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Re: Linux on Dex

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Post by camelNotation »

paavoova wrote: post #158
camelNotation wrote: post #31

I want a laptop with a hole where the mouse pad should be. I want to be able to put my phone into that slot, dock it, and use the screen of my phone as the mouse pad for the laptop. I want my phone to do all the processing and work. I want the laptop dock to be an extension of my phone, running something like DEX to make the laptop experience work. The only thing I want this laptop dock to do is give me a screen, a k…

Why would you want to delegate all your computing needs to the point of complete and utter dependency to the closed-source, restrictive hardware/software ecosystem that is the modern smartphone? You can't even disable the baseband on any flagship model, so just there you're enthusiastically advocating for 24/7 cellular tracking as a feature.

In a world where most people can do almost all of their computing activity on a tablet or ultrabook, not too many people are worried about that.

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Post by binomialxenon »

progdown wrote: post #138

I'm confused--is this really running a VM on your device, or is it somehow cloud run or cloud accelerated?

It's on the device. I assume there must be some overhead, but devices like the S9 are several times more powerful than the RasPi, which can already handle software pretty decently.

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Post by Fnoord »

swiley wrote: post #178
esotericn wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd really appreciate knowing which keyboard you're using!

He probably meant hardware keyboard. I don’t think anyone makes Bluetooth mechanical keyboards. Ok I’m apparently totally wrong about that last thing and possibly the first as well.

HHKB's supporting Bluetooth (and USB): PD-KB600B, PD-KB600BN, PD-KB620B. I own one of these. Expensive, but high quality.

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Post by diffeomorphism »

ekianjo wrote: post #109
diffeomorphism wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I want to be able to put my phone into that slot, dock it, and use the screen of my phone as the mouse pad for the laptop. Minus the hole, that is one of the many features of kdeconnect: Use your android device as a wireless touchpad and keyboard.

yeah but kdeconnect cannot become your desktop from your phone. Thats just not the same kind of use here.

https://maruos.com/

Basically, connect screen to get debian.

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Post by pdsouza »

Happy to see more efforts to make your phone a PC!

Another option is Maru:

https://maruos.com https://github.com/maruos/maruos

Maru is an open-source project and has been well-tested for nearly three years now. We've also been featured on HN quite a few times actually.

Speaking of Samsung, Maru already has early builds available for the Samsung S9: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/maru-os-dev/YVkUiwuKMRQ/fOQY...

I'm the creator btw.

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Post by meko »

kossTKR wrote: post #185
nedp wrote: post #154

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Seems like what you describe is Purism's upcoming phone, the Librem 5.

That project makes me happy. Also just looked at their computers that are beginning to resemble an actual alternative. I remember another "libre" project some years ago which was very expensive and extremely clunky, probably because they wanted to use pre ME intel chips, which it seems they have compromised on now. Anyway it's good to se alternatives catching up. I am so ready to ditch the big-data/fashion companies…

Let's be honest, it's either socialism or barbarism.
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