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Samsung has announced a new app called Linux on Galaxy that works with its DeX docking station to bring a full Linux desktop experience to Galaxy Note8, Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphone users.
Comments from IDC sounded skeptical saying the concept is "interesting at best", but "the No. 1 challenge is that there is no public infrastructure for where you can dock your phone, other than in your home or office... Where you really would like to have that is at a hotel, at an airport, etc."
Samsung is touting their DeX environment as "supremely better than all the earlier attempts to have a smartphone docking into a big screen".
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday October 30 2017, @11:44PM (1 child)
Holy crap! That is a level of masochism I have never even guessed at before. I bow to you.
Hope you do it someday, though, because that has geek hall of fame written all over it.
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(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Saturday November 04 2017, @06:40AM
It is increasingly unlikely but yeah it does sound "fun" in a most insane way :D
It wouldn't be much more than a novelty thing these days when everyone can and do get themselves a smartphone and could buy a roll-up keyboard.
For a novelty item it would involve a lot of work though, at least to make it really interesting. The input part is mostly custom word processing and wouldn't be too bad on its own except to figure out what would be sensible for all the chording going on but the really fun part would start when the language itself is included/ported and then if one had gotten that far to combine it all into an added interpreter (I was aiming at Python).
Prototyping would use a number pad on a keyboard on a normal PC or similar. The input would function as "chorded coding" for a whole programming language, a mode selection or menu equivalent (most likely a dedicated starting key), as well as a chording for the full keyboard to input numeric values, variable and function names, etc., and also a sort of advanced auto-complete for programming structures and name completion for previously used variables, functions, etc. (requires list selection functionality).
The really nasty part enters once one tries to get this working on phone pads and phone screens and so on that are more or less unique for any phone model and/or sub-release of said model (which phone "OS" at which revision and so on and which software functionality and updates they have and so on)...
Too much work XD
If some crazy teenager (that is meant more as an energy quantity than anything else) wants to do it then they're free to do whatever they like: I too will be very impressed at the "hall of fame" nerdiness of someone completing something like it :)
I'm sure there's lots of people out there who could breeze through it but I fully understand it if it doesn't feel like it's worth it since I'm not doing it myself :)
Then again if it turns out we'll all live a few hundred years more than we expected to then it's not impossible I'll get back to you :D (until then it's in the "crazy ideas" stack with all the other ones —it's nowhere near the top of the "crasy stack" though so even with a few hundred years the prospect doesn't look too good for it).
As my silly "user bio" says I'm "likely insane" :)
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