Much of the reading material I study is in portrait mode, so a widescreen laptop is just so thoroughly 20th century. I take an old laptop to university but once home, dock it to a KVM switch with a full size USB keyboard and mouse.
What I'd like in a new computer is a tablet with a pivotable stand.
This was the first link that came up in a search - pretty nifty, eh?
Such a setup would fit easily in my backpack for uni. including a mouse and a 104 keyboard.
It's a confusing summary based on an earlier submission.
Inquisitor already has a substantial emotional investment in a fancy keyboard and a battery powered monitor. Wants a machine to plug these into. Seems to want a 'real' computer rather than a phone.
Attachment is to the monitor, or would have solved this by trading it in for an Android tablet (Nexus 9/Pixel C) with a kickstand - there are projects on xda for porting arch or ubuntu to these things.
The majority of premium non-Apple/Samsung hardware has Qualcomm or Intel Inside (TM). China has a great opportunity to give the finger to western three letter agencies and support FOSS at the same time:
Mandate that mainland ARM licensees such as HiSilicon, Speadtrum, Allwinner and Rockchip all support Libre/Coreboot and mainline their drivers into the Linux kernel. Taiwanese Mediatek would quickly fall into line too.
Transparency would go a long way towards eliminating the perception that any Chinese hardware has party backdoors within.
LineageOS have released a patch to mask 'rootedness', so that rogue apps that go sniffing around will find that whether a user roots their phone is none of their damned beeswax.
One port to rule them all seems like a great initiative to throw away all those proprietary power bricks for laptops, monitors, scanners, TVs, NUCs that eschew bulky internal power supplies. My home office alone has 5 of them. (That's not to mention USB A cables to four separate output types in B, micro, mini, USB 3 micro B)
A question though, do those commonly found USB-A ports at coffee shops, university desks, at airports and on long distance trains, coaches and aeroplanes draw enough current to charge a laptop with a USB-A to C cable?
Isn't the complaint of vendors that they want to develop against a stable API, yet Linus and his minions keep changing things under the covers?
In Windows, a binary driver for Vista (2007) may or may not still work in Windows 10 (2017). Albeit one won't get a decade of technological advancement nor bug or security fixes.
Binary blobs might be everywhere, perhaps, under Fuchsia, yet still offer the ROM community the latest kernel on old devices.
In Quebec City, all the souvenir shops sell t-shirts emblazoned with tabarnak, calise etc. Who buys them? The French (from France) people I met seemed very amused that such innocuous terms from Catholic mass could be used as expletives.
it was said that they'd be building it w/ the Snapdragon and then emulating x86 in order to run native x86 binaries. Which would suck as far as battery life goes.
Since no Windows Phone apps are compiled exclusively for Intel, we're talking desktop programs here. In which case the user would typically not care about batteries in doing the Continuum thing - dock the phone to a power supply and external keyboard, mouse and hotel TV.
I worked under such a scheme a number of years ago. The recruitment agency that were hiring me for a role didn't do their own payroll, rather I was employed by a third party.
So small time recruiters probably pay these guys a fee for each contract. For workers that use their services directly, they can charge 0%, using the methods you describe.
Bear in mind taxation - where money collected at the beginning of a financial year might only be required to be submitted to the federal government 11 months later at the end of the year.
Sure but someone "jailbroke" the restrictions and had certain FOSS applications compiled for ARM in no time. One might complain there's no software for Win32/ARM but it's a chicken and egg scenario.
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What I'd like in a new computer is a tablet with a pivotable stand.
This was the first link that came up in a search - pretty nifty, eh? Such a setup would fit easily in my backpack for uni. including a mouse and a 104 keyboard.
Perhaps someday Intel will release a NUC with a Core m or Atom that runs fanless off USB-C
No bulky wall socket adapter!
It's a confusing summary based on an earlier submission.
Inquisitor already has a substantial emotional investment in a fancy keyboard and a battery powered monitor. Wants a machine to plug these into. Seems to want a 'real' computer rather than a phone.
Attachment is to the monitor, or would have solved this by trading it in for an Android tablet (Nexus 9/Pixel C) with a kickstand - there are projects on xda for porting arch or ubuntu to these things.
What a pity Apple discontinued OS X Leopard some years ago.
The majority of premium non-Apple/Samsung hardware has Qualcomm or Intel Inside (TM). China has a great opportunity to give the finger to western three letter agencies and support FOSS at the same time:
Mandate that mainland ARM licensees such as HiSilicon, Speadtrum, Allwinner and Rockchip all support Libre/Coreboot and mainline their drivers into the Linux kernel. Taiwanese Mediatek would quickly fall into line too.
Transparency would go a long way towards eliminating the perception that any Chinese hardware has party backdoors within.
I guess that's where Lenovo has a marketing advance over Huawei, ZTE and Xiaomi.
People might still buy Thinkpad and Motorola because they're all American or, rather, were.
LineageOS have released a patch to mask 'rootedness', so that rogue apps that go sniffing around will find that whether a user roots their phone is none of their damned beeswax.
Someone demonstrated a proof of concept that infection was possible in Wine.
Nexus devices fetch a reasonable price on ebay for community modders content to run Lineage OS (or equiv) on flagship hardware from 2 years ago.
Bye bye vendor support and 'stock' though.
Hey, that's Australia mate.
Google will dump Linux for Magenta as soon as ART and Google Play have been ported.
Expect 'Android 10' to be merely a skin on top of Fuchsia OS.
If you're Filipino, then yes.
Why should US English be the only consideration of a multinational company?
One port to rule them all seems like a great initiative to throw away all those proprietary power bricks for laptops, monitors, scanners, TVs, NUCs that eschew bulky internal power supplies. My home office alone has 5 of them. (That's not to mention USB A cables to four separate output types in B, micro, mini, USB 3 micro B)
A question though, do those commonly found USB-A ports at coffee shops, university desks, at airports and on long distance trains, coaches and aeroplanes draw enough current to charge a laptop with a USB-A to C cable?
When does Debian GNU/kMagenta come out? :-)
Are SIM-only plans that uncommon where you're from?
The rest of us run 'nightly' Nougat 7.1.2 builds of Lineage OS long after any vendor has abandoned the device. :)
Isn't the complaint of vendors that they want to develop against a stable API, yet Linus and his minions keep changing things under the covers?
In Windows, a binary driver for Vista (2007) may or may not still work in Windows 10 (2017). Albeit one won't get a decade of technological advancement nor bug or security fixes.
Binary blobs might be everywhere, perhaps, under Fuchsia, yet still offer the ROM community the latest kernel on old devices.
Yes, it is and they do.
In Quebec City, all the souvenir shops sell t-shirts emblazoned with tabarnak, calise etc. Who buys them? The French (from France) people I met seemed very amused that such innocuous terms from Catholic mass could be used as expletives.
2 actually - Malta and Ireland.
Indiegogo currently has a Cerulean Moment, if crowdfunding is your thing.
Since no Windows Phone apps are compiled exclusively for Intel, we're talking desktop programs here. In which case the user would typically not care about batteries in doing the Continuum thing - dock the phone to a power supply and external keyboard, mouse and hotel TV.
I worked under such a scheme a number of years ago. The recruitment agency that were hiring me for a role didn't do their own payroll, rather I was employed by a third party.
So small time recruiters probably pay these guys a fee for each contract. For workers that use their services directly, they can charge 0%, using the methods you describe.
Bear in mind taxation - where money collected at the beginning of a financial year might only be required to be submitted to the federal government 11 months later at the end of the year.
By 'regular' apps you mean x86.
Sure but someone "jailbroke" the restrictions and had certain FOSS applications compiled for ARM in no time. One might complain there's no software for Win32/ARM but it's a chicken and egg scenario.
Explorer in Windows 10 shows Office documents via the 'Preview pane'.
Windows 10 has a new linux subsystem, WSL.
Microsoft have a big event on Tuesday.
Mega lols if they release a new phone, along with a Surface Pro 5.