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Sure, that's true. Growing up without access to a proper computer still seems weird to me. How do we expect kids to build computing literacy?
Certainly I never developed any computer literacy growing up--and, indeed in college. And I worked in the computer industry most of my adult life.
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I hate USB-C for laptop charging ports, to fragile for regular use. However I build a few things recently and I love the simplicity. - External Touch Screen - only needs one cable, usbc, for picture, sound, touch, power! ... (DP mode you mentioned required) - As power source. My caravan computer (Dell wyse 5070) uses usbc as power source with a cheap DC slot adapter. My laptop charges in usb-c from 60w or more. - We…
What is a Roland p-1? All I could find was this https://proav.roland.com/global/products/p-1/
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It is decades of Arch toxicity, other distros not only Debian based will confirm it. Arch is an OK distro but their kernel is not faster then a Debian kernel, I run Arch for a whle, I compiled the kernel with the flags for my CPU, I build the required modules into the kernel so it loads a second faster, there was no systemd so I also optimized the boot services. I had a ton of free time. But then I did not had free t…
Debianers have to have an enemy to justify their existence to still use Debian. If not for Arch, they might have tried a good distro.
Can you read and comprehend at the same time ? I used Arch and Chakra and other distros. or you claim Arch and the distros are mentioned are BAD.
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The latest Z Fold6 can do DeX but its a bit hidden, not official.
The Fold4 switches to dex as soon as you connect a monitor. I wonder why they made it harder to use?
I meant the Z Flip 6. Not the fold. The folds have always had fully supported DeX.
The Flips did not have a DP-capable USB-C port until the Flip 5, and still did not support DeX due to thermals. But the Flip 6 has it with a developer option, but only the "new" DeX.
Sorry for the confusion on my side. I thought of the Flip as the OP mentioned the Motorola Razr which is positioned against that, not the Fold.
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Battery replacement can be done in specialized shops on almost any phone for a fair price. My bigger issue is usually that the phones get so heavily outdated that banking apps stop working. And it's based on pure luck if the modding community build something great for my phone so I at least could use it as server, cam, or whatever. Also the charging slots breaking / turning unreliable which most wouldn't repair on a…
Do they ever work as well? I fear it's not just about 3rd battery quality but the software driver side where calibration needs to redone for a new battery. If this is locked because of "security" or just inferior then oops, replacements never match first party.
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Not useful, it's dedicated. You missed my point.
Is that autocorrect? Because I have no idea what dedicated means here. It's obviously useful, that's how Square launched their card reader business.
I find it highly annoying that these rather powerful handheld smartphone computers don't have decent port access for use with instrumentation, etc. A huge range of features comes to mind from Geiger counters, oscilloscopes, sound level measurement, light intensity, etc , etc. The potential to expand the smartphone capability is enormous yet no manufacturer has tackled it. Why not? Why aren't there multiple USB ports?…
I would _love_ a smartphone with a GPIB connector. Something like https://www.starte-e.net/product/ieee-488-gpib-cn24pin-metal... /s
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Also, there is a small market for people who don't want a laptop. Or a Raspberry Pi. I bet a Pi with display would make a better if slightly larger. It is also strange to complain about multiple ports when can get a USB-C hub. It used to be they were all USB-C to USB-A but there are starting to USB-C only hubs.
"It is also strange to complain about multiple ports when can get a USB-C hub" First, a USB hub is bulky and frankly a damn nuisance to carry about, it needs to be integrated. Second, USB-C/OTG on many phones is implemented in a way that makes it essentially useless. For instance, USB-2 (which is on most phones) is too slow by miles; access to external devices via OTG is often set deliberately to time out after say 3…
There was some 10 years ago a project from Google to make the smartphone modular (Ara ?). It died in its infancy.
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> Portable headset-based displays like the Viture XR pro I'm really not familiar with the physics of this. But when using your glass, the image is put in a parallax between left and right eye to 'appear' at a distance. But does this mean that your eyes are focusing on a very nearby plane irrespective of where the image is perceived to be by your brain? As in would this strain your eyesight more?
So there are two different things to think about - there's the focus, which is what you think it is, and there's the 'vergence,' which I think is the fancy name for what you're calling parallax. Because the headset isn't trying to project a 3D image (unless you're in 3D mode), there's no parallax - all it's doing is projecting two flat screens at your eyeballs through a focusing lens. However, because the spacing bet…