Gatekeeping terminology like cyberdeck is as pointless as arguing about the ethnicity of a mermaid from a folktale.

The irony is that people who think they know the real meaning will have some other expert come around and point out how they’re also wrong. Language is fluid and non-prescriptive. Meaning evolves with usage. Literally doesn’t literally mean literally anymore in many common uses, however much it might annoy you.

Who gets to define the word - William Gibson fans? The cyberdeck is an 80s keytar with neural trodes to get you into cyberspace. Anyone with a big monitor isn’t rocking this “cyberdeck.” What about sandbending where the computers are made from ivory and coral and recycled aluminum cans.

Cyberpunk 2020/2077 fans? The cyberdeck is retro-futuristic foldable palm pilot terminal device, but also obsolete once you move on to implants and then the cyberdeck is in your head.

As long as you explain what you mean when you use the term (or better yet, show what you mean), it’s cool.

I love that we have women building pink plastic Barbie cyberdecks that will piss off the tacticool corporate scifi hardware purists. Reality is messy and you can’t control other people. And acknowledging that makes your cyberpunk literature feel more authentic and makes your real world computing hardware projects more interesting and less cliche.

And it would be even sweeter irony if the hacker who takes down the evil megacorp servers does so with a mass manufactured cheap plastic trademarked commercial brand themed cyberdeck than some retro-futuristic scifi soviet hardshell device designed to survive nuclear fallout.

The Ender 3 was the frustrating entry point for so many people. I’d love to see a survey all Ender 3 owners to see how many gave up on 3D printing and how many switched to better machines.

It seems promising that Gibson has been pleased with the production: https://bsky.app/profile/greatdismal.bsky.social/post/3mrj4rzfqnc24

Prusa published an article about it: https://help.prusa3d.com/article/watertight-prints_112324

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I laser cut stitching holes in vegetable tanned leather for a ren faire bag last year using a Glowforge 40W laser cutter. It turned out really well. It’s significantly easier than punching the holes by hand.

Here’s a link to his blog version of the same thread I referenced. Seems like a hop issue among other stuff.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/14/compartment/

Doctorow recently said on Bluesky that the reason he’s such a prolific writer is that he’s constantly in pain and sitting down to write is an activity that helps him ignore it or get through it. So he said that’s why he wrote 7 books during the pandemic.

They also like cat treats. I provide both. Some of them at my work prefer cat treats and look at me with a tilted head when I toss a peanut and just stand there waiting for the treats.

Or Linda Hamilton’s in Terminator 2, except literally.

It’s a partnership and the INDX isn’t a separate printer, just a new extruder, so it’s not like Prusa has no involvement. I would say “completely” is inaccurate here. If it were solely the effort of INDX, they wouldn’t need to partner with Prusa. There are other third parties that release mods for printers that aren’t collaborations with the original manufacturer.

If Prusa hired the INDX engineers from BondTech instead of partnering, would you still consider it completely separate? A company is just composed of current employees. At what point is it Theseus’ ship of development?

And that’s not even considering the CORE One, the recent CORE One+ update, the CORE One L announcement, the OpenPrintTag, et al. They’ve been announcing more new stuff in the last year at a faster rate than previous years.

Ever seen The Prestige?

Granted it’s from a partnership, but the INDX extruder seems to be on the cusp, so the idea that Prusa is behind seems odd. And the fact that they’re more open and consumer friendly than Bambu is great. There are a lot of affordable printers that have benefited from Prusa’s development while Prusa is still dropping new developments, seemingly at a greater rate now than previously.

I’ve been doing some simple python scripts on a raspberry pi 5 that I’m currently using for a cyberdeck project (designing a printable bigger case for a 65% Bluetooth gaming keyboard and shoving the pi and other devices into a 3D printed skull that will mount on the keyboard case), but even then I at least plug the pi into a full screen rather than use the 7" display I have for it when I’m actually working on it. The 65% isn’t bad though. Even came with a wrist pad.

It was definitely a nostalgia purchase. If I ended up doing any development for it, I’d still probably emulate and transfer files to it. But I never did anything more than play games on it as a kid, so there would be a time sink and learning curve if I wanted to do more with it.

I’ve been showing it off in my makerspace to the college students who weren’t alive in the 80s (or 90s). All the new features are welcome additions — USB, HDMI, WiFi, etc. And there are some modern chiptune applications included.

I’ve vindicated my childhood by discovering that the games that were difficult and confusing back then still are, and maybe some of them were just poorly designed in the first place.

I still love the soundtrack to Rock N Bolt and a good playthrough of River Raid though.

Not anti SA per se, but I learned to type on a Commodore 64 as a kid and recently got the C64 Ultimate, so the clunkiness of the experience is just fresh. This is a lower profile than the Commodore 64 though, so probably not as bad.

Do we celebrate with wrist braces or some other therapy for repetitive cramped typing injuries?

I do this probably once a day at my makerspace. Sometimes it is the manufacturer’s fault and sometimes it’s just that the roll has gotten a tangle while being moved from machine to machine or machine to rack.

I don’t put my finger on the tangle, but usually the tangle isn’t obvious in the spool so you can’t even if you wanted to.

It’s really just a matter of spinning the filament around the roll enough to get some slack, then you pull it over the side and sort it out. Usually the fix involves pushing the filament around the spool to unbind it.

This is another one of those issues that you typically detect by hearing an abnormal sound since you’re not watching every print all the time across multiple printers.

Dredd was good and deserved more attention, and a sequel, but Paul Leonard-Morgan’s Dredd soundtrack was awesome.

I think of solarpunk as post-cyberpunk because it exists as a response to cyberpunk. But cyberpunk continues, so post- as a “hey it’s done, everything afterwards is something else” declaration doesn’t work for me. You can write and direct a film noir movie outside of the film noir time period. The problem with labels is that different eras are marked by different patterns, but also different years. If something is written using the elements of the 1980s cyberpunk but it’s actually written in 2026, is it classic cyberpunk because of the themes or is it post-cyberpunk only because it was written decades later. The labels become less useful if you bind yourself to odd conclusions based on odd taxonomies.

Cyberpunk means different things to different people, so some might consider it over because the things that defined it for them are done. But honestly it’s even more relevant now because so much of the implied criticism in cyberpunk media in the 1980s has continued and arguably gotten worse with corporate hegemony, authoritarianism, surveillance states, etc.

You best start believing in cyberpunk dystopias, because you’re in one. It just is also sometimes a boring dystopia, but that’s just how reality goes. Fiction is expected to be more believable.