All Europeans 🇪🇺
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I was planning on refreshing my #ipad this fall, but #Apple’s capitulation made me rethink my decision. I think I’m done giving them my money.
I’m looking for good, #opensource #tablet replacement options, like running an open OS or #linux on an old Samsung tablet or other hardware.
I need to run: Signal, Proton Mail & VPN, Web Browsing, PlexAmp, Prologue & Libby apps. Oh, and a replacement for Apple’s Crossword in News+.
Hive mind, what are my options?
I was planning on refreshing my #ipad this fall, but #Apple’s capitulation made me rethink my decision. I think I’m done giving them my money.
I’m looking for good, #opensource #tablet replacement options, like running an open OS or #linux on an old Samsung tablet or other hardware.
I need to run: Signal, Proton Mail & VPN, Web Browsing, PlexAmp, Prologue & Libby apps. Oh, and a replacement for Apple’s Crossword in News+.
Hive mind, what are my options?
Neil Brown
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Yesterday evening I unceremoniously and sadly deleted, one by one, every app every photo every video and every document - all data from icloud - using a lovely pink iPad Mini.
The day before was the same, for several iphones, then a purged Apple Watch too. The laptops were before, long ago. My favorite was the 1Ghz Titanium G4 PowerBook - I'll always miss that perfection.
So, goodbye to modern Apple Inc. I loved your ways and means, your engineering prowess, industrial design, and the inspiration in every direction offered over so many decades.
I'm keeping the water-cooled Quad Core G5 PowerMac (PPC64 970MP A1177). You can attempt to pry it from my cold dead hands alongside a GP101... but please do not touch that one last, beautiful, and forever best example of IBM + Apple innovation - before Apple leadership sold out to Intel, pushed upon every emacs user the worthless Touchbar, and the scissor-chicklet keyboards with a lawsuit. But never forget Liquidass, crowning achievement and example of Apple's downfall.
How sad; sorry about your demise, Apple. I'll miss who you once were.
Yesterday evening I unceremoniously and sadly deleted, one by one, every app every photo every video and every document - all data from icloud - using a lovely pink iPad Mini.
The day before was the same, for several iphones, then a purged Apple Watch too. The laptops were before, long ago. My favorite was the 1Ghz Titanium G4 PowerBook - I'll always miss that perfection.
So, goodbye to modern Apple Inc. I loved your ways and means, your engineering prowess, industrial design, and the inspiration in every direction offered over so many decades.
I'm keeping the water-cooled Quad Core G5 PowerMac (PPC64 970MP A1177). You can attempt to pry it from my cold dead hands alongside a GP101... but please do not touch that one last, beautiful, and forever best example of IBM + Apple innovation - before Apple leadership sold out to Intel, pushed upon every emacs user the worthless Touchbar, and the scissor-chicklet keyboards with a lawsuit. But never forget Liquidass, crowning achievement and example of Apple's downfall.
How sad; sorry about your demise, Apple. I'll miss who you once were.
For years, iPad power users have wanted the tablet to serve as a laptop replacement. And with iPadOS 26, Apple has made the iPad's interface more like the Mac. Not everyone is going to be happy about this but you can revert to old-school, full-screen displays - but at a cost.
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My first drawing, using Procreate on my new iPad and Apple Pencil Pro.
Took me 3 weeks. Kind of proud of this.
Big thanks to @settern who inspired me to learn how to draw those many years ago.
Natouille 🍷 🥃 🍾
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Bonjour ! J'ai une question pour les gens qui savent faire avec un ordinateur Asus sous #Linux Mint et un #iPad Air 2 (version 15.8.truc de #iOS ) : comment faire communiquer les deux machines pour mettre des livres en pdf ou epub sur la tablette ?
J'ai trouvé comment faire sur Internet avec Win 7 ou ultérieur ou bien un ordi Apple mais pas pour Linux. #Help
Bonjour ! J'ai une question pour les gens qui savent faire avec un ordinateur Asus sous #Linux Mint et un #iPad Air 2 (version 15.8.truc de #iOS ) : comment faire communiquer les deux machines pour mettre des livres en pdf ou epub sur la tablette ?
J'ai trouvé comment faire sur Internet avec Win 7 ou ultérieur ou bien un ordi Apple mais pas pour Linux. #Help
Can anybody recommend a good basic PDF reader/organizer for #iPad? Documents by Readdle just does way more than I need.
Open source 3D graphics application Blender is bringing support to multi-touch tablets, starting with the iPad Pro with Apple Pencil. Support for "Android and other graphic tablets" is also on the roadmap. https://code.blender.org/2025/07/beyond-mouse-keyboard/#Blender#Android#iPadOS#iPad#OpenSource#Tablets
FaceTime in iOS 26 will freeze your call if someone starts undressing https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/02/facetime-in-ios-26-will-freeze-your-call-if-someone-starts-undressing/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
@9to5Mac now this would be a reason to change to GrapheneOS. Even if on-device, Apple has no right to scan and censure anything, unless activated - AI is never just on-device and we've had this subject before.
Another reason not to upgrade to iPhone 17 too, as Apple cultivates unpredictable policies - one might just end up with a piece of scrap-metal in your hands overnight.
#Chatcontrol #Chatkontrolle#StopScanningMe#CSAM#Apple#iPhone#iPad #iOS26 #iOS
