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by pjmlp 2040 days ago
My point was "They can do everything a computer can do".
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fsflover 2040 days ago
This is not everything though if you cannot use desktop apps, connect keyboard/mouse/screen and install any OS.
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pjmlp 2040 days ago
Just use Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and cast to the screen, done.

Windowed Android apps running on full screen are desktop apps.

As for install any OS, then I guess Apple platforms aren't computers.

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fsflover 2040 days ago
Android apps on a big screen are not desktop apps [0]. Can you run desktop Firefox with all plugins there? Can you run native GNU/Linux applications in a terminal? Can you use the latest Linux kernel?

[0] https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...

> As for install any OS, then I guess Apple platforms aren't computers.

They are not general-purpose computers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24866279.

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pjmlp 2040 days ago
They look like desktop apps to me.

I am running windowed applications on a desktop, apparently Oxford dictionary needs an update to satisfy your world vision.

I guess all those 8 and 16 bit computers I worked with weren't general purpose either.

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fsflover 2040 days ago
> I guess all those 8 and 16 bit computers I worked with weren't general purpose either.

It's absolutely not what I mean by general purpose. Please read the reference.

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pjmlp 2040 days ago
I have read it, and again I was already coding in the age of 8 and 16 bit computing, with their OSes built-in into ROM, no issues with them.

I also only cared for Linux because Microsoft wasn't serious about POSIX support back in the day and it was a solution for my problem to avoid commuting for an hour to access a DG/UX system.

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