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I had to do a bunch of ARM32/ARM64 development the other day and it was frustrating to be in a situation where my only choices were an ARM VM in the cloud or to
by kevingadd 2y ago
I had to do a bunch of ARM32/ARM64 development the other day and it was frustrating to be in a situation where my only choices were an ARM VM in the cloud or to buy a mac. I have this fantastic ARM-based smartphone on my desk, why can't I plug it in to a keyboard and monitor and use it as a real computer? Maybe one day.
- freedomben 2y agoI keep a Raspberry Pi for when I need to do some ARM64 stuff, but yes I agree it's a bit frustrating. Though, I'd love to skip ARM altogether and go to RISC-V
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago> I have this fantastic ARM-based smartphone on my desk, why can't I plug it in to a keyboard and monitor and use it as a real computer? The monitor requires hardware support that's semi-rare, but the rest should work? It's been a long time since I saw a phone that didn't support USB host mode so you can in fact just plug in a keyboard and mouse if you have an adaptor/dock. Beyond that, you're just limited by software availability, but on Android you can use F-Droid to get Termux. Not sure about iOS; maybe iSH?