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Your Pixel can now double up as a full Android PC with nothing more than a USB-C cable (www.androidauthority.com)
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This has been hidden in developer options for a while now, but they're now releasing it officially. Limited to Pixel 8 and newer devices and no 4k yet.

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[–] quantumcrop@lemmy.today 1 points 14 hours ago

I guess the point is that phone hardware has been powerful enough to do it for a while. It's surprising that no big companies other than Samsung really put any effort into making it work software wise.