Permacomputing is a nascent concept and community of practice concerned with developing alternative computing systems grounded in principles of resilience, reuse, sufficiency, and ecological limits. However, research engaging with permacomputing remains in an early stage of development, raising concerns about whether permacomputing can move beyond reflective critique to become a meaningful alternative practice. Through a research-through-design case study, we documented our experience moving a personal website from a data centre in Texas to a self-hosted solar-powered server built from reclaimed electronics. Guided by permacomputing principles and relational aesthesis, we explore what it takes for permacomputing to reconfigure material and perceptual relations. Our findings reveal the frictions of moving away from a maximalist techno-aesthetic while attempting to re-use already existing technologies, potential ways to overcome these challenges through building a community of practice, and the transformative potential of visibilizing and visceralizing digital infrastructures to cultivate more responsible ways of relating to technology. This paper contributes to emerging research on permacomputing and its aesthetics by bringing it into dialogue with theories of non-place and relational aesthesis. Rather than functioning as a purely symbolic gesture, permacomputing practices can cultivate greater collective autonomy, agency, and responsibility in how communities engage and create meaning within digital infrastructures. In the context of socio-ecological crises and anti-colonial transformation, our research offers a situated approach to building and relating to computing technologies in the ashes of dominant technological paradigms.

翻译：永续计算是一个新兴概念与实践社群，致力于开发基于韧性、再利用、充足性与生态极限原则的替代性计算系统。然而，围绕永续计算的相关研究仍处于早期发展阶段，这引发了对其能否从反思性批判转向有意义的替代实践的担忧。通过一项"研究型设计"案例研究，我们记录了一段将个人网站从得克萨斯州的数据中心迁移至由再生电子元器件搭建的自主托管太阳能服务器的全过程。在永续计算原则与关系性审美的指导下，我们探索了永续计算重构物质与感知关系所需的条件。研究结果揭示了在脱离最大化技术审美的同时尝试复用现有技术所面临的摩擦，通过建立实践社群克服这些挑战的潜在路径，以及可视化与具身化数字基础设施在培养更负责任的科技关系方面的变革潜力。本文通过将永续计算与"非地方"理论及关系性审美进行对话，为该领域新兴研究及其美学维度提供了贡献。永续计算实践并非纯粹符号化姿态，而是能够培育社区在数字基础设施中参与和创造意义时更大的集体自主性、能动性与责任感。在社会生态危机与反殖民转型的背景下，本研究为主流技术范式废墟中构建和连接计算技术提供了一种情境化的实践路径。