English isn’t my first language so I use AI to clean up my writing. It just rephrases my ideas, the meaning stays the same, and the 3 points I posted are from my own experience.

That makes sense, yeah.

Using a tablet as a main workstation is a torture.

It is only torture if you know how to use other alternatives. I think people discount the education and experience that previous generations had in learning to use laptop computers.

Some college level CS programs have had to include modules on what a computer file and folder are. iOS was designed to be so simple that a baby can use it and those babies are adults.

I guess that's normal if you're in US. However that's not the case here.

Every single person I know in university (except the people using paper) has an iPad. I have never seen someone with an Android tablet.

Yeah, you only get that kind of support only if you install a custom ROM and a lot of Andoid tablets especially cheaper and regional ones don't have that option. They don't even get a version update most of the time.

Same

The first iPad pro got 11 years of updates and support. There aren't android equivalents to that.

can you install Linux on them?

Stop replying using AI-slopped answers, please.

Giving my health data to Evil Google? No thanks.

As a musician, these gigantic screens are great for reading music. Though Apple is the golden standard in the business.

Voice Access works, but saying "scroll down" forty times gets old fast. With Buddy you just say what you want done. And it still asks before sending, paying or deleting.

Good call. Qwen3.6 35B-A3B runs fine split between my 8 GB card and RAM, and gets the task right. Flash Next is too big for 32 GB. The latest Buddy (2.2.27) also fixes local models with Codex, which your suggestion helped me find.

If it doesn't run GrapheneOS or Lineage OS it doesn't exist. So far, I've been able to sneak through.

Nowadays some college students get tablets with keyboards instead of getting a laptop. They are not cheaper either, at least not that much.

Using a tablet as a main workstation is a torture. Also you can use the laptop for 10 years easily. A tablet? Maybe 5 years.

Thank you! I will surely look into these

over the past few years, Android tablets have had a renaissance. New form factors, big releases from a variety of brands, and flagship-tier devices left and right

Funny how the headline goes:

"are they for you?"

while in the actual article the author only explores:

"are they for me?"

What do they mean with "are back"? Never stopped using tablets since Nexus 7/Nook with CyanogenMod.

It's a cloud service. If you want to store the data yourself you can look into Xdrip+ paired with a self-hosted Nightscout instance. But that's a little bit more to set up...

In the order they appear in my Droid-ify, not in the order of fun or depth, etc.:

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.unciv.app/

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.resurrection.blowtorch2/

https://f-droid.org/packages/me.lecaro.breakout/

https://f-droid.org/packages/net.minetest.minetest/

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.broguece.game/

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.dozingcatsoftware.bouncy/

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.develz.crawl/

https://github.com/TrashboxBobylev/Summoning-Reincarnated

https://github.com/TrashboxBobylev/Rat-King-Adventure

I've played and keep playing all these games, some more than others. The last two are not on fdroid yet, but they are foss and amazing.

BlowTorch is for mudding, and mudding is deep, mature, highly active, and free.

P.S.: Oooooopssss!! Forgot one of my all time faves, goddamnit. Here it is:

https://github.com/cataclysmbnteam/Cataclysm-BN

Yeah, 27B only usable if you can fit it entirely in VRAM. Only MoE models are fine to split, like the mentioned Qwen 3.8 Flash Next. Even though it's large, only the active 6B parameters needs to be located in VRAM, the rest can be in RAM and SSD.

Aw sweet, man made horrors entirely within my comprehension.

Update: you were right. Qwen3.8 27B (unsloth UD-IQ3_XXS) did the calculator task correctly (1234×5678 = 7,006,652), but took 18 minutes on my 8 GB card, almost all of it reading the prompt and screen on the CPU.

Qwen3.5 9B is the interesting one: one run typed the wrong numbers and claimed success, the next did it right in about 2 minutes. So small models can do it, just not reliably yet.