The devices you listed are either locked down, or are low powered devices themselves. None of them have a keyboard which is essential for linux.
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FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 6 days ago
I don’t really see the point in low powered small devices like this, when something like an iPad/Galaxy Tab is far better suited to the typical tasks you’d use them for.
Michal@programming.dev 6 days ago
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 6 days ago
Being “locked down” is irrelevant for a device used to read and write on. All those devices are also significantly more powerful than this thing.
They all also have keyboard attachments readily available across all sizes and prices.
anachrohack@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I fucking hate touch screens personally, and will always prefer a good physical keyboard. Don’t like mobile OSs either
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 days ago
Keyboards exist and are widely supported for them.
anachrohack@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I said a good keyboard. Plus the OSs are garbage
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 days ago
There are many good keyboards for iPads and Android tablets, especially since they support Bluetooth.
How are the OS’s garbage for reading and writing?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 6 days ago
we don’t do things because we need to. we do things because we can.
playing doom on a iPod or Zune is completely awful. so why does it exist? because someone willed it into existence. why? because they could.
Maiq@lemy.lol 6 days ago
Aperture Science. We do what we must, because we can. For the good of all of us. Except the ones who are dead.
samus12345@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Science isn’t about “why” - it’s about “why not?” Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much? In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won’t hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired! Not you, test subject, you’re doing fine. Yes, you. Box. Your stuff. Out the front door. Parking lot. Car. Goodbye.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 6 days ago
Not really applicable here though. Can you use a terrible keyboard on an 8" screen? Absolutely. Can you use a much better keyboard on a much better screen the same size or smaller/bigger on preference by using a more common device? Also yes.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 6 days ago
you’re looking at one aspect in a negative light.
on the flip side to your argument, maybe op travels by train 8 hours a day (4 there 4 back) and they only have one of those tiny little trays as a desk. I’d rather do something unusually instead of doing nothing boringly.
besides, wth have you done that makes your shitty opinion valid in this context?
I wrote a 16 page term paper on a Note 1 on a train while going back and forth to school. I also wrote some crappy android apps on the same phone for school. all on a crappy bluetooth keyboard and a 5.3inch screen. I think that gives me some idea of why such a thing exists.
want to know why I did it?
because:
so, to put it bluntly, I think it’s pretty fucking applicable here.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 6 days ago
You have COMPLETELY misread my comments and missed the point.
My point was that there are plenty of other better devices suited to these tasks than a little obscure laptop with a crappy keyboard, such as an iPad or Android tablet or eink tablet, or even a phone. My argument wasn’t “hurr durr doing nothing would be better”.
My opinion is “valid in this context” because I’ve spent countless hours RDPd in to various machines and servers fixing issues and making changes that saved literal millions of dollars at a time, and the last thing I’ve wanted in those situations was ma worse device to do it on simply because it’s “different”.