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Sharpiemarker@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But who wants to deal with searching through the UI for pertinent info when you can have several PADDs each attuned to a specific set of data?

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They can even have their own special UI! The way they talk about reconfiguring panels makes it seem like you can build your own UI on the fly, especially the time Worf yelled at a dude who put the con controls in the engine room of the defiant and didn’t use the standard layout.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m more amused by Jake writing his stories on a PADD with a stylus, but you see it and it’s all printed text.

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    • TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I get it. I hate typing on mobile devices.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, but you never see the handwriting part. Like he’s writing on it and it’s doing handwriting to text, but the handwriting is not on the screen, which just seems like a bad interface.

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In the future, kids learn how to hand-write text that looks printed.

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    • dejected_warp_core@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Production reason: without a stylus it looks like he’s reading, not writing. Without one, dialogue like “I’m writing a book” would come across as lying, which can completely change a scene for the worse.

      **In-universe lore reason: ** Jake is a romantic and probably feels that the more tactile approach is better for his creative process.

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      • VindictiveJudge@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I mean, we’ve still got authors typing up manuscripts on mechanical typewriters and GRRM writing ASOIAF on a DOS computer. Jake wanting to use a pen is possibly one of the least weird things about Trek tech.

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