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by jajko 557 days ago
Can confirm, S22 ultra when plugged into Dell docking box (or whatever its called, not a typical docking station, it just connects with laptop via thick USB-C cable) works out of box, with mouse and keyboard.

Firefox with ublock origin works very well for example. The only thing is it doesn't adjust automatically to native screen resolution (1600p in my case). But its still just an Android, even with full filesystem access it feels vastly subpar to normal desktop PC if I need more than just browsing or other android apps.

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My dream was to be able to use VR glasses and something like Samsung dex for an ultra portable coding workstation.

I bought a pair of Viture Pro glasses, but they were pretty unusable for coding for me. Maybe for watching videos would have been OK but not typing / needing to read all areas of the screen.

I am thinking of using it as a remote desktop to connect to my home or server PC. Shouldn't be very CPU consuming.
Yeah Firefox on DeX also lacks pc style tabs which Chrome does have. It's the only case where I really use chrome a lot.
Chrome even switches to tabs when you unfold the Fold phones, which is really nice.