Put it in a Cardboard with some type of virtual keyboard, and you've solved the looming laptop airplane ban.
Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone
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#132I'm wondering how secure it is.. According to https://github.com/maruos/maruos/wiki/Tips , they start sshd up by default, listening on the local network, with the default user maru and password maru. That seems like a bit of a red flag and makes me wonder if it is the tip of the iceberg.
I don't disagree, it's not exactly a uncommon practice. I think Raspberry pi for instance does this. Not defending it, totally stupid, just pointing out they aren't alone in this.
The fact passwords are on by default for sshd on most distributions is crazy.
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#133Put it in a Cardboard with some type of virtual keyboard, and you've solved the looming laptop airplane ban.
Have keyboards been banned from the cabin too? If not, cardboard + a physical keyboard would do :)
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#134OK, Android is very close to a phone, Google might be able to support wireless keyboard/mouse plus a hdmi-screen out of box easily one day? Replacing the whole firmware is a bit intrusive for me at the moment.
I mean very close to a PC...
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#135I don't get the fuzz but i have a galaxy s3 with omnirom and usb keyboard and mouse work out of the box. Also bootstrapping debian is easely done. Connect it to a monitor and your good to go.
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#136the future, once smartphones become a lot more powerful.
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#137Why aren't Apple or Google doing something like this?
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
And now, also Samsung DeX, but that one requires a Galaxy S8 and a special dock.
The dock is really just breaking out the USB-C port to the various docks no reason it couldn't be replicated with a USB-C hub other than software lockin. Not sure there's any reason it couldn't be done with any other phone that has USB-C either.
I think the big factor with the DeX dock is the big fan that runs to cool off the phone while it's in that mode.
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#139“Maru is a new kind of computing experience.” Is it? This type of “All Your PC Are Belong To Phone” type of fads have been attempted (and so far, miserably failed) for many, many years now. Looking at the website, I see little reason why this should succeed where others have failed.
Well this probably isn't going to succeed where others failed, but the idea is good.
I'm glad someone is trying to move forward with the idea of using the very capable computer in your pocket as more than a phone. I mean my current phone has more ram than my last laptop....
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#140Looks like Windows 10 Mobile Continuum. Even the types of apps being used in the screenshots echo Office being used in Continuum screenshots. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/Continuum
The difference to me is that Continuum is still just a mobile OS that is scaled up. They even point that out in their promo material, it's a "desktop-like experience." Maru, while it looks very early in development, isn't a desktop-like experience. It's a desktop experience because it's running a desktop operating system.
Well, so is Continuum, technically. Windows Phone is its own SKU of Windows 10 but it's still Windows 10.