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.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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      12 hours ago

      All phones are PCs, this is just connecting external displays.

      The shock is that it couldn’t already.

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        Mobile devices tend to be much less versatile than PCs, mind you, and on purpose, due to one of Steve Jobs’ most misguided apprehensions, that it’d be a good idea to hide the filesystem from the user. (Cue someone somehow claiming that’s Good Actually in three, two, one…)

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        It’s more than just that, it’s too slow a desktop OS like environment that’s more suited for mouse and keyboard too. It’s not just your phone screen on a bigger screen.

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          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.