@Massick I hope it doesn't act up on you. You are still in the island, right?

We have so much gear and stuff here that people are givign it away for free to thrift stores, etc.

Home wifi routers, printers, lcd monitors, even laptops. You can get great business class machines. off lease, for a low price. That's the kind of machines I like.

Got spares I could donate, maybe in the island schools could use older hardware that here in CA nobody wants - and often is perfectly functional.

I know there is a programme for recycling bicycles from here, shipping them there, and it's great. I hate to see them go to the dump, so sad.

@Massick I picked up 3 Dell rack servers, couldn't resist the low price.

Dual Xeons, hot swap drives, 4 GB of ram and many open slots for more. For $30 CAD each?

Load them up.

@design_RG
A lot of Android fragmentation examples come from #cuba, it isn't weird find an Android Gingerbread phone on any family. I was using a Kit Kat one (4.4.2) a year ago...

I can't remember what does this got to do with your toot but I swear I got a reason... I just can't remember it

@Massick It is relevant, there is a lot of functional technology that is being trashed by comsumption and bloated software.

I have two tablets - one has Gingerbread, a cyanogenMod port developed by a XDA friend.

The other is an HP touchpad, which still has it's original webOS (I love that system!) and also dual boots into Kit Kat cyanogenMod by J Rollins, also a capable XDA developer.

Both are nice, good hardware, beutiful screens.

Many newer apps won't install, requiring higher android versions, but they should be kept and enjoyed as long as they are funtional and have good apps installed.

@design_RG
I'm always complaining... with all the reason, but still...
We #cubans need tech, but most valuable things (at least for me) like health care and food, are guaranteed. Maybe it's not the best food or the kindest and fastest medical services but it serves its purpose... Cubans tend to forget that we are a 3rd world country with many 3rd world problems.
We are all trying to lives our lives the best we can.

@Massick You said it very well - and there are people in developed countries who don't have access to public health services, like you do. Education, specially post secondary, after high school - the cost is mind blowing in US.

A simpler life, but I think many people would realize there is a lot of unhappiness in other richer countries. UK, USA, Canada even.

Two of those three have public health systems, which the other one envies, sees as a dangerous threat to their own profit based one, and works to undermine and exterminate if possible.

@design_RG I'm a mathematician myself, how much does it cost in your country?

@Massick How much does health care cost here, you mean?

We have a publicly funded service, run by each province. We pay for it by general texes, Income tax primarily.

No charges for doctor or hospital visits, although there's some wait sometimes for specialist appointment.

I am happy with that model, and that's what Europe supports too.

Sister in another country has to buy private policy and pays USD$500 a month for herself alone. (Brasil)

@design_RG I meant my career, but it's nice to hear other models.

The thing with ours is that they want to impress everybody so much, that they lie
So people like you don't know who to believe.
My English fails to express the complexity of all this, I'm not using any translator software... I think I should

@Massick I cna understand you, and if you feel the need to use occassional Spanish phrases, I can follow too. Just not local slang. 😜

Where you asking about career and salaries for a person like yourself, in that toot?

@design_RG yes, that's what I was asking, the cost of a Math degree

@Massick Ah, ok, now it's clear.

The Universities here in Canada are all paid for, there's no free tuition anywhere (except if you qualify for some special bursary or athletic freebie).

The cost varies, higher prestige Uni costs more. Two of my son's examples;

- one took Comp Sci degree from a local uni; no room and boarding costs, as he stayed home, as he wanted to. Tuition for him, a few years, maybe 10 years back, was about $5000 CAD, circa 4,000 USD, per year. Half of that per semester.

- second attended prestiguious Uni, away from home. Costly room and board, at time was $2200 CAD when he started. Plus another $3200 or so for his first semester.

He was in Engineering programme, and since that is seen as a professional path career, tutition is higher than Humanities or arts.

First year cost for him, 10 years ago, was about $18,000 CAD, or 14,000 USD more or less. I was shocked.

Middle class families save for years to fund Uni education, but this is nothing if compared to American college costs - often USD$40,000 or more per year.

@design_RG I graduated from one of our best universities (Central University of Las Villas) in 2017.
Although it's free and we got room and food, that's not enough: room always needs repair, food there is really bad AND I was still a young man with many ideas from TV series...
I had to travel once a week, 5 h in total. We were paid monthly but that doesn't even cover a week.
Survive and live are not the same, I was given the means to survive (and study what I wanted) for free

@Massick I attended a prestigious public uni in home country, USP, and had no tutition.

But housing was not provided, the Military government at the time saw Uni student body as a subversives nest, and blocked the Uni from operating their existing campus residence buldings.

I struggled as well, walked, took long bus rides to go from school to home or work. Nothing came easy for me too it seems.

Am in peace now, and appreciating it, thankfully.

@design_RG
Here, my generation (including myself) doesn't give things their value.
I've seen friends spend a lot of extra years in their careers (failing test and repeating) and then switching careers too or leaving
Our mind is not really on the right thing

@Massick There are too many distractions nowadays, along with huge access to information.

People getting lost and not focusing is a real problem. A serious one.

Sometimes disconnecting is the best thing to do, although I already don't have TV in my life, other than BBC documentaries and news that I haven't even been watching lately.