Really only interested in something like Graphene, Lineage, or a Linux mobile tablet that can work with a typical Linux distro and display over USB-C. It is just a casual conversational ask. Maybe one of y’all has tried or knows the answer. I won’t use anything that runs google stuff or is a pain to load a custom ROM.

  • JackGreenEarth
    14•19 days ago

    I wish there was a way to subscribe to posts on Lemmy so you would get notifications for replies, even if you didn’t create it.

    • Zagorath
      6•19 days ago

      I usually just leave the post open in a tab and come back to it eventually. Sometimes that’s a couple of days later…sometimes months.

      • JackGreenEarth
        2•19 days ago

        Doesn’t work in the app so well. Additionally, there’s no read history, so if you click away from a post and close the app without commenting or voting, and have posts marked read hidden automatically, it’s gone forever

        • Zagorath
          2•18 days ago

          Yeah that’s definitely a problem. It’s actually part of why I stopped using a Reddit app and just used old.reddit.com on my phone, back in the day. But my experience is that lemmy-ui is not as nice to use on mobile. I do occasionally use the “copy permalink” option from the app, and then paste that into my browser. But that’s inconvenient enough that I only quite rarely do it.

            • Zagorath
              2•3 hours ago

              Uh, no, not notifications. You can open a post in a tab and come back to it a day or two…or 60…later. That’s a feature that apps don’t give you, only the browser. Which is why I mentioned I stopped using apps.

              • @Flagstaff@programming.dev
                1•3 hours ago

                You can sort of do that through the starring system. At least, Thunder lets you star posts and comments for later. However, if you use it also as a way to track favorite submissions, then they’ll get intermixed.

                Reddit also has post-saving, which I think was implemented around 6 years ago or so (I’ve been on there for a while lol).

    • JoshCodes
      3•19 days ago

      The connect app offers a subscribe button for posts. Idk if that’s helpful?

    • HubertManne
      1•19 days ago

      it might just be an mbin thing but I thought it was fediverse but I have a little bullhorn icon I can click to get that. it also has a mute.

    • HubertManne
      0•19 days ago

      geez if I had known this I might have been inclined to check those out. thats a pretty huge feature for me. so useful for trouble shooting. gonna check the lenovo tab extreme. EDITED - doh seems to be a software thing so even if it was available not what I thought. I took the OP’s thing to be such it could even see like the bios of a host. Like an external display in every way.

  • @TdotMatrix@lemmy.ml
    3•19 days ago

    Does it necessarily have to be an independent tablet when not connected to your laptop? If not, then look into a “portable monitor”. That should do what you’re looking for. USB-C on both ends. Plugs into your laptop and can be used as an external display / secondary screen.

    • @j4k3@lemmy.worldOP
      2•19 days ago

      The utility of having both would be enough for me to consider purchasing a tablet when I will not otherwise. It should only be a small amount of code in AOSP to work with any device. I am also half ass shining a spotlight on the ridiculousness of this not existing by default on all devices. There are even protocols for display over micro USB. At the very least this should be a F-Droid FOSS app. All devices should go as far as having this potential functionality like an EOL where the modem can be disconnected along with all other apps and only run the device as a video pass through so that no code vulnerabilities from abandoned orphaned kernels can run exposed to external sources. Then the user could safely select to continue using any Android device as a display.

      • @Flagstaff@programming.dev
        2•3 hours ago

        Man, 100% agreed. Devs didn’t think about EOL at the time, but hopefully someone will implement this at some point because environmentalism has been growing bigger than ever.

        Surprisingly, even for interactive screen-mirroring, there is still generally only scrcpy—which is even used by giants like SideQuest for Meta Quest VR headsets (since they’re Droids). Previously there was Vysor.io, but that’s closed-source and for-profit.

        Anyway, this totally reminded me that I once really tried to look into this but found that the only solution in the entire known English-speaking world for this is currently the closed-source, freemium Spacedesk + a rooted tablet. I gave up because at the time I didn’t wanna try to root the tablet due to the mandatory factory reset, but I eventually caved in to install Kotatsu lol. Haven’t retried…