rooted nooks are incredible. i still use my nook simple touch from 2012 as my primary ereader. if you manager your own local epub library instead of using a centralized store/platform like amazon kindle, rooted nooks are incredibly usable and versatile. it is worth noting, if you plan to use a nook w/ barne and noble's store, anything from before 2013 loses support after June of this year. But if you're buying ebooks you can just get them directly from the publisher or author for the same price (or often cheaper), so i see little reason to buy into a single platform w/ DRM.

James is like my dad. He makes me happy for a few minutes and then disappears for months 🥶🔥

My mind and heart says Thinkpad, Sony and Nook but my budget says typewriter, dumb phone and paper

Thinkpad's are amazing. I once dropped a T420 on the floor and it hit a corner. The laptop took no damage. The floor however actually had a small dent.

"ThInKpAd WhAt Do YoU tHiNk YoUr'E dOiNg?" 🤣

OMG JAMES IS PUTTING HUMOR INTO HIS VIDEOS 😮

im tearing up... the cinematography and story-telling is truly soul-touching here..

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS ! the content you create is unique.

as someone who constantly struggles with focusing on my studies and work, i learned so much from your videos! thank you for motivating me and many people who share the same problem. much appreciated!

every video you make is always at the right time for where i am in life it’s starting to get weird…. but thank you so much for the very helpful video james !!

I am not a computer science student nor looking for an everyday carry - this is one of my favorite videos I have seen recently. Thanks for the entertainment

Guess it's Everyday Carry week lol, good to see you back

i luv you so much i still keep watching your old vids

thank u mr james for delivering the vid at the right time , i really needed that :')

ive been a longtime viewer and i just happen to be going into first year CS in the fall, great video and great edc!

Bro, I just wanna say, I discovered this channel and you make some very relatable content. Love the videos man! Keep doing what you are doing!

Hey James, I love your videos they help me a lot keep up with the good work man thanks as always

i have been watching you for soooo long, like your study with me's helped me when I couldn't return to school with my peers during the pandemic. thank you so much for this video, I am trying to find something for my brother and you literally could not have shown up at a more opportune time

thanks james! ur the one who got me into tech, thinkpads, and programming. i always thought that kinda stuff was nerdy, but because of you i realized how cool it is! (btw i just won my first hackathon at 14 years old) but yeah cool vid.

my man always bringing up the best content thx James 😭❤ (started using arch a year ago thanks to you btw)

Best video I've ever seen, Man you are my inspiration.

Can you send the link to the unlisted video? It's not in the video description.

Love this guy's videos so much just seeing his videos makes me happy.

Wow that cinematic was inspirational

man, james is such a resourceful person for posting this

I am getting an ideapad most probably but thinkpads are def a vibe. Watching you seems very original and it's always a great day when you post. Best of luck.

"budget" but opens with a shot of a $1500 eink monitor

you should definitely do a video about your reading habits

I really like your vib. Sooooo cosy and very inspirating

2:20 jesus christ wtf LMFAOO

Absolutely loved this video on creating a productive tech setup for students on a budget! It's so inspiring to see how you can achieve so much with focus and the right tools. Finding a used ThinkPad and installing LineageOS on an older phone are genius hacks! This is definitely a video I'm recommending to all my friends #budgetfriendlytech #studentlife 💪📚💻

saw your post about this in reddit excited for more

james videos are my favorite videos

the greatest comeback ever, however you don't go away

This man is the reason why I like ThinkPads

James your video making skills are getting wilder as time passes 😂😂 noice videos keep it coming.

bro just said every thing i wanted

Happy to see him post Love the vid king ❤❤

hope you're doing well man :)

To those who want a thinkpad I would highly suggest the T480 variant because it has a internal and external battery which is pretty rare while having 2 ssd slots, 2 ram slots you can even upgrade its touchpad and and keyboard into a backlit one which is sick.

U remind me of the hard times two years ago , your streams actually helped me a lot

need more of these sorts of videos, Jay.

I have a Galaxy watch 3 classic and a Galaxy watch 4. I mostly use the 4 as a sleep tracker and the G3 classic during the day for the timer function to remind myself to stand up and move around and I have a protective case on it which makes it bulky, which is why I sleep with the G4 but I also like the interface on the G3 better. They're relatively cheap, as far as smart watches go and with 2 watches and I can swap between them when they charge and can keep the battery between 35-85% or more to extend the battery life I also have a $30 Casio solar watch if I just want to keep track of time without worrying about battery life or want something that I can shower/swim with or check the time if I wake up in the middle of the night and not fiddle with a smart watch. Oh, and I have a $100 solar dress watch that I never wear as well.

The decade old ThinkPad and Dell Latitudes literally lasted me from freshman year of college to until I got my first okay paying job when I could upgrade to something slightly newer.

he returned when the world needed him

0:05 bro flopped there to get belly pets but Dad left him hanging. 😆

Great video! Love this video format! Fedora and Linux Mint are also great beginner distros.

Deep work Man 🇲🇦 thank you

That cat absolutely loves you

The issue i have found with old thinkpads was the battery duration, those old cpu need a to be tuned very finely and often it is really hard to do this for the laptop to last a session of work, anyways it always warms my heart to see you James😊

I discovered you recently and I've been studying rewatching your videos.. would love to see a live!!

Great video, I wish you all the best

as soon as i saw the linux laptop i knew you were real, that's how i got through my final year lol

Man I Love your videos.

Great Video James! You forgot to add the link to the description, but nonetheless, its great! The thinkpad part made me laugh lol 😳

I will enter yks in about 1 month and these will be gold infos for me for my computer engineering that I will plan to. Thank you very much.

2:04 bro gave his 100% for that cinematic shot

I took your advice and bought that Nook Glowlight 4 eReader 6" 32GB BNRV1100. Can't wait to try it out.

Great Video James, love to see ur another content more. I used Kali Linux dual booted or sometimes using vmware installed on windows surprisingly it's great for me :)

Can't go wrong with a ThinkPad. I had one back when I was finishing up my Bachelor's in Computer Science.

The orange and white cat has the most versitility, but in a pinch, a gray tabby will save you a few bucks.

I watched the video even though I’m not that interested in the topic , i just like seeing you talk ✨ Keep posting 💪

I love that Sony Xperia of yours

appreciate the upload dude

James is like santa claus. Only comes once a year 🥶🔥

im a 3rd year cs student who bought a thinkpad for myself for my birthday... thank you for validating my purchase :D

Hey James! This may not be relevant to your video, but I would like to give you my gratitude for being my rock during my last 2 years in university. Your videos were insightful and inspiring to have the mindset of striving for the betterment of oneself. I am proud to say that I have graduated in BS of Electronics Engineering 2 days ago! Thank you so much James! ❤

Moondrop's Space Travel definitely tops the cheap TWS market where I'm from. It has ANC and great sound for only $20. I would also suggest getting yourself a very cheap 2-in-1 laptop and outsourcing everything to a home pc through a remote desktop app or simply having a pc and your phone who connects to it remotely. The only drawbacks of this is the poor internet connection problem when it comes to classrooms buried deep within the building or schools located in bustling cities. I would also suggest getting yourself an ESP32 to leech off single connection wifi and spread them for your other devices or friends. As it is also a general purpose microcontroller, you can upgrade it however you want such as making it a power bank, storage device, sim carrier loader as its own wifi and anything you can think of.

lol nice, the nook looks pretty sweet, thanks for the rec

good to see you james!

first emotional james video pog

I never knew Thinkpads were so cheap. Thanks for all the info

Bro's so chilled🤙

The major reason I love ThinkPad is its keyboard. I threw away one fully damaged laptop but just kept it's motherboard and the KEYBOARD cus I love it

I'm not in college but I'm studying IT certifications and a big thing for me has just been to use a thinkpad T420 with 16 gigs of ram and a 1tb SSD. All in all the whole setup cost less than 200 bucks and its pretty snappy, even the 2nd gen core i5 on this thing works really well and better than you'd expect, with 0 dropped frames switching between 1080p60 video playback on one workspace and another. Only thing I REALLY need to do is replace the thermal paste, because its sitting pretty at 40-70 degrees for normal use, but its consistently reaching 95c when I compile something..

hope you good james, nice vid

LMAOoooo what a video, thanks for the upload!

Good recomm with that 8th gen, also for x380/390 you can get the Yoga variant which has a touch-screen and a built pen bay/compartment with one so you never forget it! However I'm a little concerned with their durability, the ones which are charged via only the USB-C/Thunderbolt ports... those ports unfortunately wear down with time and I can feel the ones in my Yoga X1 already getting loose. Guess I'll just mount a DC barrel jack connector (the ultimate tried & tested in longevity, universitality and reliability when it comes to power supply connectors) when they break.

the Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact look so good

LOL. I am using Sony Xperia XZC as my daily driver and my laptop is THE Thinkpad, so seeing this video made me so happy.

I just now saw that you uploaded, my boi i missed u. I have mac 2017 air, literally brand new cuz i take care of things, yet its lagging alot and turns off randomly when using. Now that you’ve talked about thinkpad i will consider it.

The legend is back🎉

my man ! ! thanks for the video :)

yoo such a good video! thanks james

babe wake up james just posted!

With the way this video was titled, I thought you were discussing a budget firearm to carry lmao. That video would go hard

my biggest role model rn

"personally use 2 e-reader" - 3rd is gigantic e-ink boox mira pro as his desktop screen

Hi brother, thank you for sharing this information with us

Welcome back Jamess !! btw belated Happy Birthday ✨❤️

For a watch, I'd recommend the fossil hybrid, specifically the Fossil Everett. It's an e-ink screen watch. Minimalist and you can control what notifications you receive.

bro uses arch btw

comedy segment was golden

Thanks for the video. What is your large monitor? I've been looking for something like that for a while

This year I’ve been running a 9th gen x1(Linux of course) that I got for free and a remarkable for my ereader/tablet. He is right, Linux people are always so chill. I don’t have a machine not running Linux at this point. My gaming pc is running arch, m1 Mac has asahi fedora, and my thinkpad arch w/hyprland. The remarkable also is running a custom loader so I can use third party apps and access the terminal wo/ ssh. Totally sweet, use Linux, use ereaders!

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BThanks for the tips brother. I have a question, but how do you manage to study so much, and at the same time balance your life? Any video recommendation or maybe you already talked about it, which I'm unaware of?

Bro has bought every old Thinkpad ever made

the modified thinkpad thing is what my dad's being doing for years and the base of it is so THICK LMAO

Wow, I picked up a Thinkpad X270 at the start of the year because I heard all the hype about them, don't regret it, also managed to convince all my flatmates to get them as they're so good. For my phone I wanted to get a Google Pixel 6a as my backup, but the phone you talk about is interesting.