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What laptops are you using that are only $100?
If I had to guess, various used laptops from a decade or so ago. For most practical applications, computing performance plateaued around 2011. Just look at how many people can't/won't use Windows 11 just because their ancient relic otherwise still works perfectly fine. And if you want a source, anecdata is I'm posting this from an i7 2700K (aka Sandy Bridge) machine.
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.
If I can make this work (fast) on a Raspberry Pi 3 or on older hardware, will work nicely on production systems.
I use expensive notebooks because I use a fountain pen, and crappy notebooks won't take good ink well.
I used to have a similar hangup, I liked getting expensive notebooks and very rarely used them because I was worried I was “wasting” the page by writing banal stuff on it. I ended up fixing it by complete accident. I ran across yet another nice notebook* and to save on shipping I bought three of them. Later on I happened to be in an office supplies shop with a friend and she saw some pens on the shelf that she rememb…
The scarce resource is the money you need to buy the nice ones, not the notebooks themselves. I don't think people are afraid of wasting good paper, they're afraid of wasting paper that they paid a lot for.
I think our brains just aren’t very careful or rigorous about what they attach that “scarcity” label to, they will happily attach that label to the product itself instead of the money you paid for it. Consciously presenting our subconscious with disconfirming observations can be an effective tool to update our subconscious labeling.
1- https://www.staples.com/Staples-Arc-Customizable-Leather-Not...
I go a different route with my Todo journal. I make my own paper out of recycled paper I get from junk mail. I cut them to my preferred size and then I do a quick binding with thread from a sewing kit. I then back it with a spine of duck tape (based off another hacker news post). I like making deeply personal objects and doing it this way makes me excited to use them. I’ve also recently started to make linoleum stamp…
Very nice! How do you make paper?
I go a different route with my Todo journal. I make my own paper out of recycled paper I get from junk mail. I cut them to my preferred size and then I do a quick binding with thread from a sewing kit. I then back it with a spine of duck tape (based off another hacker news post). I like making deeply personal objects and doing it this way makes me excited to use them. I’ve also recently started to make linoleum stamp…
Have you written about your process for making these notebooks? The end product looks great and I'd love to know more about what's involved and how much effort is required.
The actually paper making process is pretty quick. I usually just put in some noise cancelling earbuds and just listen to some music while I work!
Fairly firmly at the cheap & functional end of the scale, and the right size to stuff in bags etc.
(Link: https://pukkastationery.com/pukka-pads-a5-metallic-jotta-not... )
I am using cheap notebooks so I can rip pages from them and then throw them away (if I was just thinking on a paper), digitize them or put them into a folder with pages from same project and digitize them when project is closed.
I use expensive notebooks because I use a fountain pen, and crappy notebooks won't take good ink well.
The notebooks / exercise books the school supplied could hardly be considered expensive, so you may just need to shop around. Or maybe downgrade to use cheap ink on a cheap notebook?