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"sure UNIX is nice, but you need a mainframe for REAL work" "sure NT is nice, but you need a UNIX workstation for REAL work" "sure mobile is nice, buy you need
by happosai 11y ago
"sure UNIX is nice, but you need a mainframe for REAL work"
"sure NT is nice, but you need a UNIX workstation for REAL work"
"sure mobile is nice, buy you need a windows PC for REAL work"
I crunched to inbox zero with my phone while commuting to work, while I'm typing this at my "real work computer"
- ciroduran 11y agoI read that statement more like in terms of the freedom you're allowed to build and run applications for such devices. Mobile devices usually discourage the user to do this.
- sangnoir 11y ago> I read that statement more like in terms of the freedom you're allowed to build and run applications for such devices Even if we disregard how arbitrary that definition of "computing device" is, it's still a false proposition. Anyone can easily get a browser, a word processor and spreadheets on their mobile device or tablet (ARM). That's about as much computing as a significant chunk of the population requires. I have debian chroot on my Android device which gives me Vim, GCC and javac out of the box.