SynAcker

@SynAcker@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The text book industry inflated the cost of everything by making things huge, with mostly meaningless full color pictures everywhere. Go back 100 years and compare the size of a math book to present day. Math hasn’t changed a whole lot but the size and weight of the books certainly has.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have more information about the thing you describe around Detroit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure about those… But I do know what they don’t have to pay extra for is DisplayPort which is far superior to Hdmi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for the call out to Service Merchandise. As a kid, that store was awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Treadmill modded into giant 3D printer with an endless print bed size — taking 3D print sizing to the extreme⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Creality has had a treadmill printer for a long time now. You are correct, this isnt anything new.