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Huh. It's a lot cheaper than I expected it to be. Only $300.

Might be kinda useful if the pendulum swings back towards actually storing all your data on your own devices instead of in the clown. And if anyone starts writing actual tools for Desktop Android.

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> clown

That's the best typo ever, I had an extension for chrome many years ago that allowed to replace "cloud" with a different word for funsies because it was used everywhere, might ressurect it using clown.

I'm not sure it is a typo. I have been calling it 'the clown' or 'the clod' for years. So I suspect others have been too.

https://github.com/apage43/cloud-to-clown

This is like the nerd version of rule 34.

Deliberate. I’m working on a comic set in a dystopia run by AIs that have decided that “cartoon clowns” are the best way to tell humans what to do.

Do post links, previews, etc. :)

http://egypt.urnash.com/npol/

Gosh. "Clown Devices" :)

PS. Actually, it might be a good word for "self hosted cloud" setups, where you "[c]loud [own] (as in, 'ownership')" your data and infra is under user control ...

I have 7" touch screen waiting me to attach a pi4 to make a proper portable Linux device I can travel with. Laptops too big and the GPD tiny ones too expensive for me. I can't use anything smaller than 7" and don't want bigger than 10" for convenience. Less than $200 can have "ideal" setup.

7''/8'' is indeed some sort of sweet spot.-

(I was doing "portable" using a then-huge 8'' 'generic android phablet' with a foldable Bluetooth keyboard a few years back ...)

You can swing your own pendulum any time you want, there are very few services (email being one IMO) that aren't worth self-hosting.

You can easily sync your media to a server you own (Immich or NextCloud), Notes can live in Obsidian, which syncs to a place you control etc.

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