Quite some years ago, we brought the #OLPC AKA the 100$ laptop to Rwanda [1]. A surprising thing happened. The laptops were often without battery power in the morning. A thing that wasn’t anticipated. It had two reasons. One was the keyboard LED. It was used by the parents to have a light at home. The other was a bigger surprise. The parents used the mesh networking to discuss market prices for their produce. Fascinating. 1/3
Oh hey, I was tasked with porting Wine to Sugar back when I was starting at CodeWeavers (would've been late 2008-2009 I think?). I still have an XO from then, but I haven't tried to power it on recently.
Unrelatedly, an irc client I co-authored was ported, but with the CTCP module removed which meant the /me command didn't work (because that's implemented using a CTCP command).
