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Indeed, having full blown Linux on the phone would honestly be the ideal option. I'm honestly surprised that nobody tried building hardware around this idea. You could have a single device that acts like a phone, but then you could make it dockable and the dock could add more ram and a better GPU, so then you could use it like a desktop. So, you'd just carry a single device around with you all the time and use it in different modes as needed. This would also avoid the need for using a lot of online services, like the calendar, which sync data across devices. You'd just always have all your data in one place.
That's a cool perspective! Hadn't thought of it like that, moreso the utility of a purely FOSS system that can't be fucked with like Google does with AOSP.
Exactly, and it's interesting to think how so many services exist simply because we constantly switch devices. If you just have one drive with all your data on it, then the whole problem goes away. And the dock could also have a raid built in, so every time you sync with the dock you make a backup of your system, so if your drive fails you just swap the other one in and keep going. I really would love to see local first future of computing.
Interesting, thanks for sharing!