It's a shame the technology hasn't reached economies of scale yet despite the Kindle, it has so much potential for signage and other mostly static applications.
You cant always whip enough factory workers in vietnam to transform resources mined in Myanmar for 250$, and sometimes you have to pay a bit more. I suppose most of the money goes to R&D to finally find a way to get high refresh rates, anyway.
I think nobody's sleeping on high margin for these things, collecting massive mountain of cash to buy sport cars. It's a difficult concept to bring up, this doubly stable state display that require electricity only on change. It's really worth paying for it to evolve.
That would also be a very interesting post-apocalyptic computer monitor ( for the low consumption of it only, maybe it has drawback like being brittle, heavy, not durable ? )
Neat.
More seriously, I think in post apocalyptic world “computer skills” would be utter garbage.
Ham radio maybe. Or being able to bring Wikipedia / encyclopedic knowledge of some specific subject like plant granfting technic, maps, and so on.
But I envision “camping & fishing & gardening” as far far more important.
Collapse OS is neat, but what would be a real use case?
( it’s a real question, I want to be convince otherwise )
It's all explained in the FAQ / motivation document:
http://collapseos.org/why.html
> Q: Is computing worth saving?
> Some people doubt that computers will stay relevant after a civilizational collapse. I mostly agree. The drastic simplification of our society will mean that we have a lot less information to manage. We'll be a lot more busy with more pressing activities than processing data.
> However, the goal of Collapse OS is not to save computing, but electronics. Managing electricity will stay immensely useful.
> Q: Aren't there more important things to do than an operating system?
> Yes! Yes! Yes! A metric ton of projects are more important than Collapse OS with regards to civilizational collapse. This doesn't make Collapse OS useless.
> [...]
> However, when you look at it from a communal perspective, Collapse OS starts to make sense. Once a particular community already took care of its immediate survival and is looking at going from "surviving" to "thriving", if it has Collapse OS and someone who can make sense of it, then that community will have a great asset.
Managing electricity. Ok. Hm. I’ve seen shoddy grid. And … yeah. They all use some type of contrôler.
Ok. Anyway thanks for pointing out the obvious page I missed.
No idea if that would imply this is needed as an adult though. And that is assuming I don't misremember in the first place.