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I've been using this for a long time- it stays in my pocket/bag most days, and it's so inconspicuous (looks exactly like a phone) that you don't think twice abo
by OhioMan2943 11mo ago
I've been using this for a long time- it stays in my pocket/bag most days, and it's so inconspicuous (looks exactly like a phone) that you don't think twice about doing some serious reading in public or on the train
- wredcoll 11mo agoWhy not just... read on your phone then?
- izacus 11mo agoBecause the shiny phone screen is unpleasant for reading?
- wredcoll 11mo agoI mean, I can't reach into your brain and experience your perceptions but the literal billions of people who read for hours a day on "shiny" phone screens seems to show that as a rather rare view.
- kstrauser 11mo agoThat's a pretty weak argument, though. I use a vertical mouse because it helps my RSI tremendously. I don't think there's anyone else in my office with one. I'm in a tiny minority there. And yet, I like my vertical mouse and I'd rather use it than a normal one, no matter how many others prefer the horizontal kind.
- izacus 11mo agoLuckly my parents got rid of socialism in the country to I could have a choice of products that fit me instead of being one-size-fits-all form shoved onto me. I really don't understand why some of you really want that to come back.
- dmos62 11mo agoCommand economies are a component of some past socialist regimes. They are not a defining feature of socialism as a political and economic philosophy. I'm tired of socialist=bad and related categorical rhetorics. It's nuanced: where did worker unions, welfare programmes come from? And, to say that worker unions are a socialist thing is, in a way, lazy thinking too: there were specific initiatives, organizations and, above all, people that spearheaded these things we take for granted, but noone remembers them and some guy on a forum just lumps them into the "socialism" bag, which, again, is correct, but lazy and surely unuseful.
- Nition 11mo agoMaybe a more acceptable statement than saying LCDs are unpleasant: eInk screens are generally more pleasant for reading than LCDs.
- yokoprime 11mo agoThey «read» for shorter amounts of time. Reading for hours on an OLED can be fatiguing, especially if you stare at a LCD at work for 8-10 hours everyday on top of your reading
- rendaw 11mo agoThere are matte screen covers, I have one and it's great.
- OhioMan2943 11mo agoWow what a novel question that nobody in this thread has ever considered...