Copyright keeps on wrecking things with artificial scarcity.

TL;DR some of these retro handhelds have an optional add-on SD card full of pirated classic games.

On the other side of the multiverse, over in the timeline where sharing is caring and where the downhill battle against the copyright trolls was won and where there’s an efficient peer-to-peer system for songs and videos, every now and then they take a look over at our dimension and they glance a li’l incredulously at what the heck we’re doing with our huge fossil-burning wasteful data centers to manage streaming and distribution and then other huge wasteful data centers make sure to keep it that way, to tear down anyone who’d dare to help distribute it.

This paper describes how principles derived from degrowth can be a useful heuristic for designing an ICT system within energy limits. It does so by discussing the design choices behind https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com, an ongoing design research project that set out to build a ’low-tech website’. This research resulted in a design which is lightweight, tailored towards older and lower-powered devices, is powered by off-grid solar energy and thus designed with energy scarcity in mind. The project shows that values and frameworks theorized within the Computing within Limits community are technically applicable to practices of web development but also identifies hurdles to their more widespread applicability.