My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things your modern iPhone still can't do

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  • ubuntu-touch

    Discontinued A simple and beautiful mobile OS for everyone! This repository is for Ubuntu Touch issue tracking. It does not contain any code used to create Ubuntu Touch.

  • Quake-iOS

    Quake for iOS and tvOS for Apple TV

  • > I can't play Quake

    https://github.com/tomkidd/Quake-iOS

    > or emulated games on it.

    https://docs.libretro.com/guides/install-ios/

    You can build and deploy IPAs yourself, or you can use AltStore and similar.

    > Very sad, 15 billion transistors in my pocket and I can barely use them to their potential. What kind of future is this?

    One where it is comparatively very difficult to drain your full store of data and your wallet by installing shitware.

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    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • ish

    Linux shell for iOS

  • Not fair comparison but iSH https://ish.app/ had helped me to overcome challenges like running web-servers and other linux system related stuff

  • llvm-mingw

    An LLVM/Clang/LLD based mingw-w64 toolchain

  • > AFAIK there is no native GCC compiler for Windows

    might want to check your facts before spouting nonsense. there is, and has been for many, many years. more than one in fact:

    https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw

    https://packages.msys2.org/base/mingw-w64-gcc

  • maruos

    Your phone is your PC.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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