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Wow, the absolute joyless responses here remind me of exactly why this place, and perhaps the tech world in general, is so VERY far from the wonderfully creative weird (virtual?) space that fostered my love of technology.

I gotta find some better sites/communities

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Yeah the comments admonishing a high-fashion techwear brand for “odd choice of lettering” and “trying to be futuristic” are strange.

I want to see more wacky and boundary shamelessly “techno” designs like this, it’s like someone brought something from a Gibson novel to life and I dig it. I’ll take this over the current crop of bland device/tech design.

When I saw it my first reaction was that if Hackers had released in 2023 instead of 1995, this is the computer they would be using instead of netbooks

My second reaction is that I'm due for a rewatch of Hackers...

Yeah, this is so Gibson. When I saw these photos I immediately came to think of Cayce Pollard.

Gibson and the Acronym guy are BFFs.

You can love creativity in tech and at the same time reject fakery.

Maybe like someone who's into watches enjoys fun diversity of Swatch and G-SHOCK or artfulness and craft of more expensive brands and rejects blingy stylized pretentious watches from fashion brands.

Also, please don't judge the community by their response to this design, because this design was specifically created to be polarizing. It's intended to generate debates, just like many pieces art.

Oh, I'm absolutely judging. That's the point of being here. Probably because the people here don't feel like they're saying "This is ugly and I don't like it."

It feels like they're saying "Because this is so ugly and objectively bad, it should not exist at all. It must be stamped out and everything should look like Apple."

This is the exact comment you are decrying. You have no idea about the historic context and what acronym is and what kind of impact they have in the fashion world, especially techwear.

Next you'll be telling us that we just "don't get" Demna Gvasalia and Vetements trying to "subvert the high fashion status quo" with $800 white t-shirts and $1,700 "destroyed jeans"...

Demna Gvasalia, attempting to subvert the high fashion status quo, while starting his career at Maison Martin Margiela and LV, working under Marc Jacobs...

Demna Gvasalia, whose current position is ... checks notes ... creative director of Balenciaga. Ahh, yes, very ... subversive.

The fashion world, even the high end, is not immune from criticism or outright mockery.

Who are all these people?

I don't judge their clothes, I judge this attempt at computer design. If Lange & Söhne collaborated with Honda on a set of fake spoilers and spiky lug nuts for Accord, I would similarly judge the result as a separate product.

For some countervibes..: I fucking love the aesthetic. Come on dude/persons here at HN, it's fucking Henry Dorsett Case's cyberdeck. It's outrageously priced, and noone is forcing you to give up your macbook. It just looks interesting.

It's hard to find optimistic places on the Internet these days. I'm not sure why, but there's definitely a switch in the pattern of how people interact with technology. I thought perhaps it was because they don't interact with its creation, but on HN I've had fellow people who write software rail against easter eggs as unprofessional.

Perhaps makerspaces are better. Traditional tech spaces are now dominated by oppressor/oppressed mindset and incessant indulgence in outrage/anger.

Still, I can't tell if this change is a change in me or a change in the world. It could well be that I just occupy different spaces against my better wishes. The other day I got some notification from ubuntuforums.org and found my posts from 2005. Haha, that was a riot! But very earnest attempts at stuff.

Perhaps the only solution to this is to start one.

The most fun I had in my life was on the crossroads between art and computing. It also didn't pay enough to live of but super interesting work and super interesting people.

I'm with you in spirit. People like different things though, it's okay. It's a drag how hostile and hateful some of the comments about this have been though.

I happen to like it. It looks rather durable. The sling attachment points are really cool. If I found some indication it was water resistant I'd add it to the short list of acquisitions.

The aversion to high frequency detail is a fad that well go away some day.

I don't mind the design thing or the designer price, but I don't think much of the pretentious writer's voice boasting about his fancy clothing collection. If that's your aesthetic great, I see why he liked it. But please skip all the earnest talk about how Important it is, it's just an expensive LARPing outfit.

> Acronym’s clothing is designed to be an interface between the wearer and the world. Typically, wearing technical clothing and wearing regular clothing are really two separate experiences.

Clearly the author has never set foot in the Alps (or any other mountain range). People wear technicals all day every day

I find it healthiest to just avoid any discussions on HN that touch design or art. They never go well.

You might enjoy https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/

Thank you for this.

So because people don't share the same opinion as you, you're going to leave? Peace out.

I understand not being able to understand different opinions on certain (or all) matters, its something that happens to everyone. Announcing it in a nonconstructive way instead of avoiding the topic, however, feels extremely off to me.

OP might be the perfect stereotypical HN user while criticizing the same stereotype.

Almost all the comments on this post are positive!

Amen.

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