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> an annoying laptop

See, I feel like maybe this is the disconnect I'm having from others who seem to enjoy AR/ VR.

My laptop isn't "annoying" to me, it's fun. I want an excuse to use it, and it's customized out the wazzoo. Right now I'm building a cyberdeck using a FriendlyElec CM3588 and I'm making the case out of wood, after modeling it out in FreeCAD. I've been drooling over all the customization I can do with a fully bespoke setup.




Ah but that's another story :) I love custom builds and I love retro stuff. But that I do for fun as well. I modden a cf19 toughbook with a new screen, ble keyboard, mostly batteries and a rasberry pi for many day battery life. And my house is full with all kinds of modded computers, new and old. Just when I travel, which is a lot of the time, I don't want to take anything but clothes; the xreal is perfect for this.


Nah, for travel you sling your cyberdeck across your back like a guitar, and when someone's like, "what time is it in Tokyo?", instead of asking some lame AI in your glasses, you get to whip it off your back like you're about to launch into Stairway To Heaven, Ctrl+b+c into a new tmux window, and pull up the answer in Lynx in seconds.

...And you can't be wearing glasses, otherwise you can't pull your shades down afterwards as you shake out your mullet.

Reference cyberdeck to pull this off: https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/10fk91k/cyberdec...


I love it!

It is funny as I do want to make a synth / compute cyberdeck in one. Nice.




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