Peter N. Glaskowsky:
> I’m still waiting on the Dell tablet, but I did get a Toshiba Encore
> 2, which is a fairly nice 8” tablet. It comes with 2GB of RAM and
> 32GB of flash storage for just $143 on Amazon right now.
>
> This tablet is supposed to be able to boot from USB, but I haven’t
> been able to get that to work with a Tails USB drive that does work
> in other machines. On the other hand, there is one complicating issue
> I’m still investigating. The Encore 2, like most cheap Windows
> tablets, has only one micro USB connector, and needs an OTG to USB
> Type A adapter to work with most USB devices. But the USB drive I put
> Tails on to do this testing is the type with a Type A connector and
> an OTG micro-USB connector. Even without an OTG adapter, I can just
> plug in the OTG side of the USB drive and it shows up in Windows on
> the Encore 2. It just won’t boot from it.
>
> (I have disabled Secure Boot, and I tried both the standard 1.2.2 ISO
> as well as going through the UEFI setup process from
> https://tails.boum.org/news/test_UEFI/index.en.html
> <https://tails.boum.org/news/test_UEFI/index.en.html> with the latest
> 1.3 UEFI dev ISO at latest.iso
> <http://nightly.tails.boum.org/build_Tails_ISO_devel/latest.iso>. If
> anyone has any ideas to move forward on this, let me know.)
>
> I’ve ordered one of those OTG to Type A adapters, along with a
> microSD card so I can try putting Tails on that in case the tablet
> can boot from SD.
>
> I’m also thinking about getting an HP Stream 8, which has integrated
> 4G that supports T-Mobile’s free 200 MB/month plan. I’m told it’s
> relatively easy to activate that plan anonymously, and I think a
> “burner tablet" would be an interesting option for use with Tails. (I
> don’t know if there’s good Linux support for that device, but I
> suppose I’ll find out.)
>
> And presumably the Dell tablet will show up at some point, and I’ll
> try that, too.
Could you summarize this on this ticket:
https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6064
> I continue to believe that if Tails can be improved to provide a good
> user experience on small, cheap x86 tablets, that could be the best
> and most popular way to use Tails. The fact that the iPad continues
> to outsell Windows tablets by 50x or so shows us that people can
> actually prefer devices with substantially different characteristics
> as companions to their traditional laptops and desktops, as long as
> the differences translate into capabilities the traditional platforms
> can’t match.
That make. But so far we're also blocked by the progress of GNOME 3 to
adapt to handheld devices.
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sajolida
