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by jokoon 4531 days ago
The misleading title will hurt.

Oddly I'm sure you can have a cheap computer that would connect to a TV, something like a raspberry pi.

What about the internet ? I doubt that project will connect people to the internet.

And why are we talking about giving the internet to poor countries, what's the real benefit ? What a stupid charity. Internet infrastructures have a cost, and this project is not about financing that.

And are you sure most refurbished computers can boot from USB anyway ?

You could present this minimal OS USB stuff to anyone and they would say "meeeh", but wow, for a poor fella, now it's genius ? And how do you educate people about how it works ? Good luck.

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It's misleading because it's a money-grab. They make it seem like they're helping those ever-so-poor Africans by giving them computers, when in reality they're probably not even planning to slap Linux on USB sticks and actually get them to the people their contributors think they're helping.