Subj : Re: Cyberdeck Computers
To   : boraxman
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Apr 28 2025 10:26 am

-=> boraxman wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 pF>  with a computer looking like it's part keytar and part hax0r node, and
 pF>  see what kind of looks you get from the influencers with their
 pF>  MacBooks.

 bo> That alone is reason enough to build one!  I was thinking yesterday how
 bo> "boring"
 bo> mobile computers are, visually.

 Yeah, the best you can do nowadays is creatively stickerbomb a Thinkpad
 or Macbook.

 I used to do that, now I take a more subtle approach. I have evilcorp
 stickers on my laptop - a Weyland-Yutani ("building better worlds")
 sticker on one, and Maas Biolabs (From a William Gibson story) sticker
 on the other.

 I do get some comments on the W-Y sticker.

 I don't know if anyone ever made a "Mitsubishi-Genentech" sticker, that
 would be my next.







  There is no style to them apart from
 bo> some miminalistic sleeknees.  I don't mind knobs and controls, in fact
 bo> I prefer them over "barely there" buttons or touch screens.

 bo> This seems to be the opposite of minimalism, and could become a
 bo> practical solution, if you could make it modular (ie, a suitcase
 bo> compter, where the "computer" part (storage and CPU) is
 bo> interchangeable.


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