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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 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours 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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[–] Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

And are there apps for normal desktop office work?

I'm surely not gonna use Google docs or Microsoft's cloud clobber.

[–] snowdriftissue@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Any apps that are available on Android can be used with desktop mode, including Collabora and OnlyOffice. I assume there will be variable levels of optimization though since this is still so new.

Edit: Forgot to mention that you should also be able to run linux apps https://www.androidauthority.com/run-desktop-linux-apps-on-android-how-to-3586539/

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

So new, as in, it has been available forever, just not on google phones. But every other manufacturer has done it at one point or another in the last ten years if not more.

[–] snowdriftissue@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah I'm not very familiar with the android landscape since everything that's not GrapheneOS is a total shitshow. Sounds like app optimization may be less of a concern than I anticipated, that's great