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I use cheap notebooks

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Re: I use cheap notebooks

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Post by nickpeterson »

m0llusk wrote: post #15

I thought this would be about laptops. The laptops I use for work and personal stuff cost around $100 and are effectively disposable. They are not great for intense use, but the vast majority of tasks go just fine. And when developing any serious slowdown shows up right away so my work ends up being usable on low end hardware with janky connections. When one of these laptops got stolen recently I just got another one…

I’ve recently been trying a bit of an odd setup. I use an iPad on a stand with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and use blink shell to mosh to vultr openbsd hosts. It’s kind of nice in the sense that you have an iPad for when you need really mainstream support for something, and I’m thinking about switching to one with 5G for mobile work. I like the focus of having a terminal style device for hobby stuff.

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Post by Dalewyn »

m0llusk wrote: post #15

I thought this would be about laptops. The laptops I use for work and personal stuff cost around $100 and are effectively disposable. They are not great for intense use, but the vast majority of tasks go just fine. And when developing any serious slowdown shows up right away so my work ends up being usable on low end hardware with janky connections. When one of these laptops got stolen recently I just got another one…

>And when developing any serious slowdown shows up right away so my work ends up being usable on low end hardware with janky connections.

A lot of modern software problems stem from developers having a powerfully detached understanding of reality.

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Post by bluedino »

m0llusk wrote: post #15

I thought this would be about laptops. The laptops I use for work and personal stuff cost around $100 and are effectively disposable. They are not great for intense use, but the vast majority of tasks go just fine. And when developing any serious slowdown shows up right away so my work ends up being usable on low end hardware with janky connections. When one of these laptops got stolen recently I just got another one…

I like having a couple "junk" Thinkpads around, but I'm spoiled my "junk" Macbook's screen (older Retina model).

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Post by bluedino »

I've bought Moleskins and Field Notes, but for some reason, I have a hard time bringing myself to use them. Heck, even a 99-cent composition book from Staples needs a real purpose for me to actually write in one.

Like the author, I prefer legal pads. Mostly for working on. And then, at work we have stacks and stacks of the notepads with a grid printed on them (and the company logo). I love those.

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Post by AlfredBarnes »

m0llusk wrote: post #15

I thought this would be about laptops. The laptops I use for work and personal stuff cost around $100 and are effectively disposable. They are not great for intense use, but the vast majority of tasks go just fine. And when developing any serious slowdown shows up right away so my work ends up being usable on low end hardware with janky connections. When one of these laptops got stolen recently I just got another one…

What laptops are you using that are only $100?

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Post by sbaiddn »

joejoesvk wrote: post #5

i hate the feel of cheap paper

Yuck.

But the worse is how the pen/pencil writes on it. I easily lost half a grade letter on classes where the examiner provided cheap paper to hand in (my typically good handwriting collapses and I couldn't follow my own work)

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Post by jurassic »

I’ve come to prefer cheap sketchbooks with the spiral binding across the top for my note-taking. Or sometimes a Rhodia wirebound notebook with dot grid paper if I’m feeling fancy. These are both similar to a legal pad as I can have it open and ready for notes at all times. Printed lines seem like unnecessary visual noise to me.
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