That's interesting! Must be why some (people or recipes) call for sweetening the sauce with carrot or even sugar, but I would hate to do that. Not only that I don't like sweet much ; there's just no need, as there isn't much anything acidic in the tomatoes.
I did try some canned "tomato sauce" that was sweetened, contained only tomato, carrot and some starch or syrup (!), and was the lowest end I've ever seen. *That* one was worth spitting out. Small jars with bolognese, napolitan, provençal sauce are very common in supermarkets, are popular and a lot better than the absolute worst I was talking of.. but still worse than cooking with low quality ingredients. I'm sort of craving soup right now..:)
It sounds decent if and only if the OS isn't abandonware on day one, like rebranded phones tend to be. Especially bad are e.g. carrier branded Huawei : seems like you can find some sort of information on the web for a real Huawei phone but nothing at all for a carrier rebrand. I sort of wished someone made an abandonware smartphone the way they deserve to be : 2G calls/text only, no wifi, not even data on 2G, no web browser out of the box. An abandonware smartphone deserves about the same level of network access a Windows XP machine does, i.e. none at all.
Terrible tomatoes including canned tomatoes can be thrown into the frying pan so that you make your own tomato sauce, at least. I wonder how many people never even tasted that.
Wow, this shows how evil the "zoning" really is. Also, it is perfectly fine if the house's side walls touch with other houses's side wall, and there's a sidewalk next to the front door instead of a front yard. You still can have a backyard.. I even suspect that in this arrangement, much everyone grown vegetables in that backyard, they stopped doing it post WW2.
Perhaps there are studies showing animal fats are good for you, because animal fats are good for you? (or saturated fats) See e.g. the French paradox, which is no paradox because all the science was wrong anyway. BTW, the sugar industry advertises now and then and we can thank it for fraud and obesity/diabetes pandemic.
Yes mayo has eggs in it, like egg sandwich has eggs in it. I don't know how you can name egg-less mayo, and make the name stick across a few continents. I don't want to not eat eggs to please you, because I don't think I will find that many protein and fats in a carrot or something, because it is not meat (I can agree it sort of technically is meat, but not the same) and it also passes the cheap test and unadvertised test. There is a very strong correlation between cheap and environmentally friendly. Duck and goose fat : that's great hahaha. Why throw the best part away? Pure animal fat.
Now, cheese is where I'm most "sinful". Buy a cheese pizza, and add more cheese before heating it up! Where I live cheese is like wine, it's mostly branded from where it comes from, ditto with cheese that comes from the next country over, e.g. you may go in the worst supermarket and if you find "mozzarella" or "parmersan" there, then it better be mozzarella or parmesan else lawsuits will be coming in fast. Of course, if you're going to eat dairy - cheese or cream, the more fat in it the better. I have powdered milk for a few drinks (now sugar free since I got some sugar free powdered chocolate) but otherwise milk is for kids.
Eat a shit ton of vegetable and stuff? Surely the right idea but as people tend to increasingly live alone and impoverished, that's not very easy. Imperishable, cheap stuff is easier to afford (cheese and eggs last for a while). Canned vegetable mix can help some. Ditto with organic. I'd like to see organic vegetable stuff that is industrial, processed, low quality and cheap, and sold along the "normal" stuff not in separate aisles or stores please:). It has to be for everyone, not just for middle class snots who save the world by lecturing people and being a better little consumer soldier than you.
One funny thing about binaural, which as of yet still is mostly a curiosity. It's hard to get done, especially if you're generating it on the fly like in a video game (or perhaps, attempting to convert a 5.1 or 7.1 soundtrack). Well, you likely can do wonders, but in the on-line discussion I followed, came an account on how you really want to go visit some professional, like you're going to an optometrist's office but instead of calibrating lenses for your eyes, you will get binaural-related data calibrated to YOUR head and ears. It ought to be seen that obviously, size and shape of external ear vary wildly. (this brings highly discriminating biometrics data into the system by the way). Admittedly, in a video game ear drums DO move around if only by wasd + mouselook. Or you might make up a use case where your position is static, but with head tracking for turning your head around.
Ha. I like that you worded it that way! I'm feeling like I'm a "customer" asking you to make me a web site for my company, you know, like ebay, with shopping, payment, inventory, suggestions and stuff. May you do it for say, $50 on a week-end? You're good around computers, so it should be really easy for you.
Well, if there are 100,000 customers for the phone, and the "support" isn't something you can get someone on the phone for, just software updates coming mostly from upstream and a few web pages.. I guess I'm still being fairly obscene but there's that saying about open source software companies selling nothing but support. Let's say it's a $99 phone (because really, I want bad spec hardware like a 5" 480p screen, because it's easier to afford. As a bonus it's less power hungry). But you can subscribe for support tiers, get some low end cloud/e-mail that is double-encrypted, or maybe something else, I don't know what it is. Anyway, the hardware is unimportant (although perhaps I want some crap like LTE, OTG), it's all about the software.
Disclaimer : this is worth the virtual paper it's printed on, yadda yadda.
That's a real problem, but not that hard to solve? Have a toggle switch in Settings to disable/enable the USB storage function. Now it's a drive only when you want it to (which is a good idea anyway if you're plugging into a random Windows PC for charging. the PC will likely try to copy autorun.inf malware and whatever garbage into your storage). Sub-settings allow to share internal flash, SD, both or none.
There still are issues, such as phone can't both perform tethering over USB, and act as USB storage. Not the end of the world though. You can just remove the SD card and put it in some reader on or around the PC : but the phone is losing music playback of what's on the SD all the same.
That's fucking horrible. Perhaps thinking that makes you feel smart as if you were Sun Tzu or were playing a game of Sid Meier's Civilization, but there are actual people living there. This sounds like ramblings of a jerky hand lunatic Hitler waiting it out in the bunker. What would you rather like (assuming in the US) : functioning education, health, Department of Transportation, EPA etc., DoJ, Police and so on, or three decades of protestant vs catholic war? While, far from leaving the rest out of trouble, the situation spills into Canada and Mexico with even a couple bombings in Brazil, and US Jews have to flee wherever they can.
#2 : even if carrier, OEM and crapware are out of the loop, support for the SoC vendor itself might be not all great. You might never be able to run Android n+1 just because of the SoC, even if the bar is not that high such as get linux kernel n+4 running, it has to do so with all built-in components ; the SoC vendor has low margins of its own and has moved on to the next chip. It's like that old printer or scanner that runs on Windows 98, 2000 and XP but not Vista/7 and up.
I might be asking too much, but I'd like to pay $50 for a phone worth $30, or $80 for a phone worth $50 and get 5-10 years of support.
Car analogy : it'd be like buying the cheapest car on the market yet be able to buy oil filters and tires for it, as well as more complicated spare parts. You don't need to buy a BMW Series 7 to be able to get parts for it or get the car fixed when something fails.
That TOSLink standard must be very wrong : it has enough transfer rate for very slightly above 1x CD speed - it was invented for 16bit 48KHz stereo as far I as know. Since then there's been eleven thousand encoding standards for surround, 5.1, ultra surround, 7.1 and tons of standards with "H", "X" or "S" in them. Because there's not enough bitrate for 8 channels of sound.
So, it's more akin to infrared serial ports or week-end projects made by amateurs. It does not have the about 20,000x bigger bandwith needed for such thing as 4K 60Hz display signal.
I expect desktops to keep them for a decade, considering desktops still come out with PS/2 , even if only standalone motherboards you can buy on their own.
I'll go one up further. I suspect the general populace doesn't know about the existence of USB-C at all. I mostly know about it from wasting time on slashdot and tech news sites, really. The rare normal person that knows about it perhaps knows it as a slightly different kind of USB plug on phones.
USB devices that you do carry in your pocket don't matter because they are typically inexpensive and easy to replace with new versions, most of which have USB-C.
Not too bad, although spending 8 to 15 euros is a pain for some people. Although, when USB-C will get more widespread, only 95% computers won't support it. 99% computers will support USB-A ; 1% computers will support USB-C but not USB-A. If you insist on carrying a USB-C drive, do so if you wish but don't complain if you can't plug it at target destination, it's up to you to carry a dongle, cable, or dual mode drive.
Thing is, a computer is a computer and there may be less or no ground breaking innovation left. Amiga was ground breaking, as in there wasn't anything like it before (lots of color, sound, fast graphics i.e. the first "multimedia" and cheap machine) Macintosh was ground breaking : could only be used in graphical high res with a GUI toolkit in ROM. First computer like that that was affordable. Nowadays all computers can do "multimedia", even crap buried in toys, gas pumps and cash registers, and they only can be used in graphical high res, unless they're stuff with a segment display or a couple blinking lights.
2007 iPhone was unlike anything before it, with a full web browser etc. and almost no physical buttons. Been a half decade since (almost) all web capable phones are like that. Capable $1000 and $2000 laptops, been there for about a decade. Cars : fundamentals like mpg, spare parts availability, and staying on the road are things that can't significantly be innovated over (high end electric car is about the first innovation for decades) If there's some oncoming innovation, like cheap laptops are able to do VR : it's nice, but most people likely will not use it. Moreover, the tech will be available to each and every PC computer vendor (three GPU vendors : Intel, AMD and nvidia sell to everybody who asks). But maybe Apple will suffer a bit, as VR stuff will be made for Windows, Android and big home consoles but few might bother supporting OS X or far that matter, linux.
They do : there's a new high end, single socket for Skylake-X (i7) and Skylake-W (Xeon, but the same). As opposed to supporting dual sockets or more. The Skylake-W will have 48 PCIe lanes. Thing is, it's for mid 2017, so this gonna be a long boring wait still unless Apple is first to the market launching with that CPU.
Before, I used to assume Apple would re-launch the Mac Pro with Broadwell-E, skipping the Haswell-E generation, but nothing came out.
Too bad about Firefox OS. It was really unremarkable, nothing flashy like super duper 3D games, multimedia cloud shit, voice command, and high tech fun appy apps. But wait, it checks all your requirements. Out of the box, it's like if you've first booted Windows 3.1. Nothing autostarts or is unwanted at all. In fact on first run, it doesn't want you to sign up to anything and when it presents you with e.g. initial choice of location settings, it defaults to off. Then, if you wanted Internet browsing, texts and calls, that's the things it didn't fail at.
It's a dead system. Could have made it to 5" phones with 1GB RAM on Firefox 2.1 or better (low end 5"), but those never came out.
Ubuntu phones might another bet to get a phone like that, but they're undead (phones retired, awaiting new phones with no roadmap) Else perhaps some clean, recent, supported Android (community ROM or something) where you delete everything google or don't install it in the first place. Install Firefox for Android + filtering extensions.
tl;dr it's the software. With phones it's like we're back to Windows 98 with multiple Internet Explorer toolbar, Bonzi Buddy, Real Player and friends installed. Also a minimum of 24 to 40 icons polluting the desktop and fifteen piece of nagware in the system tray.
Bicycle tires are funny over here. Moutain bikes and bikes associated to these (and BMX) use inches, such as 20", 24", 26". The rest use millimeters. Loudspeakers, (the raw part not the entire woody box), they seem to be either in inches or millimeters, go figure. Big boomers may be in inches. About everything else is metric.
Well, games like Quake (PC version), Call of Duty, Warcraft don't allow you to play split-screen four player with four gamepads. What I was thinking of, and I was maybe not explicit, is to build a single big ass PC so that four players, or 2-8 players may play on dumb terminals (cheap ass computers on ethernet with very high speed pixel streaming, one contemporary example but perhaps not the best would be the Chromecast series. Another is a random PC unfit for these games)
You'll need at least a $2.5K or so "professional" version of a graphics cards, at least 4-8 Windows Pro licenses or perhaps some Windows Server license plus special client licenses. Otherwise you CAN use the same tech to "stream your game live to the internet" or to throw the display to the TV wirelessly. Hopefully you can "stream", "cast", "use from a thin client" your phone and be allowed to see your desktop that way. I was thinking about using some crappy old PC, but if you can have keyb+mouse on a TV, and show your desktop-on-phone on the TV (with choice of wired or wireless) that'd be a good, perhaps really really good thing.
(incidentally, what I blather about with mutiplayer/multiuser is pretty irrelevant to the discussion, even not relevant at all. just some nerd fart. grandparent complained about Windows licensing and preinstallation on commercial computers, because this means you can't boot from USB. I'll add it also means you can't boot it from the network, or freely use it remotely, and then to really stretch things, what if you could just run many desktops at the same time. Amazingly, your granddady's Windows XP can. It's the "switch user" feature, although the display and keyb/mouse input only work for one desktop at a time)
RAM limit may be a bigger problem. If the phone has 6GB RAM and no swap, you aren't free to run absolutely anything. 32bit has a nice built-in 2GB limit, at least for a program that runs in a single process (or 3GB limit, but if I'm not mistaken that's optional and 32bit Windows defaulted to not allow it)
Also a decent reason to run 32bit Windows or Linux on PC with 1GB, 2GB or 3GB RAM.
The older I get, the more I mourn for the computing environment we *could* have if it wasn't 99% crippled by rent-seeking bean-counters maxing licensing revenue.
Like running unlimited users on Windows Home through Remote Desktop Services (formerly Terminal Server), this is what I always wanted. I believe they might allow to run your desktop-on-phone without any special dock using that tech, though : single user Remote Desktop is something they allowed way back then, more recently game streaming has been allowed, you're free to do streaming/thin client, only the licensing restrictions (from Microsoft but also Nvidia and AMD) disallow what would make it most useful, like four players running a multiplayer game from the same PC.
Plug your phone into a regular laptop or desktop, phone goes into USB networking mode (wifi 5GHz while the phone is charging on some charger is another option) ; desktop/laptop shows your phone's desktop, which is still useful for a few reasons like phone's desktop has your data, applications and accounts, or phone is more powerful/has features not on the old desktop (or even brand new 2GB/32GB laptop).
USB-A does 5 Gbps, 10 Gbps on very few connectors and pretty much no product I know of, or 480 Mbps (or 12 Mbps on old enough computers) USB-C does 10 Gbps, or maybe 5 Gbps, or 480 Mbps on some phones. So, more of the same. Sustained write speed of the drive will make it either slow or fast, or reliable and fast concurrent reads/writes if you run operating systems or VMs from it.
USB-C has more electrical power and features, homosexual connectors and can be used on phones, so it's great if needed but we're not trying to supply power from a flash drive to a desktop or laptop?
There's nothing inherently insecure about smartphones, and there's nothing inherently secure about mainframes, but you don't see smartphones with 30 years of support nor mainframes with 1 years of support. Car analogy : there's nothing insecure about a compact car, but if you can only buy ones made out of cardboard there's a problem.
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That's interesting! Must be why some (people or recipes) call for sweetening the sauce with carrot or even sugar, but I would hate to do that. Not only that I don't like sweet much ; there's just no need, as there isn't much anything acidic in the tomatoes.
I did try some canned "tomato sauce" that was sweetened, contained only tomato, carrot and some starch or syrup (!), and was the lowest end I've ever seen. *That* one was worth spitting out. Small jars with bolognese, napolitan, provençal sauce are very common in supermarkets, are popular and a lot better than the absolute worst I was talking of.. but still worse than cooking with low quality ingredients. :)
I'm sort of craving soup right now..
It sounds decent if and only if the OS isn't abandonware on day one, like rebranded phones tend to be. Especially bad are e.g. carrier branded Huawei : seems like you can find some sort of information on the web for a real Huawei phone but nothing at all for a carrier rebrand.
I sort of wished someone made an abandonware smartphone the way they deserve to be : 2G calls/text only, no wifi, not even data on 2G, no web browser out of the box. An abandonware smartphone deserves about the same level of network access a Windows XP machine does, i.e. none at all.
Terrible tomatoes including canned tomatoes can be thrown into the frying pan so that you make your own tomato sauce, at least. I wonder how many people never even tasted that.
Wow, this shows how evil the "zoning" really is.
Also, it is perfectly fine if the house's side walls touch with other houses's side wall, and there's a sidewalk next to the front door instead of a front yard. You still can have a backyard.. I even suspect that in this arrangement, much everyone grown vegetables in that backyard, they stopped doing it post WW2.
Perhaps there are studies showing animal fats are good for you, because animal fats are good for you? (or saturated fats)
See e.g. the French paradox, which is no paradox because all the science was wrong anyway. BTW, the sugar industry advertises now and then and we can thank it for fraud and obesity/diabetes pandemic.
Yes mayo has eggs in it, like egg sandwich has eggs in it. I don't know how you can name egg-less mayo, and make the name stick across a few continents.
I don't want to not eat eggs to please you, because I don't think I will find that many protein and fats in a carrot or something, because it is not meat (I can agree it sort of technically is meat, but not the same) and it also passes the cheap test and unadvertised test. There is a very strong correlation between cheap and environmentally friendly.
Duck and goose fat : that's great hahaha. Why throw the best part away? Pure animal fat.
Now, cheese is where I'm most "sinful". Buy a cheese pizza, and add more cheese before heating it up! Where I live cheese is like wine, it's mostly branded from where it comes from, ditto with cheese that comes from the next country over, e.g. you may go in the worst supermarket and if you find "mozzarella" or "parmersan" there, then it better be mozzarella or parmesan else lawsuits will be coming in fast.
Of course, if you're going to eat dairy - cheese or cream, the more fat in it the better. I have powdered milk for a few drinks (now sugar free since I got some sugar free powdered chocolate) but otherwise milk is for kids.
Eat a shit ton of vegetable and stuff? Surely the right idea but as people tend to increasingly live alone and impoverished, that's not very easy. :). It has to be for everyone, not just for middle class snots who save the world by lecturing people and being a better little consumer soldier than you.
Imperishable, cheap stuff is easier to afford (cheese and eggs last for a while). Canned vegetable mix can help some.
Ditto with organic. I'd like to see organic vegetable stuff that is industrial, processed, low quality and cheap, and sold along the "normal" stuff not in separate aisles or stores please
It's not that hard by software means. Misconfigure your ALSA or Pulseaudio, or try to install OSS to replace them.
One funny thing about binaural, which as of yet still is mostly a curiosity. It's hard to get done, especially if you're generating it on the fly like in a video game (or perhaps, attempting to convert a 5.1 or 7.1 soundtrack). Well, you likely can do wonders, but in the on-line discussion I followed, came an account on how you really want to go visit some professional, like you're going to an optometrist's office but instead of calibrating lenses for your eyes, you will get binaural-related data calibrated to YOUR head and ears. It ought to be seen that obviously, size and shape of external ear vary wildly. (this brings highly discriminating biometrics data into the system by the way).
Admittedly, in a video game ear drums DO move around if only by wasd + mouselook. Or you might make up a use case where your position is static, but with head tracking for turning your head around.
Ha. I like that you worded it that way! I'm feeling like I'm a "customer" asking you to make me a web site for my company, you know, like ebay, with shopping, payment, inventory, suggestions and stuff. May you do it for say, $50 on a week-end? You're good around computers, so it should be really easy for you.
Well, if there are 100,000 customers for the phone, and the "support" isn't something you can get someone on the phone for, just software updates coming mostly from upstream and a few web pages.. I guess I'm still being fairly obscene but there's that saying about open source software companies selling nothing but support. Let's say it's a $99 phone (because really, I want bad spec hardware like a 5" 480p screen, because it's easier to afford. As a bonus it's less power hungry). But you can subscribe for support tiers, get some low end cloud/e-mail that is double-encrypted, or maybe something else, I don't know what it is. Anyway, the hardware is unimportant (although perhaps I want some crap like LTE, OTG), it's all about the software.
Disclaimer : this is worth the virtual paper it's printed on, yadda yadda.
That's a real problem, but not that hard to solve? Have a toggle switch in Settings to disable/enable the USB storage function. Now it's a drive only when you want it to (which is a good idea anyway if you're plugging into a random Windows PC for charging. the PC will likely try to copy autorun.inf malware and whatever garbage into your storage). Sub-settings allow to share internal flash, SD, both or none.
There still are issues, such as phone can't both perform tethering over USB, and act as USB storage. Not the end of the world though. You can just remove the SD card and put it in some reader on or around the PC : but the phone is losing music playback of what's on the SD all the same.
That's fucking horrible. Perhaps thinking that makes you feel smart as if you were Sun Tzu or were playing a game of Sid Meier's Civilization, but there are actual people living there. This sounds like ramblings of a jerky hand lunatic Hitler waiting it out in the bunker.
What would you rather like (assuming in the US) : functioning education, health, Department of Transportation, EPA etc., DoJ, Police and so on, or three decades of protestant vs catholic war? While, far from leaving the rest out of trouble, the situation spills into Canada and Mexico with even a couple bombings in Brazil, and US Jews have to flee wherever they can.
If that was bitter sarcasm, let us know.
#2 : even if carrier, OEM and crapware are out of the loop, support for the SoC vendor itself might be not all great. You might never be able to run Android n+1 just because of the SoC, even if the bar is not that high such as get linux kernel n+4 running, it has to do so with all built-in components ; the SoC vendor has low margins of its own and has moved on to the next chip.
It's like that old printer or scanner that runs on Windows 98, 2000 and XP but not Vista/7 and up.
I might be asking too much, but I'd like to pay $50 for a phone worth $30, or $80 for a phone worth $50 and get 5-10 years of support.
Car analogy : it'd be like buying the cheapest car on the market yet be able to buy oil filters and tires for it, as well as more complicated spare parts. You don't need to buy a BMW Series 7 to be able to get parts for it or get the car fixed when something fails.
That TOSLink standard must be very wrong : it has enough transfer rate for very slightly above 1x CD speed - it was invented for 16bit 48KHz stereo as far I as know.
Since then there's been eleven thousand encoding standards for surround, 5.1, ultra surround, 7.1 and tons of standards with "H", "X" or "S" in them. Because there's not enough bitrate for 8 channels of sound.
So, it's more akin to infrared serial ports or week-end projects made by amateurs. It does not have the about 20,000x bigger bandwith needed for such thing as 4K 60Hz display signal.
I expect desktops to keep them for a decade, considering desktops still come out with PS/2 , even if only standalone motherboards you can buy on their own.
I'll go one up further. I suspect the general populace doesn't know about the existence of USB-C at all. I mostly know about it from wasting time on slashdot and tech news sites, really. The rare normal person that knows about it perhaps knows it as a slightly different kind of USB plug on phones.
USB devices that you do carry in your pocket don't matter because they are typically inexpensive and easy to replace with new versions, most of which have USB-C.
Not too bad, although spending 8 to 15 euros is a pain for some people. Although, when USB-C will get more widespread, only 95% computers won't support it. 99% computers will support USB-A ; 1% computers will support USB-C but not USB-A. If you insist on carrying a USB-C drive, do so if you wish but don't complain if you can't plug it at target destination, it's up to you to carry a dongle, cable, or dual mode drive.
Thing is, a computer is a computer and there may be less or no ground breaking innovation left.
Amiga was ground breaking, as in there wasn't anything like it before (lots of color, sound, fast graphics i.e. the first "multimedia" and cheap machine)
Macintosh was ground breaking : could only be used in graphical high res with a GUI toolkit in ROM. First computer like that that was affordable.
Nowadays all computers can do "multimedia", even crap buried in toys, gas pumps and cash registers, and they only can be used in graphical high res, unless they're stuff with a segment display or a couple blinking lights.
2007 iPhone was unlike anything before it, with a full web browser etc. and almost no physical buttons. Been a half decade since (almost) all web capable phones are like that.
Capable $1000 and $2000 laptops, been there for about a decade.
Cars : fundamentals like mpg, spare parts availability, and staying on the road are things that can't significantly be innovated over (high end electric car is about the first innovation for decades)
If there's some oncoming innovation, like cheap laptops are able to do VR : it's nice, but most people likely will not use it. Moreover, the tech will be available to each and every PC computer vendor (three GPU vendors : Intel, AMD and nvidia sell to everybody who asks). But maybe Apple will suffer a bit, as VR stuff will be made for Windows, Android and big home consoles but few might bother supporting OS X or far that matter, linux.
They do : there's a new high end, single socket for Skylake-X (i7) and Skylake-W (Xeon, but the same). As opposed to supporting dual sockets or more. The Skylake-W will have 48 PCIe lanes. Thing is, it's for mid 2017, so this gonna be a long boring wait still unless Apple is first to the market launching with that CPU.
Before, I used to assume Apple would re-launch the Mac Pro with Broadwell-E, skipping the Haswell-E generation, but nothing came out.
Too bad about Firefox OS. It was really unremarkable, nothing flashy like super duper 3D games, multimedia cloud shit, voice command, and high tech fun appy apps.
But wait, it checks all your requirements. Out of the box, it's like if you've first booted Windows 3.1. Nothing autostarts or is unwanted at all. In fact on first run, it doesn't want you to sign up to anything and when it presents you with e.g. initial choice of location settings, it defaults to off. Then, if you wanted Internet browsing, texts and calls, that's the things it didn't fail at.
It's a dead system. Could have made it to 5" phones with 1GB RAM on Firefox 2.1 or better (low end 5"), but those never came out.
Ubuntu phones might another bet to get a phone like that, but they're undead (phones retired, awaiting new phones with no roadmap)
Else perhaps some clean, recent, supported Android (community ROM or something) where you delete everything google or don't install it in the first place. Install Firefox for Android + filtering extensions.
tl;dr it's the software. With phones it's like we're back to Windows 98 with multiple Internet Explorer toolbar, Bonzi Buddy, Real Player and friends installed. Also a minimum of 24 to 40 icons polluting the desktop and fifteen piece of nagware in the system tray.
Bicycle tires are funny over here. Moutain bikes and bikes associated to these (and BMX) use inches, such as 20", 24", 26". The rest use millimeters.
Loudspeakers, (the raw part not the entire woody box), they seem to be either in inches or millimeters, go figure. Big boomers may be in inches.
About everything else is metric.
Well, games like Quake (PC version), Call of Duty, Warcraft don't allow you to play split-screen four player with four gamepads.
What I was thinking of, and I was maybe not explicit, is to build a single big ass PC so that four players, or 2-8 players may play on dumb terminals (cheap ass computers on ethernet with very high speed pixel streaming, one contemporary example but perhaps not the best would be the Chromecast series. Another is a random PC unfit for these games)
You'll need at least a $2.5K or so "professional" version of a graphics cards, at least 4-8 Windows Pro licenses or perhaps some Windows Server license plus special client licenses.
Otherwise you CAN use the same tech to "stream your game live to the internet" or to throw the display to the TV wirelessly. Hopefully you can "stream", "cast", "use from a thin client" your phone and be allowed to see your desktop that way. I was thinking about using some crappy old PC, but if you can have keyb+mouse on a TV, and show your desktop-on-phone on the TV (with choice of wired or wireless) that'd be a good, perhaps really really good thing.
(incidentally, what I blather about with mutiplayer/multiuser is pretty irrelevant to the discussion, even not relevant at all. just some nerd fart. grandparent complained about Windows licensing and preinstallation on commercial computers, because this means you can't boot from USB. I'll add it also means you can't boot it from the network, or freely use it remotely, and then to really stretch things, what if you could just run many desktops at the same time. Amazingly, your granddady's Windows XP can. It's the "switch user" feature, although the display and keyb/mouse input only work for one desktop at a time)
RAM limit may be a bigger problem. If the phone has 6GB RAM and no swap, you aren't free to run absolutely anything.
32bit has a nice built-in 2GB limit, at least for a program that runs in a single process (or 3GB limit, but if I'm not mistaken that's optional and 32bit Windows defaulted to not allow it)
Also a decent reason to run 32bit Windows or Linux on PC with 1GB, 2GB or 3GB RAM.
The older I get, the more I mourn for the computing environment we *could* have if it wasn't 99% crippled by rent-seeking bean-counters maxing licensing revenue.
Like running unlimited users on Windows Home through Remote Desktop Services (formerly Terminal Server), this is what I always wanted.
I believe they might allow to run your desktop-on-phone without any special dock using that tech, though : single user Remote Desktop is something they allowed way back then, more recently game streaming has been allowed, you're free to do streaming/thin client, only the licensing restrictions (from Microsoft but also Nvidia and AMD) disallow what would make it most useful, like four players running a multiplayer game from the same PC.
Plug your phone into a regular laptop or desktop, phone goes into USB networking mode (wifi 5GHz while the phone is charging on some charger is another option) ; desktop/laptop shows your phone's desktop, which is still useful for a few reasons like phone's desktop has your data, applications and accounts, or phone is more powerful/has features not on the old desktop (or even brand new 2GB/32GB laptop).
USB-A does 5 Gbps, 10 Gbps on very few connectors and pretty much no product I know of, or 480 Mbps (or 12 Mbps on old enough computers)
USB-C does 10 Gbps, or maybe 5 Gbps, or 480 Mbps on some phones. So, more of the same. Sustained write speed of the drive will make it either slow or fast, or reliable and fast concurrent reads/writes if you run operating systems or VMs from it.
USB-C has more electrical power and features, homosexual connectors and can be used on phones, so it's great if needed but we're not trying to supply power from a flash drive to a desktop or laptop?
There's nothing inherently insecure about smartphones, and there's nothing inherently secure about mainframes, but you don't see smartphones with 30 years of support nor mainframes with 1 years of support.
Car analogy : there's nothing insecure about a compact car, but if you can only buy ones made out of cardboard there's a problem.
Unless you subscribe to the SCOTUS "you know it when you see it standard" its pretty explicit.
The facebook lawyer told us we need some sort of warning, so if you feel offended by the following picture don't look at it. Thanks!
The older laptop might be serviced by changing the CPU's thermal paste, perhaps ordering a new keyboard if that's useful.