He's building his own computer (starting from an OS that he sells via SD cards). Very cool. I wish there was a video showing the OS/talks about everything more in depth.
Yeah, it's really striking how hard it is to decipher what the product is here. Presumably there's a community somewhere that's been following the development of whatever OS or piece of single function hardware it is.
I can see the value of creating coolness through authenticity, anti-marketing and 'low-fi' design - but if you literally can't find an explanation as to whats on sale it's probably gone too far.
Scrolling back to the first entry on the blog, it appears to be a small form board running BSD on ARM. Not sure how that qualifies as a new kind of computer...
I've also got something like that:
CPU Snapdragon 680, 8x1.8-2.4 GHz Cortex-A73&A53. 4G RAM. GPU Qualcomm Adreno 610.
A non-distracting 10.3 inch 4:3 grayscale e-ink display, touchscreen & pen handwriting recognition! I use handwriting as much as possible.
It has 1 USB-c connection (power or data). Optionally, I can use bluetooth keyboard, wifi or run Lllama-3.2-3B on device! With inform7 or ink i can write interactive fiction, with Vassal I can play solo board games.
With Termux, I can run a rust toolchain, zig, python scripts, good old C as well. Days of battery life, decades of books to read.
Perhaps I can use it to figure out a life without computers, perhaps an analogue computer or calculator. Smart use of pen and paper (BulletJournal, journaling, pen and paper games). An oracle with stones, dice or cards to 'chat' with, use of the mind and imagination to deal with life.
Oh wait, we have vajrayana meditation, mantra, visualisation and pen and paper already! Just train to be a mentat.
AI can be used to brainstorm ideas, do literature review / background search, criticize the article, reflow language or write it directly. We can never know what degree of AI usage is in a piece of text.
My preferred way is to chat about a topic, make my case, and demand an article at the end.
