I want a modulator laptop with no soul.
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I'm gonna have to build this myself by running power & USB over an HDMI cable or something
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my specific use case is that I'm bedridden but having all my computing power be in my lap isn't good for my stomach or the computer
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@foone a dumb terminal then, like we used to do back in Unisys A-series days lol.
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@Milkman76 exactly! I want the brains to be elsewhere, and just the display+input to be in my lap
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the other part of my use case is that I hate this keyboard with the intensity of a thousand suns but I can't exactly swap a keyboard in a laptop, and I don't have enough lap room to wrangle both a keyboard and a laptop
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@foone would this be a use case for remmina?
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@depereo nah. I have too much adhd: latency is my nemesis
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@depereo computers are slow enough already, I don't want to make them slower by shoving graphics over the network
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@foone I have a significantly worse idea for the display, a pair of glasses set up with micro projectors (the tiny displays for other eye based displays) set up with lenses and on a pair of glasses with a black bg. Effectively a wearable display but not transparent, eliminating most of the issues with them and introducing new fun and interesting problems like:
having a fragile collection of wires lenses and displays on your face in bed,
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@foone and the age old standard problem of: parts cost way too much.
Probably with a dash of a decent chance of eye damage if you fuck up the brightness, but hey if you could make it you can free up the lap space to: just a keyboard with either trackpad or some kind of mouse and you can use it from positions you can't use a laptop from from.
But I did say it was a worse idea before laying it infront of you.
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@Maddyflen have you seen Zack Freedman's heads-up-display work?
Here's part 3, which links to the previous 2 parts:
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A few people pointed out LapDocks and these things are weird.
See this? There's no smarts in the laptop. The phone is the smarts. That's just a screen and keyboard.
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I'll have to see if I can find one of these that has a non-shit keyboard and if I can get it to hook up with a Real Computer
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because let me tell you, after 6 months of being mostly bedridden, the last thing I want is more fucking phone
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@[email protected] X11’s time has finally arrived
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@aud NO.
NO NETWORKS.computers are already Too Fucking Slow, I do not want anything that uses a network to add even one microsecond of additional latency
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A [email protected] shared this topic
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My NexDock keyboard is not amazing, so I can't vouch for it on that merit.
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@[email protected] ohhh! yes, I see
I do love a 25/50 foot thunderbolt and/or hdmi cable, I must say -
@foone Would a better laptop with a decent keyboard solve this all? Maybe a thunderbolt egpu?
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@TechTangents yeah it seems most of these lapdocks are just using knock-off macbook keyboards, which are Not Exactly Good (at least for my (programming) needs).
