Future Androids may let you dock them and use them as a desktop – as standard
  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    4 months ago

    i use dex but if they can find a way to let this desktop mode work with 3rd party launchers unlike dex it’ll be welcome

  • Pasta Dental@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Ive never really understood the appeal of desktop modes like this or Dex, like, whenever i am somewhere with a keyboard, a mouse, a monitor with some cables, the likelyhood of there already being a fully working computer are very high, and the chances that the computer works better at what I want to achieve are much higher than my dinky phone with phone apps on it

    • Quack Doc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I use it a lot, I keep a little dock with me and a small bluetooth mouse and keyboard, when I’m typing on the go, I can just plug in when I come home and everything is there.

      exact same thing with my emulators. I can also chroot into arch and get a full blown desktop environment if needed

    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Because this pocket computer is your enclave, with your data, and settings. You don’t have to login to someone else’s computer.

    • ValenThyme@reddthat.comEnglish
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      4 months ago

      i’m doing school on a samsung tablet and a lot of stuff just works nicer with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse in dex especially web based tests.

      So i tend to read and do forum posts with it as a tablet and then for online classes and tests i pull out the keyboard and mouse.