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Discussion on: I'm planning to ditch my MacBook and move away from laptop computing

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jshamg

apparently it is not possible to use a phone as a dev-pc in any productive way, except u are using some sort of webIDE stuff that u can use with ur normal webbrowser. I tried so many possible solutions an it ended up buying me a s120 lenovo supercheap laptop. I know that it is possible to deploy linux on android. But what youre actually doing is, u run it in a container and then connect through VNC to your own device. and in the background is android still running. That is much to slow for a real workflow.
This is only useful for portable penetration testing.
greetings.

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rhymes • Edited

I'm not sure why you would use your phone to develop on it... Just to make the battery last 20 minutes :D ?

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For me as a Student it was quiete a good idea to keep always a capable device around you. I got a great Android tablet and I wanted to use it for sitting in a cafe or sth... But aparently it is not really possible anyways :D