I remember when they first pivoted from multiperson multitouch tables to tablets. It sounded like a really cool device - even got me to walk into a Microsoft store.
Then I realized that it used the same shitty Windows with the same shitty registry that I had mostly avoided for my whole life to that point. I certainly wasn't jumping in on that tablet.
The performance envelope was already uninspiring. They said it does better than some big percentage of the people on Steam, but it's not an obvious upgrade over my 2023 Legion Go handheld in anything but a bit more RAM (and it's only 8GB discrete VRAM, which may be paltry for 4K).
If you ask the people who work on any of those frameworks I mentioned, they'll tell you they're taking the React style and applying it to their platforms.
I wouldn't say Compose UI/Flutter/SwiftUI are "implementing React", but if your point is that other platforms have better solutions than JSX (plus all the bloat React adds to applications), I absolutely agree.
The Supreme Court has recently had an appetite to overturn precedent deemed to be rooted in faulty case law/reasoning (controversially, Roe v Wade). It would be nice to see that energy pointed at blatantly unconstitutional notions like "you have no privacy when traveling."
Except for the parts that say "we get to be even more invasive for 'national security concerns'" and that they can compel you to provide a password, this doc seems mostly reasonable if you accept that they can search you. Then again, it's not clear _why_ they should be able to search your devices. There are no foreign pests nor WMDs that exist as documents on a device. This is clearly just the government being nosy because they think they can.
It says they're supposed to put it in airplane mode before searching. Of course, there's nothing preventing a Snowden-style klep the cookies and let a three letter agency reuse them later.
Not a rumor when announced on a public market, but it's not the first time they've been perceived as a precarious has-been.
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