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Originally Posted by mdp
It is nice to have Android apps available. They add quantity and diversity to the Linux software collection, which could be richer, and Android has good libraries for development. Not really fun to work on it - irate boiling and gnashing of teeth may abound -, but apart from the time wasted since to go from 10 Implementing Street to 16 of the same you had to study more maps than Columbus (with less chance to reach the Indies by chance), you can get things properly done.
Of course, no comparison with the quality of software we found 20 years ago, on ridiculously limited machines. Marvels of technology to run Atari logic. You can use a tablet, but it is always provisional - real work is at the desktop. (Hence my interest in using these tablets as monitors.)
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In recent years, I kinda got used to stay in the terminal and do everything there, even on desktop computers. Doing it the Unix way of chaining programs that do their thing well together. You'd be surprised how even very low-powered machines suddenly can do your entire workload if you're willing to think out of the box a little. We kind of keep reinventing the wheel and adding edges to it in the software world. A program that has nothing to add to because it's feature complete and does what it is supposed to do perfectly isn't considered "done" it's considered "unmaintained", even experienced people then flock to newer programs with more recent code changes even when they don't do the job better. Very weird when you first get aware of it.
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Originally Posted by mdp
No. I just guess that this is what was practically possible, in the real contextual world.
The «companies involved in E-Ink», in many ways apart from Onyx, see too small a market to act differently.
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Yeah probably. I can only repeat that eInk is amazing and it doesn't nearly get the attention it deserves. Imagine affordable eInk monitors in various sizes. Hell, imagine them with a handful of different colors they can display. (You may say I'm a dreamer..) I recently got a HiDPI 4k screen and while it's certainly nice, it still cannot hold up to the sheer reading comfort of the Max' screen, not even to mention the difference in power consumption, even if you include the LED-Lamp for the Max in that calculation.
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Originally Posted by mdp
It takes time, resources, interest, and the good old absolute intention - apart from sales projections etc.
I dream of a device with dualboot, Android and X11/Wayland/etc.
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As nice as that would be sadly it's more likely that they replace Android with something worse before that happens.
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I was thinking some more about the rooting thing and prodding around. there's absolutely no way whatsoever writing to the block devices. I even pulled images and then tried to dd some unimportant bytes here and there - no dice. I looked at dm-verity and there might be some chain-of-thrust mount thing going on. I wonder how Kingroot does it. Honestly, permanent root isn't even all that interesting. It'd be much more interesting to have an unlocked bootloader.