This seems like an evolution of PirateBox & LibraryBox.
Internet in a Box
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Re: Internet in a Box
#32Does this solve real people's actual problems? Selling the 32 gig SD card together with an Android app to browse the data seems far better. The majority of the world either has an Android phone (possibly a decade old), or a family member with one. Have the android app available in the app store and the data downloadable for those who occasionally have internet connectivity (for example visiting a big city), but don't…
>Does this solve real people's actual problems?
It's unclear what product you're asking that about. The post is from "Internet in a Box" who don't sell anything. Just volunteers that put the software together. They do mention a few things being sold by others that use the work created by "Internet in a Box".
>Selling the 32 gig SD card together with an Android app to browse the data seems far better.
There's a couple of versions of this mentioned. The one used by clinics would fit on that, but it only has medical info. The hardware for the more general purpose one is using a 1TB drive. I assume that's for the Wikipedia + Maps + Literature + Khan Academy content mentioned.
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#33These don't work and never have.
We have 20 years on this. I get in the 90's it would have seemed like a quick win. But it didn't work. This inability to move on is frustrating.
If you care , which most people don't. But if you do, what you want on them is porn and copyright TV. If you don't understand why I can't really help you, it's a pretty simple idea.
You can't do that obviously, so how do you do it by proxy?
That is the solution to find.
One simple idea, find places without internet, find a cafe and sell them Starlink. You charity sets it up for free, they pay something per month. Report what happens. I'd bet it'd be very cost effective. Unfortunately it is boring and people don't get to feel good about themselves, so it won't get funded, so perhaps it's just as dumb.
Re: Internet in a Box
#34Does this solve real people's actual problems? Selling the 32 gig SD card together with an Android app to browse the data seems far better. The majority of the world either has an Android phone (possibly a decade old), or a family member with one. Have the android app available in the app store and the data downloadable for those who occasionally have internet connectivity (for example visiting a big city), but don't…
At this point there are still an number of people who for any reason can’t or don’t want to use a smartphone.
Pushing a 60 year old to understand a completely new paradigm is fine if you are putting the time and energy to assist them until they are proficient, but otherwise they might be better with an old computer and check pages through local wi-fi.
There also enough remote locations where phone connectivity is just bad, and they keep 2G rugged phones around for their main use. In these situation I’d imagine a laptop being easier to use than a second phone just for that.
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#35The name is misleading
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#36What? No one has mentioned Moss' "This is the Internet"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg
Not my kind of humor (I'm the guy in the audience who wasn't laughing).
"the internet"
[crowd start laughing uncontrollably, the booms of hystericallity are so loud they create a big bang]
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#37These don't work and never have. We have 20 years on this. I get in the 90's it would have seemed like a quick win. But it didn't work. This inability to move on is frustrating. If you care , which most people don't. But if you do, what you want on them is porn and copyright TV. If you don't understand why I can't really help you, it's a pretty simple idea. You can't do that obviously, so how do you do it by proxy? T…
I'm confused by this comment. They cite examples of it working. Similar setups have been working in Cuba for a long time. What isn't working?
Are you just saying that actual free internet access would be better? Sure, that's true, but not practical everywhere.
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#38Does this solve real people's actual problems? Selling the 32 gig SD card together with an Android app to browse the data seems far better. The majority of the world either has an Android phone (possibly a decade old), or a family member with one. Have the android app available in the app store and the data downloadable for those who occasionally have internet connectivity (for example visiting a big city), but don't…
Get on a plane and then a bus and then a microbus or some kind of informal rural transit, go as far as you can into the mountains or the desert or the jungle and take with you one of these and a mikrotik router and a source of solar power. You won't be able to get much of a cell signal - or it's slow or expensive - and community access to Wikipedia and health-care information could be the most useful treasure you bring with you, without needing to worry about the kind of devices they run.
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#39Amusing name, but if it's not networked in any way, it's not really 'internet', it's just an extract of various sources that's pretty much static in time.
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#40Amusing name, but if it's not networked in any way, it's not really 'internet', it's just an extract of various sources that's pretty much static in time.
Sneakernet updates seem doable? If you follow the "adding the quality content" link to https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-Installation#add-cont... , there are many sources mentioned, like Kiwix ZIM files, which can include fairly frequent updates.
If you are in a place without connection, how do you get updates? Any kind of diff mechanism with USB storage?