blobjim [he/him]

Apple is such a frustrating company lol. In Seattle we still don’t have tap-to-pay for public transit with iPhones because Apple keeps so much control over what the NFC transceiver on their devices can be used for. You can tap-to-pay with Android devices. So I’m stuck still using my physical card.

Thanks for the history!

Apple developed CUPS https://www.cups.org/

The project’s aim is to create an Android-compatible OS. I like the Linux-on-phone approach of postmarketOS better but whatever they end up working on should end up benefitting both projects since they’ll probably just be contributing driver code like postmarketOS. It’s weird that they don’t even mention postmarketOS in the announcement.

Seems like they’re mainly doing it because he has Russian citizenship??? Right-wingers are so bloodthirsty lol.

wow nice! Surprisingly long battery life.

I’m not sure how easy it would be to put desktop Linux on it. postmarketOS may get support for it but it looks like it may require a bit of work to put the OS on it. https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Xiaomi_Pad_6_(xiaomi-pipa)