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Your Pixel can now double up as a full Android PC with nothing more than a USB-C cable (www.androidauthority.com)
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This has been hidden in developer options for a while now, but they're now releasing it officially. Limited to Pixel 8 and newer devices and no 4k yet.

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[โ€“] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It's either Linux phone or fighting in the trenches a losing battle against one the most powerful companies in history. Android offering a desktop mode is good if taken in the context of running an open source software on hardware you own.

[โ€“] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago

yeah, it's nice in that context.

in fact, it's something that could have been a thing for a while, they had phones doing this in 2012ish.