End Of 10 at #FOSDEM!
#KDEEco 's Call To Action against #eWaste driven by Windows
BoF *Sun 2 Feb 14:00* Room H.3242
Global #FreeSoftware campaign to raise awareness of #Windows 10 EoL and how independent software keeps devices in use & out of the landfill!
Same day just before, learn how #FOSS enables a circular digital economy *11:55-12:05* #Energy #DevRoom H.2214
#EndOf10 #OptGreen #KDE :kde: #OpenSource #Sustainability #Environment
5 Comments
anxiousmac@mstdn.social · 4 pts · 1y
@be4foss @kde I bought an HP EliteBook G1 second hand for less than £200. It gave me 9 years of good service using Debian Linux and KDE before a keyboard failure prompted its retirement. I now have a Dell Latitude which seems fine so far. There's plenty of life in many old computers, but I would agree phones seem a harder problem to address.
BrahmaBelarusian@todon.eu · 1 pts · 1y
be4foss@floss.social · 1 pts · 1y
Watch the talk live at 11:55 CET (UTC+1) :party_sparkles:
https://live.fosdem.org/watch/h2214
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BrahmaBelarusian@todon.eu · -7 pts · 1y
@be4foss @kde 🙄 Until durable #hardware gets back to being made & #FOSS, including for smartphones is made compatible with said durable hardware, FOSS preventing devices entering landfills & thusly helping reduce carbon emissions will more be the realm of a nice dream/goal than a reality.
Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show · 13 pts · 1y
A broken device won't be running the default OS anyway.
The point of this is to take all the working hardware that is currently running a soon unsupported version of Windows, which can't be updated to a supported one because the hardware does not support the newer version, and make it run supported software, so the user does not discard the hardware.
Bro666@lemmy.kde.social · 4 pts · 1y
Folks! Let's all stop trying! This random person on the Internet says it's not worth it.