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I’m 20 hours in and its use for me is greatly accelerating. Wish it was easier to type.

dannyobrien 3y ago
I'm using it about as much as I am accustomed to use my laptop around the house (it eats into my phone/laptop usage, rather than anything else). Zoom and desktop mirroring is too buggy rn, otherwise I think it would eat more into my desktop. I use a nice mechanical bluetooth keyboard with a trackpoint. It's just niggling bugs though -- the 1.2 beta is already an improvement. The counter-argument is that I also tried to yolo into using the ipad as a primary machine when that came out and quickly came crawling back to my desktop after the initial excitement. This feels about halfway between desktop and ipad in terms of my use of it for non-consumer digital uses.
- outside415 3y ago
  yeah I am happy to have all of my phone time cannibalized by it, much easier on the eyes and arms, more fun too. Looking at photos and videos on it is far more enthralling than on my phone. connecting it to my macbook and working on docs is just so much better than my current airbnb setup for productivity as well, the screen is crystal clear and I am on top of Haleakala, so easy to focus rapidly, and half a dozen other screens that I reference all a quick gaze away instead of a context switch away. wish I liked movies more, the disney 3d stuff on it is really stunning, similarly the immersive apple tv stuff is pretty neat too. wish there were more apps taking advantage of the 3d plane vs. just popping up another 2d plan in 3d space. 100% agree with the bugs, not entirely unexpected though so not too annoyed by them.
redeux 3y ago
What makes typing so difficult? Is it just the virtual keyboard?
- outside415 3y ago
  yeah virtual keyboard, you can either touch the keys directly or do an eye gaze finger tip close motion. it's fine for small things like URLs and Search terms, but once I start typing in a password or a sentence I become very unhappy. Still worth the pain though, I am sure the typing will get better with time. For now productivity tasks are mostly reserved for when I am VM'd from it to my mac.

I'm using it about as much as I am accustomed to use my laptop around the house (it eats into my phone/laptop usage, rather than anything else). Zoom and desktop mirroring is too buggy rn, otherwise I think it would eat more into my desktop. I use a nice mechanical bluetooth keyboard with a trackpoint. It's just niggling bugs though -- the 1.2 beta is already an improvement. The counter-argument is that I also tried to yolo into using the ipad as a primary machine when that came out and quickly came crawling back to my desktop after the initial excitement. This feels about halfway between desktop and ipad in terms of my use of it for non-consumer digital uses.

outside415 3y ago
yeah I am happy to have all of my phone time cannibalized by it, much easier on the eyes and arms, more fun too. Looking at photos and videos on it is far more enthralling than on my phone. connecting it to my macbook and working on docs is just so much better than my current airbnb setup for productivity as well, the screen is crystal clear and I am on top of Haleakala, so easy to focus rapidly, and half a dozen other screens that I reference all a quick gaze away instead of a context switch away. wish I liked movies more, the disney 3d stuff on it is really stunning, similarly the immersive apple tv stuff is pretty neat too. wish there were more apps taking advantage of the 3d plane vs. just popping up another 2d plan in 3d space. 100% agree with the bugs, not entirely unexpected though so not too annoyed by them.

redeux 3y ago

What makes typing so difficult? Is it just the virtual keyboard?

outside415 3y ago
yeah virtual keyboard, you can either touch the keys directly or do an eye gaze finger tip close motion. it's fine for small things like URLs and Search terms, but once I start typing in a password or a sentence I become very unhappy. Still worth the pain though, I am sure the typing will get better with time. For now productivity tasks are mostly reserved for when I am VM'd from it to my mac.