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Neuer #Hollywood #Immobilien Trend: Dumb Home statt Smart Home. „Wir beobachten ein stark gestiegenes Interesse an #Lowtech- und #Notech-Häusern. Käufer suchen nach Häusern, die #Autarkie, Robustheit und Rückzugsmöglichkeiten vom technikbetonten Lebensstil bieten.“
hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyl

Home being unplugged
The Hollywood Reporter · Why the Ultrarich Are Unplugging From “Smart Homes”By Alexandria Abramian

When I build an earth house, I won't have the luxury of a large crew of helpers most of the time. I'm struggling to figure out how to get a big load of dirt 8 to 12 feet up in the air more easily than one 5-gallon bucket at a time.

The farm tractor I have access to won't reach that high with its bucket.

Anybody aware of any #lowtech designs for cranes or lifts? The catch is that it has to be portable because it needs to be repositioned as I build each wall, so I can't just sink a telephone pole in the ground and call it good.

I'm thinking a block and tackle would come in handy but I just can't picture the machine...

Un style pixel art rétro, volontairement daté, avec une palette de 32 couleurs et des contrôles simplifiés (croix directionnelle + 2 boutons). L’idée : recréer une réalité alternative du jeu vidéo, avec ses mascottes funky, ses influences à peine voilées (Zelda, Metroid, Ghost & Goblins…), et ses contraintes techniques assumées.
escapethecity.life/low-tech-uf #gaming #retrogaming #lowtech

retro-gaming low-tech
EscapeTheCity · Low-tech gaming : UFO 50, le meilleur hommage aux jeux vidéo des années 90'Écologie lucide et autonomie

Bonjour Mastodon ! Une courte #Introduction après avoir passé un bon moment en observateur 👀.

Je viens des #Maths appliquées, et continue à m’intéresser aux sujets liés à la tech, quand elle me semble politiquement émancipatrice : #LowTech, #DIY, #LogicielLibre, #DonnéesOuvertes, etc.

Au quotidien, beaucoup de temps passé à farfouiller de la #Musique, un peu de #Cyclisme et de la #Cuisine 🤤

Mes pronoms : il/lui

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Hello Mastodon!

A brief #Introduction post after some time as a fediverse observer 👀.

I come from applied #Maths, and am still quite interested in related tech topics when they lead to more freedom and emancipation: #LowTech, #DIY, #FreeSoftware, #OpenSourceSoftware, #OpenData, etc.

In everyday life, a lot of my time is spent digging (and sometimes playing) some #Music, a bit of #Cycling, and #Cooking 🤤

My pronouns: he/him

A Cannondale "Beast of the East" that was saved from the bin the cleaned and polished.
I then made an unicrown fork and minibullmoose stem and buildt it with a mix of second hand and bin parts.
The custom framebage was made out of old Thomson bag by local bag maker Chloé from C.Pouki (https://c-pouki.be/) whose workshop is a few streets away from ours.

#framebuilding #4130society #handmade #restomod #framebag #upcycling #lowtech #lacyclerieliege #cannondale #rawfillets #karmawhweels
The first frame I made years ago; I started building it in a basement before we opened La Cyclerie in 2016. Thomas @cyclesrougegorge helped me fixing my mistakes and finishing the frame. It is branded "Deroy" after the name of Armand Deroy, a local framebuilder who was Thomas's teacher and mentor. I later build it the way I prefer; with a mix of second hand and bin parts with a low tech approach. This bike now belongs to a friend.

#lowtech #shimagnolo #lugsnotdrugs #framebuilding #4130society #deroy #lacyclerieliege #liege #4020 #handmade

BRUSSELS — BOOK LAUNCH — 29.4

→ How to make books more sustainable? During this evening, Low-tech Magazine will present our "Compressed Book Edition", this time in Brussels, at Architecture Curating Practice's gallery.

→ Inspired by the image compression on its solar-powered website, Low-tech Magazine squeezed the article catalog of their three-volume chronological book series into just one book. Compressing the content — an editorial and design choice — produces a larger reduction in resource use than printing on recycled paper could ever do.

🕰 18:30 Doors open
19:00 Book presentation and introduction of Low-tech Magazine
19:45 Q&A
20:00 Book sale / snacks & drinks / discussion

📌 Architecture curating practice,
et al. architect-run space
37 Rue des Tanneurs / Huidevettersstraat 137
1000 Brussels

(talk will be held in english)
Poster by our current intern Hugo Lopez

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#lowtechmagazine #lowtech #solarpoweredwebsite #solar #obsoletetechnology #bikegenerator #opensource #selfhosted #krisdedecker #degrowth #offgrid

Email has become too complicated for my dement mother. Also just reading a message doesn't work.

Is there such a thing as a cigarette-sized box, maybe with ePaper and SMS reception, no buttons no nothing, onto which we could send a short text "your gym session begins in 20 minutes" or something along those lines?

(Please don't say 'smartphone', you've no idea, and don't say Arduino and do it yourself.)

Low-tech resourcefulness:

In high school, I had a bedside clock radio with a cassette deck. I used to tune into the college radio station and record my favorite tunes. That is how I used to hear Planet Claire by the B-52s on demand.

A friend of mine who lived in Memphis recounted how she would hold her landline phone up to the radio during certain college radio shows so her sister in Little Rock, Arkansas could listen.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

🪫 ➡ 🔋 Saviez-vous que vous pouviez recharger vos #piles... non-rechargeables ?! 😱

Oui, on parle bien de vos piles alcalines AA et AAA, celles que vous achetez à la caisse au supermarché, et non pas des piles rechargeables, celles qui prennent malheureusement la poussière dans vos tiroirs…

Cette prouesse est possible grâce à un objet made in France que l’on appelle la #Regenbox.

Une #lowtech à laquelle on consacre un article de blog, pour tout vous expliquer 👇

lowreka.com/blogs/news/regenbox

[Nouveau podcast] LHDG25. L'obsolescence de Murphy

Nouvelle chronique où je vous propose une théorie assez simple mais qui se vérifie pas mal en pratique : plus un objet est complexe, plus il a de chances de tomber en panne. C'est pour ça que j'ai tendance à aimer les objets simples.

▶️ Écouter cette chronique : grisebouille.net/lhdg25-lobsol
📗 Le livre best of : editions.ptilouk.net/gb10ans
❤️ Soutien : ptilouk.net/#soutien

Grise Bouille · LHDG25. L'obsolescence de Murphy
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