There was a post yesterday havin a giggle about low resource usage Linux setups, shout-out to LOW←TECH magazine's solar-powered site (running Armbian Stretch)

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solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/the-solar-website/

I hope this place won't hug it too hard, it's on 61% battery as of writing. Has translations in fr, de, nl, es, it, pt

The average page size of this website is below 0.5 MB – roughly a sixth of the average page size of the original website

SERVER: This website runs on an Olimex A20 computer. It has 2 Ghz of processing power, 1 GB of RAM, and 16 GB of storage. The server draws 1 - 2.5 watts of power.

SERVER SOFTWARE: The webserver runs Armbian Stretch, a Debian based operating system built around the SUNXI kernel. We wrote technical documentation for configuring the webserver. [comfy's note: worth checking out]

DESIGN SOFTWARE: The website is built with Pelican, a static site generator. [comfy note: Teppichbrand replied confirming they now use Hugo]

I also like the dithering aesthetic with the site images, both practical and stylistic.

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They use Hugo since 2023.

I would love this to become a thing. Like a race to the bottom, how much information can you cramp into 2 watts and make it as stylish as possible. Take pride in a minimalist webpage.

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Good to hear. I was very very slightly disappointed when I read Pelican was a Python tool. I'm also a Hugo user.

Take pride in a minimalist webpage.

Last week I was thinking of making a meme pointing out how all the famously ultra-minimalist http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ and its many rebuttals are really put to shame by this one. Also, you've reminded me of some of those little webring banners people would put on their site bragging about being minimal, which are fun.

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This is very cool. I run a website for a charity and this had certainly made me reflect on how I could reduce its power consumption (even with it hosted on 100% renewable power servers)

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Super cool! I love resource efficient projects in general.

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I've never heard of the SUNXI kernel before, turns out it's just Linux that focuses on support for ARM SoCs from Allwinner.

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Yes it's full goal is to get mainlined, like the asahi project

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I love that website. I'm considering getting the printed volumes to support them, even though I've read most of the articles already.

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"I might buy wasteful books I'll likely never read, to support a solar-powered website promoting minimalism and sustainability"

Just donate them whatever you can?

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But why is this thing wasting so much electricity on my side with black text on bright white background?

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Best time to access that website is when it's daytime in Spain, BTW. Though this is probably not a huge issue this close to midsummer.

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A second reason for growing Internet energy consumption is that we spend more and more time on-line. Before the arrival of portable computing devices and wireless network access, we were only connected to the network when we had access to a desktop computer in the office, at home, or in the library. We now live in a world in which no matter where we are, we are always on-line, including, at times, via more than one device simultaneously.

While I agree with the point, i would like to remind everyone about the insane amount of news papers and print magazines that where produced, printed, shipped, read once and then discarded, especially up to the early 2000s before paper sales started to tank. I think it's muchore effective and cheaper to transfer this content via the Internet instead.

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