I mean, I can live without for the brief period where we’ll be needing our AIs to run remotely. It would be within months probably that we’ll have some free GPT4All implementation (or similar) running on a phone. There’s already whisperAI running locally at decent speeds on a phone for STT, and there’s SherpaTTS running Kaldi TTS also with pretty realistic results…all fully local, all available in f-Droid. I don’t think there’s anything stopping your phone from running a lower distilled model locally, if your RAM allows it.

Some apps can detect they have not been installed through the play store and will refuse to work. My banking app pulls this bullshit, among others.

But then… It’s just Google.

Thanks… I had no idea this existed. I can now connect to the work remote desktop software with a single window perfectly integrated. This is incredibly helpful. Moreover I can now say I’m using Winapps in order to run Windows App. I guess now they can rename the remote desktop app again to Winapp to go full circle. Or maybe Winamp, just to confuse people. Or just App, to make it impossible to ever troubleshoot.

EDIT: At any rate, this works really beautifully. It’s a bit of a PITA to set up if you’re having the VM via virt-manager but hell if it’s not as smooth as native.

KDE includes now a default option in their settings to do this. It’s in the Colors & Themes > Night Light menu.

I mean if it’s local network I’d use kde connect. It has a bazillion features, but sending files through the normal share button is one of them.

Or newpipe… Or pipepipe.

They didn’t say anything about not removing pixels from the tree, which is what people are complaining about. So yeah, they pretty much did.

Sure… Just the Pixel project is discontinued.

Any recommendations for the contacts app?

It’s…kinda like a VM? But without the VM part. It runs in a container, AFAIK, so it’s using a lot less resources than a full blown VM. It works for a lot of apps. And the ARM emulation plugin helps a lot, too. But then again, I usually stick to mostly FOSS apps, and refuse to install the gapps suite. So, no Play Store. I can still install apps via Aurora, but there’s a problem there between Waydroid and Aurora, which leads to frequent crashes (of Aurora) when trying to install an app. But once the app is installed (you can download it by other means, and just install it into waydroid by running something like ‘waydroid app install myfile.apk’.

Yup…and Google has failed to have a competitive alternative since. Does it still work for Samsung? I mean, full blown monitor via USB. I think they removed several features at some point (like forcing it to work only via wireless/miracast or something) after the S10 (the best phone they’ve made IMHO).

I think people are missing the bigger picture (heh) here. The use case for this would be to hook your phone to a USB-HDMI or DP cable adapter thingamagig, and then using your phone on a monitor as a full blown desktop computer. Google nerfed this feature on purpose, leaving it only to work on tablets.

Wow this one looks major, and possibly disruptive.

You mean…waydroid? It’s literally a translation layer running on a container, AFAIK. Then you can add an additional ARM emulation plugin for specific apps that don’t have x86 versions.

I always worry with these guys… What’s their business plan then? How are they making money? Why not open source?

I always worry with Magic Earth… What’s their business plan then? How are they making money?

I believe Magic Earth has plenty of trackers?

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They also don’t allow country/located results but then in English. Hell, English is one of the legally accepted languages of this country :(