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End Of 10 at #FOSDEM!

KDEEco 's Call To Action against #eWaste driven by Windows

BoF Sun 2 Feb 14:00 Room H.3242

Global #FreeSoftware campaign to raise awareness of #Windows 10 EoL and how independent software keeps devices in use & out of the landfill!

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6779-coordinating-a-windows-10-to-linux-upcycling-campaign-across-free-software-communities-worldwide/

Same day just before, learn how #FOSS enables a circular digital economy 11:55-12:05 #Energy #DevRoom H.2214

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5431-software-licensing-for-a-circular-economy-how-foss-reduces-the-energy-consumption-and-carbon-footprint-of-ict/

EndOf10 #OptGreen #KDE :kde: #OpenSource #Sustainability #Environment

@kde

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  • @be4foss @kde I bought an HP EliteBook G1 second hand for less than £200. It gave me 9 years of good service using Debian Linux and KDE before a keyboard failure prompted its retirement. I now have a Dell Latitude which seems fine so far. There's plenty of life in many old computers, but I would agree phones seem a harder problem to address.

  • @be4foss @kde 🙄 Until durable #hardware gets back to being made & #FOSS, including for smartphones is made compatible with said durable hardware, FOSS preventing devices entering landfills & thusly helping reduce carbon emissions will more be the realm of a nice dream/goal than a reality.

    • A broken device won't be running the default OS anyway.

      The point of this is to take all the working hardware that is currently running a soon unsupported version of Windows, which can't be updated to a supported one because the hardware does not support the newer version, and make it run supported software, so the user does not discard the hardware.

    • Folks! Let's all stop trying! This random person on the Internet says it's not worth it.

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