Parker's Super Mobile Setup....

Hello Chris and especially Mike,

I come to you to brag about my cheap and efficient setup that lets me bring just a keyboard and a phone whenever I go on a trip.

I, being the twelve year old child that I am, can't afford a laptop that like, works, so instead I use my relatively old oneplus 6t with a wireless keyboard connected and a virtual machine running with vnc, and I get an ultra portable, actually reasonable, way to write code and admin my server on the go. 

It removes the need for a laptop by running a chroot with the distro of your choice installed, in my case openSUSE, the best distro, and from there just setup a vnc server and you have a portable, fast, and surprisingly powerful mobile workstation. 

I have a random keyboard and can run VSCode on my phone without it breaking a sweat, have good battery and LTE support, and its cheaper than a 1000$ laptop. It compiles most workloads and I have a full linux arm terminal, basically a supercharged raspberry pi. 

I can also cast my screen to a TV over a chromecast or firestick and get a bigscreen wirelessly and without any hassle. It's the ultimate setup, and my phone doesnt even get very hot or run through the battery very fast. 

Again, the perfect setup, and you should at least try it on a reasonably specced android device. 

Root it, then throw together a chroot in termux. and you're set. I've compiled android apps on an android phone, and it just works. Give it a go, will you?


-A 12 year old who cant write a proper essay.