computerfan0

joined 1 year ago
[–] computerfan0 3 points 1 year ago

That's my exact experience too. My school already bans phones, but that hasn't stopped me staring out the window or just sitting there and thinking to myself. A phone would be an improvement as I'd at least have a chance of looking up something relevant to what the teacher's saying.

[–] computerfan0 12 points 1 year ago

We don't have those kind of calculators in the schools here. I just do the old-fashioned "input random sums and see what the calculator says".

[–] computerfan0 43 points 1 year ago (5 children)

As a school student in a school where phones are banned, I think this is a bad idea. The ban achieves 2 things for me:

  1. Making it harder to check a fact or figure quickly.

  2. Preventing me from listening to music, playing games or browsing the web uring lunch break.

It DOES NOT stop me from becoming disengaged from the class! If I'm bored, I'll look out the window, play with a calculator or something similar. And of course the ban hasn't stopped many students using phones anyway. Maybe phone bans don't solve the issue of uninteresting classes after all?

[–] computerfan0 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Absolutely not. I love the summer and I feel far more alive when the sun's out! Unfortunately, here in Ireland we've been having lots of rainy dull shite weather and not much sunshine. I wish the rainy dull shite would pass quicker.

[–] computerfan0 4 points 1 year ago

I chose the username "computerfan" because I'm a fan of computers. Soon I found a website where that username was taken, so I added my (at the time) favourite number to the end and kept it ever since.

[–] computerfan0 2 points 1 year ago

It's hardly ever crashed on me. In fact, I switched to it due to constant Windows freezes.

[–] computerfan0 3 points 1 year ago

I use Linux Mint myself. I had trouble with Windows constantly freezing on my PC, which Linux doesn't experience. Only things I really miss are paint.net and the Xbox Game Pass. I also miss the Windows installation wizards any time I see a program distributed in tarball form (they NEVER seem to work properly for me!).

[–] computerfan0 3 points 1 year ago

I'm currently on holidays in Lanzarote. Will be returning home on Thursday.

[–] computerfan0 2 points 1 year ago

Irish person here. Yes, I drink my tap water without boiling. My water comes from a well as I live in a rural area, but town/city water is drinkable too.

[–] computerfan0 3 points 1 year ago

I mostly just play games on my computer and mindlessly browse the web.

Alternatively, embrace the rain! Put on a raincoat and enjoy less crowds!

[–] computerfan0 7 points 1 year ago

I think it should be limited to thirty years at the absolute maximum. In addition, I feel as though copyright should have to be defended. If the copyright holder does not make their copyrighted work available for a certain amount of time, it should fall into public domain.

[–] computerfan0 3 points 1 year ago

I love the animations too! Glad to see a 2D Mario with an actually new style!

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ooh it's here now! (upload.wikimedia.org)
 

Didn't really visit the r/196 community on Reddit, but nice to see that it's made it over here! (Yes, this is for the rule lol)

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