A new kind of personal computer
A New Computer
A podcast about the end of personal computers as we know them, and what comes next. Each episode we talk with people who are doing work at the frontier of computing, people who are challenging assumptions about what computers are and what our relationship to them should be.
GHOST IN THE MACHINE - Tech Monitor
Experts are said to be completely baffled by a haunted Amstrad PC1512 personal computer, fast becoming the current Amstrad Computer…
Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own | Hacker News
Self-hosting doesn’t mean you have to buy hardware. After a few years, low-end machines are borderline unusable with Windows, but they are still plenty strong for a Linux server. It’s quite likely you or a friend has an old laptop laying around, which can be repurposed. I’ve done this with an i3 from 2011 [1] for two users, and in 2025 I have no signs that I need an upgrade.
5 operating systems for reviving your old PC as a server
Even a dinosaur PC can be resurrected as a home lab
Think You Can Live Offline Without Being Tracked? Here's What It Takes - Fast Company
We asked the most privacy-aware people we could find what it would take to go off the radar. Hint: You're going to need to do more than throw away your laptop.
The coming civil war over general purpose computing
Even if we win the right to own and control our computers, a dilemma remains: what rights do owners owe users?
Basic | The Personal Computing Platform
We build products, tools, and standards to make computers more personal.
Everything I own, owned
Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over the network.
Hold on to Your Hardware
A warning about rising prices, vanishing consumer choice, and a future where owning a computer may matter more than ever as hardware, power, and control drift toward data centers and away from people.
computer etiquette
thinking through computer etiquette with Bianca Wylie sharing what some of us are finding socially difficult about computer use. dealing with it together...
triumph of the nerds