bamboo

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[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Why wouldn’t you? They’re super convenient, being small and lightweight, with high quality keyboards that make them more laptop like, plus they support standard USB and Bluetooth keyboards. They aren’t full laptop replacements, but basic office productivity tasks they surely are, and have first class support from Microsoft office, google docs, and Apple’s office tools. In a meeting for example, they can be used to take notes, and then quickly screen mirror to a TV wirelessly or with a wired adapter and be used as a drawing tablet for sketching ideas or drawing diagrams. Extremely versatile, there’s nothing really like it (well, besides other tablets).

They certainly don’t replace a real laptop in all aspects, but they do for most people most of the time, hence why it’s common for people to use smartphones and tablets as their only computer.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Sure but I can’t run libreoffice on my iPad, and that’s a deciding factor for more people than the licensing.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

The big advantage of google docs is that it is free and good enough. Most people don’t need advanced formatting options, font size and a few choices are sufficient.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Well most of it is unsubstantiated lies propagated by Israel, so yes. It is probable that Hamas has fired rockets into civilian areas, but I don’t think there’s any evidence on the rest of it.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

As far as I know there is only one SSD model that meets my criteria (Samsung 870 QVO 8TB), and at $520 right now so I’ve decided it’s best to wait. I’d like it to be quieter but not so badly as to spend $1k on it (need two).

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago (6 children)

How noisy are these? I have a pair of shucked WD drives that should be equivalent to reds, and they’re pretty noisy in my otherwise quiet home office. Given they’re only 8TB, upgrading them to SSDs for full silence is something in considering as soon as the pricing and availability permits.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

There are other elections but few with candidates worth voting for, some state level reps perhaps. This ballot initiative is morally unambiguous though.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Excellent, this may be the one thing worth voting for this November

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Relatedly, Nelson Mandela was a terrorist fighting against the government of South Africa, to free his people against a government that was just defending itself and ensuring the safety of its citizens. Then apartheid ended, and only then was he changed to a freedom fighter.

Also relatedly, Hamas is a terrorist organization fighting against the government of Israel, to free their people against a government that is just defending itself and ensuring the safety of its citizens.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

There actually was an effort to get a ballot initiative on the 2022 state election, but due to narrow timing between the Supreme Court overturning RvW and the pre-established deadline, it didn’t make it. I would be surprised if a similar initiative isn’t on the 2024 ballot, and it would almost certainly pass.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 21 points 7 months ago

Yeah it’s wild that the US government will fund private projects without getting the same bonds or shares that private investors would expect.

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