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Gemini Digest, Vol 25, Issue 4

Almaember almaember at disroot.org

Sat Aug 7 00:33:59 BST 2021

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On 06/08/2021 21:23, Pete D. wrote:

I'm struggling to understand how a gemini client would help the girl on

the 2nd hand PSP. There is literally no usecase there for gemini to have

helped. We could donate money to her local library to have a public PC

or something. And if you are talking about infrastructure issues with

that, well, the 2nd hand PSP connected, so that problem was solved a

different way.

Gemini doesn't/won't replace the WWW, nor will it make it more

accessible to underpowered hardware. I guess this person could figure

out a gopher client on some ancient hardware. Then what? Would the girl

be able to apply for temporary housing using gopher? Gemini would be no

different.

I get it, it's cool to be able to use old hardware to access modern

things. I have a bunch of old computers in a rack in my basement, I

understand the desire.

peteyboy at sdf.org

SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org

Also, I'm pretty sure you can fill those forms in the nearest government office. (is that the word?) Being Hungarian myself (which is the country where Szeged is, unless there's another Szeged somewhere else) I had never encountered anything similar that couldn't be done in-person, or through the phone (for which you can use a public phone).

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