Re:Internet in a Box
by zamnos on Saturday April 29, 2023 @04:28AM
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The privilege is in being able to not have Internet access for an extended period and just enjoy life from a tropical beach, sipping on a mai tai, with no work to check-in on to make sure nothing's blown up. From the first world, only the middle class and higher can afford such a luxury. But the Internet is just so damned useful that, sure, it enables doomscrolling, but it enables so much more as a communication medium (the MVP for many businesses is a email address or a whatsapp number) that the assertion is just ignorant of life before the Internet.
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Re:Internet in a Box
by hammyhavoc on Saturday April 29, 2023 @11:32AM
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Well, some content available through the internet is useful. That content was available on CD-ROMs in the '90s as encyclopedias.
The function provided with this project is some content available offline just like those CD-ROMs. You aren't going to be communicating with folks on the other side of the world via it. Ergo, it is not "the internet in a box".
> From the first world, only the middle class and higher can afford such a luxury.
That is a HN perspective.
Blue collar shift workers often leave the work at work, and don't 'hop on a call' outside work. I took a 4x10 shift job and it has good benefits and pays enough for vacations. For the extravagant luxuries, TGFBtc.