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 ## salvage computing
 
+salvage computing refers to utilizing only already available computational resources.
+
+> how we get the most and best use out of existing hardware once we know nothing newer will ever come along. 
+
+> Within a community of sufficient population density, existing hardware and software is already perfectly capable of implementing WiFi and/or Bluetooth mesh networks with zero dependency on any infrastructure external to the computer themselves - no cables, no cell towers or antenna masts, no satellites, no datacentres, nothing - so networking need not disappear entirely.  But communication *between* such communities, across expanses of insufficient population density for meshes, is another question entirely.
+
 => gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/phlog/discussions-toward-radically-sustainable-computing.txt Discussions toward radically sustainable computing - solderpunk
-=> gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/phlog/the-standard-salvaged-computing-platform.txt the standard salvage computing platform - solderpunk
+
+> the real long-term future of computing consists of figuring out how to make the best possible use we can out of the literal millions of devices which already exist.
+
+=> gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/phlog/the-standard-salvaged-computing-platform.txt The standard salvage computing platform - solderpunk
 
 ## longtermism