if you capitalist motherfuckers force me to create the retrocomputer i want to see in the world i swear to FUCK
which necessarily reduces your attack surface on the psychosocial front. maybe... its okay if computers arent comfortable for use over hours. if you are doing hours of work at a computer, a thing that principally does things faster than you, something is wrong (up to including not yet being a beneficiary of the revolution)
and imagined the art fag version of this that has like, 4 color capability but is accomplished by stacking transparent 1 color displays for physical depth- cyan, orange, pink, green, white, idr. make em swappable so you can physically change the palette in your display. i want the apple 2s from my first school back but i want them with modern user sensibilities and maybe some shit we dont need that makes things nice for a change
still trying to source a palm pilot because the used one i got is busted and all the cheap new boxes disappeared. i keep fantasizing about having a calendar that doesnt belong to google but also doing things like finding pretty cling film to enjoy my 1 bit color life to the utmost
take something like this, maybe in a size more like 64x128, build it into a one handed input device hacked together out of gamepad bits.
imagining something like the center banana on the n64 with a trigger and a bumper for select/cancel and the start button being a multifunction menu key. no socs, fuckin things and a rom. perhaps if the next place affords room to keep and use tools that arent necessary, again.