Screen isn't tall enough for the modern Mobile Web. I'm imagining the whole screen will be covered with ads with a 1:1 aspect ratio
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And you would be correct, unless the user has any idea how to use fairly basic browser extensions.
That's a good point, most people using this would be familiar with ad blockers, and auto playing video stoppers, and cookie consent removers, and blockers for notification & Geo-location requests.
But now my concern is shifted to whether or not a 4 core a55 cpu can handle the extra workload from the extensions. It doesn't sound more powerful than an early raspi, and I know those had issues just browsing the web
I saw a short bit from I think it was CES, and it kinda of feels like a product looking for an issue to solve. The only thing from the quick rundown I thought was actually interesting and worthwhile was that they are opensourcing the faceplate thingy hardware and firmware. That's good and neat, also a total cop out, they couldn't think of real world applications, so they're leaving it up to people to figure it out.
. . . also a total cop out . . .
And that's only half the cop out. It appears to be just the raspberry pi 40 pin gpio connector. Then again that's kind of a plus due to pihat compatibility.
That is an actual plus. There's a lot of neat hats out there. Just feel like it would be a much better project if it wasn't trying to Jack all trades, and maybe honed in on one or two things in particular.
Does anyone know what Linux (Mechanix) is like as a phone os these days? In particular the actual phone functionality?