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Interesting. Reminds me of Emby and Jellyfin…

I still don’t like the decisions Canonical is making.

Except then you’d be stuck with Canonical.

I have an older Samsung chromebook loaded with coreboot UEFI firmware and boots Linux. Works…fine. It only has 16GB eMMC storage, so I think I will load a proper OS on a USB drive, hot glue it into place, and use that as the boot drive.

I can’t imagine how disappointing it must have been to shell out for an M1 Pro in the belief that Apple were about to beef up iPadOS. Then they…didn’t.

Yep. I paid ~$1200 for it and the Logitech keyboard case, right after it came out in 2021. First brand-new Apple device I bought for myself. And it is definitely the last.

That would be awesome. With legit Debian VMs and desktop mode coming to Android, I would love to see some serious development progress in that area. But we all know the big tech firms are gonna fuck it all up and neuter it.

I barely use my iPad these days. I’ll pull it out every once in a while, like if I’m sick in bed and wanna watch youtube for a few hours without holding my phone, but otherwise, yeah, iPads are kinda useless. They even suck at filling out PDFs.

I’ve got this little tablet…you know how so many people turn an iPad into a crappy laptop by adding a keyboard cover to it? Well Lenovo turned a laptop into a crappy iPad by making the hinge a floppy skin flap with a magnetic pogo pin connector. I intended it as a little computer I can use in the wood shop, I wanted something fanless and preferably with a removable keyboard so it wouldn’t be destroyed by sawdust that can run FreeCAD natively.

I have an 11" M1 iPad Pro with a Logitech keyboard case. It was intended to be my “laptop”. Clearly that didn’t work out, as Apple hath decreed that running full-blown VMs on hardware that’s more than capable of doing so is not allowed on the iPad, despite the fact that the same hardware runs Mac OS in the Macbook line.

I have a Thinkpad T14 G1 now.

but even something basic like a network ping is buried

Termux on Android solves a lot of that. But the touchscreen keyboard is definitely a tricky issue.

I work in a cleanroom. Can’t take a laptop bag in there. Sometimes it would be nice to have a smaller device to connect to a tool vias RS-485/232 and gather logs/teach robots/change controller settings - you know, simple tasks you don’t really need a “proper laptop” to perform. My work-issued T15 G2 is fine, but it runs W11 and is cumbersome when trying to work inside a cramped space or while on a ladder. A smaller device would be preferable. And my work-issued iPhone obviously has absolutely none of that capability, it’s only good for communication and taking pictures.

Deregulation is also foundational policy. Kratsios said that removing regulations that act as “barriers to innovation” will help foster progress in the technology stack within the U.S.

Jesus fucking Christ, right in the first sentence of the summary.

That’s a failure of the parent. My 5 year old likes to do the “color by number” things on my phone (waiting at dr appts and whatnot), and even she understands not to click on the ads, or to at least hand it back to me if one comes up.

First, if you’re on the go, do you need a computer with you?

That’s kinda the point of laptops

Second, if you do, that’s what a dedicated laptop bag is for.

Why should I have to carry a whole bag in order to have more compute power available than a phone? This is the same argument as “you already have a bag for your mobile phone battery if you want to carry it everywhere, but why would you do that?”

The answer to that is “because they can”. You don’t have to like it, but others do, so if you can’t understand the potential applications, then it’s clearly not for you.

My work-issued T15 G2 has a large keyboard with a separate 10-key. It’s glorious.

AMD T14 G1 here, with LMDE. Definitely my most used computer.

That comic says to do the opposite and to NOT implement browser notifications…

That just turns paid apps into splash screens for in-app purchases though

Welcome to Android lol

I’m not entirely optimistic about this ruling, but we’ll see.

Apple had no reason NOT to give refunds and then use their weight to claw it back from the app developer.

Greed.

But what happens when not-too-legit apps use non-AppStore external sites to unlock features in an app?

I suppose we will see what happens. That’s a very slippery slope though, full of FUD, and is the same logic that Apple, Microsoft, and others try to use to keep users locked into their walled gardens.

In a perfect world it’s cheap and easy and reliable.

But it can also be a scammy shop that lures you into expensive subscriptions with no easy way to cancel them (eg. gym membership) and what happens when Little Timmy spends $9000 for Nlartbux in a mobile game’s external store?

Could be. Multiple alternative markets exist for Android already though, and some shops are scammy as fuck. Google has already put protections in place to prevent sideloading potentially harmful apps (including alternative markets), but the savvy user who knows how to bypass those restrictions should* know how to spot scammy shit.

Could go either way 🤷🏻‍♂️

“For your security” was never about security.

Precedent is precedent, and now smaller independent devs can use this ruling to their favor.

I’m not the one complaining, I know how to manage all of that.

I’m talking about the average user.

Notifications, and no browser UI to get in the way. You can do a PWA, but that’s beyond the scope of the average user.