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I'm really glad these don't come with a USB C port, otherwise I'd be really tempted to purchase one. There's something oddly calming about doing complex calculations on a calculator versus on a computer. I find myself reaching for the TI-34 on my desk every now and then when I want to really focus and figure something out. The benefit of the TI-34 is that it's solar powered, so I never have to worry about charging it or changing the batteries.

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I still have my TI-85 from high school on my desk with batteries that expire in 2023. 2013 sounds about right for when I last put fresh batteries in it. Admittedly I use wabbitemu with a TI-85 ROM on my phone so I don't reach for my physical calculator as much as I used to.

But I will never not use this calculator in one form or another as my primary calculation device, it's just too familiar.

I actually didn't know that wabbitemu existed. Don't have much of a use for it anymore, but I definitely have it setup on my phone now -- thanks!

Because of my high school requiring everyone to use an nspire, I am way faster at doing things on the nspire than on the computer, even with a vastly inferior keyboard.

And even the nspire is pretty slow for a calculator

Is calming the right word for objectively better?

Computer latency is terrible, and the calculator is optimized to make the 80% faster rather than the 20% possible.

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