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Ah nice. I remember seeing it a few month ( years ? ) back here. Neat. More seriously, I think in post apocalyptic world “computer skills” would be utter garb

Ah nice. I remember seeing it a few month ( years ? ) back here. Neat. More seriously, I think in post apocalyptic world “computer skills” would be utter garbage. Ham radio maybe. Or being able to bring Wikipedia / encyclopedic knowledge of some specific subject like plant granfting technic, maps, and so on. But I envision “camping & fishing & gardening” as far far more important. Collapse OS is neat, but what would be a real use case? ( it’s a real question, I want to be convince otherwise )

rollcat 4y ago
> Collapse OS is neat, but what would be a real use case? It's all explained in the FAQ / motivation document: http://collapseos.org/why.html http://collapseos.org/why.html > Q: Is computing worth saving? > Some people doubt that computers will stay relevant after a civilizational collapse. I mostly agree. The drastic simplification of our society will mean that we have a lot less information to manage. We'll be a lot more busy with more pressing activities than processing data. > However, the goal of Collapse OS is not to save computing, but electronics. Managing electricity will stay immensely useful. > Q: Aren't there more important things to do than an operating system? > Yes! Yes! Yes! A metric ton of projects are more important than Collapse OS with regards to civilizational collapse. This doesn't make Collapse OS useless. > [...] > However, when you look at it from a communal perspective, Collapse OS starts to make sense. Once a particular community already took care of its immediate survival and is looking at going from "surviving" to "thriving", if it has Collapse OS and someone who can make sense of it, then that community will have a great asset.
- dopidopHN 4y ago
  Cool. Thanks. I swear I spend 15min looking around the website and various linked thread for this answer. Managing electricity. Ok. Hm. I’ve seen shoddy grid. And … yeah. They all use some type of contrôler. Ok. Anyway thanks for pointing out the obvious page I missed.
wkat4242 4y ago
Ham radio for sure. The whole idea of ham radio is knowing how to make a radio out of nothing and experiment. In a collapse this would be extremely useful too.

rollcat 4y ago

> Collapse OS is neat, but what would be a real use case? It's all explained in the FAQ / motivation document: http://collapseos.org/why.html http://collapseos.org/why.html > Q: Is computing worth saving? > Some people doubt that computers will stay relevant after a civilizational collapse. I mostly agree. The drastic simplification of our society will mean that we have a lot less information to manage. We'll be a lot more busy with more pressing activities than processing data. > However, the goal of Collapse OS is not to save computing, but electronics. Managing electricity will stay immensely useful. > Q: Aren't there more important things to do than an operating system? > Yes! Yes! Yes! A metric ton of projects are more important than Collapse OS with regards to civilizational collapse. This doesn't make Collapse OS useless. > [...] > However, when you look at it from a communal perspective, Collapse OS starts to make sense. Once a particular community already took care of its immediate survival and is looking at going from "surviving" to "thriving", if it has Collapse OS and someone who can make sense of it, then that community will have a great asset.

dopidopHN 4y ago
Cool. Thanks. I swear I spend 15min looking around the website and various linked thread for this answer. Managing electricity. Ok. Hm. I’ve seen shoddy grid. And … yeah. They all use some type of contrôler. Ok. Anyway thanks for pointing out the obvious page I missed.

wkat4242 4y ago

Ham radio for sure. The whole idea of ham radio is knowing how to make a radio out of nothing and experiment. In a collapse this would be extremely useful too.