Yes, within the Chromebook way of looking at things, is that if you modify a program, you store your version somewhere, and that somewhere isn't your PC. You have a VPS or something to do the storage for things like that.
In addition, you need a domain because offline use doesn't work without Service Workers, which don't work without TLS, which doesn't work without a certificate, and the CA/Browser Forum's Baseline Requirements forbid certificate authorities to issue a certificate without a fully-qualified domain name. So would it be reasonable to consider the annual price of a domain and the annual price of a VPS as part of the total cost of ownership of running free software on a Chromebook?
The page on caniuse.com about srcset states that IE 11 does not support srcset, and Edge will display distorted images until the majority of Windows 10 users install the Creators Update. Is it considered acceptable to show distorted images to users of pre-Creators Edge and force users of IE 11 to gulp data transfer allowance while allowing Chrome, Firefox, and Safari to sip it?
On the whole, getting into a private tracker is based on your standing on other private trackers. There used to be trackers that offered invites through an interview process, mostly covering the tracker's rules and quality guidelines, until What shut down. Nowadays it appears to have become a Catch-22 for someone new to private trackers.
Would you prefer that it be $150 per month? Because if there were no ads, the channel owners would probably ask for that much on pain of declining to offer their copyrighted works at all.
How is this any different than your roommate entering the BIOS on a regular PC
For one thing, entering the BIOS typically involves F keys, which are less "inviting" than commonly used keys such as Space and Enter that are easily reachable from a touch typist's home position.
The Print Shop and Chromebook firmware are outliers. Most other systems that I have used do not make it that easy for a novice to accidentally wipe an entire drive.
Chromium and Google Chrome are identical except for a few proprietary components, mostly Adobe Flash Player and the video DRM stuff. Or are you claiming that one of those proprietary components caused Visual Studio Code's poor performance?
I'm familiar with media queries. But since when can CSS, such as the CSS conditioned by a media query, replace the value of the src attribute of an img element with a different URL? Or would each img element appear five times in the HTML, with a different URL for each of five different resolutions, where CSS assigns display:none to all but one?
How many people truly "develop software" on a city bus?
At least one: myself. No two user stories are identical; let me share mine:
I have two jobs, one of which involves working from home developing software in assembly language for the Nintendo Entertainment System, a computing device with a 6502 CPU, as well as software in Python to convert graphics and other resources to a data format that the NES can read. In the course of my work, I need to test said software by running it in an NES emulator. The only emulators I'm aware of that allow stepping through code are FCEUX and Nintendulator. These emulators are distributed as free software, and though they're for Windows, I use FCEUX in Wine. And I like to get some work done while riding the bus to and from my day job, which is at an office.
And how many laptop users need to develop software anyway? Is this the yardstick for what makes somethign a laptop.
"Laptop" is a form factor. But the ability to make and test a computer program is my yardstick for whether a computer is a personal computer, where the person who owns it controls what computing it does, as opposed to an appliance that runs only web applications.
Assuming I have a net connection (which is whenever I'm not on a plane)
Let me guess: Your user story differs from mine because you drive. Others may happen to live in a city that provides Wi-Fi to riders of its buses, or they may have an employer that subscribes to cellular Internet for is employees' use. I happen to neither drive, nor live in such a city, nor have such an employer.
all they want to use is Web, Wordpad and printing photographs
I fully agree with you that a Chromebook is useful for someone with that user story. My personal user story differs.
I don't NEED nor WANT a fucking 4K JPEG that's 30MB because my display only has 1280x1024 pixels.
How does the server know that your display has only 1280x1024 pixels, not 3840x2160 pixels, before sending the JPEG? Or would you prefer that sites send images sized for 320x480-pixel phone screens and then replace those with images sized for 1280x1024 screens only once JavaScript runs?
Reflashing the firmware would probably cause the manufacturer to deem the warranty void, leaving me with a paperweight if, for example, the power jack breaks. I have had a laptop's power jack break in the past.
Do any of the IDEs listed there support a Service Worker for offline use while riding public transit? Or would that require a cellular Internet subscription?
Imagine I am your roommate. I turn on your Chromebook. At "OS verification is OFF", not knowing what that means, I press Space. At the next screen, not knowing what that means, I press Enter. Now how well does it "run GCC, in Crouton"?
Data loss by default through a prompt very much like this has happened to me years ago. The pixel art editor in The Print Shop for Apple II offered to "initialize" a floppy disk every time the user chose to save. While I was taking a shower, my little brother didn't know what that meant and said yes, causing me to lose all pixel art already on that disk.
The Chromebook point of view would be to say, "Yes. You can run my app. It's at.." and then they give you an URL.
So I've downloaded the app's source code from said URL, and I've made changes to the app. To test these changes, will I need to get my own URL, which is a recurring cost?
A better definition of what most people think of when you say PC is a computer where the user can easy add and run any new software on it.
That's essentially the sentiment I was trying to capture. But the way I phrase it ties it more closely to the literal expansion "personal computer": the person who owns it controls what computing is done by adding apps, including self-made apps.
Subaru markets their Outback as a SUV, but it's really a wagon, or as they call it, a Crossover/SUV, and it's also a "truck", but never, ever a "wagon"
When Subaru first started selling the Outback in the mid-1990s, its commercials on U.S. TV referred to it as a "sport utility wagon".
The second result, "Offline c++ editor and compiler for chromebook", has one reply stating: "No compilers will run under ChromeOS. However, there are a number of very good cloud-based programming/IDE sites that work just fine with Chrome." Use of anything "cloud-based" while riding a school bus or city bus requires a tethering subscription, and in the United States, a tethering subscription for the life of a device is more expensive than a Windows license. Another reply recommends use of developer mode, but that's fragile as I've described elsewhere.
So it's either a remote IDE (which fails while offline) or Crouton (which begs to be wiped). Which search terms did you use to find a third option?
Through other searches, I found Trinket, which surprisingly continued to work after I went offline, made changes to the program with Trinket still open, and ran it. But it doesn't appear to work offline after navigating from Trinket and back to it. (This would require use of a Service Worker.)
we won't be able to bring Android apps to every Chromebook ever made
Chromebooks listed in that article or made since 2017 are PCs by my definition. Pre-2017 Chromebooks not on the list aren't PCs without the fragile developer mode.
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Yes, within the Chromebook way of looking at things, is that if you modify a program, you store your version somewhere, and that somewhere isn't your PC. You have a VPS or something to do the storage for things like that.
In addition, you need a domain because offline use doesn't work without Service Workers, which don't work without TLS, which doesn't work without a certificate, and the CA/Browser Forum's Baseline Requirements forbid certificate authorities to issue a certificate without a fully-qualified domain name. So would it be reasonable to consider the annual price of a domain and the annual price of a VPS as part of the total cost of ownership of running free software on a Chromebook?
The page on caniuse.com about srcset states that IE 11 does not support srcset, and Edge will display distorted images until the majority of Windows 10 users install the Creators Update. Is it considered acceptable to show distorted images to users of pre-Creators Edge and force users of IE 11 to gulp data transfer allowance while allowing Chrome, Firefox, and Safari to sip it?
honestly some of the larger "private" sites allow you to "donate" to get an account
If you're paying to pirate, you could just subscribe to Netflix or whatever instead.
You just got your first real job out of college, and your current junker isn't reliable enough for daily commuting, so that job is at risk.
Why can't you pay for your first car with the same job the income from which you paid cash for college?
If we DVR the DVR
I thought HDCP blocked that.
On the whole, getting into a private tracker is based on your standing on other private trackers. There used to be trackers that offered invites through an interview process, mostly covering the tracker's rules and quality guidelines, until What shut down. Nowadays it appears to have become a Catch-22 for someone new to private trackers.
Would you prefer that it be $150 per month? Because if there were no ads, the channel owners would probably ask for that much on pain of declining to offer their copyrighted works at all.
If Alphabet offers everything else but their content, where is the content going to go. Facebook? Bing?
Traditional multichannel pay television, that is, cable or satellite.
It's a matter of accident vs. intent.
How is this any different than your roommate entering the BIOS on a regular PC
For one thing, entering the BIOS typically involves F keys, which are less "inviting" than commonly used keys such as Space and Enter that are easily reachable from a touch typist's home position.
or for that matter pulling the hard drive?
That takes a screwdriver, which shows intent.
The Print Shop and Chromebook firmware are outliers. Most other systems that I have used do not make it that easy for a novice to accidentally wipe an entire drive.
Chromium and Google Chrome are identical except for a few proprietary components, mostly Adobe Flash Player and the video DRM stuff. Or are you claiming that one of those proprietary components caused Visual Studio Code's poor performance?
It's called responsive CSS.
I'm familiar with media queries. But since when can CSS, such as the CSS conditioned by a media query, replace the value of the src attribute of an img element with a different URL? Or would each img element appear five times in the HTML, with a different URL for each of five different resolutions, where CSS assigns display:none to all but one?
Crouton requires developer mode [...] that's fragile
To save some time, here is the solution: Crouton + GCC.
I'm aware of Crouton. What's to keep others from mindlessly pressing Space then Enter and wiping Crouton?
How many people truly "develop software" on a city bus?
At least one: myself. No two user stories are identical; let me share mine:
I have two jobs, one of which involves working from home developing software in assembly language for the Nintendo Entertainment System, a computing device with a 6502 CPU, as well as software in Python to convert graphics and other resources to a data format that the NES can read. In the course of my work, I need to test said software by running it in an NES emulator. The only emulators I'm aware of that allow stepping through code are FCEUX and Nintendulator. These emulators are distributed as free software, and though they're for Windows, I use FCEUX in Wine. And I like to get some work done while riding the bus to and from my day job, which is at an office.
And how many laptop users need to develop software anyway? Is this the yardstick for what makes somethign a laptop.
"Laptop" is a form factor. But the ability to make and test a computer program is my yardstick for whether a computer is a personal computer, where the person who owns it controls what computing it does, as opposed to an appliance that runs only web applications.
Assuming I have a net connection (which is whenever I'm not on a plane)
Let me guess: Your user story differs from mine because you drive. Others may happen to live in a city that provides Wi-Fi to riders of its buses, or they may have an employer that subscribes to cellular Internet for is employees' use. I happen to neither drive, nor live in such a city, nor have such an employer.
all they want to use is Web, Wordpad and printing photographs
I fully agree with you that a Chromebook is useful for someone with that user story. My personal user story differs.
Project Gutenberg specializes in notable books that are more than three generations old.
I don't NEED nor WANT a fucking 4K JPEG that's 30MB because my display only has 1280x1024 pixels.
How does the server know that your display has only 1280x1024 pixels, not 3840x2160 pixels, before sending the JPEG? Or would you prefer that sites send images sized for 320x480-pixel phone screens and then replace those with images sized for 1280x1024 screens only once JavaScript runs?
Reflashing the firmware would probably cause the manufacturer to deem the warranty void, leaving me with a paperweight if, for example, the power jack breaks. I have had a laptop's power jack break in the past.
Do any of the IDEs listed there support a Service Worker for offline use while riding public transit? Or would that require a cellular Internet subscription?
My Chromebook does run GCC, in Crouton.
Imagine I am your roommate. I turn on your Chromebook. At "OS verification is OFF", not knowing what that means, I press Space. At the next screen, not knowing what that means, I press Enter. Now how well does it "run GCC, in Crouton"?
Data loss by default through a prompt very much like this has happened to me years ago. The pixel art editor in The Print Shop for Apple II offered to "initialize" a floppy disk every time the user chose to save. While I was taking a shower, my little brother didn't know what that meant and said yes, causing me to lose all pixel art already on that disk.
The Chromebook point of view would be to say, "Yes. You can run my app. It's at .." and then they give you an URL.
So I've downloaded the app's source code from said URL, and I've made changes to the app. To test these changes, will I need to get my own URL, which is a recurring cost?
A better definition of what most people think of when you say PC is a computer where the user can easy add and run any new software on it.
That's essentially the sentiment I was trying to capture. But the way I phrase it ties it more closely to the literal expansion "personal computer": the person who owns it controls what computing is done by adding apps, including self-made apps.
Subaru markets their Outback as a SUV, but it's really a wagon, or as they call it, a Crossover/SUV, and it's also a "truck", but never, ever a "wagon"
When Subaru first started selling the Outback in the mid-1990s, its commercials on U.S. TV referred to it as a "sport utility wagon".
For the benefit of others reading this, I'll summarize the top three results for Google c++ chromebook as of right now>:
So it's either a remote IDE (which fails while offline) or Crouton (which begs to be wiped). Which search terms did you use to find a third option?
Through other searches, I found Trinket, which surprisingly continued to work after I went offline, made changes to the program with Trinket still open, and ran it. But it doesn't appear to work offline after navigating from Trinket and back to it. (This would require use of a Service Worker.)
From the article "Chrome OS Systems Supporting Android Apps":
Chromebooks listed in that article or made since 2017 are PCs by my definition. Pre-2017 Chromebooks not on the list aren't PCs without the fragile developer mode.
There are very few apps that can't be implemented in the browser decently. They all involve lots of IO, like video editing.
Can high school programming homework "be implemented in the browser decently", particularly if it is to be done in a language other than ECMAScript?