Collapse OS: Winter is coming
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There was also a nice conversation on Hacker News about Collapse OS (and then another one and another one), but I didn't participate because I don't have a HN account.
While the author has no obligation to be interested or care what HN thinks, silly excuses like this are a red flag about any kind of tech project. My personal impression is the author is doing this from some mix of demonstrating how clever and low-level they are and nostalgia for earlier days of computing.
If the motivation was truly practical it would be a recipe for a cheap minimum viable stock of computing, storage, and power resources based on accessible commodity hardware, plus a distro of knowledge and software tools (Wikipedia, a patent database, a robust scientific development environment) that could do some industrial grade computation on sub-day timescales.
If you didn't want to be reliant on electronics at all, curate a high quality scientific library of books printed on Tyvek or with laminated pages, stored in a shipping container, and then make as many copies as possible and store them in geographically stable locations.
> My personal impression is the author is doing this from some mix of demonstrating how clever and low-level they are and nostalgia for earlier days of computing.
That's some armchair psychology right there. I think it's a neat project and I think the concepts are fairly reasonable. Why continue to create software for hardware that's capable of running anything. Making use of alt boards/otherwise scrap hardware is quite admirable in my opinion. Adding a little post-apocalyptic flavor to the project is likely the difference between frequent shares and dusty obscurity, so props to the author.