FA+
Shop
1481
Views
Views
10
Favorites
Favorites
Category
Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Rat
Size 882 x 1280
File Size 120.8 kB
Report this content
★
More from DataPacRat
Listed in Folders
Exascale 5/6 - Holo
<<< PREV | FIRST | NEXT >>>
Today, we have see-through display screens, screens that roll up, and "holographic" stage performers. And we have plenty of incentives for clever engineers to combine all of the above, shrink them down, make them cheap, find extra little tricks, and file off all the edges to the point they're as unnoticeable as a cell phone's telephone-wires. If a display looks like a hologram, acts like a hologram, and quacks like a hologram, and we're willing to call several species of lizards "dragons", then why would we call that display anything else?
Today, we have see-through display screens, screens that roll up, and "holographic" stage performers. And we have plenty of incentives for clever engineers to combine all of the above, shrink them down, make them cheap, find extra little tricks, and file off all the edges to the point they're as unnoticeable as a cell phone's telephone-wires. If a display looks like a hologram, acts like a hologram, and quacks like a hologram, and we're willing to call several species of lizards "dragons", then why would we call that display anything else?
Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Rat
Size 882 x 1280px
File Size 120.8 kB
i want all that power i can stuff in my pocket,
but without having to connect it to anything.
to use it.
buy it once, own it completely, that's it.
like we were able to do when the furst 8-bit toys,
became something an ordinary furson can afford.
i know you remember those days.
its still not the little green pieces of paper that are unhappy.
but without having to connect it to anything.
to use it.
buy it once, own it completely, that's it.
like we were able to do when the furst 8-bit toys,
became something an ordinary furson can afford.
i know you remember those days.
its still not the little green pieces of paper that are unhappy.
I'm lucky; I started playing with computers when I was young enough to learn not to get locked into any particular software ecosystem before I'd collected much info. These days, the open source movement has been expanding more broadly into the open hardware movement, such as the new batch of RISC-V CPU designs being shared. (And, of course, there's always the community at https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/top/?sort=top&t=all to share stories with.
I avoid the iStore completely, prefer to get my apps from F-Droid instead of the Google Play store, and use Kiwix to read offline copy of Wikipedia on my phone's microSD card (among other such things). And have about 16 different addons in Firefox to minimize ad-network-based malware and privacy intrusions. Lately, I've been eyeing a few of the mesh-network and private-server projects, such as FreedomBox, wondering how independent I could get.
I avoid the iStore completely, prefer to get my apps from F-Droid instead of the Google Play store, and use Kiwix to read offline copy of Wikipedia on my phone's microSD card (among other such things). And have about 16 different addons in Firefox to minimize ad-network-based malware and privacy intrusions. Lately, I've been eyeing a few of the mesh-network and private-server projects, such as FreedomBox, wondering how independent I could get.
i still want a pocket COMPUTER, NOT a pocket video-phone.
connectivity should be an option, not a dependency.
and only costing anything when its actually being used.
open hardware sounds great.
i'm not that smart and have fallen far behind keeping up with anything.
i still never buy anything with an "i" in it.
crapple lost my love when they slayed the dragon.
and then tried to pretend they invented gui, so they could try to own it.
yes, in some ways i've gotten like those old guys i remember from when i was a kid,
who were still living in the century previous to then.
i'm not against real progress,
just some of the assumptions made about it,
by those unfortunate souls
who have worse misconceptions about it then myself.
connectivity should be an option, not a dependency.
and only costing anything when its actually being used.
open hardware sounds great.
i'm not that smart and have fallen far behind keeping up with anything.
i still never buy anything with an "i" in it.
crapple lost my love when they slayed the dragon.
and then tried to pretend they invented gui, so they could try to own it.
yes, in some ways i've gotten like those old guys i remember from when i was a kid,
who were still living in the century previous to then.
i'm not against real progress,
just some of the assumptions made about it,
by those unfortunate souls
who have worse misconceptions about it then myself.
If I take my pocket video-phone, turn on airplane mode and disconnect it from everything, it still serves me well enough as a pocket computer. There are apps that let you run command-line shells, ones that let you write and draw - even ones that detect radioactivity. (You block out the camera lens, and any signals sent by the camera-chip are the result of random radioactive particles.)
Taking what's available, and adapting it for your own use is the very definition of the classical "hack" - not the sort of criminal who attacks a computer, but the generation before that, who are the source of the current term "life-hack".
If you take a butter-knife and use it as a screwdriver, then it's a screwdriver, whatever the manufacturer wants you to think.
Taking what's available, and adapting it for your own use is the very definition of the classical "hack" - not the sort of criminal who attacks a computer, but the generation before that, who are the source of the current term "life-hack".
If you take a butter-knife and use it as a screwdriver, then it's a screwdriver, whatever the manufacturer wants you to think.
True enough. Even phones suffer enough damage for there to be multiple subreddits about that; things start get disturbing when that hand-sized(-or-smaller) item that gets dropped off an apartment balcony, falls out of a backpack while canoeing, or gets run over by a car happens to contain a fully sapient person inside. Sure, backups, and a certain psychological perspective focusing on amnesia over death, but the future can be downright /creepy/ to us folk in currently in the future-past, when it's thought about.
Comments