That's what is already being used. If you can jailbreak/reset devices with passwords then collecting old phones and tablets, doing that and getting those to the homeless would be great. Of you're with an org a dropoff for that stuff would be useful as hell. Chargers are also a huge need
There is a general need for devices, most are hand me downs or phones other people dropped and lost somewhere and sometimes stolen as well, the latter two need to reset the password to use. They also break more frequently since they're almost always on bags or pockets with a bunch of other stuff that can crack a screen or can get wet easily.
Wall Chargers are better than none but portable chargers would actually be very useful for sure. Outlets can be found but not necessarily at all times, portable chargers would be handy as hell.
There was one in an emergency shelter a local org had set up in a park. Basically people without homes could get on a list to get a shack built for them, basically an insulated shed with a window and a cot for sleeping but it was dry and had a lock on the door so people could own more than they carry. This fire happens at just the wrong time when things were opening up after covid. They let these shelters go ahead without interference because it covered their blind spot over covid restrictions on shelters, now they're interested in tourists again so that one fire got the rest torn down.
Phones are underrated harm reduction tools for addicts as well. If you have a phone you can have a steady dealer, steady dealer means you're more likely to have safe buys and not get bad batches and stuff like that.
Preaching to the fucking choir. They gave all of them 2 weeks in a hotel with felree meals and shit but that's two weeks, you still have jack shit when that's done but it's long enough to not be news anymore. Addiction and homelessness are my praxis focus it's infuriating how easy it would be to solve. It would be so fucking cheap to house the homeless and provide basic social safety nets. One shitty thing about mutual aide is that it's people living on the fringe of poverty helping people in a slightly worse situation and doing what should be the fucking government's job for them and it's not like you can go on strike helping the poor, you have to do their job for them and argue that they should be doing their job at the same time. It gets very stark that without seizing the means of production the people truly have absolutely nothing and everything is rented, bought or comes with strings attached and that can be taken at any time for any reason. It's perverse.
That's what is already being used. If you can jailbreak/reset devices with passwords then collecting old phones and tablets, doing that and getting those to the homeless would be great. Of you're with an org a dropoff for that stuff would be useful as hell. Chargers are also a huge need
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There is a general need for devices, most are hand me downs or phones other people dropped and lost somewhere and sometimes stolen as well, the latter two need to reset the password to use. They also break more frequently since they're almost always on bags or pockets with a bunch of other stuff that can crack a screen or can get wet easily.
Wall Chargers are better than none but portable chargers would actually be very useful for sure. Outlets can be found but not necessarily at all times, portable chargers would be handy as hell.
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There was one in an emergency shelter a local org had set up in a park. Basically people without homes could get on a list to get a shack built for them, basically an insulated shed with a window and a cot for sleeping but it was dry and had a lock on the door so people could own more than they carry. This fire happens at just the wrong time when things were opening up after covid. They let these shelters go ahead without interference because it covered their blind spot over covid restrictions on shelters, now they're interested in tourists again so that one fire got the rest torn down.
Phones are underrated harm reduction tools for addicts as well. If you have a phone you can have a steady dealer, steady dealer means you're more likely to have safe buys and not get bad batches and stuff like that.
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Preaching to the fucking choir. They gave all of them 2 weeks in a hotel with felree meals and shit but that's two weeks, you still have jack shit when that's done but it's long enough to not be news anymore. Addiction and homelessness are my praxis focus it's infuriating how easy it would be to solve. It would be so fucking cheap to house the homeless and provide basic social safety nets. One shitty thing about mutual aide is that it's people living on the fringe of poverty helping people in a slightly worse situation and doing what should be the fucking government's job for them and it's not like you can go on strike helping the poor, you have to do their job for them and argue that they should be doing their job at the same time. It gets very stark that without seizing the means of production the people truly have absolutely nothing and everything is rented, bought or comes with strings attached and that can be taken at any time for any reason. It's perverse.