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I look for touchscreens when looking for a cheap windows laptop for someone because they tend to be better quality screens (IPS, decent brightness, etc.) instead of some awful TN panel that's barely visible in a well-lit room.

I don't really expect anyone to use it as a touchscreen, but if they do, at least that will work too.

The original Pi Zero was $5, although it probably uses more power than an esp32.

You're not wrong, and I predominately use a TUI at work where I'm actually at the computer for ~8 hours a day.

But I use OpenCode / OpenChamber for personal stuff where I might only get 20 minutes at my computer before I have to go do something else. So the web interface and especially the mobile app get more use from me there. It's kind of wild to be working on a project while walking my dog or washing dishes or something along those lines.

I also used the desktop OpenChamber app once recently because it has a built-in web browser that the agent can fully control (unlike, for example, Gemini in Chrome).

I've been using OpenCode 2.0 indirectly via OpenChamber 2.0 and I've been very happy with it.

Once I got past the initial hurdle of having to upgrade my server and clients all at once, everything has been smooth sailing.

I really like Pi, especially for when you're running a local model and your context is particularly limited. But even when running a big model, I think building up your environment to be exactly what you want can be really powerful.

When I was first getting started and didn't realize that ollama defaults to incredibly tiny amounts of context, Pi was the only harness that actually worked because the rest of them used up all of the context and then some with the system prompt. However, these days I've figure out llama.cpp and proper context sizes.

OpenChamber has been the real game-changer that caused me to switch back to OpenCode, though. I love being able to check in on it from my phone, a browser, etc. instead of having to be at my computer to get anything done.

I would assume they're referring to the advertisements that show up above (and barely distinguishable from) the search results.

Not sure why you got downvoted for this - all but the cheapest monitors include DisplayPort because DisplayPort is both technically superior to HDMI and royalty-free.

The only thing HDMI really has going for it TV's/home theater equipment. (And that's partially because most of the manufacturers are part of the HDMI forum, so they're the ones receiving the royalties that everyone else pays to use HDMI.)

AuroraStore is/was really nice for running purchased games on Android-based game consoles (Retroid Pocket, Ayn Odin, etc.) because a lot of games seem to be incorrectly marked as incompatible with those devices.

Play Store won't let me install them, but AuroraStore will, and most of the time they work fine after that.

For example, I have Balatro running on my Ayn Thor this way.

To be fair, I had that experience with my first iPod. As soon as I got it, I synced it with my computer and loaded up a ton of songs on it. This took a while.

Some time later, I connected it to my dad's computer to put a couple more songs on it. The first thing it did when I hit "sync" was delete everything on the iPod.

I learned that day that "sync" meant something different to Apple than it did to me.

I'm sure it gave me some kind of prompt but it was not a clear "hey this is going to delete everything" prompt.

I'm not the person you asked, but if they're running in their own local hardware, then it might just be a lot slower than what the big providers run their models on. System RAM is a lot cheaper than VRAM, especially if you bought it last year.

This is awesome news! It isn't a jailbreak in and of itself, but it is the first step.

Right now we only have a reliable jailbreak (checkm8) for up to iOS 18 (and that's only thanks to one iPad model). Some app developers are pretty aggressive about dropping support for older iOS versions.

This affects iPhone XR, XS, 11, SE 2nd gen, and a smattering of iPads. Many of these devices got the iOS 27 beta and will likely see future iOS versions for at least another year or two.

Edit: here's the affected iPads:

* iPad Pro 11" (gen 1-2)

* iPad Pro 12.9" (gen 3-4)

* iPad mini (gen 5)

* iPad Air (gen 3)

* iPad (gen 8-9)

Which one?