We're going to have to hope this project pans out, I guess. I used to run Familiar linux with GPE (gnome-based) desktop on my HP Ipaq... H2215 I think? It had what was then the fastest mobile ARM processor, the Intel PXA255. Unfortunately it was power hungry so I had to have a big stupid battery.

ANYHOO they had phone versions of those PocketPC devices, and you could run Linux on those as well.

For the time being, I guess I'm stuck on Android. I have an app library there I'd rather not abandon, and I still want to be able to use the bank app.

This is silly. You can run whatever you want on a phone, and while more pixels and more real estate are better (he saw himself type on his 42.5" 4k TV) you can still do a lot with a small screen. Work is done with phones every day. It's of course absolutely true that most people are mostly consuming content with their phones rather than creating it, but that doesn't negate actual uses like CRM and data collection which are completely viable on a small-screen device.

Having all that processing power on the phone is mostly squandered, but it's handy for a lot of short-running, high-horsepower tasks. When was the last time you experienced a perceptible delay in loading an image that wasn't related to storage? And on the more expensive phones, even the storage is fairly snappy. I buy mostly cheap Motos and the storage is plodding on all of them, but I rarely do storage-limited tasks so it's only irritating when installing or updating apps.

Do you mean Palmtop PCs, or PDAs? Both have done a lot more jobs than that. I've known a lot of people who had sub-laptop PCs who did actual work with them. A friend of mine had a Dauphin 486 tablet-with-pen for example, and used it as his primary machine on the go. That had a kind of laughable form factor by today's standards, and it was amusing back then too to be honest since it was as thick as a GRiDPad 1910. Maybe thicker? Too lazy to look it up now, and I only have the gridpad so I can't just compare.

Hmm, that was supposed to be ejected, but you know, fucking Google. Autocorrect always picks the dumbest option.

They can, mining equipment can do that. And it's big enough too

You mean we will be left in mass graves? They are absolutely not planning to give us any basic income.

Given the requirements to be featured on such a coin, I certainly hope so.

FTFY, see subject. EOM.

It's weird that the reason wasn't that Quark was shit. Quark's interface has always been pathetically inscrutable while Pagemaker's (and subsequently, InDesign's) were immediately approachable and logical. You didn't have to do hard work of memorizing counterintuitive locations to find functionality, because everything was (and is) laid out logically.

I go back to fairly olden times with Pagemaker (back to Aldus in fact) and continued to take a peek at Quark every once in a while, only to find out that it was always terribly fucking irritating. I have never understood how anyone preferred Quark. It had one feature which Pagemaker didn't, arbitary text rotation which you had to do with Illustrator. This seems like a big deal, but it wasn't, because practically all of those people had Illustrator anyway. Obviously Adobe implemented this eventually.

Nice, an AC comment worth reading for once. This is exactly the right answer. Fucking nail that connection, just keep it using the maximum transfer 24/7, however you do it. If they force you to have their service, then use it... use it hard.

For some of them that's true. For most titles, either there is no DRM, or the DRM has been or will be defeated.

It was always arbitrary to claim they couldn't do a more secure OS without those specific features, since most of their security features do not require the not-that-Pixel-specific features they claimed were necessary. Since their OS is not 100% secure since none are, they were always able to achieve their goal of increasing security without those features.

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Thanks for proving you know how nothing works, as if we didn't already know that.

In a world without nations, and without hostile governments, your comment would make sense.

In the real world where we live, it's pathetic cuckery.

Yeah, sure, it only has ten times as many pixels as machines I was doing work on decades ago.

A larger screen and keyboard can be attached to any non-crippled phone.

A lot of people are doing everything on phones and tablets now. And many of those phones have nearly tablet-sized displays.

This makes you sound unaware that a phone is a general purpose computer with more power than any of us had just a couple of decades ago.