I don't get the negativity in the comments. Maru might be early and probably won't be the one, but this is definitely the future.
Laptops are more convenient than phone + monitor.
To be fair, laptop + phone vs phone + monitor (+ keyboard?)
Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone
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Well, so is Continuum, technically. Windows Phone is its own SKU of Windows 10 but it's still Windows 10.
Yes. And with Windows 10 on ARM's x86 emulation functionality, I would not be surprised to see broader application support in future buildf of Continuum.
I hope that can revive Windows Phone, or it'll be a wasted effort.
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I'm concerned about driver support in Debian. It's Android devices after all...
libhybris reuses hardware drivers from Android, as used by sailfish, ubuntu touch, plasma mobile et alia.
Does libhybris support X11 with GPU accel now? It didn't when I tried to use it in the past
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Looking at the Github [0], it looks like a fairly alpha product targeted at technical people and has one contributor. I think giving the project some slack at this point seems reasonable. I guess if there is major concern about this, one could submit a PR? [0] https://github.com/maruos/maruos
The website is super polished and doesn't mention anything about being alpha quality. It would be easy to install this on your phone without any idea you were making yourself vulnerable.
super polished
My definition of super polished includes 'renders without javascript enabled'.
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#215I don't get the negativity in the comments. Maru might be early and probably won't be the one, but this is definitely the future.
No, it isn't. These kinds of devices cover a very small but very vocal component of the computer user population, mostly bloggers, writers, i.e. people who's computers don't need shit in terms of power or storage. We hear from them constantly about how tablets are ending computers, laptops are ending desktops, phones are ending computers and it's all now and previously been nonsense. For as many tasks that newer phon…
> that somehow these little, for lack of a better word, toys are going to replace the actual machinery behind the products so many consume is demonstrably false
How old are you? I thought similar in the 1980's whenever I saw people tinkering with their toy PC's running DOS and Windows 3. They weren't going to replace MVS on an IBM mainframe, or VMS on a DEC, or VME on an ICL. The 'V' in those names stood for "virtual" -- how could PC's replace that?
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The website is super polished and doesn't mention anything about being alpha quality. It would be easy to install this on your phone without any idea you were making yourself vulnerable.
super polished My definition of super polished includes 'renders without javascript enabled'.
I tend to agree, but the non-technical user that might make themselves vulnerable by installing weird OSs on their phone (already a rare beast) will most likely not run without Javascript.
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#217Too bad my Nexus 5 just bit the dust a couple of weeks ago. I was surprised that this only works with the Nexus 5 though, since it's a pretty old phone. I was primarily using it to performance-test stuff on a low end phone. Maybe maruos does it for the same reason?
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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.
Raspbian DID this. They now ship with SSH off by default.
They should have done this:
1. User tries to SSH to rpi over LAN from their laptop.
2. rpi SSH server sends back a request for a torrent of the 1999 smash hit "The Matrix"
3. laptop sends torrent "The Matrix" iso.
4. If the average latency dips below a threshold value, don't connect.
5. If it's done in five minutes, connect.
6. set rpi's SSH server to key-based authentication for strong keypair that was generated on user's laptop.
7. Done.
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Raspbian DID this. They now ship with SSH off by default.
They should have done this: 1. User tries to SSH to rpi over LAN from their laptop. 2. rpi SSH server sends back a request for a torrent of the 1999 smash hit "The Matrix" 3. laptop sends torrent "The Matrix" iso. 4. If the average latency dips below a threshold value, don't connect. 5. If it's done in five minutes, connect. 6. set rpi's SSH server to key-based authentication for strong keypair that was generated on…
And suddenly there would be no escape from the matrix, no seriously may I recommend matrix.org for you?
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#220I've always wondered about this. I love the portability but limiting myself to the power of something that has to fit in my pocket feels... limiting. What if we just carried around our software and files and popped them into whatever computer we have on hand? I know they're pricey but M.2 SSDs are tiny, fast, and high in capacity. I can imagine a desktop (maybe even a big laptop) with an sd-card-reader-like slit where you pop the SSD in and boot in mere seconds. Your computing environment travels with you but can take advantage of whatever hardware you have.
It's not like you can use these phone-desktop solutions without a keyboard, mouse, dock, display, etc. anyway. You still need hardware.
As a proof of concept, I've been itching to get a few of those USB SATA toaster things and set them up at my desks. The only hitch is finding a laptop these days with a 2.5" bay that's easy to get to.
Would you use something like this?