On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 1:26 AM, zap calmstorm@posteo.de wrote:
in other words: when you add up the amount of time and effort proposed to be spent, and convert it to an actual dollar amount, i estimate that it would come to an amount that would EASILY fund the development of an entirely new type of computer.
one that can be designed to be repaired, upgraded, respect software freedom and not end up in landfill.
... .yeh?
You are correct, and I wish I had realized this a lot sooner. My bad...
yyehh i've been down this evaluation path a number of times now on this list, with different groups of people at different times. it... kinda puts a dampener on peoples' enthusiasm for doing home-grown "hackaday" style projects... but... hackaday projects are for people to learn (and teach other people) electronics. this project is *specifically* about reducing *world-wide* e-waste on a *massive* scale by making desirable long-term upgradeable computing appliances, thus keeping stuff out of landfill as long as possible... and that *has* to be done not by disassembling pre-existing deeply flawed "Designed for Obsolescence and Manufacture" products but by going *right* back to the very source of the problem.
totally different approach that's really hard for some people to understand or accept, the scale is about a hundred thousand times larger than they're able to get their minds around.
l.