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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

The start of something good!

(Until Google kills it.)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

They are going to play around with it for a bit, but they will abandon the system once it does get 12 quadrillion MAUs in the first quarter of release.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

This will be dead in 18 months. Don't bother even thinking about it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I remember DEX and it lasted a couple months before being killed. I even remember Motorolas Atrix. Wonder how many months this will last.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure DEX lasted multiple phone generations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I can confirm, my S21 and I were doing some web dev on vacation just a few months ago.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Dex is still a thing, and one UI 8 version of dex is being built upon this version of android desktop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Dex is still around, and still getting updates too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It'll be interesting to see how many phones have the GPU necessary to push that many pixels around. I'm guessing not many.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Most phone screens have the same or more pixels than most computer monitors

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My Pixel 6a has a resolution of 2400x1080. On its own, that's more than the 1080p that most people use these days. And it's not a particularly high resolution for a phone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Mine has the same resolution, but also 120hz refresh rate /shrug

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

DeX was released a pretty long time ago. My Galaxy Note 9 from 2018 could run it, I'm sure many modern phones are equally capable of running a desktop mode.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I vaguely recall a desktop mode phone around 2012. Not sure if it was DeX, may have been.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You're thinking of Motorola Atrix.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Ah, thank you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Pixel 10 are set get quite powerful GPUs with raytracing etc

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

You spelled "bad" wrong

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

So this is a chromebook, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I use this to mirror my android screen to Windows right now. It works well. You can mirror the screen, specify a specific app to run... Very versatile.

https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy