This is incredible. Even though Apple seems hell-bent on repeating their iPad mistake on Vision Pro ("A baby computer because our users are morons and we have to keep them safe from any theoretical harm. Also, any kind of software development outside of macOS is strictly forbidden"), there is a small tinker community that works on genuinely making iPadOS useful. Another example (also shared here recently) is this:

https://www.lispm.net/apps/uhf-x11/

• figmert

  today at 7:21 AM

  Apple is like that because people are hellbent on giving Apple money despite them being so user hostile.

  • Angostura

    today at 11:21 AM

    I’ve never found them user hostile. They just sell appliances that do a thing.

    If you don’t want that thing don’t buy it. If you do want that thing, it dies it pretty well.

    I don’t have an iPad. My wife uses her, a lot.

    • amelius

      today at 11:23 AM

      Car analogy time. Users would be angry if your car could only run on Apple fuel, and drive on Apple roads, and were speed-limited based on what Apple thinks is safe.

      The fact that we think this is normal for phones is crazy. And the longer we wait the more Apple fuel stations and Apple roads there will be, until there is no way back.

  • mschuster91

    today at 11:16 AM

    Well, Windows is even worse when it comes to user hostility with constant security issues, advertising, AI, snooping, shit like the Global Device Identifier (GDID), shit like the ACPI Windows Platform Binary Table (WPBT) that allows your BIOS manufacturer (or someone with physical access...) to force Windows to silently execute stuff as root...

    And Linux to this day still mostly does not get energy efficiency right, partially because manufacturers only test their crap hardware and ACPI tables against Windows.

  • amelius

    today at 9:10 AM

    That's because of two reasons:

    - normal people are morons when it comes to computers

    - developers can extract money from those morons by using Apple's platform

I'm sure Apple will love this.

• actionfromafar

  today at 7:33 AM

  Well, they are not too busy making SwiftUI a delight to use.

nice work! was reading kl_x18.h and darwin zeroes x18 on any exception return, timer interrupt included, so a quest app can't keep state there for even one scheduling window

I would appreciate an LLM usage disclosure

• yieldcrv

  today at 7:56 AM

  the gitignore contents suffice for me