I’ve had that the Tab S9 is a great, cheaper alternative to the S10. Based on your thoughts I might look into it
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I have a Boox Max 3 e-ink tablet/monitor. I got it used and it was still expensive.
It’s black-and-white.
It’s a good e-reader for larger-format books, such as most roleplaying rules and adventures.
It’s a buggy monitor, though, at least with the Mac. In text mode, text ends up jagged and unreadable. In graphics mode, white backgrounds end up medium gray.
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I’m looking for an accessible Linux-compatible laptop with an enormous solid-state drive.
I’m currently dual-booting macOS and Linux on a desktop. But that’s a pain if I can’t bring all the parts, can’t set up the monitor and all the disks, etc. I’d like something that’s easy to bring in the event of fires, or other fires.
Accessibility:
I’m sensitive to flashing lights, animation, bright screens, noise, etc. I’ve often struggled with screens which are just too ridiculously bright. I’m going to need to turn brightness down, and probably turn each color down too. Notebookcheck has data on some devices. I’m also going to need to avoid any 22 kHz squeal.
I’m going to need navigation keys such as home, page up, page down, and end. I’d like control and command/windows keys near the space bar, because remapping keys tends to break sticky keys and some diacritical marks.
I’m also going to need a Linux-compatible trackpad, which won’t require @#$% gestures.
There aren’t any local computer stores. And in the past, I’ve struggled with the pain bombardment in computer stores.
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Between the tarriffs, and backup problems, I feel I ought to find something sooner rather than later.
Intel chipsets are supposed to be more reliable, and in my experience, they’ve been quieter than ARM ones. But they’re currently a lot more expensive, too.
Lenovo laptops are usually supposed to be relatively Linux-friendly. And judging by Notebookcheck tests, they are supposed to have relatively low minimum brightness.
I am considering either Cinnamon + Mint or KDE. I mostly prefer Cinnamon + Mint.
I can’t figure out how to stop animated kinetic scrolling in gtk apps; there are some old bug reports from other users, and apparently this is wontfix because people put work into adding the pain, and it’d be more work to include options to block the pain.
I can’t figure out how to stop animated app loading in KDE, or stop blinding bleeping animated cursor blinking bleep in Qt, apart from a few apps with their own settings.
I assume dual-booting Linux and Windows would be simpler than dual-booting Linux and MacOS. And being able to use Windows would work around some bugs from Wine. But if each system relies on an index of the same shared partition, e.g. to search and find documents, find within documents, etc., it’s easy to screw up that index.
Lenovo have a partial list of Linux-compatible models, but it’s hard to make sense of the list: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd031426-linux-for-personal-systems
Here are the Notebookcheck figures, sorted by minimum brightness: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Benchmarks-and-Test-Results.142793.0.html?&sort=b_illumination_illumination_min&model_class=0&month=36&archive=1&condensed=0&id=0&perfrating=0&search=intel&or=0&condensed=0&showCount=0&showBars=1&showPercent=0&test_illumination_illumination_min=1&model=1&cpu_name=1&gpu_name=1&memory_installed=1
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I have a Samsung A8. Use it mostly for anime/streaming. Some light browsing and manga/graphic novels.
My kid also has one, locked down with Google Family Link. She uses it for a lot of games, music, and audiobooks.
I like them. We haven’t had any big issues except Apple Music app freezing the entire thing and doing odd things to the UI. Cleared up when we removed it.
We ditched Spotify (finally) when I figured out they had what amounts to hours of ticktok videos loaded as podcasts and no ability to turn off videos/podcasts in content control. When Spotify began to suggest these videos to our kid’s account. This is an issue for our 8 year old. The kids app is useful for only young toddlers. It’s terrible.
We’ve been trying out Tidal lately. Working so far and the only videos we need to worry about are music videos. A lot less tempting for an 8 year old to watch an inappropriate music video and a lot less of them in general.
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Spotify sucks when it comes to podcasts and i’m pretty sure its by design. They don’t want people really having any level of control, otherwise people would block the podcasts they don’t want to see. Twice now the app has randomly for no discernible reason autoplayed a podcast coughjoerogancough even though i was in the middle of listening to something else. If i had the chance i would block it so fast. I should pivot to a different app for podcasts, i’ve just been lazy about it.
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I DL 'em & just listen on the laptop w/VLC. Of course the ability to DL 'em is a big part of it.
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Me too. I was going to buy a new computer this summer because Windows 11 won’t run on my current (ca. 2017) one. But with the tariff business I decided to order it right away. At least I’ll have a faster computer sooner.
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One of the sites i like to look at for cardigans (but haven’t bought from yet) has a St James Infirmary Blues cartoon themed sweater and cardigan. and honestly i dig the look of it. I’m pro-cardigan so posting the link to that one
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wow, this is cool!
I remember being in college watching cable tv late at night and the Betty Boop cartoons with Cab and Louis Armstrong came on and just being blown away.
also, was thinking about coming to this thread anyhow because both myself and @Docosc both were chatting about how tar shampoo is the only kind that works for our dandruff in a different thread
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I’ve battled with dandruff pretty badly myself, i tried some different shampoos and none really worked for me. Thankfully what worked for me is Pura D’or shampoo and the conditioner as well, i bought it on a lark after seeing some random article (ad) talking about it. Weirdly enough the shampoo doesn’t even purport to help with dandruff, i got it initially to help with my hair starting to thin out and i noticed that my dry scalp was way better. Downside is that it can be pricey but i buy them through Costco as they have a larger bottle size but you have to buy the combo, but since i go through the shampoo faster i generally end up buying the 16oz shampoo bottles on Amazon.
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Oh my, they have both Madoka and Dorohedoro stuff! My daughter is in heaven!
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I’m a fan too, love the weirdness of the animation from that era. They have a Betty Boop cardigan/sweater too but i don’t like the look of it as much, but the one i linked to i think i’ll buy one sometime next month 
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Yeah! The designs on there are honestly pretty great, even their original stuff. If i could i’d buy a lot of the sweaters and cardigans, even the other accessories they have look cool too 
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does it do anything about the thinning? I know you can get minoxodyl over the counter now, maybe other stuff, too. but I’m pretty cheap and so far not vain enough to shell out for expensive shampoo. but maybe I’d spring for it if you noticed a change, $24 could be worse, I guess.
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I tried minoxodyl at one point, though it was dispensed as a foam for use on your scalp/hair and i haaaaated how it made my hair feel and i didn’t use it long enough to notice a difference. To your point i should give it another try.
For the shampoo i use i can’t speak to how good it is at reversing thinning, but i can at least say that since i started using it i’ve noticed less stray/loose hair when showering or combing my hair.
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So i finally broke down regarding buying an Android tablet. I had my eye on the Samsung Galaxy S10+ tablet, but at around $850 just for the device if i wanted anything else like a cover or keyboard i was likely looking at spending over $1k. Today while browsing YT i saw a review of the OnePlus Pad 3, it’s not straight up better at everything compared to the Samsung tablet but it does have a better processor, refresh rate, larger battery and there’s a pre-order bonus where you could include the pen ($99) and a smart cover ($199) for free. So altogether i would be saving myself $200-300 so i’ve gone ahead and placed an order and will receive it sometime mid-July.
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