hackintoisier

Why not just include a charger in the purchase for those who request one, and for others who don’t need one, no charger required. 

Wesley Hilliard said:

hackintoisier said:

Any option to format empty/un-initialized media into HFS, APFS, or exFAT? If not, then before you can use an empty disk with the iPad and its Files app, you still need a computer first.  What about the option to unmount media, so as to protect from data loss? Android can unmount.. can the iPad safely unmount media?

Most drives are going to be compatible with iPad out of the box. I'd assume if you have a drive that is in an incompatible format, it means you formatted it in the first place and can do it again on your PC/Mac. It is unfortunate that iPad can't do it, but I'd be willing to guess that the number of people who need to do that in 2022 is in the dozens, if that.

As far as un-mounting a drive? You technically don't need to given how modern file systems operate. They run at a buffer to prevent data loss. The drive eject system is archaic and outdated and I wish I could disable the warnings on my Mac. I don't think I've ever unmounted a drive or SD card from my Mac.

The reason you wanted to eject attached drives was because of write caching. But now, unless you're actively writing to a disk, there's not really any need for caching since SSD speeds are so fast.

Do what you like, but I personally don't eject any drive and have yet to run into corrupted data. Don't think I will either.

Most is not all.  Some drives do not come with any filesystem... they're completely uninitialized with no filesystem and need to be formatted first.  Hence the question, can the files app in iPadOS16 format an uninitialized drive in a relevant file system? If not, then you need to format the drive using a computer first... I don't know why iPad doesn't have a format drive option.

Second, regarding your comment about not needing to unmount drives before disconnection... I politely disagree.  If you disconnect a drive while the device/computer is writing to the drive you risk data loss.  That is why modern OSes including Linux, Windows, macOS have a disk unmount option.  There is a risk for data loss, even with iPad. Also, consider the fact that there are different filesystems which have different levels of resilience to a sudden disconnection without a proper unmount first... NTFS, APFS, exFAT, HFS+, etc.  APFS seems to be very resilient but other filesystems like exFAT and even NTFS can be more finicky.  macOS has had an unmount option for decades, so why doesn't iPadOS? Since the iPad now has the ability to read/write to thunderbolt storage (which could contain gigabytes of data), you'd think Apple would give iPad users the option to safely manage their data (i.e., disk unmount) and minimize the risk to data loss.

/ larryjw said:

tobian said:

Why not? Experiencing absolute kickass performance, running on a single solar panel on your roof

From what I’ve gathered, Apple Silicon has a lot of non-public documented features, if you will, which makes porting OS to it difficult. 

Yes that is  true and not all features of the MacBook are working in Linux. They still have to implement proper GPU support, as well as bring up the thunderbolt bus. Undocumented features. Apple doesn’t make it easy on Linux developers but the asahi team is doing amazing things.

Where’s the love for the iPadOS Lock Screen?

Intel rightfully took a lot of flak for specter and meltdown but this just proves how difficult it is to mass produce produce high performance cpu  hardware that’s free from vulnerability or attack.