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Re:iPhone DevOps by danieldk on Thursday August 14, 2025 @06:16AM (#44898756)
I think Fairphone 6 does not have DP-Alt and only USB 2 data transfer, so there is no way to drive a hi-res screen.

Google Pixel is supposed to ship a more complete desktop in Android 16 QPR1. Also has a Linux VM.

Of course, Samsung has had a pretty complete desktop on phones that support DeX for a while now.

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Re:iPhone DevOps by marci on Thursday August 14, 2025 @09:42AM (#44900275)
FP 5 has DP-Alt, are you sure the 6 doesn't?

edit: You're right, an unfortunate downgrade https://forum.fairphone.com/t/fp6-discussion-about-usb-2-and...

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Re:iPhone DevOps by thewebguyd on Thursday August 14, 2025 @03:39PM (#44904692)
> Google Pixel is supposed to ship a more complete desktop in Android 16 QPR1. Also has a Linux VM.

I'm actually really excited for this and am watching it closely, although I believe right now it's limited to Debian? It might be the thing that finally tempts me out of iOS & the whole Apple ecosystem.

I want the one device dream, but I want to be able to run my own OS on it, even if it's in a VM for desktop mode, so I can bring my arch+hyprland setup with me. It can run Android in "phone" mode that's fine, then when I hook it up to my dock or a kb+mouse it'll launch arch.

I won't go all in on it though until it looks like Google is committed for the long haul. I don't want to switch "ecosystems" and rely on it only for them to kill it by Android 18 or whatever.

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