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Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android


I recently learned something that blew my mind;

That's a graphical environment via X11 with real window management and compositing, Firefox comfortably playing YouTube (including working audio), and a status bar with system stats. The 8 series seems to be the first Pixel phone where Google decided to be marginally less evil and not lock out the DP Alt Mode feature in software (forcing people to buy Chromecasts? My definition of "sufficiently capable" was Neovim + functioning langauge servers (Nim, Python, Dart, JS), Node, and Flutter (compiling to both desktop and web apps that could be run and debugged).

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