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I assume by cracked you mean jailbroken or something of the like - and I deeply agree with you. I also have one of the original windows RT tablets and it reall
by gh123man 6y ago
I assume by cracked you mean jailbroken or something of the like - and I deeply agree with you.
I also have one of the original windows RT tablets and it really was a remarkable tablet on the surface (no pun intended). Excellent hardware for the price. But the absence of "hackability" really ruined the potential.
There was a sweet spot pre Windows 8.1 that had a kernel exploit enabling running recompiled win32 binaries. I recall having Putty and Filezilla running and it being a fairly capable dumb terminal with excellent battery life. I even tried to compile chrome for it - but ran into many issues that at the time were far above my head.
To this day it sits on my desk, and I occasionally google to see if it's been opened up. ARM apps for Windows have come a long way since. Would love even more to run some Linux distro or Android. For now it makes an ahead of its time, thin, modern looking paper weight.