I still dislike too many architectural decisions of the steam deck… once they replace KDE and they get that D3D12 Mesa backend wired up then I’ll check back in
they did replace pulseaudio so that’s something
That’s what I mean by the Linux on the desktop analogy though. Thin clients like terminals or remote desktop is where the puck was 10 years ago, having caught up with that doesn’t make it competitive. Nowadays Visual Studio Code’s semi-thin model is a much nicer remote dev setup.
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Maybe it’s all about whether you want to mess with local or remote processes. I hardly ever use a computer as a terminal if I can avoid it (coincidentally, I haven’t been happy with laptops in 8 years).
I even had to re-enter the world of modern phones last December when the screen replacement for my 6-year-old Lumia had a funky digitizer. Yeah, I finally have a modern Android phone (sorry BenRen). In a month I found I’d downloaded 5 programs you that wouldn’t pass Play Store policies and it was for stuff like file system access, persistent services, network file transfer, reskinning. Even for a computer I barely use, I really really need to be able to run programs.
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that’s a good point, VSCode is out of control good, and whatever the Panic iOS competitor du jour is never seems credible in comparison
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I know I’m the one who thinks streaming games are fine but I think this paragraph represents such a catastrophic anti-Apple lapse in judgment that I’m not sure how to engage. there’s ways to do all that stuff without determinedly treating every computer of every size like it runs Windows XP!
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look I don’t like it, either
I just sat on the side for years watching as Android continue to set fire to its house but when I had to jump,
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ok but talk to me more about why you need to be able to access systemd directly on your phone from your phone
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iOS phones and tablets are fantastic at a handful of creative tasks but only within media capture and production
I think shipping a full DAW with every Mac was one of the best things they ever did
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did you know my iPhone can automatically scrape magnet links out of a torrent listing and then paste them into the Web interface of qbitorrent running on my nas
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Is being a Windows/Android guy in the year 2022 akin to being a Sega guy twenty years ago
not at all, windows is almost unequivocally the best it’s ever been, or at least the best since like 1996 when there were for most purposes no other desktop operating systems. it does everything, and pretty well!
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no
Windows and Android have market-and-mind share
also I don’t have to sit down and explain to normal people that specific Windows and Android things are good
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On the other hand being called a Green-Text really stokes those old Console Wars fires inside of me and I have to squash down the urge to start extolling the virtues of Android
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I like doing imessage reactions in MMS threads because I know it’s so clunky on the other end
But please, tell me about messaging apps on android
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how come americans don’t use whatsapp or some other alternative
i mean i’m a all fb domains blocked on pihole person and concede you have to here
android definitely isn’t the absolute fucking horror it was 5-10 years ago tbh and some stuff like newpipe i really wish was on ios, feel like the ios advantage is now largely boring stuff - having a store to take it to, security updates for a decade, not being associated with google etc.
i predict at some point android will get Really Good and six months later goog will kill it and roll out fuchsia
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because for the most part they never had to think about SMS long distance or country codes
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imessage is also the heir of blackberry messenger as a monopolistic bundled service to lock people in
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well sure that too but like… there’s no alternative anyway so it’s barely worth the energy, and for that matter you’re not supposed to pay the retail cost of those, I never did, you get the weird postpaid ones from MVNOs or the t-mobile plan that you used to have to pick up a SIM card from walmart to get for $30/mo unlimited or w/e. I don’t think I ever paid more than half that for the better part of the past decade, even going back and forth from the US and Canada. the only face value $100 plans are supposed to be family plans, basically, they’re just marketed more exploitatively because of course they are.
biggest buried lede in the iPadOS announcements is DriverKit finally coming to iPad - finally we will be able to port nonsense like linux-minidisc to iPad
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