#hardwaretinkering — Public Fediverse posts
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Back in 2011, the Motorola Atrix and Lapdock promised to turn your phone into your only PC. I used one at uni for note taking, but under the hood, "Webtop" was just a limited Firefox browser in a Linux container.
I dig into the hardware and discuss why it failed, plus the challenges of trying to root and run alternative Linux environments on it today.
PeerTube: https://tube.devwithzachary.com/w/1bxd8qfMinK8c1gNdzVq5Q
YouTube: https://youtu.be/bX-jasgEuME
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