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What was that extra bar of information called on Macbooks? Were they a success?
Absolutely despised that nonsense. Useless and no physical ESC for vim. It also wasn’t optional, if you wanted a higher spec’d MacBook it was coming with a touchbar. The keyboards of that era also had problems.
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Yeah, I hope they put displays on more things. The trends are weird though, since some things that used to have displays no longer have them; you have to use the app on your phone instead...
Some things should never have had a display. Eg touch screen for car controls.
You're probably shaking your fist at touch controls ? Would you be mad if it was a button or knob with some display ?
For some reason, nothing says "future" to me more than having tiny screens embedded where they're not absolutely needed. When I grew up in the 90s and 00s, screens were definitely the most expensive part of any system they belonged to. And any gadget that came with its own screen attached to it was regarded as a delicacy only for the elite. Living long enough to see "disposable" screens cheaper than literal candy get…
For some reason, nothing says "future" to me more than having tiny screens embedded where they're not absolutely needed. When I grew up in the 90s and 00s, screens were definitely the most expensive part of any system they belonged to. And any gadget that came with its own screen attached to it was regarded as a delicacy only for the elite. Living long enough to see "disposable" screens cheaper than literal candy get…
Unfortunately these are still a bit too expensive to e.g. have one on every key of a standard 101-key keyboard.
Think this was $1200. Honestly don’t think I would spend any extra money on dynamic keys- I never look at my keyboard.
For some reason, nothing says "future" to me more than having tiny screens embedded where they're not absolutely needed. When I grew up in the 90s and 00s, screens were definitely the most expensive part of any system they belonged to. And any gadget that came with its own screen attached to it was regarded as a delicacy only for the elite. Living long enough to see "disposable" screens cheaper than literal candy get…
I recently researched USB connected information displays but I am interested in e-Ink. I want - USB power + data - Open interface so I can drive it from my own software on the host (but not like a traditional monitor, I imagine more uploading pre-rendered bitmaps) - Image retention when powered off - High resolution paper like appearance - Between A5 and A4 in size - At least black, red and yellow as colors - Buttons…
Very expensive.
For $59 you can get M5PaperS3 ESP32S3 Development Kit (960x540, 4.7" eInk Display, 235 ppi)
https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5papers3-esp32s3-developm...
Or you can get:
https://lilygo.cc/products/t5-e-paper-s3-pro
But these have 4.7 inch display.
You can probably hack and repurpose old e-readers if you can be bothered with the technical pain.
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Unfortunately these are still a bit too expensive to e.g. have one on every key of a standard 101-key keyboard.
Takes me back. https://store.artlebedev.com/electronics/optimus-maximus/#51... Think this was $1200. Honestly don’t think I would spend any extra money on dynamic keys- I never look at my keyboard.
It was like: wow this is overkill... but it looks so nice with custom layouts that match the games.
Would be cool if I could reprogram it for some other output, because I don’t really see the need for this except for maybe on a raspberry pi “server”.
Yes that's the essence of most hobby computing.
One thing I would like is a small portable hdmi display to use with my headless servers when they fail to boot. Even better would show screen over network.
Try "camera field monitor." Example: https://www.amazon.com/FEELWORLD-Monitor-1280x720-Peaking-In... I used one of these to make a teleprompter-style videoconference setup at home during the pandemic, so I could make eye contact with other meeting participants.
For some reason, nothing says "future" to me more than having tiny screens embedded where they're not absolutely needed. When I grew up in the 90s and 00s, screens were definitely the most expensive part of any system they belonged to. And any gadget that came with its own screen attached to it was regarded as a delicacy only for the elite. Living long enough to see "disposable" screens cheaper than literal candy get…