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Mecha Comet is a modular Linux handheld coming soon to Kickstarter for $159 - Liliputing (liliputing.com)

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can do all that with USB C and a touch keyboard. There is no good reason under the sun to make a device that is this dated in concept.

Whatever the market is they're trying to fill, it'll be so extremely niche that this product is already a failure. It's not the first time some kind of ultra niche product from kickstarter failed before launch because except for a small handful even cared.

[–] Michal@programming.dev 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

How do you install utilities like kubectl and azure CLI on Android?

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

I can do that and more on my Pinephone running Kali Nethunter. While it's mostly a gimmick with awfull battery life, I've already used it a few times mostly in regards to wifi pentesting for my cyber-sec job, i.e when going to lunch onsite and you notice a new wifi AP you didn't see when inside the office you're working on.

And since it has an USB-C, I can simply plug in a dock with two USB-As, Ethernet, PD and HDMI, to turn it into a full-fledged Kali desktop.

[–] Michal@programming.dev 1 points 11 hours ago

Pinephone looks great and the keyboard case seems very ergonomic. Fo you use it as your daily driver?

[–] petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 18 hours ago

If you get a phone and install PostmarketOS on it, you could also get pretty far on it, couldn't you?