JustARegularNerd

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[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm really trying to find a tablet that is about 8 inches and has extremely smooth usage of web browsing and YouTube, that isn't an iPad mini (or Samsung, just don't like their UI), and it seems like nothing comes close anywhere in the industry, maybe with the possible exception of the Google Pixel Tablet. It feels like the entire industry gave up trying to innovate tablets because iPads were that good.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

I use one daily, an Apple Watch SE 1st gen. You need an iPhone to use the Apple Watch as far as I'm aware. I daily drive a Pixel 4a but I still keep an old iPhone SE 1st gen purely for this watch..

There might be Android apps that can interface with the Apple Watch but it certainly wouldn't be the full experience

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Personally I use Proton for my mail needs but then Tutanota for my calendar. Perhaps something you could consider so your Tutanota account doesn't get deleted.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Are homicides up in the rest of the developed world among youths? I feel that here in Australia, while we have our own fair share of domestic issues, it doesn't seem anywhere near as widespread that Aussie youths murders/homicides are higher than say, 10 or 20 years ago.

I don't have any sources for that, I am writing this up five minutes before I go to sleep, but I think it's a potential talking point, and if data does corroborate with my hunches on this, maybe it's not the social media alone and maybe something USA does differently? Maybe the lax gun control?

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As a slight side tangent to your comment, currently I'm doing a unit on Human Computer Interaction and the very point they stress is that you could have the most fantastic, awesome, never failing, robust system, but if the frontend is bad and is hard to understand and doesn't follow standard design principles, the system being great doesn't even matter because users get frustrated and leave your entire app.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

They still had an anchor in my local mall only up until the beginning of this year.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 0 points 2 years ago

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[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Easier to manage for IT would certainly be my bet, and appealing cheap contracts. Even those Acer Aspires so many schools used were double the price of these Chromebooks, so suddenly youre talking about nearly halving a ~$100k cost. Schools want things locked down and enslaved, they couldn't care less that they are Linux under the hood. They don't think like you and I.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My work uses GoFax for SMS texting, which has a web UI, and while I can't comment on pricing or their support, or even the features as I only use the SMS function, as just a user of it, it works very well and haven't had any issues.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I work at a (much more legitimate) computer shop and we wouldn't have up charged on that either. What we quote is what we quote, even if it blows out to 10 hours instead of 1, that's on us not on the customer.

That computer shop my Dad went to, he learned afterwards from study mates that the shop had done that to multiple people for various different jobs, and they're constantly changing names but I'm pretty sure it's the same business running even today.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago

I'm in Queensland, Australia, and it seems to say there's no chance of rain at all, as there's thick clouds above my head seconds from drenching me, and sure enough, I start getting drenched.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, it was nicknamed the F6 floppy because Windows XP setup would say "Press F6 to load a SCSI driver" and you would hit that, select the driver from your floppy, and continue setup.

I've even seen vendor's websites call it F6 Driver because the unofficial name was so ubiquitous

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