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Your phone is an entire computer
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#212I would love to have more control over my watch. I can't sort by recent apps or have a custom watch face? Really?
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#213I was talking with someone solidly in Gen X that described their desire to write out longer form documents by hand on paper rather than typing them up. The process of typing helped them work through the content better than typing. In an analogous way, I feel like I'm in that part of the millennial generation that is more comfortable doing things on a PC than on a phone. Sure I can informally browse airline tickets an…
My daughter didn't really grow up using a desktop computer, though she would see my wife and I do that often enough. She prefers a phone, but has difficulty even doing most of the things you or I would want to accomplish. It is mysterious to her, because the phone makes it difficult and sometimes even nearly impossible, and so she acts like that is impossible. When the google screen only shows you two results, you gi…
Phones are to computers what Twitter was to blogs.
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#214Maybe I'm alone in this camp, but I really value the idea that my phone is an ultra-stable bedrock experience that, sure, I have to sacrifice some freedoms on but ultimately they're not exactly freedoms I care to express on a 5.8" display whose more critical purpose is things like "my car keys", "my door keys", "maintaining contact with family" etc. Versus, my linux desktop feels like its always in a state of nearly…
It depends on how AI-pilled you are. Linux is fucking awesome and really easy to use now because AI has read all of the Internet posts ever about how to use Linux, so you can just fire up Claude code and tell it to fix your python or docker or whatever. 2026 is gonna be the year of Linux on the desku, powered by AI, if people manage to get over themselves.
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#215Your sim card is an entire computer.
It runs Java!
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#216A few days ago I cracked the edge of my smartphone's screen at just the right spot to shut its display off entirely, though it still works . Using the USB-C dongle meant for my laptop, the phone pops into a desktop view which basically is the same experience as a Chromebook (for better or worse). In the meantime before its repair, I shoved my SIM card into an old flipphone I had in the tech graveyard drawer. I've act…
You know any iPhone with USB C you can just plug into a monitor right?
Is that true?
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#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
You know any iPhone with USB C you can just plug into a monitor right?
and?
You can therefore stick a sim in a dumb phone. And still jave a desktop smartphone for any bank or service that demands an app.
By using a monitor you psychologically change the device from a time sink to a tool.
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#218I seem to recall the Carriers having some pretty strict requirements on the devices that can connect to the mobile networks. Anyone know if that's (still) the case? I'm not trying to defend Apple here, I'm just curious if there would be some kind of carrier validation issues if you slapped a full desktop OS on a phone.
You can connect to 4G with your root-enabled Linux PC and a USB dongle or minipci module. Carriers don't care about your application processor, they only care about the baseband. In the case of a smartphone, you can have root access and still run the Qualcomm closed blob firmware that will drive the baseband
Carriers definitely care about the OS if it's a major OS, because bugs can take them down.
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#219A business has the right to set the rules by which it is willing to contract with you. You don’t have to buy their product or service. Trade only works well by mutual consent.
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#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
and?
You can therefore stick a sim in a dumb phone. And still jave a desktop smartphone for any bank or service that demands an app. By using a monitor you psychologically change the device from a time sink to a tool.
i was more trying to figure put what the mention of a specific smartphone brand brought to the table
it didn't add anything to the (interesting) parent post