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Cyberpunk

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"High tech, low life."

"The street finds its own uses for things."

We all know the quotes and the books. But cyberpunk is more than a neon-soaked, cybernetic aesthetic, or a gritty dystopian science fiction genre. It is a subculture composed of two fundamental ideas: PUNK, and CYBER.

The PUNK: antiauthoritarian, anticapitalist, radical freedom of expression, rejection of tradition, a DIY ethic.

The CYBER: all that, but high-fuckin'-tech, ya feel? From DIYing body mods to using bleeding edge software to subvert corporate interests. It's punk for the 22nd century.

This is a community dedicated to discussing anything cyberpunk, be it books, movies, or other art that falls into the genre, or real life tech, projects, stories, ideas or anything else that adheres to these ideals. It's a place for 'punks from all over the federated Net to hang out and swap stories and meaningful content (not just pictures of city nightscapes).

Welcome in, choom.

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This is the smartwatch I own. True netrunners know that the tech we wear on (or under) our skin is a prime entry vector for ever hungry megacorps to bleed the pulsing data from our digital veins, so having a wearable I have full control over is of paramount importance. I can flash it with new firmware whenever I want, the multiple open source options available are all an open book to any hacker worth their cyberlinguistic salt, and I can know for a fact that it won't phone home with my location or other data to any corporation behind the scenes. If we are all going to be cyborgs integrating technology onto and eventually into our bodies, better to control that tech ourselves!

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The good news is that Pine is also creating the #PineNote with an eink display, so maybe the creation of an eink #PineTime at some point in the distant future is not completely unrealistic either. Assuming the display is the main thing you miss about it, of course. :)

[–] Kyoyeou 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the main part I am personally missing, will keep an eye on it!

[–] Caomh_Cynbel 1 points 1 year ago

E-ink and physical buttons are what I'm waiting for

[–] Cooldude_15 1 points 1 year ago

Pebbles absolutely did not use an e-ink display, if it did anything with motion would be unusable. The Pebble used a transflective memory LCD made by Sharp, which is why the watches have a refresh rate greater than like 2 hz, and allowed it to still get good battery life with an LCD.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

So say we all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm in the same boat. Saw this watch a while ago, and was like "it's not the pebble time or pebble round".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I started rocking a Pebble Time about a year ago with my Android phone and I absolutely love it! If you can find one with decent battery life and get Rebble set up on it, it'll still serve you well (in my experience, at least).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, I still have a working Time, Time Steel, and P2. I just needed more/better health tracking and nfc payments. The unreleased Pebble Time 2 would've been perfection. I've been a Rebbler since day 1 :)