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What uses of a smartphone do you think most people miss out on? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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By far my most favorite use is as a notepad that I always have with me. I use a custom keyboard to make typing faster and more accurate.

Anything y'all like to do with your phones that you feel like most people miss out on?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Installing postmarketOS on it to turn it into a full fledged pocket PC. It now runs all your favorite Linux-compatible desktop applications except for those that don't have ARM64 versions, and even then emulation layers can fix this. It's not 100% as I haven't been able to get Steam working (it starts but errors out before the login screen) though I have seen some people have success on other distros so maybe it's a pmOS/Alpine/musl specific issue even though I was using distrobox with Debian to actually run it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is there a single phone made in the last ten years that will run postmarketOS at all?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The best one right now is the OnePlus 6/6T, which has a relatively modern SoC.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I use mine with Microsoft Lens (I know, but one of their best products that doesn't spy on you) as a document scanner and then sync it to my document server paperless-ngx.

It can angle correct, color correct, and has good filters for b&w and greyscale that often make it look like a real document scanner if your phone has a decent camera.

Much better than drive or any of the open source options to be honest, sadly....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

iOS has a built in document scanner, which does all of that as well. Has never let me down.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Samsung DEX.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

If you have a phone with a headphone jack, you have a portable radio... without the antenna. But just plug in headphones and you're good to go.

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