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So these lower income people are expected to a: know there's low cost ARM devices that can use their HDMI TV as an input, b: know hackerspaces exist and think t
by MichaelGG 10y ago
So these lower income people are expected to a: know there's low cost ARM devices that can use their HDMI TV as an input, b: know hackerspaces exist and think they aren't for "hackers", c: walk in to one and say "set this up for me"?
That's highly, incredibly, improbable. Anyone meeting such criteria probably always got a device.
- wolfgke 10y agoI know low-income people (living from unemployment benefits) who meet these criteria (thus surely not "highly, incredibly, improbable"). The example with the hacker space was just one illuminating example (though I don't consider it as strange: In the city where I live the hacker space organized some public technology tinkering project in the past). There are of course lots of other ways how you can find people who can explain how to set one up.
- MichaelGG 10y agoAnd have you given them an rpi yet?
- wolfgke 10y agoFor some I set up one, some prefer other ways to access the internet (for example a used computer that they got cheaply from who-knows-where). I just gave the RPi as one example of a cheap example of a non-mobile-device for accessing the internet - there are of course lots of other ways, too.