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All our friends and parents should now run their own servers.
by mav3rick 7y ago
All our friends and parents should now run their own servers.
- poisonborz 7y agoYes, why not? It could be as simple as plugging a box to a wall and having a quick setup, like a router.
- mav3rick 7y agoLet's continue to engage because I want to screenshot this for posterity - So if you want to video chat with your parents, you will buy them a server and a phone ? Then when the server will fail, you will go to their house to fix it ? (Remember you can't video chat now)
- smabie 7y agoThere's no reason you couldn't do p2p video chat. Now you just need the phone (which you already need the way things work now).
- notatoad 7y agohave you ever tried to walk a non-technical friend or relative through setting up a router? "as simple as setting up a router" means it's too complicated for ~90% of people.
- poisonborz 7y agoHave you tried modern consumer routers recently? It's far simpler and faster than eg. a start-up setup wizard of a smartphone.
- notatoad 7y agoi have, and i agree that they've gotten really good. but my customers are still completely lost when they have to interact with theirs in any way. No matter how good the UI is, it still requires a mental model of how a router works (for example: the internet comes into your house on a wire, the box turns it into wifi, which comes out the antennas) that a lot of people just don't have. There's an understanding that there's a box with blinky lights and without it there's no internet. You can't assume people understand anything beyond that.