On 28/07/15 11:30, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Tue 28 Jul 2015 08:39:31 NZST +1200, steve wrote:
TBH if all you're looking for is something with that amount of
power, I'd be looking for an Android powered pad.
Ouch. Google is not the answer. Google is the question. The answer is no
thanks. I don't want the NSA or American corporates record every file I
open or page I flip. It's offensive. Unfortunately android doesn't work
without google, and it's not much to do with Linux any more either which
in my view severely limits its use. I can't run my apps, and I can't
help it but I tend to feel messed around by android apps and that play
stuff.
No, you just use a machine with SELinux installed? Now who wrote that
again... oh yes, the NSA.
Cyanogen should be good, but so far I'm having prohibitive trouble
finding a piece of hardware I want to buy that CM actually runs on.
I've managed to.
Perhaps you'd be better off to buy a doze tablet and nuke the doze? Two
problems though - even the guys in Redmond decided their OS was too
dozy, and you'd still have to find a Linux to put on too. (Same with any
other cheap ARM systems other than the RPi - yes of course it runs
"Linux", but some debianuntu adapted by an Asian guy to their hardware 3
years ago, with partially published source and not touched or maintained
since, does not meet my definition of "Linux". Certainly not usable
Linux.)
Of course, whether you can get all the stuff you're after is another
matter, and now Cyanogen's gone all corporate, I can't comment on
decent vanilla OS alternatives having not researched lately. But you
will get GPS, accelerometers, cameras, etc as well!
I have those in my phone. Or are you going to take phone calls holding
your 13" tablet to your ear? Photo please.... ;-)
Volker
Personally I don't tend to need GPS, Accelerometers or a camera whilst
taking phone calls... the lack of ability to do so does tend to be the
difference between a phone and a pad.
I put this forward as a viable alternative for a lightweight workable
alternative to the One ( I have one in the cupboard if anyone's after a
lightly used one ), which is a relic of a different era.
I do not see it as a reason for a rant... we all know that Google is the
enemy, so keep him closer still, as Sun-tzu suggested.
Steve
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