Would have been fine if it didn't cost a kidney and they'd invested in app development more.
Too closed off. Too expensive.
chronicledmonocle
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Pretty sure as long as it stays within China or is "approved" it's just like any other, but I'm not expert on Chinese internet. I only have tangential experience with it and never visited China.
Not available in North America without importing it, which voids warranty and makes it usually more expensive.
VPNs are highly restricted. China has their own subset of the Internet that only quasi connects to the rest of the Internet. If it's not politically or socially objectionable, it's allowed with little to no oversight.
Gotta love totalitarian government's hellbent on curtailing personal rights and privileges.
Original Ally has a lot of design flaws, like the SD card being cooked to death, that were fixed in the X.
However, it's still Asus.
They make nice looking devices, but I'd never trust a device from them.
Of course, I don't trust a LOT of devices these days. Sure would be nice if we had a decent 5G capable, open source alternative. I don't care if it costs $800+. I'd buy it.
Nifty project. Definitely I could see this being useful for discussing things that would traditionally be censored on other more centralized or semi-decentralized platforms (piracy, anti-authoritarian discussions in an oppressive country, etc).
I gave it a try and the loading times are atrocious, though. I suppose that's an unfortunate problem with running decentralized.
The Ally and Ally X are very different products, but yes.....Asus is scum.
As long as they keep putting in replacements that's are younger, this is a good strategy. The problem would be if they lose their seats, but if it puts the GOP further out of touch with voters and pushes Democrats closer, I'm all for it.
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This. It's literally what it stands for.
W - Wine
I - Is
N - Not
E - an Emulator