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I want my phone to work like Bluetooth headphones, but for my real actual computer.
I want my phone to be no more than a graphical display of my own data being processed on my own hardware.
Kinsey
Kinsey  
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I've been contemplating a more generic form of this lately. Still considering how discovery and auth might work and what existing tools could be leveraged
Vivian
Vivian  
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honestly not too sure of how it works but do you think tailscale looks like an option here?
Shae Erisson
Shae Erisson  
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@vivello yeah, I think so.
Any sort of personal VPN would be a good idea for this.
@Vivian
Shae Erisson
Shae Erisson  
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@vivello tail scale is a wrapper around wire guard, makes it easy to setup a personal VPN.
It's worth trying out took me fifteen minutes to setup a network and add my devices.
I'd planned a whole weekend to setup my network, had to find something else to do with the rest of my time.
@Vivian
Michael Dexter
Michael Dexter  
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For what it's worth, Apple Sidecar will do that with an iPad. I cannot verify this myself.
silverwizard
silverwizard  
I have started using what I call the Nunchuck computer

It's a tablet running a full linux with QoL tools to let it act like a tablet, and then it can be plugged into a dock (or just keyboard) to be a full sized laptop. And then I can stream a larger desktop to get more power, or offload to my servers for better compute or storage.

I really wish that the main device was a phone with an optional larger screen though.


For my wife we are placing Thinkcentres around the house, and then getting a nice portable screen, a small cluster of smart speakers, and a portable keyboard/mouse, making a lapdesk which is a full workstation, but plugs into compute that lives on places with good seating in our house, and uses Mycroft for voice control the rest of the time. The homedir on the users is stored on an NFS, so her individual data is automatically backed up, and the different devices have the same data.

Reimagining computing is so necessary!
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