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Giving up the iPad-only travel dream

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Re: Giving up the iPad-only travel dream

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Post by gtani »

mvdtnz wrote: post #264
pavel_lishin wrote: post #154

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> You'd think depending on the person, they'd travel with EITHER their phone OR their iPad OR their laptop, depending on whether they are private people, non-technical "creatives" or IT/technical/dev folks, but instead, everybody appears to be travelling with ALL THREE devices instead I can't answer a call or text my family with my laptop while I'm on the go. I can't plug my macbook into a car to use maps or play mus…

Maybe it's an American thing but I don't think I know a single person who owns or uses an ipad, with the exception of rich parents who use them exclusively to distract children. I certainly don't notice a lot of ipad users in airports or trains.

Mine works great as edoc reader but the pencil doesn't have full mouse functionality and the mechanical switch BT keyboard i need to do non trivial inputs adds a lot of bulk.. so still has a lot of potential.

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Post by Dylan16807 »

Roark66 wrote: post #584
jll29 wrote: post #149

The key sentence here is: > This is the fundamental difference between the Mac (a platform that basically lets developers and users do anything they want) and the iPad (where if Apple doesn’t specifically allow it, it can’t be done). Apple (since Lisa/Mac, after Apple II, which had an open architecture) likes appliances and to control the user experience, so the iPad is "more Apple" than Macs are. Whenever I am waiti…

>At least - thanks to the EU - soon they can all share the same USB-C charger Good luck with that... I've a very nice dell laptop a client gave me to access their network. It uses USB-C (90W) for charging. Recently I had another dell laptop shipped to me by another client for the same purpose. This one too uses USB-C charger, but a 130W one. A 130W charger had a broken plug so I attempted to use the 90W charger to ch…

The law should make that dell situation illegal once it goes into effect for laptops.

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Post by Dylan16807 »

iraqmtpizza wrote: post #442
skydhash wrote: post #430

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I download the torrent file and use a service like put or seedr. There’s no need to have a torrent client on your devices.

and it doesn't bother you that you have to delegate your participation in a decentralized network? through which you can only do what they decide to allow

The delegation is also decentralized so I don't see the issue.

There's thousands of "they"s.

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Post by Dylan16807 »

tiffanyh wrote: post #585
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It's like having a truck that can haul lumber, and anything smaller, but is restricted to specifally only hauling groceries.

Food for thought … Why are people trying to use a tool it wasn’t designed for? Eg the iPad does not have a built in keyboard. Why are people trying to use it to write long form essays/books when it’s designed default keyboard is on display - and then they get upset at Apple.

People don't get upset about that, because you can write essays on it. People get upset about the artificial limitations.

And that's without acknowledging the keyboard they sell!

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Post by j45 »

WWLink wrote: post #265
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Netflix seems to provide an app for Windows Laptops to watch titles offline. Chromebooks here too. https://help.netflix.com/en/node/54816 MacOS is absent, but I'm sure it's not too far off using an Google Chromebook emulator with Google Play Store in UTM if it's a must.

the M1/M2 macs should be able to just run the iOS app. Not sure if it allows storing stuff. Or if netflix lets you run the ios app on a mac (probably not lol)

While the underlying silicon might share similarities I would love to get an idea from where you've seen the ability to arbritrarily run iOS apps on M1/M2.

I did consider an emulator in xcode, but that's not quite what I'm after.

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Post by j45 »

ytjohn wrote: post #224
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Screen Mirroring is possible, but it has to be a little creative. iPad is super handy but I'm not sure a laptop has turn by turn nav, maybe it could via an emulator.

Long before mobile smart phones, truckers were using apps like copilot gps on their offline laptop for just this. I used to have it on a laptop for install work I did. In fact, I continued using it in areas with no cell coverage. Another app I used was Microsoft Streets and Trips. In 2006, they added a GPS version that did turn by turn nav. That said, the point still stands. I did some searching, and Streets and Trip…

There are still more than a few great turn by turn navigation libraries that run on ruggedized windows tablets. There were two that escape my mind.

Quite often they work completely offline, and also cover more information related to topography and driving routes that may not be traditional roads on existing maps. For example, the path to a location in a farmer's field, etc.

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Post by JimDabell »

alphabettsy wrote: post #593
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> The iPad works as a second monitor for a Mac laptop. Great for creative/tech people. You need to be logged into the same Apple ID, which is a huge hassle for everybody who has a different Apple ID for personal and work use. There’s tonnes of Apple features that break because of this. Apple’s view is that there’s a 1:1 correspondence between Apple IDs and people, and everything they do is designed around that fact.…

You only need to use the same Apple ID for wired. I was using DuetDisplay wired for years.

> Both devices must be signed in with the same Apple ID using two-factor authentication.

https://support.apple.com/en-sg/HT210380

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Post by TheHappyOddish »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #372
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I can't speak for him, but I find m iPad incredibly useful. I sign and review documents quickly, tap out emails on the go, watch movies or TV shows, use it as a reference screen if I'm in a rack and need diagrams, manuals etc. Like most modern computing devices (laptops, phones, smart watches, etc) it has crossover functionality with some devices but not in all cases, and in some it is the superior device for varying…

But you can do all of those things very well on a laptop. Especially if you're trying to travel light, and you know you need a laptop, I don't understand why you'd pack the iPad as well.

I can, but just like I can make calls from my laptop, it's not the preferred form factor or operating system to do so.

The iPad is a great bridge between the phone and laptop. It's not for everyone, but it's not a huge extra effort or weight to travel with (slides into the laptop bag I'm taking anyway) and it fits my use case. If I was travelling and I forgot it, it also wouldn't be a huge deal and I would use my laptop.

It's also handy as a second monitor when coding (keep a terminal up on it) or to watch a show while sending emails or doing something else on the laptop. Again, not a big deal if I don't have it, but useful if I do.

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Post by iraqmtpizza »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #603
iraqmtpizza wrote: post #442

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and it doesn't bother you that you have to delegate your participation in a decentralized network? through which you can only do what they decide to allow

The delegation is also decentralized so I don't see the issue. There's thousands of "they"s.

you must love DPoS then lol

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Post by iraqmtpizza »

lanstin wrote: post #516
iraqmtpizza wrote: post #446

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I fail to see how a box's position on a digital whiteboard is considered more up for debate than a box on a real whiteboard. Have you ever used a real whiteboard in a collaborative environment? When you move it, you have to redraw all the lines to and from it. Also, what is your point?

The mechanism of using a general purpose computer is so engaging that people stop to argue about the color of the bike shed instead of attending to the conceptual,world where the problem they are trying to solve lies. People spend their mental energy optimizing trivial things instead of writing the great American novel of our century or creating an infrastructure to allow decentralized, non-advertising based products…

That has not been my experience. But a physical whiteboard doesn't get distributed to millions of people over potentially hundreds of years or more. If it were, then at that point you may as well take the time to get it right. You contribute to bikeshedding when you whine about how the position of the box doesn't matter. Let them put it wherever they want then if it doesn't matter.
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