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there's an easy roadmap to make this popular.

make it so that I can dock it and use it as a full fat OS on a desktop. If they wanna market this as an open phone, they need to make it first class as a primary computing device. so far only samsung is willing to enter this territory with a glorified chromebook.

if I could install the rust toolchain and vscode on it and use it in a customizable desktop environemnt by plugging it into a USBC monitor, you bet I'd buy it. Id happily pay 1-2k+ euros for it.

Sadly as is, it functionally does less than my locked down iphone so whats the point?

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> make it so that I can dock it and use it as a full fat OS on a desktop.

Here you go: https://puri.sm/posts/my-first-year-of-librem-5-convergence/

That would be nice, plug in usb-c to a display and keyboard.

But there's another way, can't someone implement their own implementation of the core google services apis and then you can just load a regular app off the app store and run it? Google would absolutely want to block this as their control and monopoly depends on it. But it shouldn't be against the law.

It's obvious, so it means someone must have tried and it was not reasonably possible.

It's obvious, someone has tried it, it works and is commonly used on those more FLOSS-conscious and de-googled "ROMs" - it's called microG. It's not Play Services that are the limit, it's device attestation.

Same with the device proposed by the parent - I can plug my Librem 5 in to a display and keyboard and it runs a regular GNU/Linux distro while working well as a phone, without Halium or any other Android bits.

We had these things for many years now, just look around harder :)

There are a number of rust developers building for SailfishOs. Rubdos maintains a Signal client in rust. The toolchain also runs on the build service maintained by Jolla (obs). I'm not sure what the editor has to do with it. I use vim for most of my SFOS development but sometimes use the SDK, sometimes I use Godot.

I have no doubt sailfish is a reliable build target. I mean, can I dock it and code in an IDE/text editor in sailfish the way I currently do in osx or linux distro

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