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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Have an old Android smartphone*? Come on by! We may be able to upcycle it with an Android/Linux alternative or even a full GNU/Linux OS.

Friday 28 June 2024, 18:00-21:00 CEST at Moos, Moosdorfstr. 7-9 (S Treptower Park).

*Apple’s policies mean iPhones will not work.

@kde

#PlasmaMobile #Phosh #postmarketOS #UbuntuTouch #eOS #CalyxOS #LineageOS #Android #iPhone #Apple

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

@kde

Old hardware with new software at "Long Night of the Sciences" (#LNDW24) with German Environment Agency (#UBA).

The oldest: 21 years old with #HaikuOS and up-to-date version of #GCompris for children to play.

The newest: 11 years old with #Fedora #KDE Spin.

In 1st image you can see the #KDEEco handbook (2023) in #Okular:

https://eco.kde.org/handbook/

In the 2nd the e-book "20 Years of KDE (2016) in #Arianna:

https://20years.kde.org/book/

Amigurumi #Konqi dolls and a #Gnu had fun with us too!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@phoenix Regarding the assumed operating life of devices:

"For the purposes of our assessment, years of use, which are based on first owners, are modeled to be four years for macOS and tvOS devices and three years for iOS and watchOS devices. Most Apple products last longer and are passed along, resold, or returned to Apple by the first owner for others to use."

Hope that helps!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

@phoenix It looks to be statistical inference based on sampled and modelled data. On p. 57 of the report: "To model customer use, we measure the power consumed by a product while it is running in a simulated scenario. Daily usage patterns are specific to each product and are a mixture of actual and modeled customer use data."

The number of devices for the statistical inferences is: "In fiscal year 2018, we sold 217,722,000 iPhone devices, 43,535,000 iPad units, and 18,209,000 Mac products."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@GravitySpoiled They may provide security updates for a couple of more years, but as the article points out, Intel Macs in the Apple Silicon era are on their way out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

@MageInBlack @kde Some background: KDE Eco has funded projects supported by the KDE e.V. and community. The name is derived from the website eco.kde.org, originally created for the FOSS-oriented project "Blauer Engel For FOSS" (BE4FOSS). Since 2021 we've been in contact with many FOSS projects/communities as well as people working on measuring software's energy consumption, digital sustainability, etc. Much is still work in progress and as newsworthy things happen we make sure to post about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

@edison23 @kde You may find some helpful information from the "Upcycling Android" project from @fsfe

https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/howtoupcycle.en.html

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

@d3Xt3r @Bro666

KDE Plasma has been reported to work well on computers up 15 years old, and other FOSS projects run on devices even older than that!

At our stand in April at the Umweltfestival, we had a Dell computer from 2003. Debian with LXQt ran on it, but the BeOS-based Haiku ran even more smoothly ... and many KDE apps have been ported to Haiku. So we could demo GCompris to families with kids on a device that is 21 years old.

That is the power of transparency and user autonomy!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@d3Xt3r @Bro666 These are, in fact, good examples of how Free Software makes it possible to extend hardware operating life. Though the "Opt Green" project falls under the KDE umbrella, the driving force of the project is that the inherent virtues of FOSS make it possible to support hardware for years and even decades after official support ends. And transparency and user autonomy mean you can contribute to make KDE/FOSS even better! That is simply not possible with proprietary software.

 

Digital sustainability workshop in Berlin 3 June!

KDE Eco and the Berlin groups of #FSFE (@fsfeberlin) and #BitsundBaeume (@bitsundbaeume_berlin) will host an installation workshop from 18-21h CEST at @cbase in #Berlin.

At the workshop we'll dive deeper into the topic of digital #sustainability following our joint table at the #Umweltfestival in April.

To accommodate all participants, contact us to confirm your attendance.

See you there!

@kde

#KDE #KDEEco #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS

 

FOSS - ensuring even new hardware stays in use when vendor-support eventually ends!

Whether or not you install GNU/Linux on it today, your new #Mac will eventually lose #Apple support. Thanks to the impressive work of #Asahi #Linux project (@AsahiLinux), it will not need to end up in the landfill once it does.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/fedora-asahi-remix-40-is-another-big-step-forward-for-linux-on-apple-silicon-macs/

Great to see #KDE #Plasma as the default desktop environment!

@kde
@fedora
@[email protected]

#KDEEco #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #sustainability #Fedora #AsahiLinux

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

KDE Eco's stand with FSFE and Bits & Bäume Berlin will be here on Sunday from 11-19h (as far as I can tell):

https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.51551&mlon=13.36899&zoom=19

Here's the official map (we are listed under "Bits & Bäume Berlin"):

https://www.umweltfestival.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-04-16-Lageplan.pdf

The #Topio digital privacy initiative is directly next to us!

https://www.topio.info/

@fsfe @kde @bitsundbaeume_berlin

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We will have old, otherwise unsupported #computers and #smartphones for visitors to try, as well as some new ones, all running #FreeSoftware.

The oldest, Dell Latitude D600, would have become #eWaste in 2010. If it were human, today it could legally drink alcohol in the USA ... it is that old and, with a little patience, still quite usable!

Come by to try it out :)

@fsfe @kde @bitsundbaeume_berlin

 

You don't need a new computer for up-to-date software ... just the right software!

Come to #Umweltfestival 2024 in #Berlin to learn about the role of independent #FreeSoftware in the sustainable use of hardware.

🗓️ Sunday 28 April, 11-19h
📍 Straße des 17. Juni (Brandenburg Gate)

#KDEEco together with #FSFE (@fsfe) and Bits & Bäume (@bitsundbaeume_berlin) will be there! Some in the #GNOME and #postmarketOS community may be joining as well :)

@kde

#KDE #BMUV #UBA #GermanEnvAgency #OpenSource

 

I wonder how software licensing fits into this new EU right-to-repair directive. It seems pretty critical for repairability!

Press release: Right to repair: Making repair easier and more appealing to consumers

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240419IPR20590/right-to-repair-making-repair-easier-and-more-appealing-to-consumers

"Manufacturers [...] will be prohibited from using contractual clauses, hardware or *software* techniques that obstruct repairs."

@kde

#RightToRepair #KDE #GNOME #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

(h/t GNOME Berlin)

 

How can we ensure energy data from KEcoLab are stable?

@sthak9 has some ideas.

"Ensuring KEcoLab Stability: Introducing Dedicated CI-Test"

https://eco.kde.org/blog/2024-04-12-sok24-energy-measurement-lab/

#KEcoLab is a KDE tool for measuring software's #energy consumption, but it needs robust testing to ensure stable functionality after code changes. Sarthak presents his work in Season of #KDE 2024 implementing dedicated test builds with #Kate test scripts.

#KDEEco #SOK24 #FEEP #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Sustainability

@kde

 

Selenium automation for measuring software's energy consumption?

@prady0t wants to guide you!

Read about his Season of KDE 2024 work on documentation for #Selenium AT-SPI, including video guides for the #KDE community.

"How Selenium Helps Build Sustainable Software (And More)"

https://eco.kde.org/blog/2024-04-11-sok24-selenium/

Keep an eye here for the videos (coming soon)!

#KDEEco #SOK24 #FEEP #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Sustainability

@kde

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