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Years on a wall mounted eink screen sounds super interesting. What are you using for the power delivery/battery side of that setup?

You have to set it up with the Steam client in Desktop Mode, but you can add arbitrary programs and executables as non-steam games.

As a result, I can open Spotify in the background and have it play music while I game, from the primary SteamOS interface.

I think it’s been changed since, but wow was it weird finding out that instead of taking photos, the Android app used to essentially take a screenshot of the camera view.

I made one for roughly $100 USD from an Arduino, steel rods, some stepper motors, and some 3D printed parts.

Having an existing 3d printer is a bit “draw the rest of the owl” for this, but being able to extend and modify a device like a pen plotter is pretty nice.

That language isn’t the same language I became more proficient in, so are you sure it’s not terrible, useless, and will lose handily to the one I use for my specific purposes?

Or perhaps we make them attractions at a theme park, but let Anthony Hopkins have admin access to the source code. What could go wrong?

Reminds me a bit of BMWs and their infamous and persistent coolant pump woes. The running joke in those circles is "replacing the entire cooling system" counts as "basic, regular maintenance". BMW makes a fantastic engine, then makes the water pump impeller out of plastic. For what feels like decades.

Interesting and novel take. Do you think making that would enable you to also make a better distributed note taking system, or do you think you need the distributed note taking system first?

Perhaps we need to make a diagram to decide.

I'd like to see some form of regulation around % of visible screens/information presented in a public space needing to be specifically useful to the population vs pure advertising.

It's frustrating to be at a train station where every wall is an ad for something, and the actual information concerning the trains themselves is either tucked away on a much smaller, much lower quality screen in the corner, or worse, not working at all.

Basically I'd like to see some solutions to the problem that I'm generally being shown ads at the expense of the public service I'm trying to use.

> strong consumer spending

I’d like to see that plotted against average consumer debt

I like this idea. Perhaps let them self select if they will respond or not, but they have to advertise in the posting which path they chose?

Sounds like he got the double instead of the nothing. The last line of the article mentions he now owes close to 200k, when he had originally owed 100k at the start of the scheme.

I wonder how much he banked from the sold access in the middle.

Had the same reaction. I’m willing to support development for a tool like this, but would prefer to do it more….directly.

I ended up with a preorder for the new screen instead of getting a laptop now and the upgraded screen later. Before making that call, I explored a bit around up-cycling the original monitor into a portable display. There are apparently some boards that allow this, if that helps with your math.

Wow that’s…catastrophic. Sorry that happened to you.