Be careful ordering the new #StarLite #Linux #tablet from #StarLabs Systems.
If their system declines your credit card, it still places a pre-authorisation for the full amount into your bank account – thereby reducing the balance of your account for the full amount. The authorisation is for a whole month and so you cannot touch that money for a month.
I called and spoke with them and they told me there’s nothing they can do on their end and my bank won’t investigate unless they take the money.
Right, so I just put in an order, selected their invoice option at checkout and was able to transfer them the money via IBAN in seconds. Wish I’d done that from the start.
*Phew!* That was way harder than it needed to be.
(Again, I’ll update you all if/when they get back to me let me know the issue with failed transactions resulting in preauthorisations is fixed. Until then, if you’re going to pre-order the #StarLabs #StarLite #Linux #tablet, I’d highly recommend you pay by invoice.)
So, after all that, I’m back to being very excited about my early(ish) birthday present (it doesn’t ship for another two months).
I have some very neat plans for this little tablet… hehehe!
@aral
oof. shame about the apparent lack of stylus.
@morpheo I don’t really plan on drawing with it so I’d much rather it was optimised for my fingers :)
@aral
i was being egoistic, i'm the drawy type
@aral I like portable stuff, but I also made the switch to ortholinear (for #dyspraxia a great thing). So I decided to replace my aging Lenovo #ThinkPad x220 by a refurbished Dell Latitude 5290 2in1 tablet. I am quite happy with it. I am typing this with this "old" tablet running Ubuntu 22.04 with an ortholinear 47 keys keyboard.
Of course the #StarLite is a nice modern alternative.
@mattias @aral I still use my x220 tablet although it's showing quite a bit of wear now - and a crack in the screen means I can't use the touch screen any more :'( I'm currently typing this on a Pinetab-V (RISC-V tablet) but this is nowhere near ready for the mass market yet and the first usable GUI Linux ported to it just came out very recently for it - Let's see in a couple of years...