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[-] twolate@discuss.tchncs.de 92 points 1 year ago

Seems like no stylus? If so it makes the starlite not very surface-like in my mind. Ain't a stylus the reason for something like this?

[-] darq@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago

Ah damn yeah, I was just thinking that this device might be something I'd consider blowing my budget for, if it can replace multiple devices. But the lack of stylus on a device like this is huge let down.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

How hard would it be to make it work with a third party stylus?

[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 38 points 1 year ago

It depends.

You can basically always use the crappy ones made for general touchscreens to replicate your finger. You can't use a real one with features like Apple Pencil/surface pen/wacom without an extra layer built into the screen to recognize them.

[-] socsa@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

FWIW, my daily driver is a Lenovo Yoga with Ubuntu and the active pen works just fine with that. That support is definitely there.

[-] teruma@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Sure, because the Yoga has the extra screen layer to support active pens. Linux isn't the problem.

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago

it wouldn't be hard at all you just buy a stylus that works like a finger

[-] twolate@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 year ago

With the catch that it works like a finger meaning fat and imprecise. A stylus like the surface has is more like a pen and needs hardware in the tablet to function.

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 1 points 1 year ago

Did you ever use the Nvidia Shield Tablet stylus? It was a very thin and precise passive stylus that worked on any touch screen. It was pretty nice. They probably only sold a handful of them, so there was no gen 2. I happen to know someone who was working on that project, so they let me play with it.

[-] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 year ago

Not really. I've got a cheap stylus for my phone that acts like a pen, down to drawing fine lines too. It can't adjust the thickness of the line based on pressure, like my Wacom pad and pen for the PC, but for most things it works brilliantly :)

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

maybe 10 years ago

[-] penguin@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

I have a surface and I love it. At the same time, I hardly use the stylus.

I'm sure it's the reason many get it, but I also think there's a large audience for a tablet without one.

[-] monotrox@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

I genuinely dont see the reason for a windows tablet without a stylus. Note-taking is nice with a stylus but for just holding it and watching videos or browsing a surface is honestly too unwieldly and the windows touch interface is also not great.

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Although I do use the stylus that came with my Galaxy Tab S7 for note-taking, that's the only time I use it. 95% of the time I just use the tablet for browsing the web or watching videos.

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

My thoughts exactly.

[-] lauha@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

They do have a generic MPP active pen as a configuration option though

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