Re: What's the best Handheld gnu/linux machine for 2016?
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In order to be available at any moment, a smartphone has to be small enough to comfortably fit in a pocket, pretty enough to not embarrass the user in public situations, and constantly spend power waiting for incoming calls. Modern devices have sacrificed flexibility and user freedom in order to achieve these goals. And they've succeeded. So really, the key to getting back to portable computing is to just completely ignore the entire cellphone industry. Get a phone for phone calls, and get something else entirely for portable computing. A tablet, a hacked-together Raspberry Pi device, a Pyra, really anything that avoids the insanity of the cellphone industry... Anyway, that's my opinion. :) |
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I'm not intending to defend Android here but often in these discussions the problem seems to be ideological when pragmatically, Android usually isn't as restrictive as people think. And yes I'd love to see a "proper" Unix based pocket computer that works more like a desktop and less like an iPhone but so far that seems to be a very distant prospect. |
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I would imagine now that we don't have nokia breathing down our collars...
and ... rather soon... if we do not do something... (although I do have high hopes for spin-off breakthroughs from freemantle ) then the problem will be on our doorstep... (Our aging fleet of devices will eventually fail (the n900's seem more delicate than my n8x0's...so it is anyone's guess the n8x0's lifespan...but increasingly n900's are having failing I have noted in tmo posts here...more and more there are posts of people cannibalizing n900's for their parts...sooner or later people...) and at best we will have maemo in scratchbox to look at..as more and more members leave for inferior devices that simply work... a sad ...increasingly quiet end to us ...) I don't ever want to see the above possible future unfold. King was pretty much the only set of eyes puzzling over the issue. More eyes may help. Chrooting maemo onto debian pc (convertible tablet even...I know Martinez work plays nicely with them..touch is nice ...but ..) maybe? hm... I do believe we need to create... at the barest minimum... maemo-esque window managers for linux pc. (since pretty much everything maemo program-wise that we have... IS after all...pretty much debian...) so we have at the least...a temporary "home"... a refuge... In the words of the great architect... https://youtu.be/XhRZ3JkTYd4 |
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There will be a couple of classic Pandora's available in the dragonbox shop soon - not now unfortunately. if you are seriously interested and they are available in the shop you need to be fast.. they sell like hotcakes. https://www.dragonbox.de/en/27-consoles- |
Re: What's the best Handheld gnu/linux machine for 2016?
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It doesn't matter that we've now got devices as small or smaller than cell phones (such as the RPi) that are, in essence, just tiny desktop computers that run full-blown desktop operating systems. No, we've all been brainwashed that a smartphone can't do general-purpose computing, it's too tiny and too weak for that. Stick with the apps provided to you in the walled-garden ecosystem, and don't even try to do anything on your own without the supervision of your manufacturer or cell-service provider... |
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