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it's very easy to verge into OLPC type thinking with this, you probably should just give them normal bikes instead of trying to come up with some bespoke DIY-ab
by Palomides 3mo ago
it's very easy to verge into OLPC type thinking with this, you probably should just give them normal bikes instead of trying to come up with some bespoke DIY-able system
- nchmy 3mo agoIt's extremely expensive to ship bikes around - even old unused ones.
- soperj 3mo agoisn't this what bike thieves do though?
- mghackerlady 3mo agothe OLPC was the "send them bikes" disguised as the DIY-able system. They designed what they thought would be the best computer for impoverished children when in reality those children had no real use for a computer
- Palomides 3mo agoI dunno, saying they don't have a use for a computer seems incorrect to me, even in the poorest parts of the world today, a substantial minority have acquired their own computer that's cheap, small, efficient, has a built in long distance radio, can run arbitrary software, doesn't require reliable electricity (I mean cell phones) obviously it's a different technological and economic today compared to 2005, but still, "the global poor don't need computers" is questionable just based on the fact that they are spending their own money to get them
- mghackerlady 3mo agoSaying they had no use for a computer was a poor choice of words. Rather, OLPC wasn't what those communities needed
- apitman 3mo ago> bespoke I see what you did there