I spend a LOT of time sharpening my axe and can't imagine why anyone would choose to use an unsharpenable hatchet with a stubby handle.
Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
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Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
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You could arrange it like that, sure. Webkit ships Linux builds, there are DEs that will give you a miserable but usable experience on those specs. If you really want to condemn yourself to a fate Apple doesn't support, there's no technical reason you couldn't. Replacing the same functionality was never an inherent part of the deal though. There will never be Find My Linux or the Linux Store . The overall idea is tha…
So your alternative to mean old Apple not allowing you to run Linux is to have a shitty experience running Linux on hardware that wouldn’t meet the needs of a modern consumer ?
Maybe. Apple doesn't let you put third-party OSes on iPhones or iPads, it's unclear what would happen if they did.
It would probably start with something niche like a barebones Linux port, but then it might turn into an Asahi-style project that does give the user a perfectly normal user experience. Maybe people start shipping CalyxOS-style hardened iOS distributions for people who want to further neuter Apple's control over their system. Or maybe people reverse-engineer a Vulkan driver onto the hardware and use iPads as low-power ASICs. The sky is really the limit, here.
Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
#483Next article: Can you live in a van?
Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
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People are also using the iPad for running audio programs. There’s a ton, and they work together by routing audio from one app to another (so you don’t need a VST / AU host). Then there’s all the people running ProCreate or something similar. The horsepower is getting used.
Yep. There's a lot of guitar player youtubers who use iPads for amp modeling and effects. Seems to work pretty well.
I think there's a sentiment that "it can't do coding therefore it has zero use" in this thread.
I'm a software engineer and I daily drive a 12.9in iPad pro at home...because I don't code at home (and have a work M1 for that). I originally bought the 12.9 so I could read sheet and use it as an all in one piano learning companion.
It was great for that! I did give up on Piano unfortunately and now i mainly use it as a very expensive content consumption device - which actually is still great vs lugging a 15in "work" laptop when I travel just so I can watch netflix.
Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
#485Boggles the mind why people still fall for the iPad Pro as a serious work machine beyond writing meme. The fact that Final Cut launched on it recently and while its exporting you have to sit there leaving the app open you can't go do something else is the punchline of the decade for the lie that this is a serious machine. This is before we get into the comical evolution from "You just need the touchscreen" to "Actual…
Touchscreen = consumption. Physical keyboard = production.
My stereotypical, effective perspective of digital productivity.
right now I'm on a touchscreen device fighting that sorry excuse for a keyboard to type; I'm in consumption mode. Not fooling myself.
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You don't have to sit there and wait! You can go grab a coffee or have a smoke!
Or buy another one so you can work on one and wait for the other. Or you could spend that time shopping for an even better device, even maybe from another manufacturer.
No I like the idea of multiple ipads to multitask. It's like a sort microservice for doing computer stuff and you get the security benefits of airgapped processes!
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I'm somewhat convinced that Apple wants to remove the notion of a Unix filesystem (there are files and directories of files/directories and they have owners/permissions/etc) from their users' understanding of how to use a computer. Both out of ideological purity ("what is a computer?") and so that their users can't use a different device that has an entirely different mental model for interaction. I already see this…
Yes, this is part of the genius strategy that most people don't see. There is an entire generation of people growing up where iPhones and iPads are the computer. Many of them also don't even know that there is a difference between a mobile device and an iPhone. Android is this weird sort of alternative that nobody uses, and Windows is this "PC" thing which they've never used but they hear that some people use for gam…
Android is only used by 80% of the rest of the world, but who's counting anyway.
Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
#488Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep. There's a lot of guitar player youtubers who use iPads for amp modeling and effects. Seems to work pretty well.
I think there's a sentiment that "it can't do coding therefore it has zero use" in this thread. I'm a software engineer and I daily drive a 12.9in iPad pro at home...because I don't code at home (and have a work M1 for that). I originally bought the 12.9 so I could read sheet and use it as an all in one piano learning companion. It was great for that! I did give up on Piano unfortunately and now i mainly use it as a…
It is similar to the one that only UNIX folks are developers.
Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
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> I think it ended up being a little dramatic, but I agree that the iPad being as shackled as its been has been a net negative for computing. ...well the war on general purpose computing is on, so, unfortunately, the iOS/Android model is "the future". It won't be long until macOS and Windows are just as shackled. Things are definitely moving in that direction right now.
The moment macOS is shackled any more, I'll move to Linux. And I suspect I'm not alone in this, and that Apple knows.
I keep reading that every time Microsoft pushes something some folks don't like, yet Year of Linux Desktop has become a meme.
Re: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
#490Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think there's a sentiment that "it can't do coding therefore it has zero use" in this thread. I'm a software engineer and I daily drive a 12.9in iPad pro at home...because I don't code at home (and have a work M1 for that). I originally bought the 12.9 so I could read sheet and use it as an all in one piano learning companion. It was great for that! I did give up on Piano unfortunately and now i mainly use it as a…
It is similar to the one that only UNIX folks are developers.
Also - people assume everyone on here is a developer of some sort.