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That's cool... I guess...
What I really want is to continue to use F-Droid though.
Install Graphene OS on your Pixel.
I'm not giving Google anymore money. I'm actively going to vote for their competitor, Motorola+GrapheneOS.
(Not buying used Pixel.)
I understood OP already has one.
Motorola, yes, but that's 2027, or thereabouts. As a stop-gap, there's Lineage OS.
This doesn't stop the drastic drop in popularity (and potentially development) of FOSS apps.
Lack of users means lack of donations.
We need to stop this BS instead of just trying to get a workaround.
This used to be exciting stuff about ten years ago when some of us still thought Google was doing cool things.
Why say "Your Pixel can now..." when my Pixel can't? Why not say "Pixel 8 and newer devices can now...".
JTskulk, it is only your Pixel that can not. It works for older Pixels as well, but they specifically tied a few kill switches to your commonly known geo-locations and anyone who ties their shoelaces in a fashion deemed less mertiable.
Jokes on them, I wear velcro shoes!
their shoelaces in a fashion deemed less mertiable
Ian Knot ftw. Can't beat it.
i hope it comes to graphene os
Its already available in developer settings on grapheneos I use it daily
Samsung has been doing this with Dex for many years ffs.
Yes. And now it's native in all android! Samsung helped make it!
It's good when things get better.
It's good to have a non-vendor specific solution. Although samsung has switched to this and has lost some features for the time being, it should be a benefit long term.
So sort of like the Continuum mode that Windows Phones had, like, ten years ago?
Like desktop mode on Librem5 in 2020, convergence on PinePhone from 2021, or Samsung Dex from a few years ago, too.
And every Ubuntu Touch device with support for external monitors for the last ten years or so. Here's a demonstration running on a Fairphone 4.
Literally every Samsung Android phone has come with their Dex desktop for like 10 years too.
I fucking hate Google at this point. They're just an even shittier version of apple now. Locking down their shit for no reason, and claiming decades old innovations are actually new and theirs.
Since I have to carry a keyboard anyway, I'm just going to carry a full laptop instead.
The point is that you can use your personal device instead of a secondary machine. Everything is in one spot: your local files, workspaces, sessions and settings.
I like the idea of leaving one keyboard on my desk at home and one at the office and just carry my work in my pocket.
What is an android PC? Is that like a boat car?
All phones are PCs, this is just connecting external displays.
The shock is that it couldn't already.
Mobile devices tend to be much less versatile than PCs, mind you, and on purpose, due to one of Steve Jobs' most misguided apprehensions, that it'd be a good idea to hide the filesystem from the user. (Cue someone somehow claiming that's Good Actually in three, two, one...)
Hiding the file system is Good Actually because…
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Nope, can’t come up with a single reason. It’s fucking terrible.
Nah it's more like a toaster fridge
yay, locked down unrepairable computers owned by a us company that aids in war and surveillance!
Imagine what the world could be if we had repairable Arch Linux Phones that can go full desktop mode just like the pixel rn. Aaahhh that turns me on!🤤
Arch user btw
A PC where I can't install what I want? WTF is the point of that bullshit.
Thanks but I'll stick to my steam deck for my portable Linux computing needs where I can do what the hell I want.
I've bought 1920x1200 IPS screen from temu. It is small, runs off the phone (if you want) power and works brilliantly. I'm using Windows RDP to use my desktop anywhere I want in the house. Works great for a few month, I had lower resolution for a couple updates, but the current version running on Android 17 Beta2 works just fine, at full resolution.
Anyone know if this works with GrapheneOS? I haven’t tested this in a very long time and then I was on stock. Android.
It does in fact work with GOS. I don't believe this build has been released yet though so you likely still need to toggle it on in the dev settings.
It works okay, but not great for me. I toss my phone on one of my old laptops docking station at work, but some apps like to force a shit resolution. It is pretty neat having them in moveable windows though.
I have a 9a running Graphene and with a "usb C laptop dock" I can use it in "desktop mode", but I would warn that it is still EXTREMELY buggy and finnicky.
Still neat though.
