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PleasureKevin posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1381437927/endless-computers?ref=category_featured the compoorter
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Subjunctive posted:yeah, IMO it's legit (and the KS is publicity not funding) isn't a lot of the trouble with these sorts of "and everyone gets a computer!" projects that everyone wants a Windows computer because that's what the world uses and that's what can help you get a job? and that we've been dumping our e-waste overseas so used computers are fairly cheap? i mean on newegg for $130 i can get a refurbished Core 2 duo Dell or Lenovo laptop running a legit copy of Win 7. that's really hard to compete with.
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this is a miscarriage of a kickstarter abort! abort!
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also does tim B^uckley really have a loving kid, or is that kid for...
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May 5, 2015 13:53
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the joke is that he sent a picture of his penis to an underage girl and is a pedophile
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Migishu posted:the joke is that he sent a picture of his penis to an underage girl and is a pedophile wait for real? my knowledge of B^u is mostly loss.jpg 
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BeOSPOS posted:wait for real? my knowledge of B^u is mostly loss.jpg pretend I linked to his ED article yes, yes he did
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May 5, 2015 14:04
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unpacked robinhood posted:the compoorter i like this
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Shifty Pony posted:isn't a lot of the trouble with these sorts of "and everyone gets a computer!" projects that everyone wants a Windows computer because that's what the world uses and that's what can help you get a job? and that we've been dumping our e-waste overseas so used computers are fairly cheap? actually, no? nobody sells actual legit computers, except for "computer stores", which target the "20 ghz, 500gb" beep boop specs market that died out here in the 90s, which of course everybody is legit scared of. big box / retail stores don't sell them. and that's where most people shop. computers are actually more expensive in our target markets than over here. all the computers and laptops we found find were at a minimum $500. of course nobody shops online. they have smartphones but our target market doesn't have data plans, except for maybe one day a week, and everybody we talked to is legit scared of online shopping the way everybody here was in 1999. there really isn't any familiarity to windows, outside of business places where the biggest piece of importance is "does it run office", and we're contracting collabora to improve document compatibility in libreoffice. i know it will never be perfect, though.
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interesting. olpc having to resort to air dropping their shittops so that they couldn't refuse them colored my perceptions a bit.
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May 5, 2015 16:53
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olpc sold lovely computers meant to evangelize linux and a python console. nobody here would use them because it's not a computer you can use, it's just a craptop. we use our os all day. lots of employees, including our ceo, have it as their primary os now.
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May 5, 2015 17:00
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May 5, 2015 17:01
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Shifty Pony posted:interesting. olpc having to resort to air dropping their shittops so that they couldn't refuse them colored my perceptions a bit. the whole thing with olpc was not only that it wasn't windows, but it also wasnt any form of common linux at all. with this project like at least its running on fedora which has a decent amount of users and workign with it isn't full of one-offs like the olpc's system
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Suspicious Dish posted:olpc sold lovely computers meant to evangelize linux and a python console. nobody here would use them because it's not a computer you can use, it's just a craptop. so does the templeos guy
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Nintendo Kid posted:the whole thing with olpc was not only that it wasn't windows, but it also wasnt any form of common linux at all. it's not running on fedora. i have no idea where people got this from.
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Suspicious Dish posted:it's not running on fedora. i have no idea where people got this from. it's the perfect shape to be a hat rack for one 
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May 5, 2015 17:20
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a computer that works without internet access is a legitimately good idea imo
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May 5, 2015 17:25
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As a Millennial I posted:can we download the os eventually. i, of course, know the secret s3 url.
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May 5, 2015 17:25
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As a Millennial I posted:a computer that works without internet access is a legitimately good idea imo yeah having the archived copy of wikipedia is cool how does that exactly work?
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May 5, 2015 17:33
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Valeyard posted:yeah having the archived copy of wikipedia is cool http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
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it's actually a lot more complicated than that. we don't use the database dumps since mediawiki markup is flat out impossible to parse. the html is a lot easier for us. we use wikipedia's api to fetch articles, and we do lots of transformations on it right now. same with our other sources (wikisource / wikibooks / wikihow)
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May 5, 2015 18:10
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Suspicious Dish posted:computers are actually more expensive in our target markets than over here. all the computers and laptops we found find were at a minimum $500. how are you going to beat those cost structures? poo poo is $500 for a reason. e.g. argentina's import tariffs
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one option is to manufacture in the market itself. brazil and argentenia has ridiculous import taxes, and we're actually looking at partnering with positivo to manufacture and assemble latin american devices in there. as for bom price itself, we're working on lower-end products with lower price points.
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May 5, 2015 22:22
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Suspicious Dish posted:it's actually a lot more complicated than that. we don't use the database dumps since mediawiki markup is flat out impossible to parse. would you say you like wikihow
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its the worst to deal with from a programming perspective its hilarious to experience wiki politics straight on like wikihow authors fighting over which of their 15 year old kids should do the art on the page http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=Carve-a-Watermelon-T-Rex-Dinosaur&oldid=16132189 http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=Carve-a-Watermelon-T-Rex-Dinosaur&oldid=15762733
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Suspicious Dish posted:its the worst to deal with from a programming perspective lol
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a good and relevant twitter https://twitter.com/WikiHowArt
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May 5, 2015 23:42
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Suspicious Dish posted:as for bom price itself, we're working on lower-end products with lower price points. low enough that intel tossed you over to an odm for support?
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May 5, 2015 23:45
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Suspicious Dish posted:it's actually a lot more complicated than that. we don't use the database dumps since mediawiki markup is flat out impossible to parse. Stupid question: can't you just run mediawiki on the computers with the database dump?
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bobbilljim posted:Stupid question: can't you just run mediawiki on the computers with the database dump? not in any sane way. there's plenty of transformations we want to do on the source material (compress images to better fit on our systems, drop entire articles and unlink them for disk space). and wikipedia's mediawiki setup is one of the most complex ones that exist. it's not easy to reproduce at all.
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https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Ftools%2Frelease.git/HEAD/make-wmf-branch%2Fdefault.conf https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/operations%2Fmediawiki-config.git/HEAD/wmf-config%2Fextension-list for a quick taste
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"Extensions extensions that we want to copy their status from the previous branch" jimny what have you done to teh wikibebias
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dont even care if this has been posted before. dont even fufcking care https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/963861855/keep-track-of-your-gases-with-ch4 
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Nagato posted:dont even care if this has been posted before. dont even fufcking care way better if they put this  up ur rear end imo. make it bluetooth
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bobbilljim posted:way better if they put this is that a metric thread? my bum is whitworth like any true englishman's.
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