Keepod: Wasting $40,000 to Reinvent Linux on a Stick

So you’re not enabling billions to have a computer, you’re enabling billions to boot from a USB stick and save their own desktop settings versus using a shared computer and just saving files to/from the USB stick (if they had a computer), which they could already do before with a bootable USB Ubuntu/Android/whatever.

Unfortunately I think you, the author, are missing out on part of what’s going on here. ..And it’s taking away from any credible points you may be making. Let me walk you through it.

Accessibility means something very different to uninitiated computer users than it does to someone who knows how to save their setting files, etc. on a usb stick. Gasp, I know it is a shock but a large group of contemporary technology users would know how to do that.

..That, BTW, is partially the fault of the technology industry and computer geeks like yourself. Between planned obsolesce and pushing out new versions of things constantly you all move things around, a lot. I can see lots of way this habit can work out in your favor. For example, it keeps repair and upgrade and additional revenue streams. But it does mean you all need to shut the fuck up about computers being so easy. The foreground apps are totally easy to use. The background stuff is designed not to be. So sit down and shut the fuck. Your solution is not the right one for people who have used a computer before.

While we’re clearing obvious shit up, you don’t ask someone who has never used a computer to use Linux. That’s like asking someone to freaking ballroom dance before they can walk.

Sigh… Computer geeks are in a bubble. Things that are obvious and commonplace to them are actually not really so common among the non-coding, non techie public.