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I've just stumbled across this YouTube channel that compares E-Ink displays.
https://youtube.com/@theinktelligent
He's not the most scientific about it, but he does just show the devices with consideration for balance (adjusting frontlights, etc.), and it's clearly not 'AI' nonsense.
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Is anyone here a mobile keyboard enjoyer? I have a Moto Razr with a Clicks keyboard.
I just pre-ordered the Clicks Communicator and was curious if anyone on here is getting one as well.
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The Surface Duo 2 was calling out to me from the shelf and I just love this little digital book. So I thought I'd go all Surface for a bit so I can use one pen on everything.
Windows has begrudgingly allowed me to install my cross platform note taking combo of Joplin and Saber, but fought both of them claiming they are not frequently downloaded and made me jump through so many hoops to install them. I hate windows. But this is my only option on the Pro X.
I like my iPad combo days when I use the mini alongside the big iPad on a magic keyboard. I especially like the big iPad for gigs as its got the built in cellular data. And the iPad mini is probably my favorite little one hand tablet. I'll admit I've been tempted by some older Macbook Airs on Facebook marketplace…
A little bit of everything except Android because Google doesn’t want me to have an account anymore. I had deleted my old account last summer and now if I try to make a new one they figure out I’m the same person and cancel it because of the multiple account rule—somehow they think my previous account still exists… probably their 🤬AI is hallucinating that it still exists. And going through the incredible hassle of getting to real people and resolving things is more trouble than Google is worth to me at this time. Screw ‘em.
I’ve been kind of rotating between MacOS, Windows, and Linux on M4 Pro Mac mini/RTX 4060 gaming laptop. iOS/iPadOS don’t change for mobile—I have no issues with my iPhone 16e & M2 iPad Air 11, the latter now with a Magic Keyboard I got myself for Christmas. I like it.
Windows 11 on the 1TB SSD on my Lenovo Legion gaming laptop is minimized, cleaned of crapware and neutered so that it never checks for updates (via Titus Windows Utility). It’s only for gaming that won’t play well on Mac or Linux, so only rarely connected to the internet (for Steam, GOG & NexusMods downloads). Often, if possible, I’ll download on my iPhone and transfer to the laptop via the LocalSend app.
Mac by preference for anything else.
Linux on my laptop’s 2TB SSD for an occasional, temporary change of pace—it always breaks my Skyrim modded setup sooner or later no matter what distro I try (too many dependencies maintained by too many different hobby/spare time programmers… most of whom hate Nvidia)—and I’ve gone through a dozen different ones in the past six months.
Kindle Paperwhite + Scribe round it out. I’m pretty satisfied with my assortment of devices at this time. Which is fortunate since the 🤬AI-bubble high-prices & shortage of RAM makes getting new stuff most likely out of my budget for a long time to come. Rumor has it that Valve will probably delay the Steam Machine for a better time some years from now. The price will be too high to be successful right now. 😿
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I can’t be tempted because I don’t have a MacBook, but it looks interesting.
For those curious about the pen, in the FAQ it says:
Will other styluses work with Magic Screen?
Only USI certified styluses are supported.
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I just, I mean, uh
Like, I have an x61t, Lenovo knew how to do this, but they put a motor in the hinge so it can swivel around to follow you. It's creepy.
And yet, I'm about to start an online class involving sometimes talking and sometimes standing up to play viola and honestly, it looks kinda handy for that scenario.
I think I want one.
On one hand I'm glad to see a return of the traditional swivels screen device. Outside of 3rd party iPad Cases, that form factor has been dead and buried for a while. Fitting Lenovo would resurrect it. Its an interesting gimmick, but there are plenty of Ai USB Cameras that can track people the same as this. I could think of a few use cases where this can be useful, but none compelling enough to justify actually buying this.
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https://itsfoss.com/news/tuxedo-computers-shelves-arm-notebook/
Yeah, the news is over a month old, but still interesting. They tried for 18 months before deciding it would never work out.
The notebook was built around Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite (X1E) SoC. TUXEDO faced numerous technical roadblocks that prevented a viable Linux experience. KVM virtualization support was missing entirely on their model. This eliminated a critical feature for developers and power users who rely on virtual machines.
USB4 ports failed to deliver the high transfer rates expected from the specification. Fan control through standard Linux interfaces proved impossible to implement. BIOS updates under Linux presented another problem.
Battery life fell far short of expectations. The long runtimes ARM devices typically achieve under Windows never materialized on Linux. Video hardware decoding exists at the chip level. However, most Linux applications lack support to utilize it, making the feature essentially useless.
Etc. Hey, maybe we should be praising MicroSoft…
It’s not like Linux (-derivatives) on ARM haven’t been done. Android and ChromeOS for major examples. Others:
System76, the Pop!_OS Linux developers, also make the most powerful commercially available desktop using AMD’s Amphere ARM chip and Ubuntu Linux.
Asahi Linux works on M1 Apple Silicon, with various degrees of support for newer chips.
And Valve has SteamOS (Arch Linux) coming for the Frame Headset using Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Their FEX translation layer is like Proton for ARM and looks promising for future Linux on ARM implementations.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite (X1E) SoC maybe just isn’t a good choice for Linux.
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The opensource vector editor Graphite:
has existed as a web app for a long while, and has been promising a desktop app for a while --- this was recently announced:
and released on Discord, so I downloaded, unzipped, and ran it --- only to discover that it is impossible to do anything beyond point at things w/ a stylus (tried w/ a Wacom One pen on a Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 running the current Windows 11 w/ pen/mouse settings on and off).
Do they expect people to draw w/ a mouse or trackpad?!?
well, it is a Vector program. if it was Raster based that might be a more glaring issue, but I know a few vector artists that make due with trackpad/mouse alone.
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Matthew Wolf, Esq., in an all too common scenario these days, has been called to answer for citations to and quotes from non-existant cases to a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Butler County, Pennsylvania (A/K/A God's Country or as some Pennsylvanians call it, Alabama). His firm, Wolf Dillion McCandless King Coulter & Grand, LLP (did everyone need their names in the firm letterhead?) claims that they did not use AI and the citations were proper. That should be a fairly easy lift for counsel or the courts, whoever is right. I know where my money is. Why did the judge pick this up and not Wolf's adversary? Is anybody reading the briefs anymore? Pa. judge questions AI hallucinations in gender-identity suit | 90.5 WESA
Want to take bets that the attorney will try to put the blame on their over-worked, under-paid paralegal?
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Improvements in the Prism emulation software apparently remove some roadblocks for running legacy software. They give the example of Ableton Live 12 now installing and running successfully on WOA.
I probably will.
I'd have preferred a landscape layout though.