Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
by nivenkos on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:23AM
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It's a shame it failed and there are no real cheap netbooks anymore (aside from Chromebooks).
I used an Acer Aspire One when travelling through Germany as a student (to research jobs and conferences) - and it was amazing being able to program and write papers on such a small device.
Reading about the hardware issues reminds me a lot of the ZX Spectrum reviews (especially the keyboard!) - keeping a low price means a lot of compromises unfortunately.
Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
by monocasa on Thursday November 18, 2021 @12:23PM
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The GPD laptops fill that space for me now. My GPD Pocket literally fits in some of my pockets, is a regular x86 machine. Came with Windows 10, but I'm running Mint on it.
Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
by Tijdreiziger on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:36AM
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The modern equivalent is a tablet with its corresponding type cover.
Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
by nivenkos on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:52AM
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AFAIK I can't really run Jupyter notebooks, R, LaTeX and Rust on a tablet though. Perhaps the JingPad.
Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
by sudosysgen on Thursday November 18, 2021 @12:08PM
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You can on any Android tablet that allows root. You can run an X server via Termux and get a full graphical Linux environment. That will be necessary for Rust.
R, JupyterNotebooks and LaTeX can be done without root.
Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
by candiodari on Friday November 19, 2021 @01:02PM
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You can on any tablet that supports webassembly:
https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_static/lab/ind...
Some people may remember the hype over the One Laptop Per Child Project, which had a noble mission that many people could get behind. In 2011 I heard from someone at MIT who criticized aspects of the program such as no real planning for support when the devices broke down in the field. Other issues came out years later, including unrealistic cost estimates and the crank:
If you remember the OLPC at all, you probably remember the hand crank. It was OLPC’s most striking technological innovation — and it was pure vaporware. Designers dropped the feature almost immediately after Negroponte’s announcement, because the winding process put stress on the laptop’s body and demanded energy that kids in very poor areas couldn’t spare. Every OLPC computer shipped with a standard power adapter.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop...