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Re: Emacs on an iPad

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Post by microtonal »

cstross wrote: post #57
goosedragons wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only problem is Macs are missing everything good about the iPad. No touch screen, no pen input, always 2+ lbs. Apple doesn't need to pull a rabbit out of a hat they just need to stop artificially limiting what iPadOS can do. There's no reason the iPad can't run Emacs natively with a full stack of dev tools except Apple's rules. The $80 Fire Tablet I'm typing this on can (OK it's not exactly quick but $80...).

> stop artificially limiting what iPadOS can do Why would they do that when it would remove the incentive for their customers to buy one of each? Give the iPad range Mac features, and it'd cannibalize Macbook sales from the bottom up. Give the Macbook a touchscreen, 5G, and the ability to run iPadOS apps, and it'd cannibalize iPad Pro sales from the top down. Neither of these are in Apple's commercial best interests.

MacBooks can run iPad apps, it's just that most software vendors switch this option off in the App Store. But I am using a bunch of iPad apps on the Mac.

(E.g. search Eve Energy in the Mac App Store and the iPhone/iPad apps tab becomes visible.)

Re: Emacs on an iPad

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Post by codetrotter »

pomatic wrote: post #65
jbellis wrote: post #64

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Why does NoMachine work better over a VPN?

It does autodiscovery of all no-machine capable devices on the LAN

Does the autodiscovery for NoMachine work on Wireguard VPNs as well?

I use, and love, Wireguard, but I think out of the box Wireguard does not support multicast. And I expect that NoMachine also depends on multicast to do its autodisovery. Probably with mDNS and DNS-SD.

Upon googling now, it does seem like some people have successfully been able to get multicast working over Wireguard. For example:

> Hey! Just in case you (or anyone else browsing this) still needs this, i've got avahi working over my wireguard client-to-site connection. I can access my home LAN computers using hostname.local from any VPN-connected device.

> I think the missing piece was adding 224.0.0.251/32 and ff02::fb/128 (multicast addresses) to allowed ips.

from https://www.reddit.com/r/WireGuard/comments/g80bxf/cant_get_...

Likewise, there seem to be some additional useful information relating to mDNS / Avahi on this issue on GitHub, for various situations:

https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/262

And here is someone who got DLNA (which also uses multicast) working through site-to-site Wireguard VPN:

https://an0n-r0.medium.com/making-dlna-through-site-to-site-...

Re: Emacs on an iPad

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Post by cdelsolar »

watersb wrote: post #80

Termux on my $95 Kindle Fire is more useful than anything I’ve yet encountered on iPadOS simply because of the execrable keyboard options available on the iPad. There are great prices on wonderful M1 iPads right now, and I love my MacBook Air, so I got this year’s iPad Air. You must be joking. After hours of futility, I am forced to accept that Apple still has no API for adding Control Escape arrow keys to keyboard a…

Map esc to caps lock with your terminal emulator. That’s what I do.

Re: Emacs on an iPad

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Post by cdelsolar »

ako wrote: post #59
carlycue wrote: post #19

The M1 on the Mac unintentionally killed iPad as laptop replacement for a lot of people. Around 2015-2019, Macs were terrible. They overheated, theottled and had loud fans. At the same time, the iPad Pro was dead silent, lighter, faster and had better battery life. Today, the M1 MacBook Air gets all those goodies and you get a nice keyboard and a capable OS. The battery life is also twice as long as an iPad Pro. Appl…

Huh? I just purchased an iPad Air M1 as a laptop replacement. With stage manager supporting external displays as of iPadOS 16.2, an iPad really is just a laptop without a keyboard. Combine it with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse, hook it up to an external display, and it's hard to distinguish from any other desktop computer. Remove everything, and it's the optimal size to consume books and video on the couch. Combine…

What programs / hardware do you use for connecting it to your guitar?

Re: Emacs on an iPad

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Post by cdelsolar »

This is slightly embarrassing to admit but when I went on my honeymoon I brought my iPad along so that I wouldn’t code. Still, we had enough relaxation time that at some point I just set up a $5 digital ocean machine in Europe and I was able to code just fine with a cool eMacs split screen setup and an external iPad keyboard.

Re: Emacs on an iPad

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Post by zmk5 »

anta40 wrote: post #55
coutego wrote: post #48

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The reason Apple allows Vim and would not allow Emacs in the Store is very interesting to reflect about.

Why?

Two different licenses. They've had an issue with GPLv3 since it started to be the default license of most GNU coreutils and their other programs. That's why Bash was never updated for so long.

Re: Emacs on an iPad

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Post by throwaway413 »

cdelsolar wrote: post #83
watersb wrote: post #80

Termux on my $95 Kindle Fire is more useful than anything I’ve yet encountered on iPadOS simply because of the execrable keyboard options available on the iPad. There are great prices on wonderful M1 iPads right now, and I love my MacBook Air, so I got this year’s iPad Air. You must be joking. After hours of futility, I am forced to accept that Apple still has no API for adding Control Escape arrow keys to keyboard a…

Map esc to caps lock with your terminal emulator. That’s what I do.

+1. Blink does this great.

Re: Emacs on an iPad

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Post by twobitshifter »

fragmede wrote: post #47
narrator wrote: post #39

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Probably wouldn't be allowed because of the app store rule against apps with embedded languages.

That rule was softened, so there are a bunch of apps like Pyto, Pythonista, Python2IDE, Swift Playgrounds (doesn't quite count since it's by Apple) that let you run code on the device.

To add to that there’s also scriptable for JS

Re: Emacs on an iPad

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Post by bobleeswagger »

carlycue wrote: post #19

The M1 on the Mac unintentionally killed iPad as laptop replacement for a lot of people. Around 2015-2019, Macs were terrible. They overheated, theottled and had loud fans. At the same time, the iPad Pro was dead silent, lighter, faster and had better battery life. Today, the M1 MacBook Air gets all those goodies and you get a nice keyboard and a capable OS. The battery life is also twice as long as an iPad Pro. Appl…

> Around 2015-2019, Macs were terrible. They overheated, theottled and had loud fans. At the same time, the iPad Pro was dead silent, lighter, faster and had better battery life.

This is more of a PEBKAC problem than you realize, iPads are only "faster" because they do a better job of managing background tasks.

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