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I was really hoping for a mobile equivalent to Kali Linux here based on the term "hacking device" in the title. :sadparrot:
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> T-Mobile works nowhere, and is the only carrier which is actively countering net neutrality. It works way better than a few years ago, and for the reference, almost all mobile providers, including Verizon[1] and AT&T[2] (not sure about Sprint) are violating Net Neutrality by giving preferential treatment to their own services. [1]. https://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Begins-Zero-Rati... [2]. https://www.dsl…
Neither of those are pleasant, but neither is as bad as T-Mobile, who's primary marketing campaign is about what apps do and don't count towards data caps. They've also been promoting sleazy marketing strategies like claiming to have "no contract", while stabbing people by cancelling people's device payment plans if they cancel service. I mean, they have only gotten worse since their primary marketing appeal was an a…
They aren't any better, if not worse, because in contrast to T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon are asking for money from other services if they want be exempt from caps. In my view they are all bad when Net Neutrality is concerned. It can be fixed only with better law which ban zero rating, and as well bans caps as a method of fleecing users.
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I used to have that. It was my Nokia n900. I was able to pull up live thumbnail previews of all apps running in the background, and this included live simultaneous previews of: youtube videos in a web browser, games, and Debian, without lag. Try doing that on today's technology. It had a wonderfully acurate resistive touch screen that was pressure senstive that was really good for drawing and coloring! The camera wou…
Boy do I miss the N900... Mine is sitting on my desk like a museum piece gathering dust, and it makes me sad that no modern phone has come remotely close to it. I used it as my main phone when travelling for years and it worked everywhere I needed it to when other phones wouldn't. I'd use it for getting unwa cough ted access to WiFi when I was in a tough spot. I'd manage my servers with it. I'd use it to emit music t…
So many of us miss that phone.
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That's exactly what I got mine, and exactly when I retired mine because I didn't want it to flat out stop working. The USB port died and the SD card never worked to begin with. Once the circuitry for the wifi becomes inoperational (like what happened with my tmobile g1), then I consider the phone officially dead...
Yep, my USB port died too. I ended up getting an external charger and a handful of spare batteries. Did that for about a year or two before I got my Nexus 5. At least buying new batteries gave me back my battery life that had degraded to almost nothing over the years. On top of that, over the years, the kickstand broke, the screen got scratched badly, my belt clip broke in multiple places, the SIM slot became really…
My batteries are swelling. I suspect it's no longer safe really.
:-?
Just like desktop KDE, the UI doesn't appeal to me. I find it too flashy and kind of "in your face". My favorite mobile OS so far has been Meego that ran on N9. That device was mind blowing and that OS. Amazing. It had such a simple, yet useful UI. Multi-tasking was better than what even Android has now. I hope Jolla doesn't die like that and we see a lot more devices come out running Sailfish.
.. on the other hand Gnome2 used to be pretty great. It didn't look pretty and took quite some effort to make it look good with themes and icon sets but it was a highly usable, easy to use and yet powerful desktop. I hate the direction Gnome3 is going in. Every Gnome3 app feels like designed for iPad instead of keyboard+mouse. iPad apps and Gnome3 apps basically have same UI philosophy. I can't even begin to explain…
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Neither of those are pleasant, but neither is as bad as T-Mobile, who's primary marketing campaign is about what apps do and don't count towards data caps. They've also been promoting sleazy marketing strategies like claiming to have "no contract", while stabbing people by cancelling people's device payment plans if they cancel service. I mean, they have only gotten worse since their primary marketing appeal was an a…
> Neither of those are pleasant, but neither is as bad as T-Mobile They aren't any better, if not worse, because in contrast to T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon are asking for money from other services if they want be exempt from caps. In my view they are all bad when Net Neutrality is concerned. It can be fixed only with better law which ban zero rating, and as well bans caps as a method of fleecing users.
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>nothing will ever be good enough for them again. Reading this made me so sad. This is exactly how I feel. Nothing will ever be good enough again. :(
I would kill for a Nokia N950. A proper keyboard, and a true Linux operating system with the usual userspace software you would expect.
I was really hoping for a mobile equivalent to Kali Linux here based on the term "hacking device" in the title. :sadparrot:
Ubuntu Touch is the big one though, I'd love to see more devices compatible with it. Some industrious fellow out there is probably willing to port most of the python crap in Kali to something more useful, agile, portable, and compatible with Ubuntu Touch, if something like that isn't already going on.