Some of the biggest men on the Internet seem to have the biggest insecurities I’ve ever seen.

To the surprise of absolutely nobody.

“As soon as I become president, I can make a peace deal that’ll have the war in Ukrainian solved within 24 hours”.

And what do third parties not associated with Musk say?

Musk has a history of “saying” things, and presenting mundane advancements that have already been achieved as things he invented.

There are people like my younger brother who believe that Musk is a pure genius, likes Bezos a lot, and is entirely sold on the idea that billionaire philanthropy is somehow a good and positive thing for regular people.

Star Trek for the technology and exploration (both of space and the human condition). Star Wars because WOW that dude just moved that shit with his FREAKIN’ MIND!

Windows has 100% support for Windows. I mean, yeah?

I don’t see Windows supporting Linux programs. Or Apple programs.

It’s a bad argument.

Fun useful gadgets. A gadget for the sake of a gadget is just another word for “e-waste”.

My thoughts exactly. I’ve seen several such devices already, probably the most expensive and over-designed one being the Apple VR, and it’s always the same story.

You can do all that with USB C and a touch keyboard. There is no good reason under the sun to make a device that is this dated in concept.

Whatever the market is they’re trying to fill, it’ll be so extremely niche that this product is already a failure. It’s not the first time some kind of ultra niche product from kickstarter failed before launch because except for a small handful even cared.

Yeah they did. It was a pretty major factor. The moment touchscreen phones began to exist, Blackberry became past-tense.

Tiny keyboards were a nightmare. There’s a reason why the Blackberry failed. You might like it, but then you’re part of a minority.

I wonder who this is made for?

The article calls it a “smartphone sized pocket computer”, but that describes smartphones too; they already are pocket computers. And they’ve had decades of design and development behind them.

So… This device has a tiny touchscreen, and a keyboard, rather than having the whole thing being a touchscreen. So instead it has a modular bottom half… Which… Sounds like it’s trying to solve a problem that would’ve been a problem in like… The 90s, maybe, but has been solved by using… A touchscreen that can change the type of input it is flexibly, like smartphones do.

It can’t call, like a smartphone, despite being a smartphone sized device. It has USB A 2.0 sockets and an Ethernet socket… Which makes it once again sound incredibly out-dated, like a device found in a time capsule, because USB C is smaller and faster than USB A 2.0, and can potentially be used for damn near anything. Which includes connecting to the Internet.

Its battery looks very weak. Its CPU looks very weak. It has a tiny amount of RAM, and a tiny amount of storage. It is outclassed by any affordable, midrange smartphone, at nearly the same price too (if you avoid big brand names).

It’s Nox. That tends to happen.

He started on Newgrounds, so he brings that heavy helping of early 2000s Newgrounds edge. Certainly not for everyone. ^^;

I already posted this here yesterday.

Eyup. That’s a modestly sized creator exposing Adobe alternatives and Linux to a large following. Hopefully this’ll pull some people away from the corporate operating systems. Maybe even to just look out of curiosity…

Yeah, I had no trouble switching to Linux, as I already was using FOSS programs with native Linux versions (i.e. Blender, Krita, OBS…).

The one that trades in the fluoride for pure edge.

It’s rather odd you think discord is full of children… And that there aren’t verification processes in place.

You’re creating a problem with Discord that doesn’t exist, or at least, not in any way that’s unique to discord.