Watched: Your website is a slow, bloated, carbon-belching monstrosity
I watched this on Reclaim Open Online, I can not see how to link there so YouTube.
An enjoyable and realistic watch. I occasionally though about running my Pi off solar. But I live in a flat and hardware is not my favourite thing, maybe one day…
live your life be happy um make better websites for people not really because it’s going to save the world, because it’s not. Capitalism is the problem not JavaScript libraries…
and at the start:
if you’ve ever seen this article which I kind of like it lets you know that your personal carbon footprint was a little slogan developed by an ad agency at the request of British Petroleum to help make you feel guilty for stuff that larger and like commercial interests do so with that maybe you don’t have to feel guilty about whether you recycle or not or whether your websites are particularly fast energy efficient but I would argue that you want to do it anyway because you care about stuff like this accessibility… 1
I used the youTube auto generated transcript for the quotes, tweaked then a bit. I wonder if there is a way to search these rather than copy them out to a text editor and search there…
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@johnjohnston Very inspirational, and loved the Low Tech Magazine example: