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Swift-Keylogger – Keylogger for MacOS written in Swift using HID

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walterbell wrote: post #53
sametmax wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No you can't. You just have a very limited way to use it. Even with the same screen size, give me a laptop os and i'll be more productive, with a factor of 10. It's not a figure of style. Phone os are terribly limited.

Depends on workflow and apps. iPad OS has made steady progress. If Apple allowed advanced users to manually override permissions, they would gain data to help the OS to evolve much faster. See landscape architects’ experience with human foot paths.

That's actually my point.

Re: Swift-Keylogger – Keylogger for MacOS written in Swift using HID

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sneak wrote: post #79
sametmax wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No you can't. You just have a very limited way to use it. Even with the same screen size, give me a laptop os and i'll be more productive, with a factor of 10. It's not a figure of style. Phone os are terribly limited.

You’re objectively wrong, and likely have significantly outdated understanding of what is possible on a “terribly limited” “phone os”.

So, without rooting or plugging your phone into a real computer you can:

Run a database ? (good luck running postgres with the OS killing processes all the time)

Run docker ?

Taking screen captures anywhere ? (this one actually got me yesterday while trying to screen capture netflix on my one plus 3)

Run f.lux ?

Run one virtual machine with windows on it ?

Capture 3G traffic with wireshark ?

Install a driver to read a USB key in another partition format not allowed by the OS ?

Bypass DRM ?

Resize partitions to get a dual boot ?

Run Wine ? (and they tried hard. Since fosdem 2014 at least)

Install patches as soon as a vulnerability is discovered, and not waiting on your phone seller to wake up ?

And if you just consider iOS, it's way, way worse. At least on android you have access to part of the filesystem.

The thing is, in computing, nothing works exactly right. And with my laptop, I have always a way to work around problems. With phones, I'm just stuck with it. Multitasking sucks. Automation is terrible. You may install a GNU env, but it has access to so little you can't script your way out of anything.

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