I want a modulator laptop with no soul.
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I might just end up duct-taping a small laptop to a keyboard
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elegance is for designers, I just need a thing that works
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@diedofheartbreak what settings? it's just a monitor and a keyboard!
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Like starting with one of these "portable" monitors, then getting a keyboard I can attach to it. That's gonna be three cables, but I can deal with that.
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@StellaFoxxie yeah I've looked into that, but sadly because of positioning/walls, it's not really doable without getting really elaborate and way beyond my budget
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@foone I just don’t know of small touchscreen monitors otherwise, I suppose, but yeah, basically.
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@felipe oh that's cool! How'd you do that?
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@Novyx I don't need a touchscreen, just a monitor+keyboard.
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although it'd probably be easier to just go to ewaste, find a laptop that's broken but has a decent keyboard, and attack it with a dremel until it only does the things I want.
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although that'd technically be breaking The Treaty of 8-Bit Guy, and I may be shunned by the entire retrotech community
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@foone I think almost what you described later in the thread:
- bought USBC monitor.
- pre-existing bluetooth keyboard.
- measured things (badly).
- CAD slab with holes for things + sucky hinge.
- order 3d printed CAD things on the interwebs.
- oh no holes not measured properly, time for hot knife surgery!
- glue monitor to 3d printed pieces with some random glue that looked strong.Phone is a Samsung that has a Samsung DeX thing built in, and I run termux with an Arch emulation layer.
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@felipe ahh, cool!
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Solarbird :flag_cascadia:replied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@foone all of this sounds to me like a really big monitor arm attached to ceiling or bedpost territory plus keyboard and probably trackpad
like if you could get (or make or get made) one of those flex-arm lights that adam savage makes only stick a monitor on the end of it. so you could put the monitor just fucken anywhere and run the cables inside the flexi-tube arm.
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@moira yeah, that was actually my first thought!
it didn't look like it would be possible, given the positioning. But maybe if I get one of these lightweight portable monitors, I can find something to flex-arm it that's not several thousand dollars. like hack an articulated lamp arm
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@foone i have ideas if you want them.
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@Unixbigot sure
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@foone so, one of my projects is to take a typewriter and microswitch it up for a last-keyboard-I-will-ever-need
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@RueNahcMohr that'd be cool. I saw a presentation from Tim Paterson where he talked about doing that in order to get a cheap computer terminal
