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Small, incremental improvements don't make shockwaves like the old massive tech leaps used to. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I used it for a while when I worked two jobs. Is clock out of job 1 and had an agreement with them to be allowed to use the screen and input devices at my desk for job 2. Then I'd plug in my Tab S8 and get to work, instead of having to carry to chunky laptops.
So it still exists! What I noticed is that a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 feels underpowered and that Android, and this is the bigger issue, does not have a single browser that works as a full fledged desktop version. All browser I tested has some shortcomings, especially with drag and drop or context menus or whatever. Like things work but you're constantly reminded that you're running a mobile os. Like weird behavior or oversized context menus or whatever.

I wish you could lunch into a Linux vm instead of Dex UI. Or for Samsung to double down on the concept. The Motorola Atrix was so ahead of it's time. Like your phone transforming into your tablet, into your laptop, into your desktop. How fucking cool is that?
Apple would be in a prime position, they're entire ecosystem is now ARM based and they have the chips with enough power. But it's not their style to do something ~~cool~~ to threaten their bottom line. Why sell one phone when you can sell phone, laptop, tablet, desktop separately?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

It's super easy to forget but Ubuntu tried to do it back in the day with Convergence as well, and amusingly this article also compares it to Microsoft's solution on Windows Phone. It's a brilliant idea but apparently no corporation with the ecosystem to make it actually happen has the will to risk actually changing the world despite every company talking about wanting an "iPhone moment"

Apple would be in a prime position, they’re entire ecosystem is now ARM based and they have the chips with enough power. But it’s not their style to do something cool to threaten their bottom line. Why sell one phone when you can sell phone, laptop, tablet, desktop separately?

Let's be real, Apple's biggest risk would be losing the entire student and young professional market by actually demonstrating that they don't need a Mac Book Pro to use the same 5 webapps that would work just as well on a decent Chromebook (if such a thing existed)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Linux vm

Or just something like Termux, a terminal emulator for Android. Example screenshot (XFCE desktop over VNC server), I didn't know what to fit in there:

Full desktop apps, running natively under Android. For better compatibility Termux also has proot-distro (similar to chroot) where you can have... let me copy-paste

Supported distributions (format: name < alias >):

  * Alpine Linux < alpine >
  * Arch Linux < archlinux >
  * Artix Linux < artix >
  * Chimera Linux < chimera >
  * Debian (bookworm) < debian >
  * deepin < deepin >
  * Fedora < fedora >
  * Manjaro < manjaro >
  * openKylin < openkylin >
  * OpenSUSE < opensuse >
  * Pardus < pardus >
  * Ubuntu (24.04) < ubuntu >
  * Void Linux < void >

Install selected one with: proot-distro install <alias>

Though there is apparently some performance hit. I just prefer Android, but maybe you could run even full LibreOffice under some distro this way.

If it can be done by Termux, then someone like Samsung could definitely make something like that too, but integrated with the system and with more software available in their repos.

What's missing from the picture but is interesting too is NGINX server (reverse proxy, lazy file sharing, wget mirrored static website serving), kiwix-serve (serving ZIM files including the entire Wikipedia from SD card) and Navidrome (music server).
And brought to any internet-connected computer via Cloudflare QuickTunnel (because it doesn't need account nor domain name). The mobile data upload speed will finally matter, a lot.

You get the idea, GNU+Linux. And Android already has the Linux kernel part.