Whichever is cheapest at the supermarket I’m currently in.

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

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.

Well, I dunno. I’m pretty sure any hot take is still quite a bit colder than the wildfires currently raging over there.

What is this esoteric talk about “energy”?

Last I checked most of the biggest corpos are still run by men from the last generations, with current generations still waiting around for them to die off and take their places. So the only thing Zuckerberg could be talking about is the soulless DEI tokenism corpos do to get public brownie points.

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.

Computers.

We have them around us every day. We carry them in our pockets every day. Our lives and all of society relies on them. People have been growing up with them, and can’t imagine a life without them.

So imagine my distress at how everyone is so incredibly tech illiterate.

Is this a recent picture? Because I’m pretty sure he’s back on YouTube talking shit like an edgy 13 year old…

That’s the thing, though. It did corrupt them.

Almost everyone who touched the ring immediately got curropted by it, with the exception of Frodo, but in the end it did work on him anyway.

Bilbo tried keeping the ring a secret as soon as he found it.

Sam had difficulties giving the ring back to Frodo, and he only had it for a day or two.

And if I remember correctly, I think the situation with Sméagol was accelerated for the movie scene.

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).

I’m not. My real, full name is already on certain web accounts right next to “Tattorack”, which is the online handle I use everywhere.

Im not fucked because nobody gives a shit about me. If people actually start looking me up, it’ll probably create the most traffic to my art pages I’ve ever had.

It depends on how small you write, I suppose.

If you just want people to die, you can put down quite the massacre on both sides of an A4 page.

However, if you want people do to specific things before they die, like billionaires redisteubuting their personal wealth, or steer world leaders to reverse a lot of their bullshit, you’re going to have to get very creative with your wording to optimise as much page space as possible.

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. ^^;