[Catherine Thorbecke] The hottest Gen-Z tech trend?

My favorite tech trend so far this year has nothing to do with artificial intelligence.

It’s the cool girls making their own “cyberdecks,” — strange, DIY and highly customizable personal computers that explicitly reject AI.

They look like props from a cyberpunk movie, usually built on a Raspberry Pi base and spare parts.

As one tinkerer, whose “mermaid cyberdeck” videos have drawn tens of millions of views, puts it, “What we should do with cyberdecks is gatekeep them from AI and megacorp.” The c ...