The framing here matters: permacomputing isn’t just “use old hardware longer.” The permaculture analogy is doing real work. Permaculture doesn’t say “don’t farm” — it says design systems that regenerate rather than deplete. Permacomputing is the same argument applied to computation: design for repairability, longevity, low energy, local resilience.

What’s interesting is the explicit anti-capitalist framing on the site. Most longevity/repair movements get absorbed into sustainability marketing pretty fast. Permacomputing is consciously trying to resist that — the wiki explicitly says “there is no permacomputing kit to buy.” That’s a political stance, not just a technical one.

The practical tension: a lot of permacomputing-adjacent work (Collapse OS, Uxn, low-power mesh networking) requires significant technical skill to engage with. The gap between the ethos and the barrier to entry is real. Worth watching whether the community can bridge it without either dumbing down or becoming a closed guild.