https://www.techeblog.com/cyberdeck-steam-deck-portable-briefcase-game-console/

Doesn’t hit all your requirements, but its closer than it is far away.

General shape of a laptop.

Does have ports, keyboard, and touchpad.

Not a DP screen, doesn’t have swappable internal battery packs but you could… slap kinda pouches or straps to the housing, and carry some external batteries or a mouse in em, plug em into whatever ‘dock’ / usb hub this thing is using.

Hilariously, my main phone for several years now has been what was intended to be a burner phone.

Bought it at a gas station, was able to unlock it…

Its is garbage in terms of performance at anything beyond like, one tab in a web browser… but, it works as a phone, you can pop the back of the case off.

Removable battery.

Oh and it has a headphone jack too.

So I have a semi decent pair of old school headphones and hey wow, the connecting cord itself works as an FM radio antenna.

And an sd slot, though its only accessible via taking the back shell off.

So yep this one is staying as the backup/emergency/burner, if I ever even do get a ‘new’ one.

Yeah I was gonna say, there has to be some ThinkPad variant that… comes pretty close to hitting these requirements.

Sorry to double post, but in replying to another comment, I’ve found something interesting, edited it into my original comment… perhaps you have thoughts about it?

Yes, its derived from it, not identical to it.

They’ve replaced the crossed bones beneath the skull, with a crown on top of the skull.

But it is used as a ‘challenge coin’, which is basically analagous to … a medal on a uniform, a medal from placing in a competitive sporting event.

Both the totenkopf as a symbol and the concept of a challenge coin both have their origins in militaries, or at least organized armed groups.

Many militaries give out challenge coins for various acts or participation in or completion of various kinds of things … most of them don’t give out skull medallions though, due to the extremely bad reputation of the totenkopf.

More history and examples of mostly military challenge coins:

https://www.coinvaluechecker.com/rare-challenge-coins-worth-money/

More lately, last couple of decades, various LEOs (law enforcement agencies) in the US and Canada have also begun to and more frequently given out challenge coins of varying kinds, same with PMCs and other private security outfits, for … carrying out various tasks or completing certain kinds of training…

But when its a skull, the symbolism there has long been a … semi-plausibly deniable Nazi dog whistle:

If you can find an instance of a group giving these skull mediallions, totenkopf adjacent coins out, you’re nearly 100% certain to find many of the members / leaders of that group also have and use other kinds of Nazi / White Supremacist / Hyper Religious Conservative imagery, symbolism, rhetoric, tattoos, etc.

Its… well known that ICE has literally 0 hiring standards, and its also pretty well known that a whole bunch of Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, fascist militia types, gleefully joined up with ICE after Trump got elected again.

Symbols grow and change over time, similar to how language does, how online image memes do, people reuse and remix them… but you can trace a lineage of how symbols evolve and change, who uses them to mean what.

Maybe the best modern example is how so, sooo many LEOs and their back the blue fans have adopted and remixed the Punisher skull.

The Punisher is a comic book character who murders corrupt cops and government and officials and basically anyone he feels has fucked him over in some way, abused their powers… but the symbol has been paradoxically adopted by cops, who are themselves quite often abusive, corrupt, and break any law they think they can get away with breaking.

They’re the people the Punisher would be killing, but they can’t see it. They like the skull imagery because ‘death’, ‘badass’, ‘i’ll fuck you up’, ‘you can’t stop me’ … and, also, because … its a skull, fits well into the already existing set of Nazi related imagery.

As I mentioned in another reply, the Swastika itself is not ‘the original’, its a mirrored version of the original symbol, which now has… extremely different connotations and implied meaning than it did before the Nazis appropriated it and gave it a new meaning and reputation.

Hey no prob!

Happy to uh… spread the gospel of atom, so to speak, hah!

But uh yeah, I believe we both agree that this a slop article… anybody could basically just go to the Fallout wikia, and… read it… for much more information, structured in a much more useful way.

This article is basically low effort celebrity tabloid fluff, that is mostly just snippets of other articles jammed together… we’re getting an article like this because season 2 of the canon destroying Fallout TV show is now airing/out, so its a trending topic to try and clickbait.

Definitely give all of TOS a watch if you are able.

Theres really no other way to explain it than as a seminal and groundbreaking series, that laid the foundation for… so many things that came after it, were inspired by it.

… like cellphones, for example.

Its … not high octane. Its pretty rough around some modern cultural edges, most notably sex/gender roles. Its… of hilariously low production value compared to so much of more modern media. A lot of it is goofy as fuck, even within its own world.

… but its still incredible. It still did things that nobody else had ever done before, and … some of those things still hold up as radical, even today.

The uh, hah, a lot of the TOS films are … kinda still to this day have lets say ‘mixed’ reception at best.

Its a show about a crew, who goes on missions, on basically a 5 year tour of duty. It really only works properly with the kind of regular, consistent exposure you get from a TV series, to slowly really show you the characters, as if you’re stuck aboard with 'em, getting annoyed or amused by their various quirks and characteristics.

… at its best, its a show about a possible way of life, a way of being, of cooperating with strange people and peoples toward mutually beneficial outcomes.

I gotta stop myself from rambling.

Is it the best show you’re ever gonna have watched? … Eh, maybe, probably not.

But… I feel like you actually can’t understand US cultural history properly if you haven’t seen it.

… we used to actually have a vision of a better future. Hope.

In… times such as we now live… that should never be forgotten.

(The tribbles episode is pretty cute and fun though, eh?)

Opens dialogue

Immediately banned

“You need to open a dialogue”

… ah, yes, mhm, yep.

This is … you’re doing parody, right?

… right, this a bit, right?

I feel that, man, so very much feel that.

Its funny, I’ve actually known (via the internet at least) a few actual ‘Nords’, Finns, Swedes, Norweigans, who are actually quite pissed off by white supremacists increasing adoption of Norse gods and mythology, as they either take the religion … well, a degree of seriously, as a religion, or they just immensely value the stories as foundational to their culture.

Yep, fasiscm is an almost entirely vibes based ‘ideology’, which ultimately eschews reason, and embraces emotion, theatrics, and rhetoric… all to mask the worldview of a hateful, selfish bully, that really just wants to hurt whoever they identify as ‘the problem’, and anyone who doesn’t agree with their hate.

As Chaplin said:

“The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish…”

stumbles awkwardly out of recently materialized 80s era phone booth

dons tricorner hat

checks breast pocket for printed copy of ancient proto proto anarchist zine, ‘Common Sense’

brings out boombox

“Let us commence to jam, sucka!”

hits play on RATM: Renegades of Funk, extremely patriotically

This is such a good comment that I have been trying to think of something useful to add for days, and I can’t.

So I’m just gonna star/bookmark it for future reference =D

Absolutely, always good to give more context for anyone further interested!

Wait what?

Who is … asking… huh?

Yeah, its totally normal to ask people if they share interests that you do.

… its not normal to expect that everyone else will.

Its not … reasonable, meaning, grounded in reality, to expect that like, every actor in a show for an IP is going to be obsessed with all things connected to that IP.

Media generally walks a line between being a geuinely expressive creative output… and being a mass produced product manufactured for a known market demographic.

The levels of enthusiasm and professionalism can vary wildly over everyone involved in that process.

Expecting Pearlman to be an avid Fallout player is like expecting the person in the Goofy suit at DisneyLand to themselves be a Disney Bounder, or whatever the term is.

That’s the point I’m trying to make.

Things like this, to some people, are just their day job.

Happy to be a part of it, but not… personally interested in also being a customer/consumer/partaker/etc.

I meant the whole thing as a kind of rhetorical excercise, yes, I do understand why fans be doing fan stuff, haha!

I’ve been that way about a few things myself, I guess I am just trying to… offer a perspective that is hopefully a bit more grounded, a missive that a fan could read and maybe go… ‘oh, im actually the comparatively weird one here’.

Not that theres anything inherently wrong with a ‘weird’ super fan… its just that if you lack self awareness of that, silly and stupid things begin to happen very fast.

But also yes dear god sports bros.

They fall into this just the same, many cannot concieve that a person could just not care about sports, as if that makes you a bad person.

But see again how its the lacking self awareness that they are fans that is the problem, it grows into a judgemental myopia.

Personally I’m all for gaming going back to being an actual niche hobby at this point… maybe that’s half im getting old and cranky, and half 'dear god this fucking industry and its fucking “fans” '.

It seems to me that the significant majority of people here in this thread at least, do not think the joke is innately/inherently homophobic, and that that is more or less a way that you can read it, if you choose to, but it still works as a joke without a homophobic reading.

And … that includes me, someone who has been … at least somewhat, depending on your criteria, victimized by actual homophobia.

Its not as cut and dry as you seem to think, to at least personally judge them in the way you are…

… sure, many people may have expressed their feelings one way, but many here have expressed them the other way…

… and it seems like a considerable mod/admin overreach to ban them for it.

Sure, people can not like it all they want, downvote, explain why they think its bad… but… banning for this seems extreme, needlessly censorious.

And shaming them and demanding an apology thus also to me seems wholly unwarranted.

In case anyone is somehow unaware:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totenkopf

In the early days of the Nazi Party, Julius Schreck, the leader of the Stabswache (Adolf Hitler’s bodyguard unit), resurrected the use of the Totenkopf as the unit’s insignia. This unit grew into the Schutzstaffel (SS), which continued to use the Totenkopf as insignia throughout its history. According to a writing by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, the Totenkopf had the following meaning:

The Skull is the reminder that you shall always be willing to put your self at stake for the life of the whole community.[11]

SS-Totenkopfverbände (‘Death’s Head Units’) was the Schutzstaffel (SS) organization responsible for administering the Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps for Nazi Germany, among similar duties. While the Totenkopf was the universal cap badge of the SS, the SS-TV also wore this insignia on the right collar tab to distinguish itself from other SS formations.

The… symbolic etymology, or however you’d say that, of this symbol… directly traces back to and explicitly references the Nazis, the SS.

Yeah, its been a thing in other LEO organizations in the US and Canads for a while now too.

LEO organizations run and staffed by Nazis.

EDIT:

In replying to a comment, I’ve made what is to me, an interesting discovery:

https://www.coinvaluechecker.com/rare-challenge-coins-worth-money/

The Battle of Ramadi was one of the bloodiest during the Iraq War in which the Iraqi forces, the U.S. and its allies fought against insurgents. During the eight-month battle, many lives were lost on both sides, including U.S. Navy SEAL Michael Monsoor.

Monsoor died following a grenade attack in which he was trying to save others’ lives. He was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for his acts of heroism.

Monsoor was part of SEAL Team 3 led by commander John Willink aka Jocko. A challenge coin was created commemorating the team’s exemplary efforts during such a bloody war.

That is apparently a challenge coin … presumably, designed by Jocko Willink, or at least for or by him and the surviving members of his unit, to commemorate primarily Monsoor.

That’s the first iteration that I am aware of, within the US Military, of a ‘totenkopf’, not with crossbones underneath, but with … well, strictly, they are flames, but they do resemble a crown.

… as we see in the ICE medallion.

The US military generally tends to stay away from overt usage skull imagery, due to… the similarity to and association with the totenkopf… you can find a few exceptions, but they tend to be … some kind of unit doing something … covert, deniable, probably not strictly legal. Cough, MACV SOG, cough.

So, perhaps, more recently… the crowned skull variant as a symbol just actually derives from Jocko, or that this serves as some kind of evolutionary step, a missing link between ‘totenkopf’ and the evidently current ‘crowned death’.

Jocko is a (former) Navy Seal, chummed it up with Dan Crenshaw, Tulsi Gabbard, Jordan Peterson, generally a big MAGA/Trump guy…

Yeah, I dunno, just ran into that, found it notable.

I mean, he says more than just the single phrase.

He narrates the entire intro and outro, all of its possible variants, various lines for ways you can die, etc, for the original Fallout.

Here’s the actual whole intro:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VvRW46pyKCY

(Pearlman’s part starts at about 1:35)

War. War never changes.

The Romans waged war to gather slaves and wealth.

Spain built an empire from its lust for gold and territory.

Hitler shaped a battered Germany into an economic superpower.

But war never changes.

In the 21st century, war was still waged over the resources that could be acquired. Only this time, the spoils of war were also its weapons: petroleum and uranium. For these resources, China would invade Alaska, the US would annex Canada, and the European Commonwealth would dissolve into quarreling, bickering nation-states, bent on controlling the last remaining resources on Earth.

In 2077, the storm of world war had come again. In two brief hours, most of the planet was reduced to cinders. And from the ashes of nuclear devastation, a new civilization would struggle to arise.

A few were able to reach the relative safety of the large underground Vaults. Your family was part of that group that entered Vault Thirteen. Imprisoned safely behind the large Vault door, under a mountain of stone, a generation has lived without knowledge of the outside world.

Life in the Vault is about to change.