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Basically, I'd like something that feels more like Roam as a desktop OS. A fundamentally modern stream or graph-based network of objects and relations.
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Something that neither patronizingly hides technological expressivity behind a severely dumbed-behind facade, nor is trapped in ancient, baroque, industrial metaphors (document, desktop...). Digital native metaphors should draw from... nature? ecosystems? Forests?
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One solution I'm considering is a heavy duty home server (since I want to get into serious astrophotography image processing and machine learning) paired with a really cheap chromebook
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The server will be a power-hungry-work machine and can be a minimalist linux environment otherwise. Chromebook for mobility, with all writing work done entirely online... basically weaning myself out of the thick desktop world altogether while waiting for someone to reinvent it
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So basically: ✓ heavy-lift server ✓ consumption devices (phone/tablet) ✓ browser-typing heavy device (chromebook) ✓ experimental smart environment ✕ ditch thick desktop environment with "apps"
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Maybe the thick desktop as an environment is basically uncanny valley and dead right now. Caught in the badlands between touch-consumption, servers, and browser-native typing.
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Sadly, this is neither a problem I can solve for myself, nor something some billionaire can throw money at and expect to solve. Historically, good UX paradigms have emerged kinda unpredictably through individual vision (Engelbart and the Ritchie/Thompson basically)
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This sounds a little like a “Where’s my flying car/hoverboard” argument. Apple’s all about bringing computing to everyone; arguably quite successfully. Lately it becomes more and more obvious that this alienates those who want pioneer status computing used to have.
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