I really want to start a mutual aid service where I give people free tech, like Google Pixels pre-loaded with GrapheneOS, but I haven’t seen many examples of how mutual aid works with expensive stuff. Does anyone have any ideas of how to equitably distribute such phones?

  • fidibus@lemmy.161.social
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    4 years ago

    the source of those electronics are other people who don’t want them anymore, because they are “old” or broken.

    In germany there is a non-profit who accept donations of hardware and money and they fix old hardware to then give to people in need, (https://computertruhe.de/), maybe something like this would work?

    If you want to do this maybe find a couple of people to help or start small by yourself, fixing old computers is pretty easy if you have a couple of them to swap parts :)