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Starlite or Surface Linux? (self.surfacelinux)

I'm looking to buy a new tablet for grad school. Mostly to read PDFs of text books and take handwritten notes.

Additionally, I'd like it to be powerful enough for some casual use in my down time. Maybe run some simple games like Balatro or others of that caliber.

I was wondering if y'all could speak to which of these options seem the best for me?

  1. buy a new Starlite tablet (Linux pre-installed!)
  2. buy a new surface and load Gnome
  3. try to find a used surface and load Gnome
  4. something easy I haven't thought of.

Some considerations:

a) From looking at the specs, a Starlite and a new Surface of around the same price have similar RAM. I don't know enough about processors to know which is better though.

b) I'd rather not support Microsoft directly, so I'm less inclined to buy a new Surface, but I'm not sure if the used market will be too limiting for me

c) I don't know how difficult it is to put Linux on a surface. I'm imagining as a Windows proprietary device it's going to be a little testy about it. My experience installing windows is putting Mint or Kubuntu on an older Win10 PC and laptop.

What does the community think? Any words of advice for me?

[-] recently_Coco 41 points 1 month ago

I think that's actually the plan. There's been moves to dismantle public education entirely, and once there is no more public education in Oklahoma, then the private schools can hire whoever they want.

[-] recently_Coco 43 points 1 month ago

"The revolution will not be televised"

It's a phrase I hear a lot in leftist spaces. Effectively, you have to be aware that publicizing these things is a great way to get them shut down.

The work is being done locally, and quietly. Advertising these events in public spaces like this one will very likely lead to them not getting off the ground due to infiltration or oppression

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[-] recently_Coco 61 points 6 months ago

There are a lot fewer of them around now than when I was a kid. The trend continues down as we keep doing mass commercial fishing the way we do.

Wikipedia

[-] recently_Coco 24 points 9 months ago

I'm waiting for the first wave of medical professionals who stand up and say "no" to harmful laws. It needs to happen. we need people to refuse unjust law without the lawsuit song and dance. Simply say NO! and help people anyways.

[-] recently_Coco 126 points 9 months ago

something something Gorilla Warfare.

[-] recently_Coco 33 points 10 months ago

Absolutely this. It speaks a lot that it's easier for a millionaire to pirate the game than to get it legally. Make it easy and cheap and people will use it.

[-] recently_Coco 80 points 11 months ago

This scene was from An Extremely Goofy Movie, released on 2000.

But the point does stand...

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I'm looking for free simple special effects to overlay onto videos in KdenLive. Things like explosions, fire, and particle effects. Are there any good free or open source libraries for this kind of thing?

[-] recently_Coco 24 points 1 year ago

The thing that gets me is how often this sort of thing is happening all around us without us noticing. Every online purchase is bound to be doing this in some form or another. Every plane ticket, every uber ride. All designed to figure out the exact cost we're willing to pay for the service.

I'm so tired of capitalism...

[-] recently_Coco 42 points 1 year ago

It's a shame, really. A non-centralized internet has existed before and must exist again if it's to remain useable. It's sad so many have given up because of early internet struggles. Things are even far less painful now than I remember them being in the past.

[-] recently_Coco 83 points 1 year ago

A little bit more emphasis during Star Wars that Vader wanted the Storm Troopers to aim poorly and let them get away. It would have solved decades of jokes and arguments about Storm Trooper weapon accuracy.

[-] recently_Coco 36 points 2 years ago

A lot of it comes from Tiktok culture. YouTube has started doing it too.

Videos that say "kill", "rape", "died", etc are all deprioritized by the algorithm if not demonetized entirely.

People have been editing subtitles to avoid these words, and the behavior spread.

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