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Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • rodneylives@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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…)

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    • BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Hiding the file system is Good Actually because…

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      Nope, can’t come up with a single reason. It’s fucking terrible.

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  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s more than just that, it’s too slow a desktop OS like environment that’s more suited for mouse and keyboard too. It’s not just your phone screen on a bigger screen.

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    • quantumcrop@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I guess the point is that phone hardware has been powerful enough to do it for a while. It’s surprising that no big companies other than Samsung really put any effort into making it work software wise.

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• snowdriftissue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nah it’s more like a toaster fridge

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