#thin computing

[eightglass]

What laptop manufacturers think people want:

What people actually want:

Seriously!

Like, what happened to 4:3? Websites and word processors work with VERTICAL SCROLLING. That means we want more VERTICAL SPACE.

What happened to buttons on the trackpad? The smooth square is bullshit. Bring back buttons. Also there should be a scroll wheel beside the trackpad.

Why are laptops so thin nowadays? Where's the sturdiness? Where's the space to put things?

What happened to the io? I WANT MORE USB. I should not have to buy an adapter to have enough USB ports.

Disc drives! SD card readers! Why did they leave?? Put them back.

And easily removable batteries!! That should be common again!! If the battery stops carrying enough charge, anyone should be able to replace it easily.

Also, like, why are laptop speakers consistently so ass? Make them good!

Keyboards should have more buttons! Un-merge the function keys and the, like, volume and brightness control keys. More buttons more better.

Why is there usually only a power button? Put a sleep button next to it!!

[mochasucculent]

Yet another Owl House drawing I never finished (of which there are many lol)

It was a dual redraw of/homage to my first ever fanart from the day the pilot episode aired (below the cut), but this time done right after the show ended and with Eda's updated look! Though I lost steam fast I kinda like it this way lol, one of those things that probably would have lost its energy if I tried to line it yknow

[drawnecromancy]

One of my hobbies in minecraft is actually digging out/building mazes. It's just really fun to endlessly build random corridors that may or may not lead to rooms. Sometimes i put furniture in the rooms. sometimes not.

I've been affectionately calling them my insane wizard mazes.

[geddyqueer]

what i WILL do is think about lfjr's enormous hog.

[septimusmoonlight]

You doing ok?

hi

[vellichorom]

digs up TONS of wips of varying degrees of finished for different projects, featuring FRIENDS !!!! i'm not going to bother tagging GIVEN these aren't done but if you know, you know

hopefully this feeds the hungry parablers while i'm doing other stuff right now 💛

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Researchers advance substrate engineering pathways to improve power electronics

As the growth in global electricity need and supply continues to accelerate, efficient power electronics will be key to improving grid efficiency, stability, integration, and resilience for all energy sources. Advances in wide-bandgap materials for semiconductors offer the potential to enable greater power handling in power electronics while reducing electrical and thermal losses. Wide-bandgap materials also allow for smaller, faster, more reliable, and more energy-efficient power electronic components than current commercial silicon-based power electronic components. Researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Colorado School of Mines, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory examined a potential route to achieve peak performance of aluminum gallium nitride, AlxGa1-xN, a key material for increasing power electronics' energy efficiency and performance, through growth on optimized substrate materials.

Read more.

[quiet-admirer]

It won't allow replies in the post so I'm sending an anon to support and back the post you made. But basically what I wanted to say was, if you are thin ( you as in the people reading this if you so choose to post it ) then dismantling fatphobia is pretty simple. When your friends say something fat phobic you simply just have to go " oh that's actually not cool. I'm going to leave now. " And then go do something else for a while. It's literally that simple when it comes to friendships. When it comes to other people you simply say " oh that's not cool. I'm going to go now. " And that's pretty much it. You are stigmatizing fatphobia by being like hey this is so uncool that The vibes are now checked and do not pass therefore I am leaving. Eventually people are going to see that they make you uncomfortable and they're either going to choose to surround themselves with other hateful bigots ( which means you didn't need to be friends with them anyway , their true colors would then be showing ) or they're going to realize that what they are doing is harmful and they're going to stop. Because it's their friend and they care about you. Battling fat phobia is setting up boundaries and upholding those boundaries which is okay to do and it's perfectly healthy to do. You are allowed to say that things are uncool or that you do not like them and that you would like to leave the situation.

This goes for pretty much everything mean. If someone is being mean you simply just say that you don't like that, it's lame and stupid, and that you're going to leave now.

If you don't want to give them a huge lecture or sit there and educate them that's fine you simply just set up your boundaries and uphold them. Just because you have anxiety or because you don't have the energy to explain these things doesn't mean that you can't still simply state that they're uncool and you don't want anything to do with bigotry.

Actually, simply stating " hey this is uncool. I am leaving now. " And then leaving is way easier than putting up with fat phobia anyway so like I don't really see any excuse not to set these boundaries and uphold them. You'd be fighting fat phobia in doing so as well and that's a plus.

There's probably a lot of typos here because I'm like dyslexic but whatever, this is all I wanted to add. Fat people are hot as fuck and being fat is cool as fuck I'm fat too and I always speak out against fat phobia as I do any other bigotry even if it doesn't directly affect me. It's called being a decent fucking human being and not allowing hateful talk around you. It's actually extremely easy once you learn how to say hey this is uncool, bye.

Peace out stay fat y'all

Sorry, this turned into an essay but, yeah that's definitely one way to approach it. I would probably use it more with repeat offenders or people I already generally dislike lol because I was whitewomanpilled growing up prefer to question, contradict, or educate first, but it's also good to prefill a variety of ways to respond in your head so you have options to choose from on the fly depending on the situation (or maybe you're not autistic and don't need to scripts ahead of time like I do lmao).

You can also just say stuff like 'that's not funny'/'what's funny about that' in response to a joke, simply say 'that's not true according to the past few decades of scientific research' to spreading medical misinformation, 'what's wrong with X?', 'where did you hear X?', things like that - not getting into a whole one-sided lecture but still connecting with the person.

I think there's just a firehose of misinformation out there reinforced every single day through constant ads, uninformed medical providers, and casual small talk - all with very little challenge, so I think simple, small attempts at education on a collective level can be really valuable in the long run. Remind yourself that you are not going to change anyone's mind in one interaction, but you've planted a single seed anyway. The more people around that are planting single seeds the more you start to think, 'huh, everyone's saying this thing, maybe I should look into it more?'

It's so easy to hop in and contradict fatphobia or diet culture in my experience, and even if you're uncomfortable with confrontation, you can still contradict in a casual or light-hearted way! Just last week I had an exchange that went "he found out he has high cholesterol so maybe we should be eating xyz" "ooh, actually, fun fact: I read a study that showed that changing dietary cholesterol doesn't affect blood cholesterol." I think the other person said something like "well, it can't hurt" but whatever, another seed was planted :)

Also people, ESPECIALLY thin people, need to start being like:

Those "based/waow" memes about getting fat, fat people, etc drive me crazy because just say your 'based' out loud! Just say fucking say it!! And when it comes to things about just like, dating fat people or finding them attractive I don't understand the hesitation to just be open about it. I've been in a relationship with a large fat person for almost my entire adult life and there have been 0 comments or social repercussions or anything. When I've said I prefer bigger people either no one gives a shit or they agree with me...

Same with "my friend were making fun of feedist/fat fetishes so I had to laugh along" no you didn't. You can suck it up and say, "hey, whatever floats your boat," "different strokes I guess," "Idk, I'm not gonna make fun of people's fetishes," "who cares though," "yeah I love weird fetishes, isn't it kind of interesting/cool?"

Another big one is non-fat people declining to be weighed at doctor's appointments unless it's medically necessary, which normalizes decentering weight in medical care more and makes fat people not the only ones resisting that aspect of medical fatphobia.

And a final little one: you can slip into your small talk is pointing out inaccessibility:

"Wow, these salon chairs are kind of narrow, how do bigger people get their hair cut here?"

"What's the weight limit on this tattoo table? I want to recommend a friend but I'm not sure if it could support them."

"I wanted to buy this shirt, but they only go up to size 2X 🙁 Do you think you'll have expanded/inclusive sizes next time?"

"It must suck to get around the tables in here if you're not thin, they're so close together!"

Put fat people's comfort and ability to access spaces into others' minds regularly enough, and they'll start thinking of it too, or maybe even actually make changes to accommodate more sizes! [ETA:] Also make your own space more accessible and verbalize to others how you are doing that if it doesn't put a specific fat person on the spot who doesn't want to be. Like: "my old chairs were so flimsy, only a super skinny person could sit on them comfortably, so I bought these more sturdy ones."

It's great if people are activists or doing visible, larger scale, or more aggressive actions to combat fatphobia, but the little things are extremely valuable as well, and really mandatory imo for non-fat feedists to start pushing back out loud, whether gently or confrontationally. I don't care if you're anxious or uncomfortable with it, like, suck it up and take one for the team. Fat people are anxious and uncomfortable too. You don't have anything to lose as a thin person saying these things and more social capital to get away with saying them. So do it.

[ngc-5194]

man i love fandom. where else can i go to see so many people all uncritically agree with the stupidest takes imaginable just because they're widespread

[legacysam]

so, with amazon getting more and more evil about not letting you own the things you buy from them, I finally went ahead and scraped the drm off my kindle books. while it did require a bunch of setup, the process itself was pretty easy and less intimidating than I had feared, so I want to share some helpful tools I used if you want to do the same but aren't sure where to start:

An excellent step-by-step video guide

Calibre (the main program you will need)

The de-drm extension you'll want to add to Calibre

A guide to downgrading the kindle for pc app to a version that makes this easier

[thisearthycat]

obsessed with asukas face here like bro is NOT pleased

[benetnvsch]

what if I change my major again,,,,,

[haliaiii]

everyday i get reminded on how technologically challenged I am

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Self-driving lab transforms electronic polymers discovery

Plastic that conducts electricity might sound impossible. But there is a special class of materials known as "electronic polymers" that combines the flexibility of plastic with the functionality of metal. This type of material opens the door for breakthroughs in wearable devices, printable electronics and advanced energy storage systems. Yet, making thin films from electronic polymers has always been a difficult task. It takes a lot of fine-tuning to achieve the right balance of physical and electronic properties. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have created an innovative solution to this challenge with artificial intelligence (AI). They used an AI-driven, automated materials laboratory, a tool called Polybot, to explore processing methods and produce high-quality films. Polybot is located at the Center for Nanoscale Materials, a DOE Office of Science user facility at Argonne.

Read more.

[themintman]

going back to school tomorrow means I have to relearn how to use a laptop. I feel so old. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm trying to remove the Sims 4 from my home screen and all i can do is put it in the taskbar. Three people have died. I put it in the bin and it's STILL HERE GET AWAY FROM ME

[screenshotsonpinterest]

i fucking hate my phone and I fucking hate my computer I just wanna read, get wine drunk with my friends, and walk my dog but unfortunately i need the phone so i can blast music into my brain so loud it makes me left handed