    11 days ago

    “We installed postmarketOS on some older hardware, look, we are saving the planet!”

    I am being facetious of course, but it would be great if manufacturers+google opened this up to everyone.

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      10 days ago

      This is a process whereby the motherboards of retired smartphones are extracted, collected into clusters, and redeployed

      the university plans to deploy a datacenter built from 2,000 Pixel smartphones

      Is a bit more than installing postmarketOS on some older hardware

      it would be great if manufacturers+google opened this up to everyone

      absolutely, one of my biggest wishes is that AI inference could be split up and done on home computers, similar to Folding@Home, with points and maybe even $ given to those who participate

      We’ve never had more computing power in our hands but it feels like so much of it just sits idle now