relax.reuse.reboot
as a tilde server, the primary goal is to be a place to socialize and be with friends
many tildes run as virtual instances on cloud services; trash.town will not. it will be a physical computer existing in a physical space and will be a source of physical and digital art
e-waste is becoming more and more of a problem every day. trash.town will fight against the idea that a computer's life ends because of being outdated. a computer can have life breathed into it if we are creative about our solutions.
every component of the machine should be used. our goal is to show that a computer may not be the latest and greatest, but can still exceed all expectations.
there are costs associated with keeping a computer open to the internet for many users, those cannot be avoided. the machine, however, should be as cheap as possible. the goal of this project is to rely on scavenging and donations to build our machine. if a part must be bought, it ideally should be under $15 USD.
as we get new parts, the machine will be upgraded. this means that as the community grows and changes, the machine also grows and changes. with all growth, there will be pains. nothing on trash.town should be considered permanent, and this impermanence should be considered part of the project's core values.
- a whole computer (motherboard, cpu, network, storage, memory, case)
- managed network switch (to isolate archangelic's home network from the server)
currently we need everything to do with a computer to get started. once we have the necessary parts, we can start a running wish list.
contact mallory AT archangelic (dot) space with information on the part you have and we can coordinate shipping!
irc: #trashtown on freenode
contact/follow archangelic on mastodon: @archangelic@cybre.space