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> Blink shell… expensive… build yourself It would be good if people would be neutral on buying not buying of open source software instead of blatantly pushing for not paying anything.
> It is quite pricey if you purchase it from the store
and stopped reading. A one-time payment of $19.99 for an app you use all day every day is not 'quite pricey'.
Who is the iPad Pro catering to exactly? I've struggled to figure this out.
In my case, someone who needed extra screen real estate when travelling with my MacBook Pro M1 16”. I set the iPad up on a stand, open sidecar and voila! I have (almost) doubled my screen/work area.
> Blink shell… expensive… build yourself It would be good if people would be neutral on buying not buying of open source software instead of blatantly pushing for not paying anything.
I am more likely to buy it because the authors see building as an acceptable choice to acquire their software, and I believe choice is a core component of open source.
It seems like these “main computer” solutions always depend on ssh-ing into some other machine with a proper command line and disk access. It seems like that defeats the point though, because the advantage of a tablet is mobility, but that also brings along less reliable network connectivity to those remote servers. Really wish we could just install macOS…
You're right, that ends up being the main workflow. Though instead of connecting to a remote VM, I've found it better to carry with me a small Linux device running an SSH server. This can even be a Raspberry Pi. As long as it has a NIC, with a USB-C adapter hooked to the iPad you can just use an Ethernet cable, and have an entirely local setup. It defeats the purpose of carrying two devices around, but I find the iPa…
A buddy of mine has a Pi velcro'd to the back of his iPad Pro and just ssh's in to/from the USB-C network ports. It's honestly pretty elegant, as long as you never look at the back of the iPad :p
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You're right, that ends up being the main workflow. Though instead of connecting to a remote VM, I've found it better to carry with me a small Linux device running an SSH server. This can even be a Raspberry Pi. As long as it has a NIC, with a USB-C adapter hooked to the iPad you can just use an Ethernet cable, and have an entirely local setup. It defeats the purpose of carrying two devices around, but I find the iPa…
You don't even need the ethernet cable. A single USB-C cable (assuming your Pi has a port) is sufficient. A buddy of mine has a Pi velcro'd to the back of his iPad Pro and just ssh's in to/from the USB-C network ports. It's honestly pretty elegant, as long as you never look at the back of the iPad :p
Who is the iPad Pro catering to exactly? I've struggled to figure this out.
I once idealistically believed that tablets were the PC of the future. The iPad pro is definitely within the top 5 most disappointing hardware purchases I've made. Terrible UX. Trying to be both a laptop and a tablet has made it bad at being both of those things.
I feel like the main reason that the experience is so bad is because nobody is working to unify a touch OS experience and a desktop OS experience. My perception as a user is that the iPad OS and macOS teams are completely siloed. There are aspects of iPad OS that are becoming reminiscent of desktop counterparts but they always seem half baked. The file management experience on iPad in particular drove me up the wall…
I didn’t want to take my work MPB 16 back home. So I access Jupyter lab from iPad Air now. The slightly annoying thing is the Logitech keyboard that doesn’t have ESC button. Otherwise, it’s fine as a thin client for a remote server.