Anyone using Pixel Tablet as a laptop alternative?

Dumdum

missing-root no PGP at all

Uh, it does. In the app:
Settings > Select whichever account you want (under "Accounts") to add PGP to > End-to-end encryption

Obviously this requires OpenKeychain, but its there.

missing-root

Dumdum maybe I forgot to add this.

OpenKeyChain is unmaintained. Maybe security updates, but unmaintained.

So relying on this is a no-go.

Fair-Email has a payment model and I think PGP internally integrated. I find the UI not suitable for a phone i.e. it may be just right for Tablets.

Conjure6589

I use my pixel tablet (with Graphene installed) for probably 90-95% of things instead of my laptop. Web browsing, email, notes, music, maps, etc... are all perfectly fine for me on the pixel tablet. I see a lot of complaints about the lack of a keyboard, mouse and stylus but I never use a stylus and I like my 3rd party keyboard and mouse just fine, it doesn't matter to me it's not an "official accessory". I still need my laptop for a few things that don't work on Android but all in all, I'm very happy with the pixel tablet! YMMV.

missing-root

Conjure6589 Android will get KVM support soon, if it doesnt already. Currently running a Linux desktop like with Lindroid requires root and is probably not that secure.

But we can expect something in the coming years, so that desktop apps may be able to run like on Chromebooks, where the implementation is honestly pretty damn good (minimal VM, running a container, the apps are streamed to the OS using Wayland and integrated in the desktop)

Dumdum

missing-root maybe I forgot to add this.

OpenKeyChain is unmaintained. Maybe security updates, but unmaintained.

So relying on this is a no-go.

Sure, but it does have PGP. I was just correcting/clarifying the "no PGP at all" comment.

sonice

missing-root I'm kind of hoping Google will announce the Ferrochrome project in a month, but thats probably way too early. More likely we will have way better desktop experience a year from now. I think pKVM has already been used to run Windows 10 as a proof of concept and thats already some time ago. My main laptop has ChromeOS and I use the Linux environment constantly and its so good. I've got multiple VMs with multiple containers for different risk levels.

Carlos-Anso

missing-root Image editing

Snapseed with disabled Internet is okay, on a phone. But no replacement for GIMP

Theres Krita which my friend uses extensively on their tablet. They publish more frequently on Play Store

missing-root

Carlos-Anso true, Krita! How is the Android integration?

I know other KDE apps like Elisa are pretty horrible, needing like all legacy permissions and still being buggy.

But with storage scopes, this is likely very fine.

Do they publish their APKs themselves? F-Droid is slower, but I would still prefer to not need Google Play.

Aru

sonice it's pretty much unlikely GrapheneOS will benefit from this, no? I can't see Ferrochrome integrated into AOSP.

wahY0tai

I will jump on the tablet 2 bandwagon (I assume that one will have 7 years support, and also displayport over usb-c)

missing-root

wahY0tai yeah we have to assume the current Tablet is a MVP to test if this even works.

They had one tablet before? But kinda long ago and didnt go so well?

@sonice I am really curious about ChromeOS. I could probably not live with the extremely reduced file manager, settings, support for external media, storage... and using Chrome.

Is there ChromiumOS available? It is such a great OS, wouldnt the core components be full of Google spyware.

Just like Android, a ton of potential, but I wouldnt use it. I am very very happy that GrapheneOS exists.

Carlos-Anso

missing-root
Apparently it works well except the text tool has some issues.
Not sure about if/where they publish the apk.

Dumdum

missing-root Do they publish their APKs themselves?

https://download.kde.org/stable/krita/5.2.3/

Tested and it installs with Obtainium. Make sure to put arm64 in the Custom APK link filter box, otherwise it might pick up another architecture like it did for me.

missing-root

Dumdum but this doesnt do version upgrades.

Dumdum

missing-root
How have you tested that? A new version would have to be released, unless you've tried it before. Or is it a problem with HTML sources? I haven't installed any apps from HTML, so I don't know if updates are a problem with it. Weird for HTML to be a source if it can't update.

missing-root

Dumdum the link has the version hardcoded.

I think you could use regex for the download URL somehow but I dont know regex... tried [1-999]-[1-999]-[1-999] but I think that is wrong.

https://download.kde.org/stable/krita/\d+\.\d+\.\d+/

Something like this? But didnt work.

Dumdum

missing-root
Try the following:

Source URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/krita/
Intermediate link (tap the " + Intermediate link " button): krita/([0-9]+\.)*[0-9]+/$
Custom APK link filter: arm64
Version string extraction regex: krita/([^/]+)/

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