The vast majority of students rely on laptops – and increasingly AI – to help with their university work. But a small number are going analogue and eschewing tech almost entirely in a bid to re-engage their brains

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Is now a good time to complain about that one guy who brings a $3000 gaming laptop to the computer science lectures because expensive stuff makes him a good programmer and proceeds to distract people accross the room by the sheer volume of his fan spinning?

    • Balldowern@lemmy.zip
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      13 hours ago

      Don’t complain about my Lenovo Jetpad. The jet engine helped me think by drowning out other sounds.

      I’m deaf now, but that was a sacrifice.