I remember windows phones around Windows Mobile 5.x/ 6.x era:
the executable programs that run on the phone, if the exes were to be copied onto a windows PC, the exes ran the same like native PC exes. I do not know if that is still the case with windows mobile.
PureOS is convergent
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I mean, if someone said, "I've successfully ported Vim to Android!", my first thought would be, "Why in god's name would I want to run vim on my phone?"* Vim is available on android through termux. I've used it to write a few things. I actually used it to wrote an app to access my city's transit api because I wasn't a fan of the available ones. With the right keyboard installed it's actually not too bad. Best progra…
At that point why not pull out a laptop? Are you programming on a tablet?
No, my phone. I'll admit, the idea of writing anything more than a couple hundred lines is ridiculous. But, for a small script to pull some data from a website it's not too bad.
My main reasoning was, I use the bus when i'm out and about, I don't carry a laptop with me most of the time, I was unhappy with the way the bus times were displayed in the available apps, so I wrote it on my phone at work when I had a bit of time.
Most of the other things were just playing around with the limited access to the android api termux gives you. I actually prefer SL4A for android scripting, but it's been dead for years. It granted access to more of androids api than termux does though.
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#173I keep looking at their products (laptop & phone) and can't pull the trigger based on what seems like a lack of apps/UX. I really want have better privacy and support companies with that in their DNA. I almost purchased a black-phone before. I really think sandboxing built-in emulator for android apps has to occur for the phone to get traction. I think i'm their ideal consumer and still can't see the value yet. I'm a…
> I really think sandboxing built-in emulator for android apps has to occur for the phone to get traction > I think i'm their ideal consumer and still can't see the value yet I don't think you are their ideal consumer. They're appealing to the Stallmans, the people who aren't looking to replace their smartphone, but for which this would be one of their first. I have heard someone say about the Pinephone (similar proj…
> I don't think you are their ideal consumer. They're appealing to the Stallmans, the people who aren't looking to replace their smartphone, but for which this would be one of their first.
That's certainly part of it, however I do have an iPhone currently, (seems like a better, if less than ideal option than Android), however am not happy about the locked down nature of iOS. Free software smartphones are necessary simply because they're the frontier the PC was in the 80s.
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#174I'm really excited about the software side of Purism but I can't justify buying a 2 year old processor on the laptop at a price still more expensive than alternatives, especially since that refresh happened in the last few months.
The CPU choice is restricted by their ability to disable Intel ME. If you don't care about that, you probably don't care about what Purism is trying to achieve, so it's not for you.
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#175What's the state of running linux natively on Mac these days?
The 2015 MBP runs amazingly well out of the box. The Touchbar generation not so much, but it's getting better.
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#176To be frank, I don’t see the benefit of convergence. Admittedly, one code base is cool and convenient, sure but if one considers the additional cost of design, maintenance and the loss of the optimal user experience, I think convergence is rather a minus. A small touch screen requires a totally different convention of user interactions as a big screen with only mouse and keyboard support. It’s simply the reality. Ins…
> I don’t see the benefit of convergence.
To me the benefit is not to have a single application that works both with a touch screen and a mouse/keyboard. Rather, the benefit is to have a single filesystem that I can access with both touch screen apps and mouse/keyboard apps. This way I could for example create a grocery with a mouse/keyboard, then take my phone and check items off with a touchscreen. There are lots of things we rely on the cloud for that would be better served by a "convergent" environment imo.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they released a new one with Linux pre-installed. I might look into that if I can sell my current one.
Oooh very cool. I wish Apple still had Target Display Mode as a feature on their devices, it'd be great to toss this in a bag as an "I might need a real computer" concession and be able to use my iPad as an external display for it.
fwiw, Target Display Mode is still a feature on new iMacs, they never killed it per se. Won't help you on your iPad, though.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
"but I feel incredibly limited in what I can actually do with my iPhone" That's because they're intended to work as media consumption devices rather than productivity ones. If someone feels productive on a phone, he or she has very likely adapted herself to the device than the other way around. I had to struggle yesterday with my GF new phone because her lawyer sent her a paper in .doc format using Whatsapp (no kiddi…
> apparently that practice is widespread among non IT professionals, and I find it rather dangerous. The privacy implications should raise some big alerts. Is using an end -to-end encrypted service worrying? I assume whatsapp encrypts media as well as messages (I hope so). If you sent that document to any kind of corporate email account (many people use work accounts for non work stuff) it's liable to be opened by yo…
I think he meant the same kind of attacks that happened in '90's where you got word docs on your computer filled with malicious macros and now this is all over again as the same attack vector due to widespread of Office360 for mobile.
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#179My hats off to purism for putting in the effort to free people from stinking thinking. Proprietary walled garden surveillance capitalism is not smart choice for people, your kids will be owned and controlled by the goolag. Stop deferring choices to terms and agreements for momentary fomo. If you live without GYTFA Gee-Your-Twit-Face-Azhole you can start to make the world a better place. Unless your paycheque depends on them keep prostituting your life and feeling useless.
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#180The article started off with a wild assertion, that "Purism is beating the duopoly to that dream". A duopoly on computing? Windows is still by far the biggest desktop computing platform. They may have messed up mobile, but that doesn't make them irrelevant.