JakeSparkleChicken

u/JakeSparkleChicken@midwest.social
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on Squircle · c/wikipedia · 5 pts · 297d

I have an entire SageMath Jupyter Notebook devoted to Squiganometry. That is some fun stuff to play with!

on Casio fx-CG100 · c/calculators · 1 pts · 300d

I looks and feels great, which makes it all the more frustrating that it is basically a downgrade from the previous model.

Nothing will ever hook me as badly as Kerbal Space Program did. If I wasn't at work, I was playing Kerbal for five years straight. No breaks, didn't play anything else during that time. Once I got RealSolarSystem and RealismOverhaul working, you couldn't pry me away from the computer. I put in aver 10,000 hours, easily.

It's a lovely pen, and I just bought one myself! The trick to getting a full-ish fill is to dunk the nib in the ink and rapidly push on the button about eight or nine times. You'll feel a difference in the button action when it gets as full as it is going to. The button will give a bit of resistance at that point. I don't remember if mine got completely full, but I know that it holds a decent amount of ink. I hope that helps!

I just dug through the offerings of all of the niche calculator manufacturers I can think of and came up empty handed. What I would recommend in your case is the Casio fx-CG50, though. It has rubber pads on the back of the case and enough heft that it doesn't move when placed on a desk and used one-handed. The screen is easily visible from most angles and it has the largest font of all of my graphing calculators.

In the beginning, there was ownCloud. They were a good FLOSS offering that decided to start catering solely to corporate customers in the hopes of juicy support contracts. The community who had been contributing the majority of the code gave them a mighty "Fork you" and created NextCloud.

That was about ten years ago. I haven't looked into ownCloud for the last seven or so, but it had stagnated pretty badly by that point. Maybe they've gotten some fresh blood since then, but you'll likely find it to be quite lacking in features and plugins comparatively.

on Sharp EL-501V · c/calculators · 2 pts · 1y

That is definitely a well used little device! Coincidentally, the last calculator that I bought a couple of months ago is the EL-501X2, the most recent iteration of the model. Not a bad little calculator as long as you stay away from the edge cases! The edge cases are where the fun stuff is for me, cause I really like finding out where these machines tip over.

I got into notebooks by way of a fountain pen addiction. I'm currently using a Rhodia Guidebook that I use as a long-form Bujo, an Artist's Loft dot grid as a commonplace book, and a Midori 5 Year Diary as a record of the descent of America into chaos as despotism.