Why would web browsing be any different to performance on a phone or iPad; it's just connecting an external display over USB-to-HDMI? As long as the phone's GPU supports that...
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So I don't need additional computers in my life but if my phone had docking support I'd seamlessly just plug it into my existing setup.
As the laptop and pc depreciate over time and phone hardware improves with every generation, a DeX platform becomes more attractive as a node on my KVM setup.
Expect Xiaomi to release a $25 knockoff for their phones if there's ever a demand for it. I suspect there's very little in the dock hardware itself over a standard USB-C OTG charging hub with HDMI passthrough and an ethernet port. Maybe I'm wrong but the rest is just software on the phone?
If I had a spare $600 I might be inclined to support the librem-5 efforts of running a mainstream kernel with lifetime updates.
Criminals from India call us here in AUS pretending to be from some legitimate call centre, advising us of some non-existent government rebate.
I wonder if PackageManagerService is hard coded in many places, rather than using XML dependency injection. If the latter then may it be possible to override the method in a subclass, e.g. MicroGPackageManagerService and distribute the change via a once-only installable zip?
That way Lineage OS doesn't need to break security, only downstream.
This is handy if you only need root occasionally, e.g. Titanium Backup, and don't mind messing about in TWRP.
By definition then, solving the app gap by using a container to host Android or desktop Linux programs is non-native.
An e-ink phone with a 3 day battery life! But being a hacker phone, as long as performance isn't too shabby when docked to a regular 3D accelerated LED monitor with Wayland desktop would be a nice balance.
In Mozilla's case it was an inability to define a market more than the technology stack. I had a Flame. While the OS started a little rough around the edges, by Firefox OS 2.5 it was perfectly usable as a daily driver with modest specs by 2017 standards.
Continuum was to be the killer feature but they shot themselves in the foot by releasing the Lumia 650 with such mediocre specs that didn't support it.
If, as per the table below [1], they've already moved on to 4.10, then 6 years is a long time to support 4.9
[1] https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/51651/which-andr...
Base a product around CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) and if it proves successful enough they replace the browser engine with edgehtml.
Spain is divided into 17 communities. Each has their own cultural identity.
What I like about travelling around Spain (and I must do the Canaries and Balearics some day) is the microcosm of different regional flavours, e.g. Asturias and Galicia have bagpipes, the Basque country is a foodies delight, Andalucia has flamenco & Moorish palaces, the Canaries have a whistled language etc.
Now I get the Catalans feel "different" but when I see the graffiti around the place saying "X is NOT Spain", I wonder which Spanish identity they're referring to.
You could have focussed on how Spanish democracy is broken and that Cataluña no longer wants to be part of that - e.g. the 2015-6 elections where no clear winner emerged and the rise of Podemos suggested people were fed up with both PP and PSOE.
But you seem to base your argument on fuelling historical ethnic tensions. I've given you a counterview.
I just don't find your arguments for separation tell the whole story. I support self-determination but ultimately the strongest argument for independence is that Catalonia has a population of greater than several EU states and could go it alone without federalism.
You mention oppression under Franco. He hated and executed a bunch of people, from anarchists, to PSOE under Largo Caballero, to hard core communists. Other language minorities were not allowed to spread their language either. That was 40 years ago. Do you really blame the rest of the country, today, for the 'sins' of their grandparents?
Old wounds and if your hatred is for "Madrid", they were Republicans - NOT bullfighting fascists.
Galegos and Basques would have equal claim to independence under linguistic autonomy. But I guess I see bilingualism as a blessing rather than a curse. And in that regard the Catalonian government's educational policies have been undoing the historical trauma of Spanish as the "High" language of diglossia. Yet Valencia isn't calling to become a separate country, despite Valenciano being a near-identical language.
I'm not condoning the actions of PP, Rajoy or the Guardia Civil by any means.
1) A lot of people see bullfighting as anachronistic even if Cataluña may be the first to introduce such rules. 2) 'their King' was a second cousin of the queen of Castile. You have to go back 600 years to find the last of the original lineage on the Aragonese throne. 3) Franco's regime persecuted a great number of people and not just the Catalonians. 4) The Catalan language is one of several languages striving for linguistic prestige - e.g. Galician and Basque. I even saw graffiti in Covadonga, sacred site of the reconquista, bemoaning that none of the signs were in Asturian.
They've had several iterations of email client for Android, from the AOSP client to Gmail to Inbox. I don't want a learning curve, just a mail client. (K-9 or Outlook for Android, cheers)
They've also had numerous goes at creating a sms/xmpp/talk/video app. Google Talk/Allo/Duo/Hangouts, it's all a confusing mess.
For me, peak smartphone was some time ago. I mainly want is a pocket computer with a web browser than makes calls. Connection a MHL-OTG USB hub makes it a proper computer running KDE.
Now sure there's an "app gap" but Firefox OS would have had potential if companies would reskin their desktop web sites instead of everything needing a native app just because everyone else does - very few apps I use on a weekly basis take advantage of 'native' features that couldn't be written in HTML5.
> World’s first ever IP-native mobile handset One list of contacts and calling via VOIP or GSM transparently to anyone in the world, without needing a separate app - which mightn't mean anything if you're bound to skype, facetime, hangouts etc.