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  "guid": "1364b135-4556-5967-a12c-f596821cb3b3",
  "id": 824,
  "date": "2024-12-28T11:00:00+01:00",
  "start": "11:00",
  "duration": "00:40",
  "room": "Stage YELL",
  "slug": "38c3-opt-green-coordinating-a-windows-10-to-linux-upcycling-campaign-across-free-software-communities-worldwide",
  "url": "https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/de/event/opt-green-coordinating-a-windows-10-to-linux-upcycling-campaign-across-free-software-communities-worldwide/",
  "title": "Opt Green: Coordinating a Windows 10-to-Linux upcycling campaign across Free Software communities worldwide",
  "subtitle": null,
  "language": "en",
  "track": null,
  "type": "Talk 40 (30min +10 Q&A)",
  "abstract": "Windows 10 security updates end on 14 October 2025, KDE's 29th birthday and also, ironically, International E-Waste Day [1] (you cannot make these things up!). Hundreds of millions of functioning devices [2] will become e-waste. This means manufacturing and transporting new ones, which is perhaps the biggest waste of all: hardware production alone can account for over 75% of a device's CO2 emissions over its lifespan.\r\n\r\nFree Software is a solution, today, and if we work together Windows 10 could truly be the last version of Windows users ever use! In this talk I will present the issue of e-waste and the importance of right-to-repair software, and invite the audience to participate in coordinating a global, unified Free Software campaign over the next year to raise awareness about the environmental harm of software-driven hardware obsolescence, while promoting upgrading users from Windows 10 to GNU/Linux directly. Extending hardware's operating life with Free Software is good for users, and better for the environment. Let's think big and act boldly as a unified community! \r\n\r\n[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/lots-of-pcs-are-poised-to-fall-off-the-windows-10-update-cliff-one-year-from-today/\r\n[1] https://weee-forum.org/iewd-about/\r\n[2] https://www.canalys.com/insights/end-of-windows-10-support-could-turn-240-million-pcs-into-e-waste",
  "description": "This is a talk about digital sustainability and the role software plays in hardware longevity.",
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      "name": "joseph",
      "public_name": "joseph",
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      "biography": null,
      "url": "https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/de/user/joseph/"
    }
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  "origin_url": "https://cfp.cccv.de/38c3-community-stages/talk/ZWDFWB/",
  "feedback_url": "https://cfp.cccv.de/38c3-community-stages/talk/ZWDFWB/feedback/"
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