970HkyDad

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Show thread970HkyDad1d ago

@atpfm so instead of a $200 Chromebook, schools are buying the $500 Lenovo Yoga4. And there is no comparison between that device and the MacBook Neo.

Additionally, school ITs are not encouraging, per se, but they are making it easier for students to bring their own devices. Hot swapping because you left yours at home isn’t an issue: you just get a crappy Lenova for the day. But your MacBook can get into all of the school stuff relatively quickly

Show thread970HkyDad1d ago
@atpfm i’m having trouble getting reliable numbers on what kinds of laptops school districts across the country are buying. My personal experience across three states, 12 districts, and a couple of hundred schools is that very few buildings are still buying Chromebook. And it is entirely because they physically breakdown, not because of device management.
Show thread970HkyDadMar 14

@daringfireball The Lenova Yoga4 sells to schools at $497. Schools buy them because:
1) drop-tested at the height of a middle school desk, and
2) touch screen works with a #2 Ticonderoga, so math workflow, yeah?

Of course neither are true. The rubberized bezel means kids can field strip it without tools. And it takes about a week for a pencil to start scratching the touch screen. (Safety feature: no one actually writes on scratch paper and tablet at the same time, so no harm, no foul.)

Show thread970HkyDadFeb 22

@atpfm @gruber I’ve been out of the loop, so apologies if you already saw this:

https://overcast.fm/+AAIPPfpdm2k

Desert Island Discs

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a computer scientist and the inventor of the World Wide Web. He was born in 1955, a golden year for technology innovators. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were also born in the same year

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Computer Scientist — Desert Island Discs

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a computer scientist and the inventor of the World Wide Web. He was born in 1955, a golden year for technology innovators. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were also born in the same year. A curious child, he learned about electronics from his train set and spent his pocket money on transistors. His first significant connecting invention was building an intercom as a teenager for the family home before moving on to build his first computer. His parents were both mathematicians and coders who met whilst building one of the first commercially available computers in the early nineteen fifties. Sir Tim came up with the idea of the World Wide Web whilst working at CERN and insisted that the technology be released to the world without commercial reward so that it would be free for everyone to use. He was knighted for his world changing invention and also appointed to the Order of Merit. In 2016 he was given the Turing Award. Sir Tim Berners-Lee divides his time between the US, the UK and Canada…

Show thread970HkyDadDec 30
@therett @rconti @atpfm @caseyliss My dad taught me how to drive in the snow at oh-dark-thirty in the mall parking lot. He would point left and say “watch that!” and then pull the hand break. Carried a walking stick that he’d jab the gas or brake with. And it ain’t great for the tranny, but he’d nudge the stick from 3rd to neutral when I wasn’t watching. (Our Opal Cadet didn’t seem to mind too much.) His philosophy was, you don’t know where the limits are if you don’t cross them a few times.
Show thread970HkyDadDec 30
@rconti @atpfm @caseyliss when I was in the army, I was kind of famous for bringing great weather to places with bad reputations (29 Palms, Death Valley, Fairbanks AK) but also bringing ice storms to the south. The three nastiest drives I ever dealt with were in Atlanta, Killeen TX, and Nashville.
Show thread970HkyDadDec 30
@sirshannon @atpfm @siracusa And I just noticed:
Across messages and shared reminders, my daughter has three different profile pix (photos) but also shows up as First/Middle initials here and First/Last initials there.
970HkyDadDec 30

@USBTypeSteve @mattking @atpfm Pinch in, not out, yeah? Either way, doesn’t work for me. I’m a one-handed thumb-only operator, so I have to put it on a table, use two hands, or some other extra step to pinch. (Works great on iPad, of course.)

Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design. ~Dieter Rams

Show thread970HkyDadDec 29
@sandofsky I can hold both of these thoughts in my head at the same time: 1) if you are not outraged, you are not paying attention, and 2) if you are outraged, you have not been paying attention.
Show thread970HkyDadSep 18, 2025
@atpfm St Jude’s: Sometimes there’s a chilling effect when lots of people are donating hundreds of dollars, and even if they contribute anonymously, others don’t want to see their five dollar donation on the big board. Solution? Five Dollar Friday! Even if you have already donated, donate another five bucks this Friday, and every Friday in the month of September. Watcha think?