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That last statement is so evil, If I wasn't ready to buy something for myself why would I ever tell someone else to do it instead? I don't agree with any of yo

by Hamcha 4y ago

That last statement is so evil, If I wasn't ready to buy something for myself why would I ever tell someone else to do it instead? I don't agree with any of your points. Speculators have never contributed to tech, has crypto/NFT become a better place because of speculators? If anything they have made cryptocurrency into a stigma that gets you weird looks. This laptop looks like a toy: - They somehow attached their own blockchain into it (quote: “With built-in PoS, NFT, and MetaMask-style wallet, ROMA is born for the Metaverse,”) - There's no performance numbers, just marketing buzzword bingo. - "Get an NFT when you buy one" - Not mentioning a specific distro makes me wonder what's the driver situation - ROMA packaging converts to a laptop stand. Designed by Pedro André®.[1] I honestly don't see how giving money to this project will advance the field of computing. You're not championing RISC-V as a technology, you are championing RISC-V as a marketing buzzword. [1]: …so they stole the picture from this 10 year old Behance gallery: https://www.behance.net/gallery/2574687/CARDBOARD-LAPTOP-STAND https://www.behance.net/gallery/2574687/CARDBOARD-LAPTOP-STA... and just put it on the website with no indicaton of how it's actually gonna fold that way??

jrockway 4y ago
Crypto is dumb, for sure. And I agree with you, speculators haven't done anything except prevent people from playing computer games at max graphics settings for a couple years. The statement from the press release, "A Web3-friendly platform with NFT creation and publication plus integrated MetaMask-style wallet", is just marketing copy designed to separate investors from their money. At some point in the not too distant past, everybody and their mother wanted to invest in a Web3 startup. Meanwhile, "hey investors, want to invest in physical manufacturing and by the way we're the first company to ever use this open-sourcey chip," is investor repellant. I'm guessing that the company threw "Web3" in there to turn investors' brains off during the crypto madness to get some funding for the unbelievably-risky hardware startup. And it worked. The other possibility is they just like crypto things, which is certainly a red flag. They are too late to this party to make anything of it, as far as I can tell, NFTs are dead and buried. Who would buy a laptop aimed at "NFT creation" even during the hype? You certainly don't need RISC-V for that either. I kind of see your point about RISC-V being a marketing buzzword. It is. Right now, it's "neat" to try some sort of other cpu architecture. There is no reason for you to do it. AMD64 and ARM can run all the software you want to run. Or write.

by Hamcha 4y ago

jrockway 4y ago

Crypto is dumb, for sure. And I agree with you, speculators haven't done anything except prevent people from playing computer games at max graphics settings for a couple years. The statement from the press release, "A Web3-friendly platform with NFT creation and publication plus integrated MetaMask-style wallet", is just marketing copy designed to separate investors from their money. At some point in the not too distant past, everybody and their mother wanted to invest in a Web3 startup. Meanwhile, "hey investors, want to invest in physical manufacturing and by the way we're the first company to ever use this open-sourcey chip," is investor repellant. I'm guessing that the company threw "Web3" in there to turn investors' brains off during the crypto madness to get some funding for the unbelievably-risky hardware startup. And it worked. The other possibility is they just like crypto things, which is certainly a red flag. They are too late to this party to make anything of it, as far as I can tell, NFTs are dead and buried. Who would buy a laptop aimed at "NFT creation" even during the hype? You certainly don't need RISC-V for that either. I kind of see your point about RISC-V being a marketing buzzword. It is. Right now, it's "neat" to try some sort of other cpu architecture. There is no reason for you to do it. AMD64 and ARM can run all the software you want to run. Or write.