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well i seemingly have a very different viewpoint, because the most interesting economics bits are econometrics, essentially data science - the same things all other stem folks use to find the underlying distribution, estimators, their significance, finding the p value. Using this to model whole world is just as wrong as saying all of chem is solved by taking mendelev periodic table. sourely it works, and explains some stuff, but just knowing it does not predict all of chemistry. same way, for example ls-lm model (suppply demand curve) does not explain the whole world, and good economists do not claim they can explain it (sorry for using bad examples, 1 only took 2-3 eco courses).
inline with above, there is singlefile extension, which just generates a single .html file with all images and scripts embeded. if on a chromium browser, you can directly save to .mhtml files which are similar.
barely booting, but that is like one of the hardest step
considering you made a account on piefed, you would have likely been asked your interests in first login, you can similarly explore community groups (or feeds as they are called here), which is equivalent of meta subreddit. try to find communities you can get along with, and if possible, please do post and comment, all your efforts are welcome.
i didnt expect to find such a niche group of ppl here either
understandable. I kinda feared there were privacy reasons as well, and i have possibly de-annonymised you a bit, but still messaged anyway.
considering date and time, and asian, i presume jee? as someone who has given the exam, however the exam goes, you feel bad. i did too, in all my attempts (at my time, we had 4 due to covid, i gave 3, and luckily cleared). do not worry. with jee, the only thing that really matters is that you need to be mentally prepared about exam more than questions. just do not take stress. I do not want to give any study advices, especially at this time, so adding it in spoilers. if you fel like it, read it, else ignore.
try to give mock exams every other day (alternating). like give exam one day, relax or mild study in th remaining day. next day, analyse the exam, find mistakes, correct them. try to keep the days of exams lighter and ensure 8-10 hrs of sleep. exaam like jee requires developing muscles, habbit of sitting of 3 hrs, with focus and not taking stress, and the thing that worked for me the most was just keep giving exam until i got over my anxiety issues. by the end, exam was yet another day. sorry if it felt like i am flexing, i did not mean it that way. just keep good mental health.
most importantly - it is just an exam. even after a good college, i am still unemployed, so do not lose hope or get disheartened by anything. in any case, know that you worked hard, you will do well in life.
On a side note, if you ever feel like it, you can dm me, a fellow loner. I did not ever expect to find a indian of similar age on threadiverse, but here we are i guess.
(if forgot what skedasticity is, so had to look up, so putting wiki link here in case someone else forgot too) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoscedasticity_and_heteroscedasticity
I personally do cc0 (though i do not have much published). i can not really be bothered to do proper licensing, and my prefered license (wtfpl) is not considered good (by admins, because it has the f word , boo hoo).
has your system been running for some while? i have observed this behaviour in niri (a separate wm) as well, and seemingly, it is not a issue. if i understand it correctly, for any app that had vrma allocated, and is closed it's vram is not cleared correctly (on amd i gpu) and that usage just gets added to wm (the host program). if it is not using much gpu (check any app which shows usage), then it is just a reporting issue. like when i fresh boot, my wm uses 100MiB of vram, but with time, it becomes 2GiB and stays there, but i still can open stuff which requires vram. kinda like buffered ram, which is still allocated, but available to use.
if a combination of 2 programmes work, then pdf arranger and libreoffice draw / xournalpp / okular. both foss and free (As in beer). for stuff like rearranging pages, changing sizes or orientation, cropping or even signing, the former can do fairly easily. for highlight, redact, bookmark, signing, latter work (they are a slighlty powerful viwers essentially, whereas libreoffice draw can edit much like adobe assuming fonts are availables).
it would make the workflow harder, but this is roughly what i use. I do not have to do pdf manipulation much, mostly read, so i have a simpler viewer (zathura in my case), which you can replace with lets say okular and get most of the latter set of features. and whenever you have to edit, you can make some shortcut (keyboard) to open current file in pdf arranger and there do former set of operations.
if you are okay with webapp, then i think xodo should work (they have a desktop electron client as well, but i think they only give windows download options). there you get all features, but would likely have to buy licenses. do not know where they are from, but i think they maybe are from china.
As for distro, and if you are tech support, see if you could go with a immutable distro, as that may reduce your work. (i do not want to start a distro war here so not giving any recommendation).
thanks for a long, well thought reply, though i also disagree with you on a lot of things.
If that was B&W, shouldn’t you agree that forcing screens in schools is also seeing things in B&W: no good teaching can be achieved without using high-tech.
I am not saying it is hi tech or low tech. I have been taught primarily on white/black boards (third world country), and in college was thee first time that we had presentations or digital drawing boards. I know it can be taught the old way, because that is how i was taught, but here is why i feel digital can be done better
teachers can be creative - you have infinite canvas - you can write as much as you want, you can show 3d visualisations which you for practical purposes can not with drawings - it is tedious.
students can focus on learning instead of copying the board - I have seen that a lot of students have always just copied what teacher says or writes, and consider that attending a class. I know it is partially teeacher's fault for not being interactive, but when you can actually focus on listening, and do not have a rac against time.
sudents who miss the class are no longer 3rd world, they still get the same information, obviously not the same as attending in person, but this is the best you can get unless you record all lectures always.
I in my last 2 years started typing my college lecture notes instead of hand writing them. problems with me are that - i have a really bad hand writing (just because i learned writing cursive, does not mean i write nicely. i mad a deliberate switch around 8th grade to never write cursive again because my cursive was so bad. and my current writing is still so bad). I also share my notes with a lot of students, and it is much easier to have a digital file, in a folder, which i can sync to a shared folder, which is shared with others. It improves my typing, and also improves my typesetting skills. for diagrams, i mostly draw with touchpad, and it takes more time for me to draw in the beginning, but for example in my case, in physics, a lot of our diagrams iterate over others, so i can start with a copy of my older diagram, and then save time.
They mimic it. They are not equals.
why do they have to. consider this. before reading and writing was something almost everyone did, people used to hear stories from elders or lecterns or a priest. that involved different skills. you had to understand the expressions, intonations, and pauses. I as a person whose primary method of "consuming" stuff is reading, am very bad at understanding pauses. for a lot of poems, just reading them does not feel "special", just rhyming, but when heard, it is like whole different experience. a lot of what people want to replicate the hand writing in digital world is involving multiple senses. for example, when you hand write, you feel the paper, you feel different amount of "touch/pain" for writing different letters or numbers, and almost all your senses are involved (except of taste and smell maybe). you feel what you wrote. you can feel the differencee between the letters written when you are less tired vs more tired, or when writing somethign difficult.
I understand you do not get the same thing with typing. I can tell you that, even if it hurts my arguments, but it is not that much worse. you still see stuff, you can also tell tiredness with mis-spelled words. maybe not the paper friction, or your hand being chafed, but maybe that is a good thing.
(how that emitted light impacts brain (or not) and increase fatigue.
this is one of the common "myths" i think people have. yes most screen are self emmisive (unless you use e-ink, then it is also reflective), but there have not been conclusive findings on fatigue. what you can have is too white or too bright, or you can have disturbed circadian rythm. but you can changed color temperature of screen, or choose to reduce brightness.
The (lack of) privacy.
I am not going to speak about anything privacy related - it is a solved problem - use foss software. it is there, you can choose to use it. you can choose not to buy windows or apple or google ecosystem.
Compare that to learning a new keyboard layout
is that a thing? i never had to learn a different layout, the qwerty remains the same. or are you talking about other keys changing - even then, you can choose not to buy bespoke hardware with custom key layouts.
also with handwriting - does that not depend on what you use to write - pencils (and different grades like 1B, 2B, 4F require different strengths to hold or pressure to apply), pens (ball point, gel, fountain, or something else) or even with same kind, with each model of each brand, how and where you grip, how much pressure you apply changes. you can choose to buy same pen/pencil for your life, but so can you choose to buy a keyboard.
a new UI in an app (hello, MS Word’s Ribbon)
use foss stuff where you get to choose ui. or you can even make one if you like none of the existing things.
new version of the OS
i hate windows and macos for ruining updates. I use rolling distros (constantly updating) and i look forward to updates. in foss world, updates mean new features or better performance, or ease of use. I have a system that i have designed (in notebook - handwwriting design - think of it as choose what paper you use, or how your noteebook is bound or what the sleeves are made of. some people (me) prefer spiral bound, some prefer strung/stapled).
Longevity
i have 12-13 year old laptop still working, a 6-7 year old one still working. a 3 year old one which failed because of outer body failing, because of my stupidity, but still functional as a server, and my current laptop is a year old. I think in these 13 years, going through 4 laptops may be oon higher side than average population, but in one year, i can go through about 1500-2000 pages of notebook very easily. now add books. and i (and my family) have always chosen to use second hand or lent books because of financial reasons, but still th amount of paper used in all this is a lot.
consider this. my laptop at idle consumes 2-3 W of power. on video playback with wifi and bluetooth - 5 W. If i use paper and books (not self emmisive) - i atleast need a bulb. depeending on how big my room is or how direct the lighting is, youu need 10-20W LEDs for illumination. Yes you can go out and read in sun, but that may not be out, or there are clouds, or it is too hot or too cold. Energy savings can happen with this.
paper is cheap and instant
(and the following few points about cost)
it is not. i have come from point where we would tar blank pages from used notebooks (still do) to reduce waste or reducee costs. buying a notebook, lets say a 200 page noteebook for 1$ (i do not know how are they priceed where you live). I for 1 course, depending on content and duration, can go through 0.5-1.5 or 2 notebooks, lets consider an average of 1. in my school times, i would use 5-6 notebooks each year (maybe 2 for maths because of longer problems). for 5 years, that is 551 = 25$. that is very less, but consider this. second hand books - with 5$ for 1 book and 5 books a year (in college courses, i may use more than 5 books for a single course, but they can be lent from library, so still considering 5 books), and 5$ for cost (rental or secondhand or photostats), that is 555 = 125$. in total that is 150$. my current laptop is 450$ 8 core 24 gib ram 512gib storage, and decent build. yes that is still 3x more expensive, but that is not a chap and instant vs expensive and slow thing. it is quantisable. and this is consider a well spec'd laptop, you can go 4 core, 8gib ram, 128/256 gib storage, and you can get it down by 100$ more.
that needs much more regular updates and upgrades.
again with updates -- how badly have MS or appl messed people's expectation of updates. people in other spheres do not get afraid of updates - your steel bars can now hold 1.5 more load because we changed alloying composition - oh great. your cpu performs 10% better because of new vulkan updates - oh great. in ms apple owrld - your notepad may or may not use ai to analyse sentiments of your random vegetable list, and use 20% gpu/npu to find spelling mistakes, where th usual/older dictionary spell checks used 0.5% cpu, which was optional.
Again - use foss software and updates become good.
browsing the Web on a 15+ years old laptop?
you can choose to use 15 year old websites - like wiki and lemmy (not 15 year old, but designed with same principles). the way you do not expect 200 year old physics book to explain QM to you (it was not yet formulated), you should not expect your 15 year old laptop to run modern AAA websites. or if you want to watch youtube on it, do it the way we did 15 years ago - download video -play with video player. or use a lighter youtube client. you can not really blame poor laptop for not bing as performative, as you do not blame old books for not having modern information.
which is not what most schools use, right?
chrome os is linux, so most schools these days by "linux" laptops. yes chrome os is not as flexible as "usual" linux, but it is still performant.
ever increasing shit ton of tracking scripts and ads (and purely visual effects scripts)
these are again complaints of closed platforms. In my mind if a school or state/district or country chooses to provide digital hardware, it is there responsibility to select suitable software.
they way it is responsibility to not havee "cheesy magzines" in school library, you should have a content blocker (ublock origin) to block these.
making that laptop/tablet a… desktop, tied to a power outlet
most laptops (basically anything thicker than 2 cm) has a replaceable battery. you can just do that. again modern apple design principle of sticking/soldering things is stupid.
my older laptops could not hold charge either, i got batteries changed for 10-15$. the way a old book requires restoration, you need to take care of laptop.
if it is not touch screen (most laptops are not), you can buy a 30-40$ sketching tablet, that is connected simply via usb. You can upgrade laptops. (i replace hard drives on my old laptop with a ssd, and it feels like 50% better in responsiveness, even with 10 year old cpu).
I cannot not notice the increasing numbers of young people that are barely able to read
this is not a laptop/notebook problem. it is problem of only consuming information through videos, with subway surfers playing beneath, someone dancing on top, and relevant info on the corner. as you said, screens are not restricted for personal use, where they actually should consider better educating the children. instead, we restrict the laptops in classes. an equivalent situation some 80-50 years ago would be banning of newspapers, because people are only reading cartoons, or the cheesey magzines, because they all use same medium.
consider this - you wrote some 1000 word reply, to which i wrote 1000 more. neither of us would likely even write a 50 word letter to each other, just because we are very less likely to meet irl. if we restrict th good parts of tech, just because bad exists, it would restrict people like you and me from debating. I still consider this productive - we both are using our minds. screen is just a medium.
where teaching/learning has become ‘digital’ and at the same time where screens have become so prevalent
no and yes. in my third world country - still only like 40% people have screens. women even less. kids are practically just as bad (you can say that is because of lack of screens), but it is not because the kid has screen. it is because of what kid watches on screens.
i am very pro choice - govt/schools should not restrict what kids watch - that is parents responsibility.
They see adults wasting their lives on screens (be it TV, streaming, social media, YT or TikTok, playing games, and so on). None of that being an issue in itself, the fact this mostly is only that becomes the issue.
now that is problem with adults. if they see adults reading on screens, they would do that.
Most of us have probably watched the ‘Lord of the Rings’, right?
I have not, but mostly because i do not watch much stuff, and english stuff is a small section of small pie. Hence I can not comment on anything about writing.
But I understand the general principle - manga vs anime, book vs movie adaptation, it is often the case that for a nice source, the adaptation is not as good.
Kids will do what they see adults around do. Be it to constantly hate on people that are different to them (or don’t share their world view), or to become addicted to their screens.
so i consider my self addicted to screens - yes, but whenever i think of any specific thing, i do not feel it is addiction. i read articles, i do some work stuff, i read forums, i watch youtube (educational as well as entertainment). In that sense, I do not find screens bad, as i see them as a flexible window to larger world.
Now this is one where i am kinda completely opposed - why?
like i do not understand why we can only see black or white - screens are good or screens are bad. for example, if i spend all my day reading scientific articles on a laptop screen, as opposed to watching ai generated short form videos, the "cognitive damage" is not same.
Why i support digital education is that if done right, it is really flexible and adaptive.
for example, paper books - you can forget them, you can tear them, oil spill can ruin it, etc.
a laptop with a touch screen and stylus - works as a notebook, all books that you can imagine, all kids can choose how their book "looks" like (maybe a accessible font for example).
if you buy such a laptop, once every 5 year, and basically teach good usage habits, it would not be much more expensive than giving each child separate books, or notebooks. If you are a good government, you would ideally put a foss os on it, and host your own nexcloud to give to them, make a digital library accessible to all, at all times. this is also solves the data privacy issues i hear as a con of digital infrastructure - you can choose open source stuff, and a nation can hire folks to host stuff, which is practically just as good in ux to closed solution.
I consider my screen usag unhealthy, because i can get 10+ hour usagee on bad days, but that is mostly for my bad posture of sitting. I usually do not consume "social" media, so i do not feel my screen usage is bad.
if a daily thing works - brodie robertson. it is more of any interesting news that piques his interest.
in bash if it happens, it often means i have something wrong in most recent closed loop, which may or may not have closed prorperly, somethign similar with python.
I seemingly have a rverse take - I much prefer the latter. i just do not use threadiverse, i use places where !/@ means something totally else (for example in programming ! is not and @ can be used for different purposes, but in my shell, @ sigil is used for arrays). the latter is very clear to me - /c/ is comm and /u/ is user. a bit more verbose (3 characters vs 1) but not that much but much more readable for someone comming from outside or who context switches.
well it was not just for abuse, it basically repeated what you said in a funny high pitch voice, and there were many other small little activities it could do (based on where you touch the screen, for example a pat on head was meow, click on a sofa and it sits, there was shower, and other daily things - small but funny, and kinda very special like 12-15 years ago). I do not remember hitting it, but getting it to repeat stupid noises i make.
here is a add free version for tcb https://cubari.moe/read/imgchest/a8466req24x/1/1/
it is just practise i guess. like we all start searching online, and then eventually keep on learning - oh my mic is clippin, but i turned my volume way down and it is still doing that - why would that be - and then remember that 1 have 2 audio related things in my system - 1 is pipewire for all user facing stuff, and then alsa (alsamixer) for actual hardware - and oh look - i had accidentally given an internal mic boost of 100%. it is not like i got to know that that is a thing in a dream, but over past 2-3 years of looking online, i know what are common culprits, and i also have learnt a bit about my system and how different things are done. when you know that, it is easier to look up a particular manpage or README
ml has existed for like 50 or so years, since basically first computers. if your model does not have billions of parameters (in this case, for 2 species, only 9 such parameters were identified), it uses far less compute.