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Giving up the iPad-only travel dream

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Re: Giving up the iPad-only travel dream

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Post by kaba0 »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #399
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It's simple. A laptop is a keyboard-oriented device, packing a,lot of computing power. It has the shortest battery life, and requires a desk, or at least a seat, to operate comfortably. A phone is a handheld device, one which is always on you. It necessarily has a smaller screen, no separate keyboard, and only has a decent battery life because it sleeps most of the time. It can have serious peak performance, but has…

Imagine we took this approach to cars A convertible is for sinny days, it has no roof at all, you should use another car on rainy days. A Smart is a 2 seater for trips to the city, its easy to find parking And a Hummer is for trips to the countryside, it won't fit into any parking spot in London. You should buy all three and use the right tool for the job

Apples to.. cars.

So why don’t we have a single clothing item that fits every purpose? We had 10 thousands of years to improve on it, yet we use specialized jacket in winter and a swimsuit in the summer for swimming.

Specialization and generalization are fundamental principles we live by, and both can have value, depending on context.

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Post by iraqmtpizza »

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I do remember breaking my ankle on my bicycle as a child; I don't recall having to jailbreak my bike, though. How does BitTorrent work via the app store by the way? Kappa.

I download the torrent file and use a service like put or seedr. There’s no need to have a torrent client on your devices.

and it doesn't bother you that you have to delegate your participation in a decentralized network? through which you can only do what they decide to allow

Re: Giving up the iPad-only travel dream

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Post by bemusedthrow75 »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #435
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Only Apple iPads as far as I could see, but by no means only the most expensive or newest. Non-Apple tablet devices really are not often seen in the UK (some convertible PCs, the occasional Samsung tablet). If you spend a lot of time on public transport, an iPad isn't really that much of a luxury item. It's a really pragmatic choice, and at least in the UK an entry-level or recent secondhand iPad is not much more exp…

So is a very cost effective way to make use of what might be 2+ hours of every working day. Here is the first mistake. Get rid of the ridiculous commute. Then, you will not need an iPad!

Two hours of commuting in the south east of the UK is as little as thirty miles each way in the overground part alone. Quite a common commute. Far from a ridiculous one, and if you get a seat, not really very uncomfortable.

You can either drive it and do nothing but listen to something relatively simple, or sit in a train and read/work/draw/listen/play games/sleep.

(It’s not my commute; I work from home. But I visit clients sometimes; yesterday involved six hours of train/tube travel. I wouldn’t do that every day but I could do it once a week.)

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Post by Fluorescence »

GraemeMeyer wrote: post #354
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Only Apple iPads or are you using the term generically? I'm guessing you're in London or another major city? Similar to the parent I only ever see iPads in two places, the hands of rich kids in restaurants, and in primary schools.

In the UK you basically only see iPads (95%+). Android tablets aren’t common

I see a lot of Surfaces in commuter hours.

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Post by iraqmtpizza »

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There is no shortage of limitations in real life or on a massively powerful desktop computer. People on desktop are not gods. Nor are they unlimited. I don't know what creative solutions you're talking about but unless we're talking about things making art with limited colors and resolutions which is only necessary because that's what the customer has, there is not much point in limiting oneself artificially unless y…

The limitations removed by a computer is the size of my working memory. Draw a line, type something, or whatever and suddenly it stops competing for space in my head. The idea space I can explore with a computer is so many orders of magnitude larger it’s practically unbound by comparison. However, by saving those thoughts to a computer suddenly they are more likely to be tweaked than discarded. I’m not bound to inclu…

I fail to see how a box's position on a digital whiteboard is considered more up for debate than a box on a real whiteboard. Have you ever used a real whiteboard in a collaborative environment? When you move it, you have to redraw all the lines to and from it. Also, what is your point?

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Post by ravenstine »

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Too bad that USB-C is so poorly designed from a mechanical standpoint. Apple's Lightning connectors are robust, but for some reason the consortium that developed USB-C decided they needed to make it more complicated so that both the male and female connectors are prone to wearing out and getting loose.

> male and female connectors are prone to wearing out and getting loose And yet despite the sheer number of USB-C devices I own at all ends of the cost scale, this has only ever happened to my 2017 Macbook Pro. And on the male side, Apple dutifully makes up for the claimed robustness of the connector by making some of the worst cables.

Nearly every USB-C connector I've used, on multiple devices of different manufacturers, has eventually encountered problems. Google's connectors are particularly bad. I'm not even doing anything like tripping on the cables.

> And on the male side, Apple dutifully makes up for the claimed robustness of the by making some of the worst cables.

Hahaha

Assuming I know what you are talking about, yes, their cables suck. The plastic/rubber degrades way faster than other cables, turning yellow and eventually splitting open after just a few years.

Re: Giving up the iPad-only travel dream

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Post by iraqmtpizza »

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>Nujabes didn’t pioneer lo-fi. What do you want? I guess you mean he only pioneered good lo-fi that wasn't Grandmaster Flash cringe. How did Niggaz Of Destruction pioneer lo-fi? You completely skipped over my point about the internet but ok.

I mean he didn't really pioneer anything.

From whom did he steal wholesale? Also, the beatles suck wang and they ripped off elvis who ripped off blues

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Post by Zetobal »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #437
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Yep. I have an iPad (cheap, not pro) on my nightstand. I take the laptop when traveling because who knows what I'll need it for.

Why a "cheap" iPad instead of a much cheaper Android tablet?

Because android ignored their tablet UI for years and are now optimising it for folding phones.
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