You nailed it that the note 10 is basically a phablet. lol I am probably the wrong person to ask about modern terms. FWIW I don't think reviewers use that. But ya know what? I know what you mean and that's what counts. and yeah man sharing it forward is one of the things that's becoming a lost art. Man back in the day me and my buds exchanged games and gizmos a ton. lol sure their was some (a lot ) of the dubious sneaker netting with games or whatever being burned to CD. But their was some amount of: "Oh hey dude this monitor/keyboard/computer part isn't for me- you can have it for that other thing you don't want/like/need" I think in school I had a ton of random keyboards, coax wires and what not from that. A lot of time it was also at LAN parties "you can borrow (or bumb*) my thingy if I can have a extra stick of ram of yours to play (game here)" Their is a small but vocal and growing contingent codre of people demanding keyboards on phones again. So I am holding out a lot of hope they'll comeback. A huge part of the issue is momentum, companies charging a bajillion dollars for cameras and "influencers" drooling on just that. Meenwhile regular reviewers going: the UI/UX is fudge awful but made better an external KB sony, apple, samsung someone? make that so!.
And also yeah: on the side note: Bingo. I meen, I figure the odd times I need (or want?) a QOL thing, and is possible I'll do refurbed on GP. A fraction of the cost. and I feel better for it to do my bit to buy the environment time from ewaste. *Now I wonder where the slang: Bumb something off of someone comes from. Like bumb a ride, or bumb a few bucks from someone for a snack. On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 4:22 PM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Gil - > > congrats on your upgraded palmtop, external keyboard, trackball and all! > When I saw the name (Note10) I thought maybe it was technically a Phablet > (is that even a contemporary term? how big does a phone (or small a > tablet) have to be to be a phablet?) I'd probably go for a phablet if I > had bigger pockets... maybe if I took up wearing nothing but bib overalls > (as too many of my relatives do... not even a t-shirt in the summer) it > would be "just right" (big chest-pocket). > > Sorry you didn't find a physical-keyboard model to acquire... REC's links > were surprising, I thought they were totally deprecated! > > <self-indulgent tangential rant> I share your preference for used/refurbed > even though I know that stream tends to be a *fraction* of the *new* stream > size... one upcycle/recycle loop in the stream is at least a nudge in the > right direction. It is a little like my philosophy on picking up > hitchhikers. Not only do I give someone in need a ride somewhere, I also > lower the anxiety of the next 10-100 folks driving by who might "worry" > either that they shoulda-but-didn't-pick-them-up or > that-person-is-crazy-dangerous-and-I-hate-the-world. I'm now on the back > end of this process now, carefully seeking new (probably final) homes for > old tech that I rescued a decade or two ago, got good use from, and am now > ready to "share forward" one more time... like the three LCD monitors I > unloaded on you recently! > > But fusion energy will "fix all that", we can just dump our old tech into > the tiny-suns at the hearts of each building/community (heck in the chest > of your suit of flying armour, tony stark style!). It wasn't that long ago > that every commercial building (Industry or apartments) had their own > incenerator in the basement where *everything* was flash-fried and the > results belched into the (already murky?) air over the cityscape. Good > for human-remains disposal too? > > I'm not doing it myself, but I did discover that along with better and > better methods for turning PET/HDPE? plastic bottles into 3D printer > filament, that in the Himalayan highlands, they are building rocket-mass > heaters capable of consuming (most of) the toxic emissions when plastic > waste is burned (too often burned open-pit there). The very high > combustion temperatures in the throat of the (very low-tech) rocket stove > are enough to break down *most* of the noxious bits and then the rapid > condensation when the "jet" hits the "bell" of the stove means that most > of the toxic by-products end up on the inner surfaces of the bell and the > exhaust is mostly just above-ambient temperature CO2/H2O. The hydrocarbon > chains are also dense fuel compared to cellulose, so the desired high > combustion temperatures are easier to obtain and maintain. I do let the > plastic-window-bits of my junk-mail go into mine but no juice bottles or > cello wrapping for me... I mostly stick to aluminum and glass which is > either well worth the effort to recycle or mostly inert. My rocket-mass > stove is pretty happy eating typical yard-waste, I don't want to spoil it > with high-test plastic! > > On my trip to EU I upgraded the fairly lame solar-rechargeable 6500 mAh > battery packs to 30k versions suitable for multiple phone recharges and > even driving a heated travel blanket. I have been handing out $5 bills, > chocolate bars, and hand-toe warmers to folks flying signs on the street > and I *hope* one of them can make good use of on of these (now 10+ year > old) power banks even though they A) barely top up a half-empty > contemporary cell phone, and B) take several days of full sun to recharge > without plugging into a USB source. I do have an older Android whose, > battery is only good for an hour or two I suppose I could pair with one of > these... I haven't been able to get the 2 hand-me-down iPads I have > updated well enough to do *anything*... first significant "planned > obselescence" I've seen in Apple Products... or I'd pass those along as > well. > > I just reconnected with the SF MakerSpace (you should check them out if > you don't know them) and I'm hoping they can absorb some of my > duplicate/triplicate shop/hand tools that several dead/retiring men left to > me over the last decade or two. The coming population collapse (next > pandemic, next assault-rifle-armed-MAGA temper tantrum, next rogue > authoritarion with nuclear codes?) will leave us (or not) all with way more > gak than we know what to do with... time to start being clever upcyclers! > > </rant> > > - Steve > > > On 12/20/22 12:12 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote: > > First up is samsungs note 10. In a nutshell fun af, and complete, It's old > phone that feals modern af. love the option to use a stylus for notes. It's > a chonker of a phone. This one was refurbed*. It came from amazon and it's > good as new. fantastic reception. and yeah just a cool phone. android > > A external keyboard: (don't have a link atm): Omg what a difference for > quick texts when going to googles messages from the web is overkill. The > one I have Is more meant for inplace typing. and meant to be used with a > case and I think on a desktop or something. Sigh RIPish phones with > keyboards. > > Elecom Deft: > <https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GQZVH78?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1> > (arg gmails weird way to format!!): at any rate: in short? love it. It's > trackball. I had one like it for a few years before it broke. I got it on > impulse because I got frustrated with the small mousing area of my desk. It > pleasantly surprised me how fast I adjusted. This one is wireless which is > fantastic when you have a small space. I have no clue about the mechanical > side. Just after a week and change of use it's my favorite mouse so far. > I've tried one with a bajillion dpi and polling rates and blah blah. but > this relatively simple guy is just...fun? to use. I haven't tried it with > games yet. if it's like the other trackball I suspect i'll be good. Has > function buttons, I think those are for macros. All in all just great. > uses 2.4 ghtz usb dongle to connect and a AA battery. > *I've gotten to prefer used gizmos because of being very concerned about > the environment. > Back to our regularly scheduled geek out about Ai. > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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