@thanasisp this is from a user who periodically updates questions just to add (often irrelevant) tags to them, apparently with the idea that doing so increases their views, and I’m guessing with the assumption that more views is better
hm.. I saw that a couple of times, once he proposed a good tags update, but I preferred to skip because of this comment, I was not sure what's meaning.
even in javascript, it throws error, === is valid, but not +++. He could just write "improve tags".
The first review for this tablet says it's supported by the Linux kernel.
But would it be of any real use? It's amazingly cheap, which makes me wonder if it is just a piece of junk.
I also wonder how difficult installing Debian or similar on this thing would be.
Oh, looks like it needs to be plugged into a computer to work, in which case it probably isn't that useful for me. I'd much prefer something standalone.
@AndrasDeak Oh. So you have to hook it up to a laptop to use it? Then what? You write on an image of your exams with a stylus? Is that working well for you?
For which even the dirt cheap Genius tablet seems to work fine. I'll know for sure later this week, I plan to start grading the first remote mid-terms today.
@FaheemMitha Yeah, exactly. I literally just finished checking out the pdf reader I'm going to use (for the record: proprietary but free as in beer Foxit pdf reader). You can load a pdf, annotate it with a pencil tool and export it as pdf again. Exactly what I need.
I was going to use Krita that was suggesed here earlier, which is a really nice painting program, but not suited for handling my pages of pdf. It can read a pdf into layers and can export the layers in one sitting, but I want to see the entire document at one time.
I found a suggestion of xournal. But that was last updated in 2016 or something, and although there's a package for it in an "oldoldstable" debian repo it has clashing dependencies with my system
@FaheemMitha well, yeah, that's the point
without free-hand annotations I wouldn't need a tablet
I know. I do too, but not at all cost. My main objective is to grade these mid-terms by the end of the week.
in any case if you decide to try this angle, this is really cheap and works with debian (or at least worked a month ago; I've yet to plug it in after the most recent update)
@AndrasDeak I happily don't have any papers to grade. I was really looking for something to perhaps use to take notes. But I don't think that would work for that purpose.
I think that may be a result of the liquor laws in many states. My state recently changed it but in many states you need a liquor license to sell anything over (I think 4%) alcohol so probably many beer companies ensure their beer is below that so it can be sold in grocery stores
I don't really know american beer. Apart from things like budweiser which hardly even counts as beer, really. I understand there's some pretty good craft beers being produced though.
"microbreweries" have been trending here for a few years now and it really is not my kind of thing. They are mostly all IPAs which is the worst tasting beer IMO and they usually don't serve anything other than their own home brewed sewage water. If they don't sell heineken I go elsewhere
@jesse_b hey, that sounds like Finland. Thought the earlier limit was 4.7 % or something like that. They raised it to 5.5 %, which still leaves a good part of the better beers in Alko... (for some reason, that's also about the strength of the cheapish long drinks the large breweries here make, must be a coincidence...)