notswiley2

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   by notswiley2 5y ago

   Isn't this kind of thing part of what killed the PalmPilot?
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   by notswiley2 5y ago

   >You could probably get an EG-25 USB modem and play around with it, but AFAIK no one is doing that, so you'd be largely on your own. I think a lot of the devs actually do this.
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   by notswiley2 5y ago

   It's pretty much all there, it just needs to be packaged. Also most people don't like carrying a compass and road atlas like I do so the turn by turn navigation needs to work (KDE marble will stick you on a slippy map and route fo
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   by notswiley2 5y ago

   Linux Apps don't benefit much from the fancy GPUs unless you're running eg wayland. If you're mostly using Xterm, muPDF, Firefox etc. the GPU on the original is plenty fast.
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   by notswiley2 5y ago

   >Firefox takes 40 seconds to load You might try experimenting with different configurations. With a lightweight X11 WM on PMOS Firefox takes ~10 seconds to load cold for me (and it's closer to 4 if I've just killed it.)
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   by notswiley2 5y ago

   I daily drive it. >Slow But it's fast enough. Since you can use overlapping WMs you're not stuck staring at loading screens and can use other apps while you're waiting with no time spent switching. Android is heavy. It&#
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   by notswiley2 5y ago

   Well there are volunteer groups that add extra packages to these distros and build images for them (mobian -> debian, alarm -> arch, PMOS -> alpine.) I think a lot of it will get upstreamed to Debian (if it hasn't already.) On