Captain Aggravated

I would say “power” and “battery” are the same thing.

Yeah sharing digital documents between devices is still a complete urethra sanding, isn’t it? If it can’t go by email you probably shouldn’t even try. Having an x86 tablet running desktop GNU/Linux and Syncthing…Syncthing works very well, Linux works well, Linux UIs on touch screen are more unpleasant than dental surgery, and FreeCAD is less touch screen friendly than the average CLI utility. I can just barely use FreeCAD to look at the spreadsheet on that thing, especially when it’s got its keyboard snapped off.

It would be maybe more ideal to have an e-ink device that goes with me to the shop, something that will run for a month on a cell phone battery, that can display things like technical drawings made from CAD, a spreadsheet exported from CAD, along with things like tool manuals and similar reference materials, and with some utility apps like a calculator and maybe a little notepad…

Everything I want we have the technology to do right now, but no one does it the way I’d want it done because interoperability be damned.

As for making stencils and templates, it’s something I really miss now that I don’t have ready access to a laser engraver.

I actually bought a little tablet PC so that I could carry a working copy of FreeCAD into my workshop rather than print out plans and such. My little Epson printer does very little.

We need an open source RepRap printer. Like, I wonder if this thing could be reverse engineered, given they still make the ink cartridge/head units for it.

They always lean a little too hard into making the small one the “budget” phone and end up gimping it into something nobody wants, and yet they still don’t make it cost attractive.

Compared to the SomePhone Pro, the SomePhone Mini has:

• 6GB of RAM rather than 8. (I mean, okay, what do I need that much RAM for?)
• 128GB onboard storage rather than 512GB (Those chips are the same footprint so that wasn’t done for miniaturization, but I don’t store a lot on my phone so ok)
• No SD card slot. (I suppose you could argue that IS for miniaturization but it’s still a kick in the pants)
• 1080p display rather than 4k. (fine, the PPI is still finer than my eyes)
• 3100mAh battery instead of 3600 (You know the reduced resolution on the display will probably make up for that anyway)
• No NFC (really?)
• No fast charging (fucking sigh)
• No wireless charging (pegwarmer says what?)
• 5.9 inch 9:21 display (so it’s 89% the size of the Pro model anyway?)
• a laptop grade VGA camera (you’re actively trying to make this product fail, aren’t you?)
• Locked bootloader, locked carrier (because of course)
• $899 instead of $949 MSRP (Okay just stop saying words and drown yourself in the septic tank)