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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) (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
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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.

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

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

Cool stuff!

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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    • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    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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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Super cool! I love resource efficient projects in general.

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Very tempting. I just might do the same.

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