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Not everyone chooses which device to have, nor is buying the only way to acquire a device.
by forgotmypw17 3y ago
Not everyone chooses which device to have, nor is buying the only way to acquire a device.
- pjmlp 3y agoMost certainly true for Google employees.
- forgotmypw17 3y agoI think most Google employees can get whatever device they want. I was thinking of someone who does not have the money for a new device, but acquires a salvage one.
- pjmlp 3y agoThey are in good position then, plenty of good deals on proper computers as well.
- quickthrower2 3y agoI am seeing $40 chromebooks on ebay - tempting to buy one just for the steal-factor. Why buy an RPi?
- pjmlp 3y agoI bet you will find other computers for similar prices on ebay.
- forgotmypw17 3y agoPlease forgive me for failing to get this idea across clearly, and I will try again, because I consider it an important one: There are people in the world, many people, who do not have any access to either money or the ability to choose their computing device, and the only devices they have available to them, if they are lucky, are the ones which they have already been granted by the circumstances. These people include, but are not limited to, people in disadvantaged financial situations, such as countries with low monetary flow; those living in abusive households, especially minors; those imprisoned or otherwise having their freedom restricted; those attached to a device for sentimental reasons; those who are able to exchange money for a device, as you suggest, and are waiting for it to arrive. To the overwhelming majority of the world, 300 dollars, or even 20 dollars, is a huge sum, one that is either unattainable, or can only be attained through much struggle, difficulty, and sacrifice. To an individual in such a situation, their Chromebook, or 10-year-old Android phone, or 20-year-old PC, may be the only option at accessing the digital world. And we should do everything in our power to facilitate their ability to use such a device.
- quickthrower2 3y agoI can’t argue with that. That is why I hope end of life chromebooks are not landfill. A good outcome is a container of them going to help poor people. Prisons are an interesting one. The constraint is political not financial, at least for US prisons. Probably giving someone a access to a $1k computer requires $10k to feed the rent seekers inbetween. And that is if we even value not punishing prisoners beyond the fact they are inside anyway.
- forgotmypw17 3y agoYou're still talking about buying and choosing, and I was talking about not doing that.
- pjmlp 3y ago"....but acquires a salvage one." => buy or obtain (an asset or object) for oneself.
- n6h6 3y agoI encourage you to look up "obtain" and stop being intentionally ignorant.
- pjmlp 3y agoI encourage you to be clever when obtaining computers and find one that is actually designed to be a proper PC. It surely shouldn't be hard for any clever person to find out such offers, it might even lie beside that shinny chromebook one.