Count Regal Inkwell

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Leftist with an incorrigible love for fancy aesthetics (mostly Renaissance Italy/Victorian England) that might be incorrectly read as a monarchist because of that.

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Unicorn, but also occasionally gryphon.

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Cake day: June 27th, 2023
  • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•[Serious] What's your hot take?
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    3 days ago

    More and more people are against giving kids internet access. Allow me to go against the grain:

    If your child is neurodivergent, or LGBTQ+, or any other form of misfit, then denying them internet access is tantamount to condemning them to social isolation. It wasn’t until I got unrestricted internet access, circa 17 years of age, that I realised that actually, no, I wasn’t a fucking alien, there were hundreds of thousands of people just like me, but I didn’t know because I was stuck in this shitty small town with shitty small town people. So I spent seventeen years thinking there was something fundamentally wrong with me when in reality there was something wrong with the environment around me.

    I would have had a much happier early life if I’d gotten internet earlier. Wouldn’t have spent 90% of my teens being suicidal.

  • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•On the Internet, what is a dead giveaway that someone is actually a kid?
    361·
    4 days ago

    Excessive edginess

    It’s important to differentiate it from like. Having extreme opinions. There are plenty of adults with extreme opinions and they are a whole other conversation. – But only people under a certain age (not strictly kid, mind, though most people have shaken this off by their mid 20s) have a penchant to arrive at extreme opinions specifically because they are “edgy” and “cool”.

    This tends to also come with a particularly needless hostile attitude, where they very quickly and easily start with the verbal abuse.

  • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What’s the worst piece of technology you’ve ever owned?
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    8 days ago

    See, I thought it might have been my tablets being cheap things.

    But messing around with that borrowed iPad (possibly a Pro, the person who lent me it was filthy rich and likes premium stuff) made me go “… This is like, a high quality laptop but worse in every way?”

    The screen was drop-dead gorgeous, and it was clearly a powerful (if locked down, cuz Apple) device – but it felt like everything I tried to do on the device was in some major way a compromise to accomodate for a less-than-ideal form factor.

  • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What’s the worst piece of technology you’ve ever owned?
    23·
    9 days ago

    Tablets. I’ve owned 2 so far, plus fucked around with a third, fancier one that was borrowed from someone else (in case you care: a very old Samsung one, a Xiaomi model from the late 2010s, and a new-ish Apple iPad for the borrowed one).

    They suck as smartphone replacements because they are too big.

    They lack button inputs, so they suck as gaming devices or as computer replacements.

    You can browse the web… But if you decide to type anything, the large size plus the touchscreen keyboard make for an awkward experience (in ways that it’s not on a smaller phone)

    They have lit screens, so they suck as eReaders.

    They’re sorta okay as like, personal screens for watching movies or whatever, but like, at that point just use a television??

    They can make sorta good drawing tablets, the ones that are pen-compatible I mean… Because I mean, yeah. But the lack of a keyboard is a bummer with how I learned to draw with my other hand on Ctrl+Z, though that’s more a muscle memory issue than anything.

    In general, every tablet I used felt like a less-good verion of a dozen other devices, yanno?