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    9 days ago

    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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      14 hours ago

      And you would be correct, unless the user has any idea how to use fairly basic browser extensions.

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        13 hours ago

        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

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          13 hours ago

          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.

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            12 hours ago

            . . . 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.

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              6 hours ago

              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.