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Re:On Digital Minimalism by GuiA on Sunday December 18, 2016 @12:15PM (#13206546)
Maybe there's a niche there for a very very pared down computer. Like a typewriter with a monochrome screen that lets you minimally browse a subset of the web (e.g. Wikipedia), do email, word processing, play mp3s, open PDFs, and that's it.

Maybe you want a color screen for YouTube/photos, but that's it.

If this feels more like a microwave or radio than full computer, this is something that someone like my grandparents would be very content with.

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Re:On Digital Minimalism by miguelrochefort on Sunday December 18, 2016 @01:08PM (#13206807)
I don't want to pare down anything. If anything, I believe that computers are not powerful (in a UI sense) enough. I want to do more with my computer, and I have no problem depending on it.

What I have a problem with, is walled gardens and UIs designed by hand. It makes no sense that the UI for hailing a cab, ordering a pizza or reviewing a movie should be different. What we really need, is a better language, a new communication paradigm.

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Re:On Digital Minimalism by icebraining on Sunday December 18, 2016 @07:24PM (#13208577)
I agree with you, and it reminds me of Mozilla Ubiquity, and particularly this post: https://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/why-verbs/
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Re:On Digital Minimalism by rokhayakebe on Sunday December 18, 2016 @01:42PM (#13206957)
Chromebook?
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