News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:New iPad Pro with M4 chip and Apple Pencil Pro by diffeomorphism on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @03:23PM (#40290372)
The screen quality is surely good, but why wouldn't an iPad air or Samsung whatever work just as well for all these use cases? Also, it seems that you connect a keyboard, a mouse, a game pad and a display... Cool that it works, but that is very far from out of box experience.
Re:New iPad Pro with M4 chip and Apple Pencil Pro by ShakataGaNai on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @05:12PM (#40291552)
The airs screen was good but not great. Not compared to the 13” pro.

As for peripheral, not at all. My iPad lives mostly in its keyboard folio. I also regularly use a USB-C dock with it for either Ethernet access, HDMI output to hotel TVs, or memory card reading (camera). I know a few people who carry around 8bitdo Bluetooth game controllers for use with all sorts of devices (steam deck, laptop, phone, iPad). If you’re a diehard gamer, it’s well worth it.

Re:New iPad Pro with M4 chip and Apple Pencil Pro by 0x457 on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @01:03PM (#40300394)
> But why wouldn't an iPad air work just as well for all these use cases?

I don't remember whether it had USB-C at the time or not, but it definitely didn't have Thunderbolt, which is a requirement for me.

> Samsung

Same with thunderbolt, but also I can't stand Samsung's version of Android. I wish Pixel Slate kept evolving. The Android tablet experience in general isn't great. Blink terminal is 12/10 experience, there is no app like that for Android. However, on Samsung, I would be able to just install NixOS in VM on the tablet, so there is that.

> Cool that it works, but that is very far from out of box experience.

Well, yes, but first it's just one cable and a game pad that I already had. I didn't buy any of those things specifically for the iPad. For me, it was an out-of-the-box experience.

I'd like to mention that when I got my iPad Pro, I had zero apple products at my house.

Re:New iPad Pro with M4 chip and Apple Pencil Pro by cyberpunk on Thursday May 09, 2024 @01:36PM (#40310668)
Blink really turned me off when they started running some automatic shell script that curl | bash's some static version of mosh from their servers without me noticing in order to 'improve' the experience.

No, don't run anything on my servers thanks. I don't even care if there's an option to turn it off.

Switched to termius, I'll miss being able to use custom fonts but meh.