#KDE #Plasma on #postmarketOS turned my Xiaomi Pad 5 Pro tablet into a laptop replacement. I've been using this for #OpenRGB development when out and about due to its smaller size and way better battery life and I've been very happy with it. The only real downside is performance, but with #OpenVPN and a decent connection I can use #waypipe to remotely use one of my Arch desktops for the more demanding things like compiling.

@CalcProgrammer1 Wow, looks really nice

@CalcProgrammer1 oh the non-pro and the pro are both supported, cool! oh hey the pro is slightly faster than the original Surface Pro X even..

@valpackett I've had Steam installed on this tablet in the past, though I recently had to reinstall as I made a really stupid mistake with chmod and screwed up all the filesystem permissions. I was able to play HL2, Subnautica, Portal, Tomb Raider 2013, Skyrim on it to varying levels of playability. It's reasonably powerful. Too bad they're very difficult to find and you have to go through Xiaomi's horrible bootloader unlock process to get it to a useful state.

@CalcProgrammer1 I have a local deal for a non-pro bookmarked.. but I think I'm gonna get an SPX because someone should finally upstream it and who else if not me

@valpackett Ahora que lo dices, deberia empezar a upstreamear la pad 5, llevo rato procrastinandolo, aunque me tomara un rato entender el mailing list (y tener tiempo para mirarlo, que es lo mas importante)

@pan jajaja. bueno eso lo último, te llegan las respuestas al inbox igual..

Mmm yo debería chusmear que onda el dts de la pad, podría dejar un pre-review

@pan aa si querés mandame a mí el patch con send-email, para simular la experiencia de las listas exactamente xD

@valpackett What's an SPX?

@CalcProgrammer1 look back in the thread :) SurfaceProX i mean

@fun I would love to see #postmarketOS on an iPad Pro with an M series chip but alas Apple locks their bootloaders despite Mac computers with the exact same chip being unlocked. The iPad is a very nice piece of hardware but it's ruined by its stupid toy OS.

@CalcProgrammer1 @fun Sadly, the iPad Pro is one of the few Apple devices you can't run postmarketOS on. We are able to run on the iPhone X and lower because of the checkm8 exploit, and we are able to run on the M-Series Mac's because of Asahi Linux's work, but anything else, Apple has total control over.

(Small nitpick, Apple does not lock their bootloaders. Their bootloaders have no lock state since they aren't made to boot anything other than signed Darwin images.)

@justsoup @CalcProgrammer1 @fun Well the first two ipad pro generations are checkm8 vulnerable but they're not m series chips ofc. They're also the highest ram checkm8 devices with 4 gb of ram.

@DenJohn @CalcProgrammer1 @fun Yeah, I meant the M-series iPad Pro specifically. I probably *should* get one of the older iPad gens for testing.

@justsoup @DenJohn @fun Is it possible to boot these from cold boot into Linux? I thought I read that the iDevices that could run Linux needed to be externally booted each time.

@CalcProgrammer1 @DenJohn @fun You're correct. The exploit is tethered, so if the device powers off you have to redo the expoit. Luckily, booting and reexploiting iBoot doesn't cause any data loss, so anything on the device (e.g. a distro rootfs) stays safe. There are ideas to shim the poweroff function in Linux to instead enter a very deep sleep so iBoot is never interacted with, so powering back on normally can be mimicked.