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This is interesting to me because I'm in the market for a new tablet. Is this more of a hacker device (IR blaster, odd assortment of ports, full OS, etc.) or c
by julianlam 6y ago
This is interesting to me because I'm in the market for a new tablet.
Is this more of a hacker device (IR blaster, odd assortment of ports, full OS, etc.) or consumer? It should ideally pass the wife test...
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoNot a ton of ports, USB 2.0 Type-A and Micro-B, Micro-HDMI out, SD card. But there's an expansion card slot, which is pretty unheard of for a tablet. So you can add like an SSD or a LoRa radio or what-have-you.
- hsitz 6y agoIt doesn't sound like this is for you. If "wife test" means the wife using and it and liking it, pretty sure it would fail. It's not what this is marketed for. An Amazon Kindle tablet would be more what you're looking for, if this is the price point you want.
- igorbark 6y agothe mild sexism wasn't necessary
- julianlam 6y agoWhat mild sexism? I want a tablet that my wife will use to browse the web and watch videos, and she will be evaluating it's fitness for her daily use. It's literally exactly what I said.
- exikyut 6y ago(The "flag" option can be found by clicking the post submit date.)
- bchanudet 6y agoI think it's because "wife test" looks a lot like "wife acceptance factor" [1], which has a much more degrading meaning than what you wanted to convey. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_acceptance_factor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_acceptance_factor
- igorbark 6y agosorry for assuming & the curt reply. "the wife test" is a common turn of phrase relying on/reinforcing the stereotype of women as non-technical and men as technical. it's not really clear in your original post that you are literally referring to your wife's opinion of the device vs simply invoking the sexist phrase to describe the device's user friendliness for non-hackers. i hope you can see how i took it the wrong way, though i still apologize for jumping to conclusions