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Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard

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Re: Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard

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Post by josteink »

flyingpenguin wrote: post #139
ProZsolt wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Till you want to run some electron apps

As a angular developer... I apologize for the pollution I create, and also strongly encourage you to have more than 4gb of ram.

Can relate. My work laptop was enough for every task I could throw at it...

Until I had to work with Angular apps. Then I suddenly needed twice the cores, twice the RAM. I was honestly surprised.

Looking at the resulting code, I also have no trouble believing this cost is also brought on to users of Angular apps.

For a framework which (IMO) brings so little, the overhead seems surprisingly large.

Re: Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard

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Post by bchanudet »

julianlam wrote: post #162
igorbark wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the mild sexism wasn't necessary

What mild sexism? I want a tablet that my wife will use to browse the web and watch videos, and she will be evaluating it's fitness for her daily use. It's literally exactly what I said.

I think it's because "wife test" looks a lot like "wife acceptance factor" [1], which has a much more degrading meaning than what you wanted to convey.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_acceptance_factor

Re: Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard

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Post by popped »

als0 wrote: post #76
jjice wrote: post #40

Absolutely incredible for the $120 price point. If they release a PineTab Pro in the future with 4 (or dare I say 8GB) of ram, I'd be all over it. At that point, I could really start to be productive. 2GB is a bit limiting for the modern web unfortunately, but there is a ton of potential here. I'm considering buying one to use as my main machine for this next year at Uni. Taking notes in VS Code/Vim would be fine, bu…

> 2GB is a bit limiting for the modern web unfortunately This saddens me...

Yea that's kind of insane isn't it?

I wish there was a lite version of the Web with enforced resource constraints

Re: Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard

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Post by MagnumOpus »

popped wrote: post #173
als0 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 2GB is a bit limiting for the modern web unfortunately This saddens me...

Yea that's kind of insane isn't it? I wish there was a lite version of the Web with enforced resource constraints

There is - you can just install NoScript to block all scripts and stop video autoplay in Firefox setting. Presto - a slim web. (Sites that need JS often have a slim alternative - there are superfast "lite" or "mobile" sites for GMail, Reddit, Facebook and many more.)

Re: Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard

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Post by raghava »

wpietri wrote: post #13

Very interesting! I've been looking for cheap wall-mountable touchscreens so I can have permanent, single-purpose interfaces and displays. For example, I have a KanbanFlow board to track my work, and I use an old tablet mounted to the wall next to my standing desk. I was thinking I'd get cheap Android tablets and root them, but I'd much rather support something where it's built for user control from the beginning.

Why not a Raspi Zero W with a USB ready monitor? The price point is almost similar and the build will be more modular. Or even just a buncha USB/HDMI based screencasting devices, synced to a cast-server which casts content based on recipient nodes?

Had seen a simple conf room notification system on those lines (which just mentioned who has blocked the room, when is the next blocked meeting by whom, calendar etc)

Re: Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard

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Post by Sir_Substance »

rossvor wrote: post #65
Sir_Substance wrote: post #58

I've been waiting for this to come out. Unfortunately, I tried to buy the pinetime late last year and discovered they only sell through paypal and you need an account to make the payment, you can't just pay by credit card. If there's anyone from pine watching: Please, add a normal credit card option. Paypal is a horrid company. I'm prepared to pay directly with a credit card via them, but I _will not_ make an account…

You don't need a paypal account to pay by credit card via paypal. Select "Pay by Debit or Credit Card" when it asks you to login to paypal.

That option is enabled or disabled by the user.

Pine has (still) not enabled it:

https://i.imgur.com/Y1OhCkX.png

In case anyone from pine is watching, here's the doc on how to do it:

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/integration/direct/payment...

It's like....5 clicks.

Re: Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard

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Post by imtringued »

megous wrote: post #148
ProZsolt wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Till you want to run some electron apps

Depends on the apps. Electron itself is ~80-100MiB

That's part of the problem. Even a hyper optimized Electron app will consume a non trivial amount of RAM. The other factor is that Electron is accessible to people who don't have experience with developing desktop applications. They make some mistakes with a big impact on the user experience. Additionally, the NPM community isn't exactly known for producing few large profile high quality libraries. Instead you just cobble something together by using thousands of small packages with little to no accountability.

Re: Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard

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Post by shifto »

bigiain wrote: post #146
slantyyz wrote: post #2

I noticed this has a removable battery, which makes this very interesting to me. What I'd like to know is if it will work with the battery compartment empty on AC power only. I'd like to have "smart" displays wall mounted around the house with dashboards on them. I've read about so many instances where people used wall mounted iPads and Android tablets where the batteries would swell after a period of use.

> I've read about so many instances where people used wall mounted iPads and Android tablets where the batteries would swell after a period of use. Made that mistake myself. I now have a wall mounted iPad with the charger plugged into a timer powerpoint that only switches on for 1hr a day. Been running like that for 5+ years now without issue. (I'd planned for that to just be a proof of concept, and to use a wifi pow…

I've had an iPad 2 on my wall for home automation which I just removed because we are moving. Now I'm afraid to open it and see what the battery did after all those years on a charger.
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