once I can replace my phone with an sbc I'll be unstoppable
@mauve I've been working on this. The two tricky bits are SMS 2FA and must-have Android apps like Signal and Lyft. I've made a couple of tools for this. landline is an app that runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W hooked up to a cellular modem that let's me get SMS over a Tailscale/Headscale network. Bladerunner is an app that lets me run Android apps inside a completely sandboxed jail running on a dedicated machine where I can access them over VNC and feed in GPS data using the Android debugger.
@brandon Nice. Is your bladerunner thing published somewhere? I've been thinking of giving waydroid another chance
@mauve I haven't published it yet, but it's basically just a setup script for Redroid. It's specifically designed for my custom cyberdeck hardware, which has an 800x480 screen, so probably not what you'd want anyway. I think the main takeaway is that VNC is the best way I've found to use Android apps without installing them on my body.
@brandon that resolution seems reasonable. Vnc into android apps is a good idea. I always worry about the offline use case but I guess I should relax about it more.
BTW have you read Accelerando by Charles Stross? Interesting character with always on computer / HMD acting as an mind extension. Inspirational
@mauve Yes! I love Charles Stross. I think Accelerando is highly relevant to the current times, where we are trying to convert all resources into computronium as fast as possible. If you ever have a chance to read Glass House by Charles Stross, it's inspired by some of my past work, Curious Yellow.
@brandon Cool! Yeah I was recently on a Stross kick and read Glass House a few months ago. Did you end up implementing Curious Yellow? Reminds me of a talk I saw a while ago about how compilers could have been compromised at some point with a virus that hides itself in later compiler versions.
@mauve Haha, well if I had built it then I'd never admit it. If you haven't read Daemon by Daniel Suarez, I think you'd quite like it.