If you have a phone with a headphone jack, you have a portable radio... without the antenna. But just plug in headphones and you're good to go.
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I use my smartphone to keep my book open when reading at a table. It does a pretty good job there.
Don't limit yourself to technical uses.
SSH
I use mine with Microsoft Lens (I know, but one of their best products that doesn't spy on you) as a document scanner and then sync it to my document server paperless-ngx.
It can angle correct, color correct, and has good filters for b&w and greyscale that often make it look like a real document scanner if your phone has a decent camera.
Much better than drive or any of the open source options to be honest, sadly....
May I recommend OSS Document Scanner + Syncthing? Both apps are FOSS and it looks to me like that they might be able to replace what Microsoft Lens does for you with the advantage that you are free of Microsoft software.
iOS has a built in document scanner, which does all of that as well. Has never let me down.
Wdym "that doesn't spy on you"?
It doesn't request location access, it doesn't request contact or phone access, it doesn't require you to sign into a microsoft account, it doesn't constantly send data back home, etc... It only requests file permission and camera permission while you are using the app. A lot of apps harvest your data, and the entire Windows OS is built around harvesting your data and spying on your every click. This app doesn't seem to do that as far as anyone can discern.
Its not open source, you don't know if they're going to log every thing you scan for targeted advertising (google makes its revenue from ads)
True, but through pihole, you can see if your phone makes pings to microsoft servers during use.
I run a real linux on my phone, so I can use it for anything I can use my laptop/desktop/unix for. I think what people forget is that phones are ultimately just computers with a WWAN radio, and the restrictive nature of Android and especially iOS obfuscate that.
postmarketos or do you run it as a vm?
postmarketOS, native, on pinephone. There's a few mobile devices these days that can run mobile Linux.
Syncthing
What's syncthing?
It's a set of apps that help you sync files between devices. It does so without relying on a centralized server, which is a curse (because you need the devices to be on and online) and a blessing (because it can be fast and private). I use it every day. It's great!
Thanks
I used my phone a lot to stream games from my PC to other rooms. Connect a Gamepad and Hdmi cable, and you can play all games from your library. Lag is minimal, but I haven't tried it for competitive games.
how? what did you set up for that?
On PC popular options are Steam Remote Play and Moonlight.
for Xbox it's built into the Xbox app, Greenlight is a good alternative on PC
for PS4/5 there's the PS Remote Play app, but a lot of people prefer the PSPlay app on Android and Chiaki on PC for their improved functionality.
As for getting it on the TV any simple USBC->HDMI adapter will work.
You can use it as a webcam if you suddenly need to work from home and there's a shortage of webcams.
Originally I had to install an app for that, but it shows up as a standard USB option on my Pixel now.
I moved my PC to a corner of my house without an Ethernet jack, I didn't want to drill any holes, pull any cables, dug out an old smartphone, connected with a micro USB (!) cable, enabled USB tethering, connected the phone via WiFi and had a nice Internet connection
nice, but usb tethering has always been slower than ethernet in my experience
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