Sustainability
Every computer that keeps working is one less to build, ship and throw away. Trebired keeps its machines running for as long as they can.
is worth the effort
Trebired cares about nature, and supports it the way a software organization can: machines stay in service for as long as they work, they are taken apart before anything is thrown away, and the software is light enough to run on the computers people already own.
62 million tonnes of e-waste
That is how much electronic waste the world produced in 2022, according to the Global E-waste Monitor 2024 from the UN's ITU and UNITAR. Only 22.3% of it was documented as properly collected and recycled. Where the rest went is not on record.
22.3%
documented as properly collected and recycled
77.7%
not on record
Where Trebired stands
Working hardware is not waste.Computers are often thrown away while they still work, because the software they run stops supporting them or grows too heavy for them. Trebired works the other way round.
Its applications stay under 500 MB of memory and are built for the computers people already have. Its own servers stay in service until they can no longer do their job. And everything it builds is published under MIT or the AGPL, so anyone can keep it running after support ends.
Measured in megabytes
Memory is scarce. Since late 2025, chipmakers have turned their production toward AI data centres, and the price of ordinary RAM has climbed sharply. Software that asks for more memory with every release pushes people to buy new computers and throw working ones away. Trebired builds the other way round: the less memory an application needs, the better, so it runs on the machines people already own.
The target for every Trebired application. The cap is 500 MB, and above it nothing ships.
Every Trebired application runs under a hard cap of 500 MB of memory and aims for 200 or less, measured on the running process under real use. An overrun is fixed at its cause, never by raising the cap.
Old servers stay in the rack
The racks Trebired runs its own services on hold servers of every kind from 2009 to today, the oldest next to the newest. Age alone does not take a server out of service.
2009
The oldest machines in the racks belong to a generation introduced in 2009, and they stay in service for as long as they do their job.
Today
The newest machines are current-generation servers. They join the rack next to the old ones, not instead of them.
Reused first, recycled last
A retired server is taken apart before anything is thrown away. What still works keeps working somewhere else in the rack.
A server leaves the rack when it can no longer do its job, and not before. Then it is taken apart: drives, memory and power supplies that still work go into the machines that are still running, and only the chassis and whatever failed go to an authorised e-waste take-back point, never the bin.
Old computers keep their job
The start of the Linux desktop's rise
2025-10-14Windows 10 reached the end of support on 14 October 2025, and Windows 11 does not install on a computer without a TPM 2.0 chip and a processor on Microsoft's supported list. Linux still installs on those computers, and every desktop application Trebired writes is built for Linux.