this is not helpful but it is relevant
https://discontinuousinnovationinc.bandcamp.com/track/calculator

update: I'm looking at an HP50g. Here's an informative overview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwNi89aMwhY

I use literally the worst calculator:
spigot

I'm in mechanical engineering and I alternate between a ti89 titanium for homework and lax teachers, then for most tests and strict teachers they require a ti36x or similar calculator. The engineering webpage has a list of accepted and recommend calculators but if you're in another major i recommend getting the beefiest one you can carry.

I've had a few courses where I've needed to use the TI-30XA (i.e. pretty much a tax calculator that can do logarithms). That shit is awful and I hope nobody needs to use it... it's one of the handful of calculators allowed on the FE exam so I might as well get used to it.

Anyway I dropped on that HP-50G; should arrive in the coming weeks, I'll post my impressions here when the time comes.

This thing is a fucking riot; it comes pre-loaded with all sorts of power-engineering formulas (which are v. relevant to me) and tons of other equations.

Now that I've gotten the opportunity to use it for some problem sets today I feel comfortable using HP's reverse-polish notation; it's loads easier to run these numbers when I don't need to type 20 parentheses to specify numerator / denominator... I just work with the RPN stack by pushing / popping from there as I evaluate the expression from the inside-out. Of course you can still put it in algebraic mode (but isn't that admitting defeat?)...

Coming from owning a lowly TI-84, the way this thing can do symbolicaly solve a derivative / anti-derivative is a welcome relief as well (though I still wish it just had an integration table instead...). Being able to work with and convert complex numbers from polar, rectangualar, and exponential mode is a great help too.

This thing has a 180-page manual and I've only gotten through 50 pages... there's so much here to learn!

Not exactly a calculator but I think the old Linux thread got archived and I don't want to start a new one...
Anyway here's some fresh content; bought this tablet at the ncsu surplus sale: https://materialsmgmt.ofa.ncsu.edu/our-services/surplus/

>>9436

>the sock

phone

>>9622

>4chan
>news icon
>getting your news from 4chan

You are truly a man of character and culture. I think getting one's news on their interests from the most active community of degens on the net great improves one's life. Despite lacking any real filter, the culture of the site seems to weed out the irrelevant noise that bombards normies' senses—this noise of course causing these hylics unnecessary dread and worry. The (de-/)generate knows not that nothing matters, rather that what matters to him is all that matters.

or something

I have it on good authority that tablets, the cloud, and SaaS are the next hot thing.