With the latest release of android it now supports some Linux functionality. I got docker installed simply by following Docker’s docs.

Any thoughts or uses for a mobile homelab? What would be useful to have mobile?

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      I dont know how you can stand using iOS. Its just so unintuitive, theres no back button and I can’t even figure out copy/paste.

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        Copy paste is easy. You just tap on the, no wait you tap on the, fuck hold on. You tap, there we are, on the word and hold until it highlights. No wait hold on. Fuck. There we are. Ok now you tap on the highlighted word to copy, fuck wait Ah fuck it just type it again yourself

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    I dont think I so much want this for my phone as for my homemade AndroidTV boxes. Losing the Linux functionality after switching from Kodi/libreelec had been my biggest pain point.

    Can’t wait to see my TV boxes show up in my Beszel dashboard!

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      Can you tell me more about these homemade android TV boxes? I built a really shitty front end to “turn” my Linux based mini PCs into a media streamer but it lacks things like Chromecast and reliability haha

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        I have two TV boxes, one is a Raspberry pi 4, the other is a pi 5. I installed KonstaKANG’s android port for the Pi’s. Depending on your familiarity with flashing the Pi’s this video from Explaining Computers offers a way to get Konsta installed through PINN. Once they’re up and running they act just like a cellphone. This remote works really well.

        Install f-droid, and/or obtainium, and/or Aurora Store and you can install whatever apps you want on the box.

        I don’t personally use Chromecast, so I can’t vouch for that working. Mine is more centered around consuming Jellyfin (jellyfin android tv app), youtube (newpipe), podverse, and Radiodroid

        I really liked Kodi, but could never get it to correctly sync across devices so I finally went the android route. I’ve been pretty happy

        Feel free to pick my brain if you have more questions

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          Ah okay. The Chromecast thing is a killer feature I’ve been looking for, my media PC that I have now is pretty good, just doesn’t have that one thing.

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    The change maker feature would be to arrive home and plug your phone in a dock station and have a desktop to use as a pc

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      I’ve been talking about this for years! I got the idea from razer but I’m imagining the laptop chassis adds a nice screen, enormous battery, better IO, and then it just uses the touch screen as the track pad.

      It could be so cool

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      This has been supported on Samsung devices for years - it was first added to the Galaxy S8 (2017). It’s called Samsung DeX. You can plug a phone or tablet into a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and it gives you a full screen experience.

      They have docking stations, but you can also just use a USB C hub.

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      But then how would I look at my phone while using my Desktop.

      I’ll need a dummy phone to doom scroll on.

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    my friends complaining that my plex server because I left my phone on the bus and it ran out of charge

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    I’m assuming your phone has to be rooted for this right? Or is docker running without root? I didn’t realize anything like this was possible. This is interesting.

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      Yea kinda. Android is switching to quarterly releases, so my phone now says “Android 15” but this was QPR2 specifically

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    With the latest release of android it now supports some Linux functionality.

    Wait, it does? Gonna have to check that out.