You have a point about iPhones, though. It's almost pointless, but not quite: it does get a few features, like cross-platform sync. "Real" Firefox is one of the things that keeps me on Android.
I tried to use Orion as my daily driver on Mac OS (instead of Firefox) but I couldn't get the simplelogin extension to work (it wouldn't authenticate to my account). Also, it was slower than FF (I know, everything says that it is super fast, but that wasn't my experience).
After a month or so, I gave up and switched back to FF.
I recently discovered that my jetkvm won't work on chrome, firefox or safari in macos, even after trying various workarounds to enable webrtc. The fix was to boot up Fedora in parallels and use Firefox there. In fact I'm thinking about shifting all my browsing to that combination just for further isolation.
Can you still get real Firefox on mac? I thought they forced chromium on there now too? The only time I got MacBook I put linux on it within a few months.
1) Apple would never force "Chromium" on any of their platforms. You might be mistaking it for WebKit, but browsers are not required to use Apple's shipping version of WebKit on a Mac either.
2) Firefox on every single platform not on the iPhone & iPad uses and has always used Gecko. I'm not aware of any other exceptions besides those two platforms, but the Mac definitely isn't one of them.
Yep, you can run Firefox on every Mac released for the past couple of decades. (Maybe more?)
Most of them also work with Linux, although it's a little more spotty on the more recent ARM-based ones ("apple silicon").
Macs are essentially "real computers" that you can run whatever software you want on, whereas iPhones and iPads are much more locked down. (Even when they have the same CPU.)
The last macbook I owned had an Ethernet port, so I wasn't sure how much had changed in the interim. I knew that had added some lockdown and I wasn't sure how much. That seems like a reasonable compromise.
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I know this isn't what you're asking about, but my electric company has a budget billing program where they average out your usage and charge you the same amount each month.
I use it mainly so that I can set it up and with my bank's bill pay system and then forget about it for a year. But it's also nice for avoiding those huge bills in the summer.
I appreciate that! It's not the cost fluctuation that is a problem, just the fact that usage and price goes up in the summer and the cost scales so quickly. Battery storage is a hack that may work financially for now but I'm more interested in shedding the additional consumption at peak even if it's just the few hottest hours of each day.
I love my GPD Win mini, and I've had a few other GPD products before that, but I'm not sure if a framework-style modular design would work as well there.
For starters, they've always gone with soldered RAM for both physical size and performance reasons (RAM speed matters more with integrated graphics, and soldered RAM can go faster that socketed RAM.)
Additionally, I don't think there's enough space for a reasonable number of ports via expansion cards. Even in the larger 8-inch-screen models, I think 4 expansion slots would be very difficult, whereas the current 7-inch models have 5-8 ports. (I think some of the MicroPC models had a handful of fixed ports + one modular expansion slot, so maybe they could change that one to a framework-compatible design?)
To their credit, GPD has offered motherboard upgrades in the past when a refreshed design is otherwise compatible. But there are often changes in ports or layout or cooling design that make that impossible.
No, I don't think you're doing it wrong. I think the microsoft surfacebook design, where it could be used like a normal laptop with the keyboard attached, or like a tablet with the screen detached was the only design that could really do both well, and it had its own issues.
The regular surface devices (and ipads and android tablets) that are tablet-devices first with flimsy detachable keyboards are fine if you have a table to set them on, but difficult to use on your lap, and often have a mediocre typing experience.
And, on the flip side, you get devices like this where the keyboard stays attached and folds around behind the screen. It can be good for certain use cases, but it's clearly meant to be a laptop first, and it's "tablet mode" is inevitably going to be more cumbersome than a "real" tablet.
That feels like a bit of a stretch. There are a handful of options now, but most were released within the past year[1] and have only recently become available for purchase, and most of these are ~$1k or higher[2]. The cheapest one I could find right now is $714, but it's only 1440p (and 480hz - Sony INZONE M10S[3]). If snarfy needed something before then, and/or didn't have a huge budget to devote to a monitor, you can't really blame them.
You can get a perfectly serviceable 4k 160hz monitor with DP 1.4 for ~$300 right now[4], and that makes a lot more sense for most people.
Monitor manufacturers are generally stingy with DP ports, often including more HDMI ports, even when they can't support the full resolution and refresh rate of the monitor. It is frustrating.
> There are a handful of options now, but most were released within the past year[1] and have only recently become available for purchase...
You appear to have missed this part of snarfly's post:
> A 2025 monitor with DP 1.4 from 2016. Shame.
Had snarfly not purchased that monitor within the past year, I would not have said what I said. I would have something that taken into account the state of available monitors at that point in time.
The Anbernic RG35XX lineup are all good devices that are fairly budget friendly ($40-80 depending on sales and where you buy from). They all share very similar specs, just different layouts and controls. I'm partial to the RG35XX SP's clam shell form-factor, but other people like the RG35XX Plus that's akin to a gameboy color layout (but smaller) or the RG35XX H that's similar to a nintendo switch lite layout, including joysticks (but smaller). They can handle PS1 and older without any issues, plus some Dreamcast and N64 games.
On the higher end ($300-400), the Ayn Odin 2 is really the device to beat, although it's bigger, somewhere in between a Switch and a Steam Deck. It can handle some PS2, PSP, and even nintendo switch games - see https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XaPYEyTinKk7F2uTfgSD... for a community-sourced list of compatible games.
Retroid also has some nice higher end devices around $200-300. I have a Retroid Pocket 3+ that I really like, and while it's not compatible with Rocknix, some of their newer devices are.
The iPhone 8 has the unpatchable checkm8 bootrom vulnerability, so while it doesn't say this in the article, the author could have jailbroken the device to run whatever software they want without paying any Apple fees.
That vulnerability was a huge win. It just recently stopped, with the final vulnerable device (7th gen iPad) not getting the iPad OS 26 update.
Gemini 2.5 Flash me a similar answer, although it was a bit more confident in it's incorrect answer:
> You're asking about an MS-DOS productivity program that had ConnectFour built-in.
I need to tell you that no mainstream or well-known MS-DOS productivity program (like a word processor, spreadsheet, database, or integrated suite) ever had the game ConnectFour built directly into it.
You have a point about iPhones, though. It's almost pointless, but not quite: it does get a few features, like cross-platform sync. "Real" Firefox is one of the things that keeps me on Android.
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