[Arm-netbook] What I have done so far

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68


On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 7:23 AM, fuumind <fuumind at openmailbox.org> wrote:
> I'd like to share my thoughts on this as well. I don't think Luke is
> trying to sell us anything. I think he is asking us to finance a part
> of his grand plan to reprogram how humanity thinks about consumer
> electronics with the goal of making the world a better place. Only
> problem for him is he has to dress it up as a sale of products because
> that's how the game is rigged.

 ... pretty much.  there is more to it than that: there is some
urgency as well, related to the consequences of the US dollar being
the world reserve currency *and* that the US treasury began
hyperinflating the dollar some time around 2006 (see senator ron
paul's book "end the fed").  i won't go into details but we have not
got long.

> Luke is doing this because he thinks it is *the right thing* from a
> moral perpective, not because he is primarily looking for profit or for
> a good time. If he did he would be doing like cocal cola or the candy
> industry, or even like the car industry or the food industry and tickle
> our wants or needs. Even like the people at Nextthing Co with their
> successfull crowdfunding of the CHIP computer (https://www.kickstarter.
> com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer/). They don't
> ask people to change the world. They are trying to get a profit from
> selling a fun tinkering experience and never mention the fact that
> their product is full of blobs, at least not in their marketing. Sure
> they would prefer if it was fully libre and recyclable but they are
> willing to compromise in order to make it easy for them to have people
> spend money.

 correct.  i only recently encountered "Bob Podolski", last month, who
was the *very first person* ever to define for me what "ethical acts"
are.  most people do not operate ethically.  they believe that
"unethical means justifies ethical ends" - BY DEFINITION if you use
unethical means you CANNOT achieve an ethical end.

> The question at this stage isn't "How can we make people want to buy
> these products?" The question is "How do we gather enough passionate
> recruits to get this revolution going?" but that question is hard to
> fit into the realities of a marketing campaign for a couple of
> products.

 pretty much, but we have to try, and i've actually found it fun to
tell the story in terms that people can understand how to save money
with this approach.  the ethical side is almost irrelevant

 mostly i focus on the fact that people can save money by being able
to upgrade for $50 instead of throwing a $500 laptop into landfill.
if they have children and not much money i tell them that they can
solve all the arguments by buying one laptop housing for the household
and one computer card per family member.  if they have a tablet and a
laptop i tell them they can save 40% by buying only one computer card
to share between two devices, and save even more by sharing the
computer card across even more housings.

 save, save, save - less cost, less cost, less cost.  problems go
away, hassle-free computing, no trying to transfer files between
devices, just transfer the whole computer.  easy, easy, easy.

 but there is still quite a lot to do, technically-wise, hence the
reason why i want to stay at the MOQ 250 level (or just above) at this
stage.  we need you (the technically-minded people) to help try this
out on your friends and family and close co-workers, supporting them
and being prepared to walk them through the process of being
comfortable with this new paradigm.  if you've done "tech support" for
your friends and family for 5-20 years, you'll know what i mean.

l.