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UNTOUCHED ETRUSCAN Tomb Uncovered In The VULCI Archaeological Park
An Etruscan tomb found at the Osteria Necropolis in Vulci, northern Lazio, was opened recently and proved to be a fantastic repository for information on Etruscan trade. In this video I discuss this story, as well as the discovery of a Bronze Age step pyramid in Kazakstan that was most likely a mausoleum built by the Begazi Dandibay culture and the excavation of a clay tablet at Hattusa that's etched with the script of a lost language.
Interesting News Stories For Those Interested in History
#History #Archaeology #News #NewFindings #Etruscan #Kazakstan #Hattusa #Pyramid #Tablets #LostLanguage
🇫🇮 Diese finnische Insel soll Smartphone-frei sein
Die finnische Insel Ulko-Tammio lädt ihre Besucher:innen dazu ein, #Smartphones und #Tablets zur Seite zu legen und sich auf das Erleben der unmittelbaren physischen Umgebung zu konzentrieren.
🔗 https://futurezone.at/digital-life/finnland-insel-smartphone-frei-digital-detox-fasten-ulko-tammio-kotka-hamina/402526057
#natur #umwelt
Maybe better to just go with the Surface
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/dell-xps-13-2-in-1-review-a-surface-like-slate-for-less/
Most Android and Apple Tablets will connect to large monitors, keyboards, and mice with a USB-C hub for better productivity
In fact, they also connect to many other devices such as SSD drives, memory sticks, headphones, Ethernet, and more. It can turn especially smaller tablets into quite productive devices. In most cases, the mobile app of a top end application, is cheaper than its desktop counterpart. If you have a smaller tablet with a stylus (Apple Pencil for iPads) being able to watch what you’re doing on a larger monitor is really useful.
Most USB-C hubs have become a lot cheaper and work well on Android and iPad (those with USB-C, but you also get such hubs and adaptors for Lightning ports), but it is well worth reading user reviews just to check if any compatibility issues have been reported. Usually you can expect to have one or more USB sockets, and an HDMI port. It is well worth ensuring you have more than one USB port to allow simultaneous connections of a keyboard, mouse and a storage device.
Keyboards, mice and a monitor probably won’t require external power on the hub, but as you start to add SSD drives (and especially a USB powered hard drive) you may want to consider getting a hub with external power capabilities, or a hub that can handle charge through to charge the tablet at the same time.
See https://www.pcworld.com/article/402858/the-best-usb-c-hubs-for-your-laptop-tablet-or-2-in-1.html
#technology #tablets #productivity #gadgets
#Blog, ##gadgets, ##hub, ##productivity, ##tablets, ##technology
Linux Tablets: Best Options, Comparison, and Guide
If you’re looking to buy a Linux tablet, you have some options out there today. In this article, they compare the best options and guide you through the Linux tablet world.
In terms of advancements and options in the market, Linux tablets are far behind Linux phones. Linux phones in general are far behind iPhones and Androids. So right from the start, manage your expectations.
Interestingly, they also cover some options for taking existing non-Linux tablets that can be converted to running Linux.
See https://linuxstans.com/linux-tablet/
#technology #linux #tablets
#Blog, ##linux, ##tablets, ##technology
The Country of the Blind, by H.G. Wells (1913)
The had become purblind so gradually that they scarcely noted their loss. They guided the sightless youngsters hither and thither until they knew the whole valley marvellously and when at last sight died out among them the race lived on. They had even time to adapt themselves to the blind control of fire, which they made carefully in stoves of stone. They were a simple strain of people at the first, unlettered, only slightly touched with the Spanish civilisation, but with something of a tradition of the arts of old Peru and of its lost philosophy. Generation followed generation. They forgot many things; they devised many things. Their tradition of the greater world they came from became mythical in colour and uncertain. In all things save sight they were strong and able, and presently the chance of birth and heredity sent one who had an original mind and who could talk and persuade among them, and then afterwards another.
https://archive.org/details/countryofblindot00welluoft/page/536/mode/2up?view=theater
#HGWells #Fiction #Narrative #Parable #Metaphor #Blindness #Subtoot #Tablets #GenerativeComputing
It all depends on what you use it for!
https://www.androidauthority.com/detachable-chromebook-vs-ipad-3043888/
The case against tablets
As I hunt for new computing hardware, I'm coming to the conclusion that tablets are simply a mistake. And yes, strongly informed by using one as a primary device for 5 years.
An ultra-light laptop has better utility and vastly superior privacy.
The one killer function, reading documents, seems better served by an e-book reader.
(Podcasts and videos are other possible fits, the first is possible on at least some e-book readers.)
Looking strongly at Onyx Boox (10" or 13"), and Remarkable2. I'd prefer avoiding Android, but the Remarkable's utterly inexcusably small storage and lack of keyboard input are looking to be dealbreakers.
iPod's lack of a usable Linux shell similarly harshes my mellow.
(I need to develop this argument more, interested in others' thoughts.)
#tablets #DigitalDevices #laptops #FuckAndroid #FuckGoogle #FuckSamsung
Lars Wirzenius: The ReMarkable Tablet, a Review
I've been hunting for a device that serves my primary use -- reading (and organising) a large volume of written media, designed, built, and meant for adults, by adults. Sadly, a drastically under-served market.
Wirzenius's review of the ReMarkable tablet, an e-ink large-format bookreader and note-taking device, is interesting. Still doesn't quite seem there, but it's close.
See also Hacker News discussion.
If there are other devices that you're aware of, please do mention them in comments.
Bootnote: Lars is a long-time geek, and has as his claim to fame introducing Linus Torvalds to the ideas of Free Software by inviting Torvalds to a Richard Stallman lecture in Finland.
#ReMarkable #tablets #reviews #linux
https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2019/09/22/the_remarkable_tablet_a_review/