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

That is part of the aesthetic, but I've included alt text on the images and a toggled transcript button under each image for accessibility purposes.

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.

Pre-web, not pre-internet technically. Everyone on the bulletin board system read about the pantsing and the knowledge is immortalized on the logs until they're purged in a software update or the hard drive dies or IBM compatibles overtake the Commodore 64 market, which will definitely never happen...

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.