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Re: Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal

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Post by hexadec »

wffurr wrote: post #88
cjlm wrote: post #60

I picked up the delightful Jelly Comb [0] for exactly this reason. [0] https://www.jellycomb.com/products/b046-bluetooth-keyboard?v...

That's the missing model from the Logitech lineup! They have compact keyboards, keyboards with easy bluetooth switching, and keyboards with a builtin stand, but no one keyboard that has all three.

Have you tired the Logitech K480? It met all my needs for pairing to my phone and an Android tablet with a nifty rotary switch for changing inputs easily. They keycap shape was lackluster but overall it was a novel solution.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MUTWLW4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

Re: Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal

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Post by opan »

andai wrote: post #90
sixty4bit wrote: post #76

This is nice and all, but what I am waiting for is the phone to power my desktop setup. I walk up, drop the phone into a dock, and my three 27" monitors all wake up with the desktop exactly as I left it. To get there I think the GPU will have to be embedded in the monitors, and some interesting operating system hoops will have to be jumped through. Do cords have enough bandwidth now to support this? I honestly don't…

Didn't Ubuntu make a phone ten years ago that did that? But they gave up on it. I also thought Samsung phones could do that, too.

The PinePhone and Librem 5 can both be docked and used like computers.

Re: Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal

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Post by wffurr »

hexadec wrote: post #101
wffurr wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the missing model from the Logitech lineup! They have compact keyboards, keyboards with easy bluetooth switching, and keyboards with a builtin stand, but no one keyboard that has all three.

Have you tired the Logitech K480? It met all my needs for pairing to my phone and an Android tablet with a nifty rotary switch for changing inputs easily. They keycap shape was lackluster but overall it was a novel solution. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MUTWLW4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

Aha they do have it! Thanks!

Huh, they don't list that on the keyboard page! Here it is filtered to models with a phone stand: https://www.logitech.com/en-us/keyboards?filters=3964

That one is only listed in the "iPad Keyboards" section for whatever mysterious reason.

Re: Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal

#104

Post by c0nfused »

adkadskhj wrote: post #99

Man, a personal hosted VPN for all my junk is my dream. Can't wait to get something selfhosted, tail-scail-like setup. Something i can get into from anywhere and work from anything. I'm tempted to order a bluetooth keyboard like this post just to have it in the car and be able to work from my iPad/iPhone in a pinch (assuming internet). For someone wanting an easy, at home VPN for setups just like in the blog - is any…

For the last decade or so I have been running cheap Asus routers on my home network. They support dyndns and OpenVPN out of the box. I assume that other manufacturers offer the same thing.

I haven't poked around in the guts of their vpn setup. But it's generally password protected and I would assume in the clear. So I replace accounts frequently and only leave it running if I am out of town and have some project I may need access to.

Basically you vpn to yourname.dyndnsprovider.com and you are done.

The rest is DNS Setup which.is sort of up to you but you can easily configure to something like machinename.home.mydomain.net

Re: Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal

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Post by m4rtink »

delusional wrote: post #98
andai wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't Ubuntu make a phone ten years ago that did that? But they gave up on it. I also thought Samsung phones could do that, too.

Samsung phones can indeed do that. It's called DeX ( https://www.samsung.com/us/explore/dex/ ) and nobody cares.

I use DeX quite a bit - it's super handy for viewing photos/videos captured on the device (Galaxy Note 9) on a big screen with desktop like controls.

Also I have the Wacom One LCD drawing tablet that I often connect to my Galaxy Tab S6 and draw on in in DeX mode with ClipStudio. It effectively turns this setup to a nice portable drawing studio, with the added flexibility of being able to work on your projects also on the go with just the Tab S6.

Re: Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal

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Post by m4rtink »

c0nfused wrote: post #104
adkadskhj wrote: post #99

Man, a personal hosted VPN for all my junk is my dream. Can't wait to get something selfhosted, tail-scail-like setup. Something i can get into from anywhere and work from anything. I'm tempted to order a bluetooth keyboard like this post just to have it in the car and be able to work from my iPad/iPhone in a pinch (assuming internet). For someone wanting an easy, at home VPN for setups just like in the blog - is any…

For the last decade or so I have been running cheap Asus routers on my home network. They support dyndns and OpenVPN out of the box. I assume that other manufacturers offer the same thing. I haven't poked around in the guts of their vpn setup. But it's generally password protected and I would assume in the clear. So I replace accounts frequently and only leave it running if I am out of town and have some project I ma…

Microtik routers can also run a VPN just fine. :)

Re: Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal

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Post by tomjen3 »

sixty4bit wrote: post #76

This is nice and all, but what I am waiting for is the phone to power my desktop setup. I walk up, drop the phone into a dock, and my three 27" monitors all wake up with the desktop exactly as I left it. To get there I think the GPU will have to be embedded in the monitors, and some interesting operating system hoops will have to be jumped through. Do cords have enough bandwidth now to support this? I honestly don't…

If we can send 4k over a cable it also has the bandwidth to handle 3 screens at HD.

I am not sure that there is a phone that can do that though. I can plug my Android into my USB-C dock and it can display a copy of the screen on the screen, but that is about it. Doesn't even seem to work with the USB keyboard I have plugged in.

Re: Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal

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Post by emteycz »

tomjen3 wrote: post #107
sixty4bit wrote: post #76

This is nice and all, but what I am waiting for is the phone to power my desktop setup. I walk up, drop the phone into a dock, and my three 27" monitors all wake up with the desktop exactly as I left it. To get there I think the GPU will have to be embedded in the monitors, and some interesting operating system hoops will have to be jumped through. Do cords have enough bandwidth now to support this? I honestly don't…

If we can send 4k over a cable it also has the bandwidth to handle 3 screens at HD. I am not sure that there is a phone that can do that though. I can plug my Android into my USB-C dock and it can display a copy of the screen on the screen, but that is about it. Doesn't even seem to work with the USB keyboard I have plugged in.

Your phone does not support USB 3.0 then (common with e.g. Xiaomi - these ports are USB-C but USB 2.0). The USB-C on my Samsung can do everything the USB-C on my PC does, including a 4K screen in dual display mode.

Re: Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal

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Post by tomjen3 »

blackoil wrote: post #16

How feasible is to split/use compute power of multiple devices? I would love to travel with a 15" ultraportble which is good for mail/browsing but will crawls while trying to play Flight Simulator. When I reach home, it seamlessly uses power of 599$ XBox compute centre to run it on 60FPS. When I reach office it compiles millions line of code using power of a 500 core office server. Central server can be shared across…

You can buy an e-GPU, if your device has thunderbolt and isn't an M1. Compatibility isn't great and it is obviously more expensive, but it is more or less what you suggest, with the limit that you can only use it with one computer at a time.

Re: Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal

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Post by kstrauser »

joeman1000 wrote: post #54

Similar to what I’ve been doing lately. Bought an M1 iPad (different story…) and have been using MOSH and Blink Shell to access my computer at home running emacs. Has been a blast doing journaling, logging my time in org-mode, writing notes in org-roam for uni subjects. Has been a game-changer for me. I know it’s just a ‘dumb terminal’ but the experience is so seamless it’s incredible. MOSH makes sure the connection…

This is exactly my setup, and I love it. Seriously, gentle readers: if you haven't checked out MOSH yet, do so. It's game changing:

* It doesn't care if my IP changes. For example, I can start a session at home connected to Wi-Fi, switch to tethering to my phone as I take a bus, switch to office Wi-Fi when I get to work, and the connection never drops.

* It stays connected forever. Switch to a Blink tab with a connection I haven't used for a week, and I'm instantly looking at a live shell prompt.

It's magical. I use MOSH everywhere I possibly can now.

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