danielquinn

Yeah that was the big strike against it for me too. I found that you can sort of perch it over a crossed leg and it's sort of serviceable that way, but yeah... no coding on the train with a Surface.

The Surface Pro keyboard is actually quite good, with the added bonus that it's also easily detachable.

Hmm. Annoying. I'm on an FP4 as well, but this is the first time I've seen this.

Yeah I made the same mistake. I bumped it to 5x and ho boy did everything slow down.

I have an FP4 and I love it. I only ever have problems with the fingerprint sensor when my hands are dirty or overly sweaty. The camera works rather well to be honest, but I did replace the app with the Googled one.

I can't speak to Android Auto, 'cause I've never used it, and don't know what ARKit is. I do heavily use Google (and Organic) Maps though, and I find the accuracy of both the GPS and compass to be quite good.

Honestly, I generally find the hardware to be pretty solid and have been using it since the FP4 was released without issue. I connect it to my computer to transfer Very Large Files all the time, and regularly push a lot of data through the wifi.

I've been abusing the shit out of the battery though, so I just ordered a replacement one. Something most phones still can't do. It's Fairphone's killer feature in my book.

I'm not posting this to invalidate your experience, just to demonstrate that there are others who feel differently.

This too is an excellent take. "Artificial pain points" for capitalism, or "learn some shit" for Linux. Love it.

At the firewall level, port forwarding forwards traffic bound for one port to another machine on your network on an arbitrary port, but the UI built on top of it in your router may not include this.

If it's not an option in your Fritzbox, your options are:

• Make the service running on your internal network listen on one of those high-number ports instead.
• Introduce another machine on the network that also performs NAT between your router and your machine
• Try to access the underlying firewall in your router to tweak the rules manually. Some routers have an admin console accessible via telnet or SSH that may allow this.
• Get a new router.

The first and last options on this list are probably the best.

You make an excellent point. I have a lot more patience for something I can understand, control, and most importantly, modify to my needs. Compared to an iThing (when it's interacting with other iThings anyway) Linux is typically embarrassingly user hostile.

Of course, if you want your iThing to do something Apple hasn't decided you shouldn't want to do, it's a Total Fucking Nightmare to get working, so you use the OS that supports your priorities.

Still, I really appreciate the Free software that goes out of its way to make things easy, and it's something I prioritise in my own Free software offerings.

What site are you using to book night trains?

The Liberals are happy to lose elections if it means that they'll get their turn again in a few years when FPTP guarantees another run for them.

Fuck yeah. More of this please.

Oof, that video... I don't have enough patience to put up with that sort of thing either. I wonder how plausible a complete Rust fork of the kernel would be.