Otherwise, otherwise... in my country (France) there is a nice saying, 'Les conseilleurs ne sont pas les payeurs', that basically describes you.

(attempt at translating: 'Most prominent advisors are generally not the investors to begin with')

In fact, apart from the venerable iCab on macs (and, much more recent, on ipads), is there just any rendering engine that's still developed by a single individual out there?

(before you start shrugging, let's remind iCab invented ad filtering some ten years before Mozilla was *born*)

Oh yes, you are THIS slashdot user, the only one, that does this. I identified you very easily :-D

Indeed, I'll sign up in a heartbeat as soon as you show me your very own KS is backed by an ethical bank.

As I'm not sure all of you know what it is, let's say these are very difficult to find (there is only one in my country*); in general they are non-profit banking associations thaf obviously won't even think about playing on stock exchanges.
And yes they run, reasonably, and more importantly, in a very robust way.

A Kickstarter launched by one such bank, I'd just love. I'd not invest in it: I'd donate. Yes.

(*) in France: Credit Cooperatif. Been here for 10 years now.

Once, long ago, there was this supersonic transcontinental aircraft named Concorde.
Then, after years and years of use, for various good reasons it was halted, and same good reasons explained there wouldn't be other civilian supersonics anymore. (but most of us were considering PROGRESS was continueing, weren't us?)

By the last years of Concorde, I graduated a space engineer in Europe.
At that time, when there was a flaw in one of the european spacecrafts or launchers, a commission was created but its results first were hidden for months, and then when published they were so much toned down it was almost ridiculous.
At that time, the immediate comparison, with reverence, was the US: so wealthy a country that any space crash there was immediately detailed, published, openly criticized and you *knew* the next issue would solve it.

Thit, was a time where there was the US, and then the others.

That the US now perform as ridiculously as their lousy followers twenty five years ago, is very telling.

Telling about the end of a civilisation. Face it. We are all Concorde-ed...

Thanks you two for this very efficient advice!

Well, yes and no: 'This is a developer preview image, not intended for general users'...
What I'm waiting for is an open source system that just works, out of the box if I dare say. This Pwnie express looks the closest match, even probably coming with a guarantee of some sort. Of course OTOH, just their name tells me they are expecting more than average joe as an user: if I'm flooded with ridicule here, I won't buy. But still, being convinced that tablets are unavoidable, and seeing how locked our beloved A/G duopoly is evolving them... Well I look for other players...

I'm an ordinary linux user, not geek, and interested in *owning* my tablet not pwning. Do I understand correctly that buying that one will allow me unrestricted root access?
Also, what exactly is in the 'custom ROM' from this point of view? Am I to be confident?
Last, do you think this tablet will be compatible with general-use linux apps, for instance, shall I be able to install serious image processing tools like Rawtherapee..?
TIA!

Sux0r (sorry not having seen you earlier, I just announced it 1 km below)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sux0r/
plenty of interesting features including bayesian filtering of lots of posts...
If you try it do tell me!
H.

If you own or share your webhosting, what about setting the agregator just there, so you can access it from just any platform you want?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sux0r/
You can even train it, bayesian like, to sort your very own interesting posts...

on computers (not phone AFAIK), RSSOwl does this (and is best to me) on all platforms, open source; on macs only you also have Vienna. Both scale really well (like, 100+ feed sources, 10000+ unread instantly handled), both can sort, search, display html site inline, lock feed items...

Thanks! You exemplify /. ultrafast reply :-)
Sorry for not having mod points...

do I understand correctly that PeerBlock may be the PC equivalent to macOS' Little Snitch, i. e. something that filters any request out and allows rules on them, per app and per address?

(and, is there something equivalent on Linux? Last time I asked that there I was shockingly told this was unnecessary...)

My feeling is, we don't see easily novelties because they are buried into much more data that what the previous centuries' people were used to analyze.
I am aware that this edges to that atrocious Pandora box currently called, 'Big Data', forgive me.
But still, that we don't see innovations as easily as before don't means there aren't.

Even at 'big data' level: 2012 saw the apparition of electoral statistical proofs: for instance, it has been demonstrated that Poutine cheated, and vastly, in his last two elections. There is a math proof, easy to verify, based on stats* --and indeed nobody denegated it.

In a world where 'big data' generally looks rather like 'big brother' or 'FBI knows everything from you', I find it very refreshing that indeed, 2012 big data novelty was the discovery that electoral cheating now can be mathematically demonstrated.

You'll see, some day, one country will set this kind if check inside its law. This, is a scientific novelty if not an 'invention'.

H.
(*) www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1210722109