I would love the child of a Surfacebook with a Framework laptop; or A bare keyboard attached to a screen, that I could plug my phone (possibly running Phosh) and use it as a hardware for a laptop experience

  • tetris11
    71·
    1 year ago

    I think the future of next-gen housing will be something like this. I’ve been hearing stories on HackerNews about young developers earning good salaries in SF, unable to find a place to rent, so instead opt to live in their cars and go shower at the gym. They do this happily, and it doesn’t bother them.

    As someone who used to frequently sleep under his desk as work in my early 20s, I can see portable sleep pods being a really good substitute for the inner city housing problem.

    • Tunawithshoes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      8·
      1 year ago

      That insane! I was thinking like a bed 2.0 not freaking dystopian let’s live in a bed sized apartment.

      When you say happily you mean it is better than living in your car right?

      That surely can’t be the future that you get!

      • tetris11
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’d prefer a house and a garden too, but that’s unlikely for a lot of people now. It’s just not the world we live in. You either are a homeowner, pay exorbitant rent, or are homeless.

        Instead of having nothing between homeless and rising rent, it’d be nice to have an inbetween option.

        • PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES@lib.lgbtEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          You can wish for any gadget. Just wish for the Capitalism-Destroyer-Button if you want affordable housing. Or fuck, wish for a Halo and rent out the land on it.

          • tetris11
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’ve slowly learned that wishing for radical change usually is fruitless when the working class have no weapons at their disposal or are too meek to use them…, and even when wielded the changes are so destabilising that the number of wishes double.

            Capitalism will die kicking and screaming, and it will take everyone with it if it has to. No, I would rather undermine it by providing a free/cheap alternative to an inflated commodity through the use of rapid new tech, forcing long-time investors to look elsewhere for a profit. Once a market is no longer cornered, things usually settle down.

            Slowly, slowly, if repeated enough, and with enough technological development, investors will have no idea where to invest to exploit consumers.

            • PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES@lib.lgbtEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              We’re talking about a magic button that can do anything. Are you so imprisoned by hopelessness that you can’t even imagine a magic solution to your problems?

              • tetris11
                1·
                1 year ago

                No, I just believe that large changes are cursed, and small changes in the right direction might be enough to enact a bigger change. Think of it like a genie that allows you to wish for anything (likely with cursed results), vs 1000 genies that allow you to wish for small things (also cursed, but with smaller side effects).

      • tetris11
        2·
        1 year ago

        This was in the UK. I lived on one side of the city right next to a motoroway where it was too loud to sleep and I had no internet. My workplace was on the other of the city. On a rainy night, I didn’t always fancy cycling that distance just to get home for 3 hours of subpar sleep. Sleeping a half-decent 6-7 hours under my desk and then showering the next morning was much easier.