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Dusk/Collapse OS does what it says on the tin, minus moralizing and metaphors. In any case, I detect an omnicause because people are sloganeering on its behalf below: \"If you see this as political, you should fix yourself\", \"computing is related to colonialism\", \"everything is political\" etc.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Permacomputing Principles"}, {"id": 733934560, "item_id": 45870910, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45870910", "by": "PeaceTed", "date": "2025-11-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Congratulations, welcome to the dev team of Collapse OS.", "excerpt": "Congratulations, welcome to the dev team of Collapse OS. https://collapseos.org/ Now they are more focused on supply chain break down but your scenario would also be valid.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video]"}, {"id": 733819120, "item_id": 45863695, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45863695", "by": "xyzal", "date": "2025-11-08", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "An interesting project chose it as its lang", "excerpt": "I don't know about now but it soon may be :) An interesting project chose it as its lang: https://collapseos.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Forth \u2013 Is it still relevant?"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": [], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45803601", "title": "Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video]", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251411", "title": "The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044638", "title": "Permacomputing Principles", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046858", "title": "Permacomputing", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45863024", "title": "Forth \u2013 Is it still relevant?", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 788218512, "item_id": 49263657, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263657", "by": "zappb", "date": "2026-08-11", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You should look into https://collapseos.org/ along those lines.", "excerpt": "You should look into https://collapseos.org/ along those lines.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America"}, {"id": 769621904, "item_id": 48101369, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101369", "by": "hitekker", "date": "2026-05-11", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Dusk/Collapse OS does what it says on the tin", "excerpt": "I'm unconvinced. https://duskos.org/ doesn't tell a story about fashionable ideologies fused-together for the greater good. 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However, when necessi", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Permacomputing"}, {"id": 733975792, "item_id": 45873487, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45873487", "by": "jogu", "date": "2025-11-09", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "My first time seeing Collapse OS as well", "excerpt": "My first time seeing Collapse OS as well, but I'm guessing the decision is based in attempting to contain complexity. 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