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Managing Battery Power

Managing power, in part by making judicious usage decisions, is a big element of offline usage while homeless because you also will likely be dependent on battery power for large parts of the day or all day on days when the library is closed. So you will need to decide things like if you want to play a certain game for an hour or two or if you would rather do other lower power usage things for several hours (such as read articles and write stuff) to keep you occupied all evening. This is much less of an issue if you are in housing with electricity, but just don't have internet service at home. That doesn't meant it won't ever be an issue at all in housing. If you are in cramped quarters with a short cord, you may still have some problems here. I am currently in housing and I spend many hours a day on a cheap smartphone. The cord is short and it is inconvenient to have it plugged in at all times. I sometimes plug it in and leave to run errands so it can recharge witho...

Why Phones and Tablets?

Although the hope is that this website will have broad appeal for populations like campers and digital nomads, the central goal of this site is to help people who are currently homeless or at risk of homelessness. For those populations, a laptop may be out of reach or simply impractical. Price The cheapest laptop I have seen in recent years is around $200. My previous laptop was purchased at that price point. It was barely functional. In many ways, a $50 tablet was more functional. My current laptop was a little over $300. Our experience with the previous laptop was bad enough that we agreed that if we couldn't get a slightly better laptop, it made no sense to get a laptop at all because a $200 laptop is so lousy it is less useful in many ways than a much cheaper tablet. My current cheap Tracfone smartphone that I use for hours every day as a computer cost just $30. In recent years, I have had several tablets that cost around $50-$70. If you are extremely poor, $200-$300 can b...

Size Matters

I've been off the street and back in housing for more than 18 months. Even though I finally bought a cheap PC for the first time in more than a decade (as opposed to a laptop, tablet or similar), I still use my cheap phone as my primary computing device. The PC is shared with two other people. We also have a tablet. I usually spend at least a couple of hours on the PC each day, but most of the time I'm on my phone playing games, surfing the internet and writing blog posts. When I first got back into housing, I bought a cheap smartphone with 8 gigs of space. It really tied my hands on how much I could do. I could only have a single game on it. Games take up a lot of memory and generally place a high demand on computing resources, but I need a game to keep from going nuts. I'm medically handicapped. I don't get out much and I go through periods where I can't work, I just need to keep myself entertained. Games play a large role in keeping me occupied and helping me...

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