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As for new platform, air-gapped from Internet, something like "meshtastic for coding"... well, I think we may all need some platform air-gapped from AI surveillance very soon.
The options are very limited. There are still lot of old PCs, which can be just easily disconnected from Internet, but this approach lacks the appeal of minicomputer-in-a-connector.
Also, we lack removable medial, of course, there are SD cards, but this require something on Raspeberry Pi level and not microcontroller/single chip.
As I mentioned before, If the permacomputers include some integrated flash ROM, I wonder about simply connecting two such permacomputers together to share files. You would just see "my ROM" and the "neighbour ROM", after booting connected machines. Nothing complicated.
It would still required human interaction to share files - no networking. We would avoid the unreadable media vs. computer with no media problem. People would be able to exchange files when they physically meet and build libraries of files.
Of course, in theory, flash ROMs have limited number of writes. So it wouldn't be really "permanent".
I don't really have any serious plan with that. I just feel "consumer informatics" is increasingly getting detached from basics of general purpose computing.
And as someone, who follows the field since 1980s and gets repeatedly beaten and obsoleted by every new innovation wave, of course I think "where it all took the wrong turn".
Lot of people do something in the field... but it seems absurdly detached from the original purpose computing was invented in the first place (like, eg., landing on Moon or so).
As for new platform, air-gapped from Internet, something like "meshtastic for coding"... well, I think we may all need some platform air-gapped from AI surveillance very soon.
The options are very limited. There are still lot of old PCs, which can be just easily disconnected from Internet, but this approach lacks the appeal of minicomputer-in-a-connector.
Also, we lack removable medial, of course, there are SD cards, but this require something on Raspeberry Pi level and not microcontroller/single chip.
As I mentioned before, If the permacomputers include some integrated flash ROM, I wonder about simply connecting two such permacomputers together to share files. You would just see "my ROM" and the "neighbour ROM", after booting connected machines. Nothing complicated.
It would still required human interaction to share files - no networking. We would avoid the unreadable media vs. computer with no media problem. People would be able to exchange files when they physically meet and build libraries of files.
Of course, in theory, flash ROMs have limited number of writes. So it wouldn't be really "permanent".
I don't really have any serious plan with that. I just feel "consumer informatics" is increasingly getting detached from basics of general purpose computing.
And as someone, who follows the field since 1980s and gets repeatedly beaten and obsoleted by every new innovation wave, of course I think "where it all took the wrong turn".
Lot of people do something in the field... but it seems absurdly detached from the original purpose computing was invented in the first place (like, eg., landing on Moon or so).
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