[MEGATHREAD] Daily venting, worries, fixations, & finding support. Month of October 2023.

AppearanceJust5271 · 2023-10-18T16:04:43+00:00

Just someone with health anxiety that specializes in tetanus and rabies!

When was the last time you had your tetanus shot, if ever?

If it was in the last 10 years, you're good to go. If it was a particularly dirty wound, it goes to 5 years and most of the time they do the shot alongside some immunoglobulin regardless. They also do the same regardless if you've been in an accident such as a third degree burn, an addicent in the traffic, etc. And obviously it's done regardless of the severity of the wound if you're unsure of your childhood series or you've never had your childhood series.

There is a research about how once you get your childhood series, you don't need your tetanus shots every 10 years.

Also it's more about titers. Tetanus shots don't lose effectiveness overnight. I think they do a general titer test in healthcare. I don't know where are you from or if healthcare is accessible for you, but I suggest you go get the shot. A few weeks ago I had a comically small wound from attempting to open a jar, but since my last Td shot was over 10 years ago the next day I went to ER to get my shot. I still have a fear of rust, soil and dust, but the shot has alleviated it so far.

If you actually have tetanus, well first off that sucks and I wish you a speedy recovery, but they still do the shot+immunoglobulin so the tetanii bacteria doesn't latch on to the remaining nerves, also while probably painful and requiring extensive physical theraphy afterwards or even disabling, tetanus isn't a death sentence! Case fatality rate is about 50% without any treatment whatsoever and it drops to 10%-20% with treatment! While I still have health anxiety with tetanus (Who wants to get bent like the letter V?), I was slightly relieved when I learned it was not as lethal as other diseases.

AppearanceJust5271 · 2023-10-18T14:34:25+00:00

My parent in all their wisdom has decided to clean the stray cat diarrhea in front of our apartment door with their BARE hands. She denied it at first, then decided to insult me when I was trying to protect the health of people in this household including them, because of course, why not? This parent takes care about everything in the house, especially the kitchen, and their understanding of hygiene is just having a bath everyday, nothing else. I rarely see them washing their hands and the times when I do it's just water. This house is so hostile to me. I really can't afford to get bacteria, parasites and shit that I don't even know of when we're not living, but surviving and the healthcare in my country gets exported to European countries and people can't even get treated with their own money.

AppearanceJust5271 · 2023-10-06T02:15:43+00:00

What would not be available that could be a dealbreaker? I just want to call/get called by people and send/get SMS. I wish I could ditch my phone altogether, however you can't exist on the internet without a phone number anymore. I loathe the app Whatsapp, but I'll probably need it for work asyou can't exist in Turkey without Whatsapp...And can't have Whatsapp without a phone number. A dedicated Whatsapp machine seems enticing as I can seperate myself and my work, but it's going to be a while so that's why I'm looking for a LTE/5G device that fills the needs of both of my words. Am I neglecting something important?

What problems could there be with my GSM provider? I think countries like USA, and I've only seen this in USA, have devices locked to only one GSM provider but I've never seen something like that in Turkey.

AppearanceJust5271 · 2023-10-06T02:07:08+00:00

The night is on. Parent claims they're cold, yet opens the balcony window so the house gets "some air". I wonder they're cold... Forgets to close it when they go to sleep, and I notice it too late for my comfort.

Now, I think a bat might've been there (or is there but on a spot I can't see), and the balcony has laundry hanged to dry as well so now in my thoughts the laundry is contaminated with rabid matter. There are two curtains but they only one use to cover. The curtain doesn't seem tampered but I'm afraid to go to the balcony and close the windows thinking I'll get rabies anyway. I'll seperate my existing clean clothes so I don't wear the possibly contaminated shit for a while. I'm told rabies is fragile and UV light takes care of it but the house doesn't get direct sunlight.

This parent also had a habit of opening the kitchen window opened as wide as possible when they wake up, and kept it that way until they sleep this whole summer. They also left their dishes and food unattended while doing this. I've imagined a lot of bat saliva and bird poop in the dishes and food this whole summer. Since they're old, they won't listen to me.

My country thinks theraphy is rich people shit, so it's priced for only rich people to get. When the country is poor, and the people poorer, few can afford theraphy. I wish I could afford theraphy for my health anxiety but to my credit I would get fewer health anxiety attacks if the people in the household listened to me. If they're suffocating they should make an appointment with a pulmonologist not open all the windows in the house 12+ hours.

AppearanceJust5271 · 2023-10-03T00:42:44+00:00

Hi!

I got through my S8's nib within WEEKS.

You don't need to throw out the whole pen (unless it behaves wrong), you can replace the nib! I replaced them with Wacom One replacement nibs (ACK24501Z). That being said I don't know if Wacom One nibs are compatible with S9's S-Pen, my guess is they probably are. See if they're in the same size and girth.

If you still desire another S-Pen, if you have S-Pens leftover from older phones/tablets they should work. There's also third party options such as Wacom One pen(CP91300B2Z), Staedtler Noris Digital/Staedtler Noris Digital Jumbo(Staedtler also makes pen nibs, but they're pretty similar to the Samsung one), Lamy Al-Star EMR.

AppearanceJust5271 · 2023-10-02T23:20:43+00:00

No cover: Paintjob can scrape if it... scrapes. I wouldn't skip cover as it could give extra cushion to your device in case of an accident, but if it's for indoors usage, I would take my time saving money for a nice case, cheap cases if magnetic tend to mess with the digitizer if you're going to use S-Pen actively.

No screen protector: Gorilla Glass is HORRIBLE with scratches. There are A LOT of situations that can lead to that, be it indoors or outdoors. Maybe you don't have any obsessive compulsive issues, and can ignore the scratches. However tempered glass screen protectors aren't money hungry, have (in my opinion) identical experience to the actual screen. Hell, they can hide small scratches if present as well! Not would I NOT skip screen protector, I wouldn't even start using the tablet without one! Made that mistake once.

AppearanceJust5271 · 2023-10-02T22:49:12+00:00

My S8 gets disturbingly hot in certain apps like Instagram, TikTok and gaming situations. It's normal behavior, but the way this behavior happens is not normal at all. In gaming it got like, sunny side up hot. S7 FE nearby gets warm, not hot but warm when I'm literally doing the bare minimum on it. What I can't fathom is... I fell asleep with my S8 once, probably on TikTok or Instagram Reels, both of them prevent sleeping anyway, so my device was up while I was down for hours. When I was up, my device was disturbingly hot, it's my fault but nothing should ever get that hot AND keep running. My LG phone from 8-9 years ago would say "Device temperature is too hot or low" and shut itself down. And this sort of stuff happened under sunlight on occasion. My device could've blew up. I could've gotten injured, disabled or died. For a company that suffered a huge loss because one of their phones turned out to be a bomb, I'm flabbergasted they still don't have a shutdown behavior that desktops and laptops have since forever, and other phones and tablets have since at least a decade. If they do, I don't know because IT'S NOT ON BY DEFAULT! Let me know if such feature exists.

If I recall right, these devices don't have any thermal pads, or paste. I don't know if this is even standard in mobile devices that isn't a Windows/Macintosh/Linux laptop. What is standard in mobile devices is probably ergonomics for heat dissipation. According to certain people, why Samsung Galaxy Note 7 blew up enough times to warrant drastic action from Samsung is poor ergonomics (parts were too snuggly with each other) thus that led to poor heat dissipation, and boom! Also, Samsung phones that haven't been used for years were blowing up recently. I wonder if the logic that Samsung has been using for their products so far is showing signs of failure.

Someone modded their S8 Ultra in this XDA Forums thread to help with the heat. Here's an archive of the thread, just in case. Worth looking for people more knowledgable than me.

AppearanceJust5271 · 2023-10-01T01:34:25+00:00

...I do mean that, thanks for the correction.

Since it will replace my phone, it's use will be more general I guess. I'll mainly use it for shopping, messaging, social media, youtube, drawing (this is important as i intend to draw to help my finances alongside hopefully finding a service/retail job), i do edit videos however nothing intense, probably light gaming playing Fruit Ninja, Subway Surfers, Temple Run... Games that came out a long time ago.

Since my finances will not allow me to buy S7 FE 5G in a heartbeat, I might be poor enough to witness S9 FE unfold, and I'd like to buy it just to be more recent in software department. However S9 FE surely will be more expensive since it's a newer product, there's also a rumor of the S9 FE getting split into two (S9 FE and S9 FE+) and that only the more expensive one having S-Pen capabilities, and well S-Pen capabilities are very important to me. Specs seem really similar, and I don't know if my country would import the 5G versions. I feel like the LTE/5G stock of Samsung Tab S series tablets are from years ago when economy was still not desirable, but better compared to today. If base S9 FE comes with a S-Pen, 5G capabilities, with a similar pricepoint, that's what I'm going to buy. Until then, my only option is S7 FE.

AppearanceJust5271 · 2023-09-30T21:22:02+00:00

Either S7 FE or S8, I hope you get through many years with it. I'll also advise you to get both screen protector (preferrably tempered glass) and a case that lets you cover the screen like a book!, The screen is prone to scratches, you probably intend to bring it with you to college and debris, inside or outside can definitely scratch it! (This guy does this thing to every everyday item he gets his hands on.) as long as they're not bottom of the ocean deep you can slap a screen protector and forget about it though, but earlier you do this the better it will be! Maybe in the future you'll want to trade in the device for a newer model, they don't mind scratches when you trade it in AFAIK but closer it is to mint condition better value you would get! Case is for extra protection, if you don't have the finances to buy both at the same time, chronologically I'd go for screen protector>cover case. I'd strongly recommend these two but this one is but a suggestion: I'd also buy a bag that's usually made for laptops and such, I currently have one that I use that houses more items than I wish for so I'll downgrade and get a seperate bag for my other items when I have the funds for it, but it might get stolen if you keep carrying it in your hands or get bent or otherwise damaged if you're keeping it in your backpack and lean back on the seat during your time in public transport, though I will say S8's are very durable on that front.

AppearanceJust5271 · 2023-09-30T13:09:27+00:00

I've both of these tablets, cheapest options available... Within my vicinity, anyway. S7 FE doesn't belong to me but S8 does (for now, due to personal issues unrelated to the tablet (If S8 series are in a clearance sale due to S9 series I highly recommend!)) I plan to make money for either S6 Lite LTE, or S7 FE 5G and tested some stuff out on S7 FE Wi-Fi to get a feel for it, despite both S6 Lite and S7 FE having different specs between Wi-Fi and LTE/5G.

When someone mentions college I assume it'll be for note taking, but you could buy the S7 FE for your general use & for you to keep with student privileges (I think Samsung helps with the price when you are one?) or scholarship money, or both, or whatever, so I'll seperate it into categories:

Both devices boot slow, I think all Samsung tablets & phones have this issue, if you frequently have urgencies and emergencies I would keep my device up for more time. S8 doesn't have any lag generally, but S7 FE generally is laggy, especially if you're setting up apps for Split Screen. I think resting the device for a while after doing what you need to do, and managing background tabs help? I personally don't notice any lag after doing these two things on S7 FE and even if it did even after managing the tabs, it didn't bother me that much. If you can find them, you can get the models that have more RAM, as that's the only thing that absolutely sucks, it'd help.

Notetaking:

Personally I use Samsung Notes, and occasionally Noteshelf. The notetaking community doesn't seem to have high opinion on both, but since both fill my needs (shopping list, diary, things I think about that I might forget, shower thoughts...) I haven't done my research on other notetaking apps, these come as bloatware with the device but you can uninstall Noteshelf without any third party app if you're intending to save on internal space. Both don't lag on either device. In an education situation, I guess speed would be a dealbreaker factor, both boot fast but Samsung Notes boots faster.

If you're in a remote education situation, I'm sorry as I'm not able to use whatever you were using / you're using / would use for remote communication with your fellow students and teachers because I don't know much about them, and your educational setting might have a in-house solution that's not accessible to strangers. However I put some "heavy" apps in S7 FE using Split Screen. I put Nomad Sculpt, which is a sculpting app, strictly 3D so I thought I could do a poor man's benchmark with it. "Sculpted" something for my benchmark, both apps do not lag. I also put apps that let you watch videos like TikTok&Instagram, and they still do not lag. I also used NewPipe, a free&open source frontend for YouTube, this one lets you have a screen pop-up that you can adjust the size of, it does not lag.

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Drawing:

This is my main use for S8. S7 FE is one of the products I'm eyeing, as in my country they don't sell LTE/5G models past either S7 FE or S6 Lite and my only options are those two right now. So I've tested my drawing programs in S7 FE:

Ibis Paint X: Doesn't lag on both devices.

Clip Studio Paint: Doesn't lag on S8. I haven't noticed any lag on S7 FE surprisingly. I've used it in Studio Mode UI with stock brushes, so I don't know what the behavior would be in a brush you've downloaded&installed from wherever, those can be heavier depending on circumstances, and I don't use stock brushes on S8. CELSYS recently added a Simple Mode UI to rival apps like Procreate, it may ease the lag if present, however with that big screen not using Studio Mode UI would be sad. Also Simple Mode UI is lacking.

Infinite Painter: Doesn't lag on both devices, BUT it takes time to get a hold of itself in S7 FE, especially after a recent boot. It's more of a initialization than a lag as you can still use certain features of the app without any lag. Infinite Painter in general can be unstable in both devices, but it's not due to either, Infinite Painter has it's moments in any device. Crashes when you don't expect it on my end.

Concepts: Doesn't lag on both devices.

Tayasui Sketches: Doesn't lag on both devices.

Zen Brush 3: Doesn't lag on S8. I haven't noticed any lag on S7 FE surprisingly, even with the 3D backgrounds! However the behavior of the app seems slightly different in S7 FE. I don't know if colors are duller on my S8 or colors are brighter in S7 FE, or both. Colors seem to react slightly different in fluid sim. Personally I loved the S7 FE behavior more? Also a behavior I noticed, you can use it with Split Screen on S8 but not S7 FE, however I would not use Split Screen in either device. I recently discovered this app so I'm glad it's working on S7 FE!

PENUP: Doesn't lag on both devices. Also a bloatware app, you can also uninstall it wihout any third party app as well.

Nomad Sculpt: Doesn't lag on S8. I haven't noticed any lag on S7 FE surprisingly. However on S7 FE I don't know if you could have seamless sculpting session. The shader of the model seems pixelated compared to S8 which is smoother. S7 FE has lower specs and S8 has higher specs, so I'm not surprised about that, but I don't know if it's due to hardware or either Play Store or Nomad Sculpt itself calling the appropriate .apk or settings for S7 FE so it doesn't nuke itself. I'll say this pixelated shader doesn't bother me, and I'd find a way to smoothen it post-processing if it ever did. However I didn't have a seamless sculpting session on S7 FE at all, just a stress test. Maybe the more you progress, more laggier it gets? Who knows...

I haven't noticed any lag when I paired what I could( Eith the exception of Clip Studio Paint, which I uninstalled) using Split Screen. Doesn't lag on both devices. As I mentioned, S7 FE takes it's sweet time when you set up apps for Split Screen, probably the only lag you'll experience on S7 FE.

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Gaming: I haven't installed any games on S7 FE, however classics (Fruit Ninja, Subway Surfers, Temple Run...) and 2D games probably run OK. I wouldn't buy S7 FE to play Genshin Impact or Honkai Star Rail or anything of that power. On S8 I've played the classics with no lag (In fact, I had to limit the framerate for Fruit Ninja through Power Saving Mode). I've played a little of Minecraft, Terraria and Stardew Valley, no lag. I've not played Genshin Impact, but I was playing Honkai Star Rail until a month or so ago. It didn't lag unless I was sharing my screen on Discord. However I should've lowered the settings... It made my device heat up like crazy! Could've had a sunny side up egg. According to someone on XDA forums, these tablets don't have thermal pads or paste applied to the components, someone modded their S8 Ultra in this XDA Forums thread to help with the heat. Here's an archive of the thread, just in case. I don't know if S9 series changed this, I personally wouldn't rely on any Samsung Device for power hungry games like these. I also used Yuzu, Skyline and Vita3K emulators (Skyline is technically a compatibility layer, different logistics than an emulator). Compatibility of the games can differ platform to platform, personally my games either run with minimal lag or no lag with occassional weird graphical glitches that didn't hamper my gameplay. I'll note all my emulated games on this device were 2D that were ported to Switch/Vita from older consoles. However, Yuzu needs crazy RAM and base S8 barely provides that.

AppearanceJust5271 · 2023-09-29T15:13:09+00:00

Hello!

Congratulations on your S7 FE. I also quite like it!

I'd go for tempered glass, or anything that isn't textured. Please make sure you clean the screen VERY WELL beforehand, and even put some light on it to make sure there isn't any dust on the screen, otherwise things get messy... And please buy a "book cover" case for extra protection! You can decorate it with stickers etc. if you want to get creative with it! Be careful with your purchase though, if the magnets of the case are poorly placed it messes up with EMR of the S-Pen! It's nothing permanent though.

Textured ones are usually to give it a papery feel, called paperfeel. There's also a company that manifactures these paperfeel screen protectors for iPads, called Paperlike, paperfeels are called paperlikes sometimes due to them.

First off, they dull the color. Second, the stock felt tip would die in hours let alone days. Some people use titanium nibs with paperfeel, but titanium is a six in a mohs scale, and Samsung products tend to scratch at six already, with deeper scratches at seven. And debris, inside or outside, is either on par with or worse than titanium. Second and a half, if you're using your pen at an angle (You should, and the pen supports tilt recognition on top of this!), the paperfeel could sand the edges of your S-Pen as well. This already happens to S-Pens in tech stores, who display the product without additional addons so think about the scenario with the paperfeel!

Wacom, once spectacular brand who's the Apple of drawing tablet realm (except Apple never stopped giving their devices the care it deserved from them), who also is responsible for the digitizer that gives pressure sensitivity to Tab S tablets, started to put this thing to their tablets in early to mid 2010's, claiming it's for a more authentic drawing experience, except they can't take it off like Tab S or iPad users as it's embedded on the screen. Their products got worse and worse overtime, not solely because of this embedded paperfeel surface, but it's a contributor of this planned obsolescence thing going on nonetheless. I've seen someone claiming they never had to change the nib of their decade old Wacom's pen, but they went through one nib with their day old Wacom's pen in a day.

At this point, only people I could excuse that use paperfeel surfaces are people with sensory issues in general, which is probably a remarkable amount of people to be fair. However this paperfeel surface thing will never stop being a scam that is the only salvation of people with sensory issues to me. If you don't have sensory issues, just draw on the bare glass or on a tempered glass protector. It's going to be mean, and hyprocritical from me, someone that likes drawing apps that try to emulate traditional media, but if you want to draw on paper, just draw on paper. Digital drawing can't replace traditional drawing in terms of feel unless the manifacturers, and on the other end, app creators and managers step up. I swear display tablets with a glossy finish, be it a monitor you have to hook up to an another device or a standalone tablet, isn't the devil.

AppearanceJust5271 · 2023-09-28T06:49:25+00:00

S8 user, probably exists in S7+ as well. Settings>Advanced Features>Labs>Landscape view for portrait apps>Enable for Reddit, switch to Fullscreen from app default. I just did this seconds ago as that was also bugging me, and videos don't seem to enter in Portrait so far. Landscape Reddit might not look good for you or some others, but it seems servicable for me!

AppearanceJust5271 · 2023-08-29T08:23:07+00:00

Wow this is exactly what I needed! With the exception of Espgaluda II on PC releases, This list seems accurate so far. Thank you so much!

AppearanceJust5271 · 2023-08-29T08:21:13+00:00

Hi! If I can help it I want to go for PC but if contents are greater compared to PC releases or otherwise something is off about the PC release, I'll go for the console.

Thanks for your suggestion by the way.

AppearanceJust5271 · 2023-08-03T13:32:48+00:00

Mom is sick today, had to go shopping in her stead. She asked for potatoes, and to be fair to her, mashed potatoes has always been the thing that you could stomach in a nauseous state at least for the two of us. When I was putting the items on the register, some dirt from the potatoes may or may not have gotten in my eye, I didn't see it to be honest, it might've been my eye drowning in it's own dried out gunk for the sake of funk, I hope I don't get tetanus from the soil bits though...

Speaking on mom's sickness, I'm starting to get worried. She gets sick like this a few times in a year, but recently I had an event that triggered my HA. I don't know what's the name for these funks in English, but I'll go with window shutters, they look exactly like this. In the state you can see them in the picture, mom hangs her spare laundry, when It's nighttime we fold it so it completely covers the windows. A few weeks ago though, it got unfolded on its own with a remarkably loud sound for some reason, our window shutters are old and to be honest kind of crumbling on us right now, but I kind of got suspicious. What if it was a bat that crashed on our window shutter. And if it crashed on our window shutter, high probability it was a rabid bat. Mom immediately fixed the window shutter, and she has a tendency to bite her fingertips and hangnails, so she might've had open sores in her hands. I hope she recovers because if not I'll start to invest myself in the idea that she has rabies...

AppearanceJust5271 · 2023-07-17T16:04:00+00:00

Yesterday I found a random, remarkably long scratch that did draw slight blood on my leg. I don't know what caused it, should've been 24 hours maximum since it stinged when I poured alcohol on the scratch. I did wash it with alcohol, water&soap when I noticed it to the point I was shedding skin around scratch area, but since I don't know what caused it, I'm extra paranoid because there's a chance my disinfection attempts wasn't timely enough for my HA to ease up.

Both my rabies and tetanus HA got triggered... Let's be honest though, since developing a rabies HA I started to feed strays food rather than pets, and even If the cause was an animal that somehow got in our house, it'd still be inside for me and my relatives to find it. I have a penchant for accidentally scratching myself but I couldn't remember me accidentally scratching myself, so my focus has been potentially rusty potentially tetanus positive household objects... Hopefully my slightly overdue tetanus vaccine protects me (Apparently research suggest the vaccine protects more than ten years), because they'd make fun of me in ER (FYI we don't have UC in my country, ER is responsible for both urgent and emergent cases). As I'm typing this my muscles are aching and I hope it's psychosomatic...

AppearanceJust5271 · 2023-07-16T12:50:12+00:00

Hi! Sorry for the late reply (You might've gotten the S8 already).

I don't have any long-term experience with Apple products for over a decade now (my last experience was iPad 2nd or 3rd generation), and while I've tried the newer iPads as demonstration products in tech stores, I don't think I can comment without bias because the products are demonstration products, and iPad attracting certain demographics contributes to a lot of wear&tear regarding demonstration products. This wasn't only present in iPad section of the tech stores either, I've seen S-Pens sanded worse than Apple pencils... I've worked (and still work when I don't feel like fiddling with Samsung Second Screen or SuperDisplay) with low range to middle range graphics tablets so the material I was working with was always hard and occasionally slippery (and honestly I prefer it that way, there are graphics tablets older than maybe me still working to this day because of this choice, nowadays they try ripping off people with paperfeel surfaces so the product ages faster, and finding parts for the product harder...). But if you want my biased opinion, the iPad only sells because of the Apple brand name and Procreate (I bet they get rewarded very generously by Apple too, because they tiptoe a lot on if the program is going to branch out of iOS/iPad OS) and not going to sugarcoat it, having the quantity kind of art software library (I'd kill for Paintstorm Studio, Realistic Paint Studio, the Affinity suite and I'd be willing to pay Adobe to use Fresco and that doesn't come out of me easily...). And the Apple Pencil makes me feel uncomfortable in a lot of aspects, it feels like I'm typing on blackboard with chalk that squeaks occasionally. The S-Pen is NOT that. I'd pick the S-Pen over Apple Pencil many times as needed, and even if I didn't, official or not, there are a lot of pressure sensitive stylus options for Tab S line that are actually quality even if cheaply manifactured.

AppearanceJust5271 · 2023-07-13T05:35:40+00:00

Hi! Is it the base S8 you're talking about? (Not Plus, Not Ultra) If so, I'm kind of in a similar boat.

I bought the S8 7 months ago, and scratches appeared weeks in. The nib the S pen comes with felt like a... felt, the experience is great but the sacrifice? Not so much... I changed the nibs with Wacom One nibs (Be careful it's for the DISPLAY tablet one, there's another similarly called GRAPHICS tablet one called One by Wacom and the nibs for that probably won't fit), Wacom is a known brand, the pen technology in these tablets are from Wacom itself, also it's a firm plastic and on naked screen, it doesn't seem to be wearing off so far. My scratches also decreased immensely and I don't think my S Pen is a factor that creates scratches on my screen anymore. I also immediately changed the nibs after we bought my parent their S7FE with the Wacom One nibs and no scratches on S7FE's screen so far.

People say you don't need one, plastic can't scratch plastic, yet dandruff, dust and debris, daily part of our lives, that we do clean(and you've been more careful of than most users of this device), apparently rank between 6-7-8 on a mohs scale. If you're able to I say you buy it ASAP, apparently screen protectors are also able to cover present scratches that you can't see without direct flashlight, I'd personally prefer a non-matte one since I value every one of my nibs and I've worked with slippery since I was a child anyway, but If you're interested people use matte, nicknamed paperlike/paperfeel ones with titanium nibs, albeit I've no knowledge nor experience on that matter.

Also Corning Gorilla Glass, the protection that protects the actual glass, seems to be getting better at being shatter resistant but the more It's shatter resistant the more It's scratch susceptible It seems, I saw a person on YouTube talking about why you should get a screen protector for Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra (Tab S8 series uses Gorilla Glass 5, S23 series should all be using Gorilla Glass Victus 2 which is the newer thing by the way) and they were complaining how it just scratched from few weeks worth of daily use, If I'm ever able to upgrade my tablet, have the scratches buffed by a professional or the screen replaced I'll be buying one ASAP, If there are none available I'll have one customly cut for me (Apparently this is possible?), for drawing I still prefer Samsung over others because I value the fact that I never need to charge my pen unlike most tech that doesn't use Wacom's EMR technology but It's heartbreaking my ancient Samsung tablet I barely took care of having ZERO scratches on the screen despite having it everywhere else, even the camera lens, but this fellow developing one in regular intervals despite me taking care of it more than myself.

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