Great idea. I predict it will fail.
There is reason why we moved beyond the "bread case" computers. I don't see any problem that this "desktop" solves. A RPi with a keyboard would be the same price.
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In developed nations, I think families in poverty usually have a TV. The brilliance here is that a kid in a poor family can get started with just a single piece of hardware that's available cheaply.
>In developed nations, I think families in poverty usually have a TV. That was a fair assertion 1997. Nowadays you will easily find a bunch of computers too. >The brilliance here is that a kid in a poor family can get started with just a single piece of hardware that's available cheaply. $100 isn't cheap when you're poor. A poor family that has any sense certainly won't buy brand-new hardware. When you have to save m…
I guess you'd have to define poor. Many low-income families have things that cost $100 or more, like game consoles, tablets, phones...
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I'd assert that TV's are commonplace. This, just like the BBC Micro, ZX80/1 and C64, can easily be used with a TV.
I thought new trend is getting rid of TV's until so many visitors asked us "where's your tv!?".
You're talking about an entirely different group of people. Performative minimalism is not widely practiced among the groups werte discussing here.
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#704Now that the ARM build of macOS is days away, could this Raspberry Pi be the ultimate Hackintosh ?
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According the uk official national statistics manufacturing product sales for 2019 was £396 billions.
I meant in terms of quality.
Ever watched formula 1?
I'll bet you're thinking of British Leyland, which behaved a bit like Boeing currently does. But much, much worse, and at every level.
British companies that are aware they can fail produce quality just fine. It's a fairly simple tale.
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If you can write code to drive hardware from pinouts I think you can click a button to enable Linux apps.
Writing code means not requiring Linux apps.
Pis don’t require Linux, they support Linux. If you want to teach kids on RISC OS like I was in the late 90s, there isn’t anything stopping you.
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>In developed nations, I think families in poverty usually have a TV. That was a fair assertion 1997. Nowadays you will easily find a bunch of computers too. >The brilliance here is that a kid in a poor family can get started with just a single piece of hardware that's available cheaply. $100 isn't cheap when you're poor. A poor family that has any sense certainly won't buy brand-new hardware. When you have to save m…
I guess you'd have to define poor. Many low-income families have things that cost $100 or more, like game consoles, tablets, phones...
Sure, but for a sense of scale about how badly wrong things can go even in “rich” countries like England, 17% of state educated kids get free school meals because food is too expensive: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54692880
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I guess you'd have to define poor. Many low-income families have things that cost $100 or more, like game consoles, tablets, phones...
Sure, but for a sense of scale about how badly wrong things can go even in “rich” countries like England, 17% of state educated kids get free school meals because food is too expensive: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54692880
My local rural school, its around 50%
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I looked at it and immediately went "ZX Spectrum reborn". :)
I thought "BBC Micro". (We had two of them at school when I was about 12. The 4 AppleIIs were always in demand with a queue of people waiting to play games, there was almost _always_ one of the BBC Micros to play with if you wanted to type in Basic code...)
I thought Amiga A500... Especially with the name and form factor ;-)
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and it is british. anecdotally in terms of longevity and development i have seen they do the best job.
Perhaps that was the case with e.g. vintage sports cars from the 50s and 60s. But I don't think the British manufacturing industry has been doing well ever since. I would love to be wrong, though.
Sometimes it still is, Rolls-Royce (Engines and Turbines) are still the Topline.