The Gadgeteer

I see downvotes on the code search for whether this includes Graffiti, the best pen/stylus input for writing ... Other than "fitaly", which was even better: https://the-gadgeteer.com/1998/08/22/fitaly_review/

Here's the case I had, a review from 2014: https://the-gadgeteer.com/2014/06/12/zagg-autofit-bluetooth-keyboard-7… They don't make it anymore, sadly. I loved that it held my 7 inch tablet and worked with it wirelessly, and that the hinge was stiff enough to hold it up as I used it on my lap or standing on the subway. If only the keyboard was weighted it would have been stable to put on a table without the kickstand in the back, but that was a fine compromise given everything else it delivered for not a lot more money. I hope your Pinephone experiment goes well. I'm optimistic for them.

So this looks like the walmart MOTILE laptop[0][1], but rebranded? Is this basically a System76[2]-like effort? [EDIT] - I own an System76 Oryx Pro and love it -- this laptop being a rebranded effort is not a bad thing in my mind, if anything it gives me more faith in the initial build quality. If the KDE org gets it just as right as System76 (open source drivers galore, fantastic system tooling and support), then this is going to be a boon for open source everywhere, more money in KDE's pockets, more linux-first machines out there. [0]: https://www.walmart.com/ip/MOTILE-14-Performance-Laptop-FHD-AMD-Ryzen-… [1]: https://the-gadgeteer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Motile-00-800x600… [2]: https://system76.com/laptops

There were other options! I had a Palm Centro and ran PDANet on it - it was the only way I got internet in my house in a canyon in the country. https://the-gadgeteer.com/2009/06/09/pdanet-for-palm-os/

If you don't value your data then you can store it in /dev/null in the first place. https://the-gadgeteer.com/2016/03/17/turn-10-micro-sd-cards-into-a-sat…

People got ipods because they were the inexpensive option? No, not on planet Earth. The ipod was $400. Low-end mp3 players were $100. Here[0] is a review from 2002 for the MPIO DMG mp3 player, which criticizes its 139-219 dollar price range for being too expensive. [0] https://the-gadgeteer.com/2002/03/13/mpio_dmg_mp3_player_review/

Here’s the PCMCIA version Causi mentioned; I had one of these back in the day: https://the-gadgeteer.com/2006/07/27/newton_peripherals_mogo_mouse/

You might appreciate the Action Method notetaking format that separates next actions from just the notes themselves. https://the-gadgeteer.com/2017/11/15/action-method-notebooks-review/ https://design-milk.com/ghostly-behance-action-method-notebook-designe…

Went looking for this after you mentioned it. As far as I can tell, Cherry is not licensing that tech or selling it yet except in the form of a complete keyboard. https://the-gadgeteer.com/2017/08/11/cherry-mx-board-6-0-mechanical-us…

Now someone claims to be the person in the story. Now sure how much truthfulness going on... http://the-gadgeteer.com/2014/01/20/amc-movie-theater-calls-fbi-to-arr…

The original article that broke the story: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2014/01/20/amc-movie-theater-calls-fbi-to-arr…

For research work I prefer LiquidText on a 12.9” iPad with an Apple pencil. It’s critical for me to make notes and annotations. It’s crazy how far pen computing has come. I was an early adopter of this as a college student back in the 2000’s. I had a Toshiba laptop which had a screen that would rotate around and fold on itself to become a tablet. It had a pen for writing and ran a special version of Windows designed for tablets. (https://the-gadgeteer.com/2006/04/27/toshiba_portege_m200/) There weren’t many good sources of PDFs so I made my own. I would take my textbooks to Kinkos where they had an industrial paper cutter that was able to slice off the binding, leaving me with a bunch of loose pages. I would use a double sided auto-feed scanner to scan all the pages into searchable PDFs. Sadly the technology wasn’t ready for prime time. The software wasn’t good enough, drawing was limited and not many apps took advantage of the pen. The hardware was heavy, bulky, and I always had to be around an outlet because the battery life was abysmal. An iPad + pencil is a truly remarkable experience compared to that previous setup.