Cool! I had little to now knowledge on e-readers… Wanting to buy one, and realizing how expensive they are, is what made me go for the Galaxy Tab A9+. It was about 150 bucks, on sale. I don’t regret it.

I hope tweaking the scaling governor helps you some, but as I have stated in the various updates in the OP, it has its quirks…

I like to experiment

and it has an awfully bad CPU that lags from time to time, but first and foremost

I like to experiment

Thank you for this insight! Before setting the scaling governor, I did some initial testing that showed exactly what you’re saying: whenever I switched windows, fired up another app, wrote to a file - really whatever I tried - the frequencies maxed out. Maybe, what felt marginally snappier was the result of the CPU not having to jump between frequencies? I have zero knowledge on how CPUs work with power… 😅

Joke’s on Samsung: I’m not updating my tablet anymore 😂 my threat model doesn’t really require me to keep up to date with security patches either. As it says in the posts, I’ll do some testing next week. ✌️

Well I’ll be damned, it does look great: https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/

Edit: oh, and I of course use a robust stand to get good viewing angle on the tablet and a mechanical USB keyboard (Deltaco WK90B). This is basically my idea of an ultra portable “laptop”. 😂

Seems like I keep referring to my posts but in all seriousness, speaking of packing serious hear, I just posted some shit about fiddling with power management on my tablet. Short story: it worked. Check it out if you’re interested, ジンさん。

If by god-tier you mean adding colorscheme industry so that I can read stuff on semitransparent black terminals, then yes. 😂

Yeah, browsers nowadays are so powerful, I’d go as far as to say that if you don’t game and don’t do some niche production stuff requiring specific software, you could make do with just a browser: file management, word processing, spread sheets, media consumption, video calls, chats, etc…

I’m a complete beginner at C but I really like that I chose it as my first language to learn. I don’t use any fancy IDE 😅 when outside, I code on an rooted Galaxy Tab A9+ in Termux in vim and compile with clang. At home, I write on my PC in vim and compile with gcc. You can view my posts over at !c_lang@programming.dev if you want to see how much of a beginner I am. 😅

Fediverse because no big tech and/or no profit driven/informed platform management.

Instance: !blahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zone because “:3” (read: non hostile environment for LGBTQIA+)

Access: through browser, both on smartphone and PC.

Fediscroll: when I feel lonely ( !mentalhealth@lemmy.world ) or inspired ( !mtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) or want to learn something ( !asklemmy@lemmy.world , !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world , !c_lang@programming.dev )

I had no idea e-readers can do manga 😱😍 maybe I should get one, after all 😁

probably needs to be done after reboot and probably drains battery more than otherwise, but I have not done any testing as of yet. I sat at a café and played around with it for two hours, during which I couldn’t really notice any difference in power draw since the battery capacity is huge. Keep checking the OP, since I might update after some testing.

EDIT: I’m running stock Android rooted with Magisk. OneUI 7, Android 15, Kernel 5.4.249

I haven’t tried rebooting yet, but I’m pretty sure it resets on reboot. Also, my only evidence that it worked is what cpuinfo_cur_freq reports, and because of how Android seems to works with its virtual filesystems and Termux only being a virtual terminal, I’m actually unsure of how to measure the true frequencies in any other way. Here are two screenshots anyway. 1804800 is the maximum available frequency.

Thanks! I’ll go on and check if there is anything precompiled out there.

Legend

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My depression remains unaffected by any ordinary means, except for medication. My mood temporarily improves by exercise, the warmth or smell of some girls (sorry guys), being with a friend or family member, rewatching Stargate SG-1 for the XX’s time, playing a story driven PC game, very seldom listening to music and even more seldom a walkabout.

I approve of the ice to coke ratio. I am now chill.

From when the world, people, technology, life, EVERYTHING still made sense but kind of started to decline. 🩵💔

Thank you! Fixed. :)

I don’t dabble in black magic. /j

It’s actually pretty neat.

You just blew my mind. sudo [space] [shift] !! [enter] (4+1+1+1+1+1) is one keypress longer than ↑ + home + sudo + space + enter (1+1+4+1+1). In your face, universe.

Minimalist? Pfffff. Try going headless.