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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/whitepeopletwitter

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I bet it would be every bit as good as you think. I had a math teacher back in middle school ~30 years ago who taught EVERY lesson by talking as he wrote things on a transparency on the overhead projector.

We have great tech for that stuff now, but the projector and markers feels very human-compatible in an analog way. Kind of like reading a book I guess.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I still find it funny how some technological 'upgrades' just don't do things as well as older tech. In university I had a touch screen laptop with a pen - the finger touch wasn't as good as now (pressure I think, rather than capacitative, and none of the fancy tricks like two finger) but the pen just worked great for me for writing. When touch screens became fashion for laptops for a while that sounded great... but they couldn't at all do the job I lost in my stylus-input Toshiba. And, as a Toshiba, it was decent generally as a not too expensive laptop.

I was lucky that about the time I got it, Linux support was coming out for Wacom tablets. (Which is what was integrated in the screen, I guess.) Incidentally, Xournal turned out way better than any of the programs I had on Windows for writing/drawing and for annotating PDFs. Including Microsoft Office's "One-somethingorother" (I forget the name now.) The Office one was so unexpectedly clunky, and also less powerful. Ah, shame I don't have much use for Xournal these days with no pen input screen. ...Oh, except every time I have to fill in a pdf form, if it's not set up or not set up right. Xournal is more clunky for that task than I'd hope from a pdf annotator, but it just works when other things don't.

... Sorry, nostalgic rant over.