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No SIM card/4g/5g. Why is the state of telecom so bad on linux?
Im curious: why would this be a Linux issue?
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> Why can't we have nice replaceable battery packs, RAM, and m2 SSDs anymore? I mean, not even the Framework laptop has a replaceable battery pack? WHY? https://guides.frame.work/Guide/Battery+Replacement+Guide/85
I think they meant batteries you can swap without taking the machine apart, like old laptops had
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/30/23612467/framework-laptop...
As a long time iPad user I’m apprehensive. As others have noted, Linux based touch experiences have so far been lacking. That said, I love the thought of it. I’ve recently started using my iPad Pro as my daily driver (replacing a Mac Studio M1 Ultra no less) and haven’t looked back. The only gripe with iPadOS is it took me a while to get a smooth vscode setup for development - having that be easier out of the box wit…
Of course an Apple fanboy shows up with this comment. ChromeOS on a tablet is a perfectly fine experience, gesture navigation and all. (And, very important to me, runs a "real browser", not some limited mobile variant. And the full Linux CLI environment.)
Also, it’s not 2006 anymore, maybe stop calling people “fanboy” for preferring a different computer than you.
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Of course an Apple fanboy shows up with this comment. ChromeOS on a tablet is a perfectly fine experience, gesture navigation and all. (And, very important to me, runs a "real browser", not some limited mobile variant. And the full Linux CLI environment.)
iPadOS Safari is just as capable as desktop Safari. Why do you think otherwise? Also, it’s not 2006 anymore, maybe stop calling people “fanboy” for preferring a different computer than you.
And I absolutely will label anyone a fanboy if they barge into a Linux conversation going "Rah rah Apple best Linux sucks" without actually contributing anything insightful, useful, or specific. Please don't just repeat the age old "Apple did it best" line, we already understand you think so. To people actually interested in the topic, all it seems like is you wanted to mention Apple for the sake of mentioning Apple, and that's why I called you a fanboy.
RYF certification or no sale.
A bit ago I did a bit of an experiment with an old surface tablet, where I threw some linux distros at it to see what the experience was. I tried Ubuntu, Manjaro, and Fedora, and all were extremely janky to downright broken. On screen keyboard was completely broken with Wayland, with some apps like Firefox just not popping it open, to others ignoring input. X had trouble with screen rotation. Fedora wouldn't let me p…
I have a surface with Ubuntu and the Surface Kernel ( https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface ) , and it works really wonderfully. I will say, before installing the Surface Kernel, it was very janky.
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Been using wayland on Fedora for years and I don’t know what you’re talking about. Intel and AMD graphics here.
"Wayland" works fine, but as soon as you start mixing X11 and Wayland apps, it starts getting complicated due to different levels of functionality support for the two APIs. I started running into them pretty fast when I added a 4K monitor to my Ubuntu 22.04 system and enabled fractional scaling. All of my Wayland apps look fine, and all of my XWayland clients look awful, blurry and obviously scaled. Working one by on…
As you know, "native Wayland" means the app has been modified so that it can talk to the graphics hardware using the Wayland protocol.
Emacs is the hardest of my apps to persuade to talk Wayland protocol because Fedora's "emacs" package was compiled without the code that talks Wayland.
To persuade Chrome to talk Wayland protocol, I start it with specific command-line arguments, which used to cause bugs, but I haven't noticed any bugs for months.
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Notebook check says equivalent to a Core i5-8250U. That is not good in 2023. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Processor-N200-CPU-Bench...
It depends on what you're doing. My 4th low power i5 in my laptop and my i3 7100 in my main desktop are just fine for web browsing and development.
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Yeah, it’s really a shame. I have the original iPad and the hardware remains solid. If I could have an updated browser that could display modern websites without crashing, I would still use it.
Those machines have 256 MB of RAM. Is there any way to run a modern web browser in that?
I also recall that the final iOS version for that device (iOS 5.x or 5.1.1) left less memory for apps and I regretted agreeing to that upgrade.
I really wish I could install a minimal Linux and the best minimal browser available. That would at least be an improvement over the doorstop that I have.
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I haven't seen one of those in many many years! I wish HDMI in general would die and let displayport take it place.
> I wish HDMI in general would die and let displayport take it place. That would be an interesting thing for the video production industry. Basically the entire market is divided between "professional" equipment, in which SDI continues to dominate (with some movement towards SMPTE 2110 aka IP), and "amateur" equipment which is all HDMI - with very few products on the boundary and supporting both connectors. Consumer…
It seems like the last few standards started really robust and open because of the lack of compatibility, and then greed got involved and vendors just slipped in something to make it difficult cross connect. I assume so people would have to buy more of their stuff.
The focus on "realtime" makes the standards have worse quality in practice (bad handling of dropped or bad bits), and makes it much harder for the IP based standards to be routed (network congestion from high bitrate through uplinks). WebRTC by comparison can be quite nice.
I seriously don't have any hope for sanity in that market.