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ullarah

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This is great! Is the source available?

A couple of suggestions:

  * Option to disable geographic location links

  * Option to disable general articles

  * Language options (include simple english)

  * Maybe an option to use the mobile version? (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/)

The biggest issue among my family and friends are the social engineering questions that strangers ask when on Facebook/Twitter/etc. "Hey what School did you go to as a child?", "What was your first car?". Those kind of innocent like questions that older generations just answer without thinking too much about.

That and explaining two factor authentication and password management, thankfully the latter is not much of an issue these days thanks to browser-integrated password managers like Bitwarden.

As a community trainer, I do a lot of explaining and development. I've found that simple, concise, straight-to-the-point dot points are the key to getting the message across. Perhaps have a short explanation about a topic, and the dot points explaining the fix, or helpful hints.

Definitely keeping an eye on this one and if I can contribute in any way I will.

I can admit that sometimes I don't bother with long commit messages, but this project takes the cake.

"OK", "OK but some bugs"...

Flip phones are also generally limiting in terms of accessibility though (unless they've changed??). Using the phone as a magnifier, or text to speech comes to mind.

I think at the end of the day it comes down to the sheer willpower of using the smartphone when you need it the most.

LackRack 9 years ago

Thanks for the info! I guess you don't live in a very humid/hot area like Australia then!

OpenSCAD seems to be a great tool, are there any reference guides or tutorials you recommend to use it?

LackRack 9 years ago

Hopefully this isn't a silly question, but do you have a concern about the exhaust/heat hitting the floor instead of having enough room for it to escape?

Not feedback per se, but we have a similar product here in Australia called YourTutor (http://www.yourtutor.com.au/) which most schools/libraries have on offer. So perhaps you could take on some similar ideas?

Looks like a great product, having a listing of tutors that would be helping, and possibly having times when it's available (or is it 24/7?) on the website may encourage more use.