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What are some tech products that you want that you can't seem to find? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Stuff like a pretty case with slots for optical drives, a laptop with a shitton of ports and all-day battery life or anything else that seems to go against the trends.

This thread is for complaining about how you can't find it and (maybe) finding it thanks to someone else.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

As I'm getting more and more into keyboards, I've realised I dont want a laptop anymore.

I want a powerful phone (16GB RAM, 8-cores) that I can:

a) use as a phone (smallish, please)
b) use as a dockable workstation

That is, I can come home from work, slide my phone into a USB-C dock and start typing away on my Linux desktop with my fancy keyboard

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I haven't used a laptop for many years now, I mostly code from an android tablet, into a remote machine. You can find ones with great battery life and keyboards.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh wow, I'm always surprised to hear about the coding habits of prolific devs. So you dont use a local IDE? You run termux and the code in vi/emacs on server?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yep, I've coded remotely for many years now.

I used to use vim, but now helix, as my main rust and javascript/typescript IDE. So I mainly use termux+ssh .

Unfortunately for android dev you pretty much have to run android studio, so I use an android VNC client for that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Don’t quote me on this but I’m quite sure you can run Linux on Samsung phones with termux/prootdistro

Edit: I specifically mentioned Samsung because of their Dex mode but it seems plenty of other phones also allow video out via usb these days. I can’t say for sure they work well with Linux but I do know it’s doable on Samsung.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I remember the Ubuntu Touch had a feature like that that kinda worked, but they never fully commited to it.

As for doing it through Termux, I'm not convinced that X11 works terribly well in Android for it to reliably extend a display to another screen. I've never tried though, so I could be we way off