The internet is filled with things. Here is one of them.
Ready100! to call it2024 Feb 5
Three years ago, in February 2021, I backed a Kickstarter promising a cyberdeck-style PC featuring a mechanical keyboard, a retro-style case, and a bunch of expansion ports both internal and external. It was called the Ready100! and it had some sleek marketing on the internet cyberdeck communities. Shipping was predicted to begin in April 2021, only two months after the Kickstarter campaign finished. With a turnaround that quick, the project must've been nearly done, right?
Well, here I sit Ready100!-less, three years later, and the last anyone has heard from the project's creator was six months ago, when he posted a series of rambling, hard-to-follow updates about loans and landlords, making reference to past conversations that seem to have happened behind closed doors, or perhaps only in his head. And with radio silence ever since and the subreddit now restricted to "authorized posters" only, I'm now, personally, calling this project "dead." If I ever receive anything from it, even just an explanation of what went wrong, I'll consider it simply a bonus.
Three years ago, in February 2021, I backed a Kickstarter promising a cyberdeck-style PC featuring a mechanical keyboard, a retro-style case, and a bunch of expansion ports both internal and external. It was called the Ready100! and it had some sleek marketing on the internet cyberdeck communities. Shipping was predicted to begin in April 2021, only two months after the Kickstarter campaign finished. With a turnaround that quick, the project must've been nearly done, right?
Well, here I sit Ready100!-less, three years later, and the last anyone has heard from the project's creator was six months ago, when he posted a series of rambling, hard-to-follow updates about loans and landlords, making reference to past conversations that seem to have happened behind closed doors, or perhaps only in his head. And with radio silence ever since and the subreddit now restricted to "authorized posters" only, I'm now, personally, calling this project "dead." If I ever receive anything from it, even just an explanation of what went wrong, I'll consider it simply a bonus.