Uri, with all the powers you have you shall be famously remembered for bending f****** spoons. What a legacy to leave behind. Maybe in the future there is no spoon.
I think I have the first or second gen ipad.
For some years now the OS and apps are frozen in time. I have basically some old games and the old safari browser.
The old safari is slow and, can you believe it, HN does not fully function!
Now, we all know the hardware is premium and this device would probably run linux very smoothly and the touch interface would be a dream.
But we can only dream right?
WTF? Apple won’t allow us to use another OS or open software on old non-supported devices?
What a waste of physical material!
What a waste of human creativity!
What a waste of my money!
What a waste of my time!
I don’t give a shit how its enabled the masses to be able to do selfies.
This also mostly applies to android devices as well - which is another shit show.
For fucks sake - its 2023 and occasionally we have HN posts that are announcing how we are getting closer to run linux on the latest macs with the new processors.
Holy shit! Even with more access and control to the apple macs we still don’t have full linux capability.
Apple has the best mathematicians to optimise for pure profit and as you can see they have done a great job.
Apple 1 - Rest of the world 0.
Woz, please have have a talk with Tim (Nice but dim) and tell him the wonders that can be unlocked by allowing apple devices to run linux natively without jailbreaks or hacks.
Don’t give me any shit they can’t do that by next month.
Until then I can only dream.
Thank god we have surplus machines (eg thinkpads XNNN) available that show us the light of truth.
Can you recommend any mud “engines” that can be used on a modern linux system which are easy enough to get into (both for users and devs) and battle tested for security?
Are you serious?
The best /useful things for you are PDFs and SSO?
Both of these features are not what makes a web browser super duper.
PDF viewing is available in all major browsers.
<rant> SSO works in all web browsers - unless you’re using Windows XP as your enterprise cloud server running java and oracle and your asp.net web app requires a microsoft browser running in internet explorer legacy mode. </rant>