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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)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by snowdriftissue@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I've bought 1920x1200 IPS screen from temu. It is small, runs off the phone (if you want) power and works brilliantly. I'm using Windows RDP to use my desktop anywhere I want in the house. Works great for a few month, I had lower resolution for a couple updates, but the current version running on Android 17 Beta2 works just fine, at full resolution.

[–] Toldry@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Could you link the screen from temu?

[–] MIXEDUNIVERS@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

i hope it comes to graphene os

[–] Harmonics041@feddit.uk 10 points 5 hours ago

Its already available in developer settings on grapheneos I use it daily

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 46 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That's cool... I guess...

What I really want is to continue to use F-Droid though.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 hours ago

Install Graphene OS on your Pixel.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 16 points 16 hours ago

Samsung has been doing this with Dex for many years ffs.

[–] sonofearth@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine what the world could be if we had repairable Arch Linux Phones that can go full desktop mode just like the pixel rn. Aaahhh that turns me on!🤤

[–] j2k4@aussie.zone 3 points 5 hours ago

Arch user btw

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 37 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Why say "Your Pixel can now..." when my Pixel can't? Why not say "Pixel 8 and newer devices can now...".

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 23 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

JTskulk, it is only your Pixel that can not. It works for older Pixels as well, but they specifically tied a few kill switches to your commonly known geo-locations and anyone who ties their shoelaces in a fashion deemed less mertiable.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

their shoelaces in a fashion deemed less mertiable

Ian Knot ftw. Can't beat it.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I have to deduct a merit for myself, as I now see I spelled meritable with a typo.

[–] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 17 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

What is an android PC? Is that like a boat car?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 20 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

All phones are PCs, this is just connecting external displays.

The shock is that it couldn't already.

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Mobile devices tend to be much less versatile than PCs, mind you, and on purpose, due to one of Steve Jobs' most misguided apprehensions, that it'd be a good idea to hide the filesystem from the user. (Cue someone somehow claiming that's Good Actually in three, two, one...)

[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 hour ago

Hiding the file system is Good Actually because…

Tap for spoilerNope, can’t come up with a single reason. It’s fucking terrible.

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[–] snowdriftissue@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

Nah it's more like a toaster fridge

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 86 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This used to be exciting stuff about ten years ago when some of us still thought Google was doing cool things.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

I think it is just supposed to be Samsung DeX

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 20 points 23 hours ago (8 children)

A PC where I can't install what I want? WTF is the point of that bullshit.

Thanks but I'll stick to my steam deck for my portable Linux computing needs where I can do what the hell I want.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 157 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (24 children)

Your Pixel

Limited to Pixel 8 and newer devices and no 4k yet.

Oh, so your Pixel, but not my Pixel.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Let's be clear, for a feature that Samsung phones have had for a decade at this point.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 day ago

This feature debuted on the Moto Atrix in 2011. There was even a version of Ubuntu that could use the feature.

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[–] littlewonder@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Yep. Pixel 7P over here really bummed that this isn't available because of poor choices Google made at the hardware level on this phone.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

last thing I want is an android pc. well maybe not the last but nope

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I found these kind of features really useful. I had to submit some documents that I needed to do some work on before they got sent off. Everything was local, and with a keyboard/monitor/mouse I could have a browser, my email, and the document I was editing on the screen at the same time. So much faster typing and clicking.

I use my Steamdeck for that more often now if I just want a desktop while i am traveling if I don't want to bring the laptop. I just mount the phone as a folder, so even that is easy.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 19 hours ago

I mean I get it kinda. I just have never really went for the smartphone thing. The laptop is basically my end all be all of technology. I too though love my steamdeck. I actually bought it as kinda of indulgence that I justified with the idea it would become my new laptop but I really like having gaming on a different device and just not worrying about it on my laptop.

[–] duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago (7 children)

There is no such thing as an Android PC.

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago (7 children)

yay, locked down unrepairable computers owned by a us company that aids in war and surveillance!

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[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 0 points 10 hours ago

Yes, although it will be a full ANDROID PC.

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