Users from Asia, overview of file downloads in our Gopher

What would happen if you collected all the actual programs
and patches for computers running Windows 3.11 - Windows XP
in one place? And gave the entire planet the ability to download
them? I'll answer that what happen. You'd get access to unique
statistics. Why unique? Because you'd know all the places in the
world where they still count money and don't believe in "planned
obsolescence" in the form of the absence of so-called technical
support. So...
The main visitors of our gopher:// server by the number
of downloaded files are such countries as: Iran, China, Indonesia,
the Philippines, Malaysia. With the exception, perhaps,
of Germany, all these countries are not rich states. Therefore,
their technological landscape differs from the North American one,
where the majority of people use rather expensive and unstable
systems based on Rapsberri Pi as intellectual toys. The fact
is that, if you do not pay attention to copyright, the cost of using
old computers and their efficiency is much higher than that of the
widely known Rapsberri platform. It is due to the ability to adapt
old versions of Windows and economic programs to the present
without any particular difficulties.
The cost of Rapsberri without additional widgets and gadgets
is about $100. At the same time, the cost of old office Celeron
computers is $20-30 with a monitor and keyboard. Thus, for the
cost of Rapsberri, you can buy 3-4 cheap old computers for your
sweatshop. For example, for a weaving factory. Just install
Windows XP, a portable office, an IRC server or Jabber for internal
correspondence and conduct accounting and economic work.
Again, the price of single-board Rapsberri is quite high and
unprofitable in terms of cost-benefit ratio. Somewhere in the
world, $100 is a small sum, but in other places on our planet,
it can be a monthly salary. Therefore, if you work on the edge
of profitability in outsourcing production sites in Asia, for
example, in Bangladesh, then every dollar counts. It is necessary
to take into account all expenses, including machine hours,
man-hours, equipment downtime, scheduled maintenance, as well
as overhead costs. Thus, Asian businessmen are forced to look for
simple, and best of all, free solutions. After all, an old Celeron
computer can be take for free in a trash heap or somewhere
in a warehouse.
I can say that I am observing in real time the global division
of computers and the view on them. What is considered "retro"
and "old school" in North America and Europe is used by Asian
economic tigers as a cheap tool for extracting profit through
effective production administration. After all, in a system like
that of Asian small factories, there is no problem of obsolescence.
Since everything is in constant operation, and therefore does not
bear almost any overhead costs due to updates, subsribes and other
globalist fornication. Therefore, the complexity of Linux, despite
its conditional economic freeness and the cheapness of single-board
computers, does not give any advantage when economic feasibility
is before production, and not the sublimation of a co-opted
counterculture. In total, 600 million computers are currently
operating in Asia, classified in the West as trash or "old school".
And how can one not recall the book "The Puritan Ethic and the
Spirit of Capitalism" on this occasion? Apparently, puritanical
capitalism has finally moved to Asia...