/cyber/ - Cyberpunk & Science Fiction

>>34649

>>34650

Wow, both of these have been posted here before. Multiple times in fact. And we had a pretty good cyberdeck thread going here for awhile and then people stopped responding to it.

Check the catalog next time.

>>34661

thanks for posting a link for that, informative guy.

>>34661

aint nobody got time to search through catalogs to make sure that something hasn't been posted.

so unless you're gonna give links you can politely go cuck a fuck

OP here, found the link to the old thread: http://8ch.net/cyber/res/28346.html

>>34762

LOL….

Leaving aside the exclamation marks and the £2500 laptop, you can buy a used Nexus7 for £50 and use Kali with it, for something ultra portable.

For a bit more processing power, use any half descent laptop you have on the side with the same or similar linux security oriented distribution.

Latitude Rugged Extreme 14… LOL, why?

>>34660

>two shitty windows tablets glued together

>cyberdeck

FFS…….

>>34762

>dell hardware

>tryhard toughbook

GTFO from my board shazbot

>>34780

>>34821

The thing is, Dell hardware isn't bad. I had one of the all-terrain grade Latitude E6400 models when I started college and it served me well, eventually got replaced with a Thinkpad T520 because m-muh speed.

But thinking of that as a cyberdeck is absurd, and the post is bizarre in so many ways that I have absolutely no clue as to what the agenda behind it might be.

>>34821

hey shazzie, why do you troll? did you even open the link?

why dont you contribute? fucking summerfag

We can all bitch and moan all day… Please come back to me when this is released http://cyberdeck.tumblr.com/post/27952214615/prototype-wearable-cyberdeck

The technology is there for it to be manufactured today, at a high cost though.

>>34849

That's retarded and impractical.

I think the most /cyber/ computer nowadays would simply be a keyboard PC with the computer built inside the keyboard that can be easily slung over your shoulder or back. It would look just like a cyberdeck.

>>34866

>>34849

why is everyone forgetting about VR?

>>34869

Because VR is currently hard to use for "daily driving" computer tasks. And it needs a beefy gpu to look good.

>>34903

I don't think any of these were designed with practicality in mind

>>34641

Looks the part, but now let's discuss options for making a case sturdy enough to actually carry this thing around on your back all day.

I'm guessing metal is out of the question due to interfering with wireless signals (unless you can laser-mill a block of aluminium like Apple do)…

>>34911

It just means that the antennas need to be located outside the case.

For example the carry handle could be plastic and house the antennas for wlan & cellular.

>>34943

>Why does it need to look good? For consumers?

Because otherwise you won't be able to read whatever the fuck is on screen. It's not about how it looks, it's about how practical it is.

>>34947

I'm sorry, i dont follow. Normal font size is 7px. Credit card sized computers have enough juice to drive an ipad retina screen.

>>34950

Anon was talking about VR. As in, VR goggles. They are still clunky, resource-heavy and not even ready for comfortable text reading, so they are out of the question for many reasons.

>>34943

Like >>34947 said, in addition to being able to read anything, you need a beefy gpu to feed the goggles with frames fast enough so that you don't notice the jitter.

Jitter and lag will break the illusion and worse cause headaches and make you sea sick.

>>34950

They don't have enough juice to drive them with good VR @+60FPS.

>>34943

Also, just choosing a plastic without conductive or lossy additives deals with the attenuation. And inserting the antenna in the middle of it likely helps as there's less stuff changing in the nearfield and detuning it.

Using some metal plates (parts of the chassis) as antennas would mean transferring parts of the case to insulating materials to get the antennas to work. Designing multiband antennas for stuff like cellphones is really hard.

>>34869

>>34866

>>34903

>>34947

>>34950

>>34951

>>34967

No idea how well this would work actually using this, but it looks cool from here. http://tech-source.tumblr.com/post/130356106313/virtual-desktop

>>35012

I've used it. It's ok. Neat effect, but poorly optimized. Doesn't play nicely unless you OC your monitor. Resource-intensive.

>>34662

>>34666

Learn to ctrl-f, you retarded fucking newfags. Get back to leddit.

>>34780

>Kali

>ever

Full skid. If you (_must) go full skid, use black arch.

>>35024

never go full skid. if you must use some of the pentesting tools included in kali, get them individually.

>>35025

>"Never go full skid"

>using other people's scripts

If you use scripts other people wrote, you're going skid.

>>35026

well I did say not to go "full" skid. being a little skid is okay. some tools just work regardless of how old they are. use them.

I think the idea of cyberdecks is fucking sick- I love gibson. But sometimes maybe modern/current hardware really doesn't lend itself to this?

It will be a nice leap to get a mobile VR rig so you can go full gargoyle- but without some reasonable input and form factor, it's kind of ridiculous.

>>35012

Damn, I just thought of something similar to this recently and didn't know it already sort of existed - the link is pretty bare, is there some other source? Build process or something? Would love to make one of my own.

>>40208

http://www.vrdesktop.net/

>windows only

>>40222

Awesome, thanks.