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0 pointsImustaskforhelp7mo ago0 comments

Super cool! What I am wondering is if there is any interest in lets say having a smartphone that has this tech(see my other comment wishing for a open source phone somewhere on hackernews or the internet really)

So lets say we can just have a really lightweight customizable smartphone which just connects over wifi or wire to something like raspberry pi or any really lightweight/small servers which you can carry around and installing waydroid on it could make a really pleasant device and everything could be completely open source and you can make things modular if you want...

Like, maybe some features like music/basic terminal and some other things can be seen from the device too via linux x and anything else like running android apps calls up the server which you can carry around in a backpack with a powerbank

If I really wanted to make it extremely ideal, the device can have a way of plugging another power bank and then removing the first powerbank while still running the system so that it doesn't shut down and you literally got a genuinely fascinating system that is infinitely modular.

Isn't this sort of what stadia was? But just targeted more for gaming side since Games requires gpu's which are kinda expensive...

What are your thoughts? I know its nothing much but I just want a phone which works for 90% of tasks which lets be honest could be done through a really tiny linux or sun ray as well and well if you need something like an android app running, be prepared for a raspberry pi with a cheap battery running in your pocket. Definitely better than creating systems of mass surveillance but my only nitpick of my own idea would be that it may be hard to secure the communication aspect of it if you use something like wifi but I am pretty sure that we can find the perfect communication method too and it shouldn't be thaaat big of a deal with some modifications right?

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theblazehen7mo ago

I've been wanting to do that. I'm not sure of the status of remote display forwarding for wayland, but worst case you can run postmarketos on your device, then `ssh -X yourhost weston` to start a weston compositor which displays over X, and then run waydroid inside there.

The bulkiness of having a powerbank + rpi with you could get a little challenging to deal with

ImustaskforhelpOP7mo ago

Hey I like your approach too but it seems that there are some subtle differences in our approaches

I mean that I take a screen and a esp32 or any microcontroller like raspberry pi and create a modular phone for just enough to boot from a device in my backpack lets say

And what you are saying is to take an already working phone and then running postmarketos on it to then connect to a host

Theoretically... (yes?) Postmarketos is a linux but their support is finnicky from what I know... like it scares me or makes me think I need a really specific phone which might cost a lot of sorts or comparatively more than say my modular approach

Everything else sure, they are the same.

I believe that the microcontroller approach isntead of postmarketos can be better because of more freedom of the amount of Os supported but that isn't that big of a deal

just searched and somebody has created something very similar to my ideal https://hackaday.com/2023/08/03/open-source-cell-phone-based...

just plug in a ssh server from raspberry pi of sorts and a wifi card to connect them of sorts :)

Now If you are wanting to do it, Do you want to contribute together? I will send you a mail after which we can talk on something like signal or feel free to message me on signal and anything else really!

If I can be honest, I want to hack around with my kaechoda 100 which worked with 32 mb... like it never lagged in 32 mb and my 1 gig android stutters and I definitely want to figure out what OS does kaechoda use that its so so fast and actually good-enough as well

Like anyways, I will message ya and if anybody is an expert in embedded, please also contact me if someone else is also interested like you! I genuinely want to make this a reality and write more about it :p

have a nice day and I will send you a mail to your gmail!

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