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?
well, i would reach out to orgs that help people who are struggling. at least my org is looking to give out tech to immigrants/refugees. if we are neaby maybe we can work together
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If you are set with this plan, ask people to donate old phones they might still have, or maybe take a teaching approach also and show people how to change their OS if they want to keep their phones.
phones do not have to be expensive.
people do pay alot of money for quality phones but it’s not always worth it.
i would buy a ‘lot’ of used phones.
i think it’s an important step that most people won’t do for themselves.Look up a hirarchy of needs and see where you can make a good impact and then maybe try to grow your support structures. In the end you could maybe refurbish older hardware with your collective and give that away, many people don’t need more than a linux machine for office and web browsing stuff and are totally happy with it.
Are you aware of resources about repurposing electronics and where to easily find such electronics?
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 :)
Thanks, that’s great info!
Or really anything in high demand, e.g. drugs
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I know Fairphone is great, and I try to tend towards ethical consumption (even when there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, practices like veganism is necessary), but I’m concerned about the privacy and security of Fairphone. GrapheneOS is considered by the privacy/security communities I hang out in to be the solution for a private phone that is also secure. I just don’t know, I totally understand, and it’s a tricky ethical dilemma for me.
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Drugs like shrooms are laughably easy to produce at home, but others like morphine based ones are pretty hard to make I’d imagine
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