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the real fun of "cyberpunk" is supposed to be open source hardware, modular phones, cyber decks, laptops with six folding displays, ipads with gpio pins and its

the real fun of "cyberpunk" is supposed to be open source hardware, modular phones, cyber decks, laptops with six folding displays, ipads with gpio pins and its not a step closer to reality. sad. :( instead we get this web3 nonsense. hate it.

outworlder 4y ago
> open source hardware Is it really supposed to be open-source? A common cyberpunk trope is that mega corporate conglomerates own verything. Cyberdecks are modified and reverse-engineered, yes. But generally come from a mega corp.
dagw 4y ago
modular phones, cyber decks, laptops with six folding displays, ipads with gpio pins We have all that, although most of it from smaller Chines manufacturers. More than that we do have truly open source hardware, you can download schematics for almost anything, modify and design your own chips and circuits based on open designs, dream up your own hardware, and if know the right people in Shenzhen you can email it all to them and they'll build it for you. The reason so few people take advantage of any of this is that it didn't turn out to be that useful.
- shreyshnaccount 4y ago
  that, and also that this is all incredibly low level stuff. there's not hot swappable modules, but base components. also its very expensive and only makes sense in bulk to get them from China.
- arpa 4y ago
  And this is why we live in a boring, most stupid dystopia with bullshit tech. People exchange the walk in part in the war for a lead role in a cage, and it's rarely a lead role, too. I guess that's what you get if your paperclip optimizer is geared towards manufacturing consumption. It's just very sad to see all the potential just ... wasted.
  - dagw 4y ago
    While you're not entirely wrong, have you seen the stuff people are building with even simple off the shelf components like Arduino's and Raspberry PIs? Even FPGAs are within the price range of individuals, and small companies can easily go full ASIC for a few 100k$ if you want to get really custom. There is nothing stopping you diving head first into this world and designing and building (or having built) basically any hardware you want.
    - arpa 4y ago
      yeah, you're not wrong either. We have a lot of potential and opportunity which is then wasted on twitter and NFTs and what have you.

outworlder 4y ago

> open source hardware Is it really supposed to be open-source? A common cyberpunk trope is that mega corporate conglomerates own verything. Cyberdecks are modified and reverse-engineered, yes. But generally come from a mega corp.

dagw 4y ago

modular phones, cyber decks, laptops with six folding displays, ipads with gpio pins We have all that, although most of it from smaller Chines manufacturers. More than that we do have truly open source hardware, you can download schematics for almost anything, modify and design your own chips and circuits based on open designs, dream up your own hardware, and if know the right people in Shenzhen you can email it all to them and they'll build it for you. The reason so few people take advantage of any of this is that it didn't turn out to be that useful.

shreyshnaccount 4y ago
that, and also that this is all incredibly low level stuff. there's not hot swappable modules, but base components. also its very expensive and only makes sense in bulk to get them from China.
arpa 4y ago
And this is why we live in a boring, most stupid dystopia with bullshit tech. People exchange the walk in part in the war for a lead role in a cage, and it's rarely a lead role, too. I guess that's what you get if your paperclip optimizer is geared towards manufacturing consumption. It's just very sad to see all the potential just ... wasted.
- dagw 4y ago
  While you're not entirely wrong, have you seen the stuff people are building with even simple off the shelf components like Arduino's and Raspberry PIs? Even FPGAs are within the price range of individuals, and small companies can easily go full ASIC for a few 100k$ if you want to get really custom. There is nothing stopping you diving head first into this world and designing and building (or having built) basically any hardware you want.
  - arpa 4y ago
    yeah, you're not wrong either. We have a lot of potential and opportunity which is then wasted on twitter and NFTs and what have you.