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Since I have to carry a keyboard anyway, I'm just going to carry a full laptop instead.
The point is that you can use your personal device instead of a secondary machine. Everything is in one spot: your local files, workspaces, sessions and settings.
I like the idea of leaving one keyboard on my desk at home and one at the office and just carry my work in my pocket.
Yeah I thought this was cool and having been trying it for a year because I used to travel a lot for work. But I realized carrying my portable monitor and keyboard wasn't much different from carrying my Surface. Maybe it's just me, but I feel like it's less useful than it seems.
Maybe to turn a refurbed pixel into a hole server?
From what I've experienced, it's just running android apps on a desktop aesthetic so you get your free floating windows but it's still all android. That's why I'm not sure if using your pixel as a server or any kind is viable. Sorry, I'm not technical enough.
That's cool... I guess...
What I really want is to continue to use F-Droid though.
Install Graphene OS on your Pixel.
I'm not giving Google anymore money. I'm actively going to vote for their competitor, Motorola+GrapheneOS.
(Not buying used Pixel.)
I understood OP already has one.
Motorola, yes, but that's 2027, or thereabouts. As a stop-gap, there's Lineage OS.
This doesn't stop the drastic drop in popularity (and potentially development) of FOSS apps.
Lack of users means lack of donations.
We need to stop this BS instead of just trying to get a workaround.
There is no workaround for proprietary platforms other than stopping using them.
i hope it comes to graphene os
Its already available in developer settings on grapheneos I use it daily
Your Pixel
Limited to Pixel 8 and newer devices and no 4k yet.
Oh, so your Pixel, but not my Pixel.
Let's be clear, for a feature that Samsung phones have had for a decade at this point.
This feature debuted on the Moto Atrix in 2011. There was even a version of Ubuntu that could use the feature.
Why say "Your Pixel can now..." when my Pixel can't? Why not say "Pixel 8 and newer devices can now...".
JTskulk, it is only your Pixel that can not. It works for older Pixels as well, but they specifically tied a few kill switches to your commonly known geo-locations and anyone who ties their shoelaces in a fashion deemed less mertiable.
I knew it!
Yeah meanwhile I was over in the corner trying to figure out how all my laces are tangled in the Velcro of my roller blades. I swear whoever designed Velcro and laces to exist on the same contraption was just trying to be a dick
LOL, sorry bud, but it's only YOUR laces that get caught in Velcro. Other people's laces are Velcro-resistant. Your rollerblade manufacturer is just fucking with you.
damn, I knew there was an alterior motive to the knee pads, no one liked those things.
Jokes on them, I wear velcro shoes!
their shoelaces in a fashion deemed less mertiable
Ian Knot ftw. Can't beat it.
This used to be exciting stuff about ten years ago when some of us still thought Google was doing cool things.
Samsung has been doing this with Dex for many years ffs.
Yes. And now it's native in all android! Samsung helped make it!
It's good when things get better.
It's good to have a non-vendor specific solution. Although samsung has switched to this and has lost some features for the time being, it should be a benefit long term.
I've bought 1920x1200 IPS screen from temu. It is small, runs off the phone (if you want) power and works brilliantly. I'm using Windows RDP to use my desktop anywhere I want in the house. Works great for a few month, I had lower resolution for a couple updates, but the current version running on Android 17 Beta2 works just fine, at full resolution.
What is an android PC? Is that like a boat car?
All phones are PCs, this is just connecting external displays.
The shock is that it couldn't already.
Mobile devices tend to be much less versatile than PCs, mind you, and on purpose, due to one of Steve Jobs' most misguided apprehensions, that it'd be a good idea to hide the filesystem from the user. (Cue someone somehow claiming that's Good Actually in three, two, one...)
Hiding the file system is Good Actually because…
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Nope, can’t come up with a single reason. It’s fucking terrible.
Imagine what the world could be if we had repairable Arch Linux Phones that can go full desktop mode just like the pixel rn. Aaahhh that turns me on!🤤
Arch user btw
I would definitely not carry my main computer around with me everywhere. Lose/brake/get is stolen and you're seriously fucked. Too much risk. And if it's not my main computer why would I connect to screens and peripherals?
So sort of like the Continuum mode that Windows Phones had, like, ten years ago?
Like desktop mode on Librem5 in 2020, convergence on PinePhone from 2021, or Samsung Dex from a few years ago, too.
And every Ubuntu Touch device with support for external monitors for the last ten years or so. Here's a demonstration running on a Fairphone 4.
A PC where I can't install what I want? WTF is the point of that bullshit.
Thanks but I'll stick to my steam deck for my portable Linux computing needs where I can do what the hell I want.
yay, locked down unrepairable computers owned by a us company that aids in war and surveillance!
