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> In that case, old hardware is much more likely to be present This project seems to be targeting computers and games consoles from the 1980s - stuff that hasn
by ac29 6y ago
> In that case, old hardware is much more likely to be present
This project seems to be targeting computers and games consoles from the 1980s - stuff that hasn't been manufactured in decades. Why is that more likely to be present than something like a Raspberry Pi, or a WiFi router that can be flashed with OpenWRT?
- nexuist 6y agoBecause third world economies run on stuff from the 1980s. Most of the world still doesn't have WiFi routers.
- henearkr 6y agoI don't know everywhere in the world, but at least in some of the poorest countries of West Africa, in the low-to-middle class (merchants, a large part of bike/car taxis, salesmen, teachers, IT...) everyone have a smartphone, using heavily Whatsapp btw. This is the kind of hw that will most likely remain after a collapse. Survival should concentrate on using smartphones for general purposes, while trying to not depend on online services (AppleStore, PlayStore etc). As a side note, survival best practice would be to depend only on what is the most likely to remain. Programmers knowing the mainstream languages are the wide majority, so after losing lots of people, they are the ones most likely to be still around. Better build an OS based on C/C++, Java, JS.
- ac29 6y agoWhich country exactly do you think has no WiFi devices, but has a ton of TRS-80s?