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it's very easy to verge into OLPC type thinking with this, you probably should just give them normal bikes instead of trying to come up with some bespoke DIY-able system

the OLPC was the "send them bikes" disguised as the DIY-able system. They designed what they thought would be the best computer for impoverished children when in reality those children had no real use for a computer

I dunno, saying they don't have a use for a computer seems incorrect to me, even in the poorest parts of the world today, a substantial minority have acquired their own computer that's cheap, small, efficient, has a built in long distance radio, can run arbitrary software, doesn't require reliable electricity (I mean cell phones)

obviously it's a different technological and economic today compared to 2005, but still, "the global poor don't need computers" is questionable just based on the fact that they are spending their own money to get them


Saying they had no use for a computer was a poor choice of words. Rather, OLPC wasn't what those communities needed

It's extremely expensive to ship bikes around - even old unused ones.

isn't this what bike thieves do though?

> bespoke

I see what you did there


if we had a standardized way to deliver packages like we do mail (the heavily regulated mailbox!) this would not be a problem, it's a phenomenal waste of human effort to navigate this uniquely for every location

it's not like a doorman where there's useful social interaction


I have a PO Box (I do not have a mailbox so the city gives me a PO box for free). A kind human gets my packages from the back and hands them to me. It's great and efficient. The only inconvenience is the hours are a little narrow.

I'm not very familiar with nix, how well does it do with cross compiling? is anyone actually using it for yocto sorts of domains?

You can generally remotely build for any supported architecture[1]. The build process will be painfully slow though if you have cache misses.

[1] https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=26.05&query=boot.bi...


Nitpick: binfmt.emulatedSystems is not true cross compilation. It sets up a nixos to enable emulated native compilation. After painful tinkering, i prefer this way too. When i recall correctly, for cross compilation you'd have to use nixpkgs flags.

At some point it's a matter of perspective. If the emulated system is fast, it feels the same as "true" cross compilation. In the end it's a bunch of bits and bytes which produces some other bits and bytes when we poke it. If it goes fast, it's good. If it goes slow, it's painful.

Is this similar to QEMU user mode emulation?

We do Nix-based cross-compiling for non-embedded software (ARM vs x64). I'd say it works mostly transparently.

Nixos can cross build os images for Le Potato with device tree stuff: https://hub.libre.computer/t/nixos-for-aml-s905x-cc-le-potat...

have you tried OpenTabletDriver?

Yes, but if I remember correctly I ran into some issues with it. It's been a long time ago so I don't remember what those issues were.

quite happy with huion on linux

I think licensing anything from wacom or samsung is a big ask for a two person(?) project that's making a very small run of open source/open hardware devices


what a wild comparison, millions (billions?) of humans have died from food-borne disease, and yet we do in fact still let people very casually sell food to the public (even unpasteurized milk in the US)


I can't speak for elsewhere, but in the UK she can still sell her cupcakes, she just needs about 3 different kinds of license and one council inspection to do it. I imagine that is fairly normal across the EU


funny that this summary is paywalled but the actual article is open access

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10546-z


Enclosing the commons has long been an effective way to make money.


Both are hosted by nature.com though...


Thanks so much.


considering this is a review aggregating a bunch of small n studies from before we acknowledged the replication crisis in psychology, I'm going with "no"


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