11 june 2026
wtf is a drawing tablet
a long time ago, about six or seven years, the keilar was gifted a gaomon pd1161 drawing tablet from its mom. we have gotten a lot of mileage out of this item, and its presence in our life is a direct attestation to everything that we hold dear to us. it's only just realized this, however, but the metaphor is there and it's now one of our favorite possessions; weird feeling.
it has dumped way too much time into osu! with it so it's a gaming device. it has used it as a high-tech whiteboard to visually teach others so it's an educational device. it has used it to draw things so it's a creative device. but, something it never envisioned before it used one for the first time, was that it's also a second monitor. when we use this tablet we never bother to look at our main display anymore and this is a bit of an issue for the neck situation as we have never really had the glory of desk space, and using it like a giant window into our computer is fun when you can't even reach your keyboard comfortably. in any case, it has come to the conclusion a while ago that digitizers, touchscreens, and pretty much any interactive display is fundamentally multipurpose, but aren't all screens in general?
wtf is a "drawing tablet" for. it oft sees small pen tablets described as drawing tablets, but they are so much more than that. they're simple devices. they work for their purpose, and they're everywhere.
at least our Graphics Tablet, per the wikipedia page, is still alive and kicking. it does have a slight purple tint however, but we enjoy that kind of stuff ... if only we could find the squid of cables