I'm still daily driving my Armv7 tablet btw.

Armv7 is not dying anytime soon. Yes, it may die at some point, but not in the next 5-10 years I'm sure.

though sometimes I do feel being in a world where everyone wants the shiny new thing and I am the odd one so I get to be able to do much less.

Thanks to pmOS and sxmo+sway I can squeeze every bit of performance this device has to offer :)

@fun can't watch 4K Netflix but you can fetch Wikipedia articles, enough to read for the rest of your life

@eloy I don't even bother with anything higher than 1080p on devices this small. Plus, this one in particular has a 1280x800 display.

@eloy It does watch youtube just fine, I just have to watch from mpv to have a good experience (ironically both performance-wise and youtube's full of ads now). But not a dealbreaker given I do it on my desktop too (mpv is very nice so I use it whenever I can).

@eloy (did you know you can use mpv to watch videos on the fediverse? Or any other http link? Very useful!)

@eloy also, when I watch videos on my phone, it's so small I just set the video to 480p or 720p, even though technically my phone's display is more close to 1440p. But it's very unpractical for a device this small IMO

@fun a couple years ago I managed to run an entire gnome-shell with firefox/epiphany on an RK3066 tablet. It… worked, sure. The measly 1024x600 resolution sure helped limit the requirements of everything. Still, not having GLES3 is absolutely miserable. Desktop compositors themselves, WebKit and old games do run on GLES2… other things not so much.

@valpackett Yeah that's the main issue.

Fortunately most apps I run are CLI-based or lightweight GTK3/GTK4/Qt apps.
I will say though that KDE Plasma Mobile runs almost butter smooth on Exynos4412 armv7. But at the cost of some performance when running apps.