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Somewhat sad thoughts about the fate of a great tablet

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Possible use cases for the great Scarlett:

  1. An overpowered picture frame; home or office.
  2. Mount it on the pantry door for quick shopping list / music control.
  3. World’s most feature packed house clock.
These are all good ideas, if a touch sad considering it’s a great device aside from the cracked screen.
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Iffy UI: Sort -> “By collections” to see how you’ve organized your books.

Good UI: long touching a collection and being able to download them all at once.

Yep, I knew there was something that I liked about the Kindle app.

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A difference in printing:

Android:

  1. Office printer too old. Use third party app.
  2. Configure printer.
  3. Just works(tm).
  4. Open file from cloud storage.
  5. Save as new file to cloud storage.
  6. Go print -> select this printer from OS print dialog.

iOS:

  1. Office printer too old. Use third party app.
  2. Configure printer.
  3. Test page is binary.
  4. Fuck it, i”ll just use LInux.

Debian:

  1. CUPS does everything.
  2. Download file from cloud storage.
  3. Edit file and save as new file.
  4. Upload new file.
  5. Print.
It’s not very often that I print at work but there are usually two use cases. One is I sometimes have to print out Excel files as part of getting paid. The other is I sometimes need to print out my notes for sharing, either by paper or PDF.
For the most part, looks like printing from the iPad is not going to be a thing. Where as my Android was actually my least effort way to print stuff.
On the flip side, iOS apps more often offer the option to print shit than Android ones. For example, Evernote has a print option in its menus for iOS but on Android, you need to go through a browser or get a machine with any other client app.
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Well, I can at least say Hey, Siri does the one thing I use OK, Google for.

My typical use case is something like this: “OK, Google: remind me at 17:30 to do laundry.” For a long time now my main beef has been that marking things done from the notification never works. Which bloats anything that displays reminders. Of late even trying to save a reminder has sucked: either the save button just because spins and saves it, or I answer the voice feedback and instead of saving the reminder it converts my answer into a web search. Glory of updates I expect.

When you consider my phone is an Android One device running on Fi, and this crap has been going on long enough that I’ve finally stopped using the feature a few weeks ago, it doesn’t bode well. Weeks of the voice thing, months of the spiny save button, and years of no concept of done. Kinda fed up.

“Hey, Siri: remind me at 17:30 to do laundry.”
It actually saved the thing.
The notification opened a reminders app and made me check it done.
Oh, wow it’s actually working!

SMH.

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It’s probably funny that of all the software that I use on my Androids, Chrome is the least likely to be following me over to iPad OS.

As a web browser, Safari meets my needs pretty darn well. Although to be fair, so did Microsoft ‘s Edge on NT, so I’m probably nuts 🤪.

Bringing Chrome along wouldn’t really net me much benefit, aside from syncing my browser history across devices. I don’t really use bookmarks anymore, after being a first rate bookmark whore most of my life. History wise, I’m less concerned because of how my usages tend to vary: bench machine at work is where most of the history I care about recording happens, and good luck getting a version of Safari for GNU/Linux, lol.

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Passing thought: in a more perfect world, Apple’s AirDrop and Microsoft’s Nearby Sharing would probably have some kind of interoperability. ‘Cuz at this point: why not?

For most of the rest of us used to heterogeneous more than homogeneous environments, these were never going to be our solutions to the problem anyway. But I find it kinda funny how that works, which is usually incompatibile solutions to the same problem and hardly a standard between them.

Despite how typical solutions work out, I’m also kinda glad for the flexibility. My first choice for solving this for a very, very, very long time now has generally been network file shares, be it between peers or my own file server. With the passing of time the options have only grown, and the amount of devices that call for cables or cursing the lack of Bluetooth/Wi-Fi Direct have shrunk.

It’s probably funny that I consider e-mailing myself the lowest, most insulting way to move a file around but I’ll actually Bluetooth a file without a quip. I’m strange.

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The look of indignation makes me think the bribe, I mean pretzel stick, wasn’t  enough treat.
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Think that I’ve finally decided on a host name for the new iPad Pro. Not sure what is probably worse, that most names up for consideration were anime references or that the swimsuit cinched it.

An extract from my notebook:

Subaru and Starbuck are pretty cool.
Nerine is refined and powerful.
Mayumi is playful and not complicated.
Also Nerine looks best in a swimsuit ^_^

There’s at least three different TV related references involved there, and you probably should feel bad if more than one or two ring a bell. And thus Nerine it is.

Plus or minus, this time it isn’t a Marvel reference….hehe