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Is waiting for the Pixel Tablet 2 my only option?
  • Yeah, I did consider it - you can see the last point in the original post - basically I feel these are extremely underpowered and I'm not sure about Linux's support for hardware and whether its truly tablet ready. I'd love to hear any opinions on the contrary if you've used these devices though

  • Is waiting for the Pixel Tablet 2 my only option?

    I'm looking for a tablet to last me at least 4-5 years doing -

    • Reading via Linkding, Audiobookshelf and Kavita
    • Note taking via Notesnook
    • Light media streaming via Jellyfin

    I've been looking forward to the Google Pixel Tablet 2 to put "The OS that must not be named" on it and have a highly privacy respecting device. The current Pixel tablet just has a lot of drawbacks - support timeline is limited, speakers aren't good, display is mehh etc. But of course Google didn't announce the new tablet, most likely putting it off until next year.

    I've considered a few options -

    • iPad Air - don't have an Apple account, and frankly don't want to get into their ecosystem in general.
    • Surface Go - Unavailable in the UK and the kernel required has some missing features as well.
    • Generic Android tablets from Samsung, Lenovo etc - Don't want a device where I can't fully control what the OS is doing, and I've used LineageOS, and didn't really like it.
    • Generic Windows tablets from Dell, Lenovo etc - Is Linux really ready for a tablet use case? I'm not really sure about this. Will I have proper driver and hardware support here?
    • Linux tablets such as Pinetab, Starlite etc - These seem to be woefully underpowered and underspec.

    So is my only real option to wait until May of 2025 for a Google Pixel Tablet 2? I'd love some input for this dilemma. Thanks!

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    what's your experience with paperless?
  • I had a lot of false starts with having to upload and tag >3000 documents initially. Finally made the leap and did it in December. I now use it regularly, but am still getting used to the new dynamic, but that's a transitional thing. Overall, enjoy it and look forward to more features!

    The mobile app is a separate project, and is meant as a companion app rather than full fledged, which I understand. Though, it is still lacking.

  • OSS-Blacklist: A blacklist for keeping track of OSS hostile companies/organizations
  • They open source all of their clients (when not in beta). They maintain multiple open source cryptographic libraries, in multiple languages, which a lot of developers and companies go on to use. They have a yearly fundraiser for open source and digital rights groups, which they contribute a $100,000 to each year.

    Just because their server code is not open source, doesn't mean they don't support open source. It's not an all or nothing situation. Binary thinking and classification is a very dangerous and naïve way to look at things.

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