Re:OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world
by avhon1 on Monday April 16, 2018 @02:25PM
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The OLPC has most of the characteristics you ascribe to books:
* it works even after getting a bit wet
* it works even if I sit on it (caveat: the hinge will definitely snap if I sit on the screen while it is open)
* I highlight, underline, and annotate documents with it
* I can do useful work in it. (As an example, I made [0] on one of my OLPC XO-1 laptops. I also developed a patch for ico [1] on the same laptop.)
* I can easily copy and share my work or other people's work with it.
(If you want, I can post some videos to defend this. The OLPC is a really well-designed piece of hardware, and too few people have gotten to experience it.)
* it works even after getting a bit wet
* it works even if I sit on it (caveat: the hinge will definitely snap if I sit on the screen while it is open)
* I highlight, underline, and annotate documents with it
* I can do useful work in it. (As an example, I made [0] on one of my OLPC XO-1 laptops. I also developed a patch for ico [1] on the same laptop.)
* I can easily copy and share my work or other people's work with it.
(If you want, I can post some videos to defend this. The OLPC is a really well-designed piece of hardware, and too few people have gotten to experience it.)
[0] http://bloominglabs.org/index.php/Logo#Animated_Logo
[1] https://linux.die.net/man/1/ico