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Like using your phone as a desktop computer, when it's connected to a screen and keyboard and runs a full desktop OS. Having a full access to all desktop apps,
by fsflover 2mo ago
Like using your phone as a desktop computer, when it's connected to a screen and keyboard and runs a full desktop OS. Having a full access to all desktop apps, development environments. Also this, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201496 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201496.
Also, choosing the OS means freedom to choose the interface you like or develop your own (or to pay somebody to do that for you). Freedom to not be in walled gardens.
- jhasse 2mo agoWe don't need multiple OSs for that. One unlocked and FOSS OS is enough.
- codedokode 2mo agoI suppose it would be relatively slow and how too little memory to be usable for programming, for example.
- dminik 2mo agoYou know, we used to develop on computers with less than a Gig of RAM. A phone with 6/8/12 GB should be plenty enough to to do some development on. Or even less if you don't need to compile. Seriously, you can run the windows version of GTA V on a phone. It runs pretty ok as well.
- seba_dos1 2mo agoI have no troubles compiling most stuff on a phone with 3GB RAM. I even worked on Mesa on it once when I was too lazy to set up cross-compilation. I only struggled with OOMs on some Rust apps so far (and I haven't even had zram set up sensibly back when I tried them, so maybe these would work now).