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[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago (2 children)

a village with no modern technology. How did they keep the tablets charged?

[–] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn’t even count early computers as modern technology. If it took up an entire room, that’s not really modern.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ethiopian village running a mainframe

[–] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 months ago

Every morning at 4am, the village children wake up. With swatters in hand, they race into the memory banks, ready to debug the relays before the morning batch job is run.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

https://feddit.uk/comment/6006965 They were given solar chargers with the tablets.