Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops

ratten@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Just remember to back that shit up.

  Nothing like forgetting your brain on public transport and getting instant amnesia for the past five years.

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  • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ever read Stross’s Accelerando? Not far off plot there.

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh it’s available for free as well. Like on purpose.

      Cheers. Read some plot overview or smth seems cool yeah got to read that

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hmm. No, got to look into that. Thank you for the suggestion.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  eh. i prefer desktops. i see the use of laptops, but i prefer to use as little disposable tech as possible.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe something like a Framework would be appropriate?

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    • Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Getting an old thinkpad is probably better, way cheaper, and fits into the reuse to keep something from going yo the landfill.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      it’s closer to my wants, but basic spreadsheets are all my clients need right now and that really doesn’t need any more processing power than a phone has. i plug a keyboard and a mouse in and i’m able to work off of there. if i really need to i can cast to a screen, even got a couple usb-C male to hdmi male cables.

      i’m always going to need some kind of non-pocket computer, and the desktops are so much cheaper. and modifiable! my last one lived 16 years as the main PC. I tend to ship of theseus them.

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• Allero@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As someone who studied without laptop through an entire bachelor’s degree - it is a valid option, and I still often make handwritten notes of study materials.

  When you write things down by hand, you process information for longer and use more parts of your brain to do so, which genuinely helps to memorize study materials.

  It also allows for more focus. Personally, I found that when I moved, eventually, to using laptop in my studies, it has reduced my attention span and added unnecessary distractions. When all you have at your fingertips is paper and a pen, there is nowhere to get astray.

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• 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I pretty much treat mine as my second brain.

  Withering away your first brain in the process.

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  • ratten@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not really.

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