The market has moved from PC specific VR to all in one units. Like there is psvr but I feel that’s the exception. However, there is much better vr support for the original Windows Mixed Reality headsets using the Oasis driver. You still need a good computer with a modern gpu, but it works pretty well. Those headsets are pretty cheap and very light which is nice.

If you’re on Linux, Monado works for this.

My application is largely for sim racing. I’ve yet to try beatsaber but I’ve wanted to play that game since high school.

Unfortunately work/jobs. We are full into Microsoft and have lab equipment which is annoying at a bare minimum.

I feel like I’m getting gaslit with the “this is a compact phone guys” knowing full well that is a normal sized current gen (or last gen) phone that most phone manufacturers are selling.

True but there aren’t that many compact phones. And the phones that are being advertised as compact used to be the normal size. I’m genuinely considering getting a Zinwa Q25 or Q27, which is a gutted blackberry.

Edit: q25 is a gutted bb classic. Q27 is a custom designed phone.

You’d need be able to relock the bootloader while allowing any properly signed OS to be installed, even custom ones. There’s a few phones that let you do this that aren’t Pixels but not really documented well. Apparently the bootloader relock is an advertised feature and not an oversight like other phones¹.

That and google has the titan m2 chip so I’m assuming Motorola will incorporate something similar as well along with proper hardware support.²

If you want to have a cheap phone that runs a secure os securely, you’d need to build it (like Lineage os)and sign it yourself with your own keys.

And then with this you’d have to find a phone that supports lineage os, has an unlockable bootloader, has an unlockable bootloader that will let you use your own keys, and have the patience to build LOS yourself. I’ve tried this once and it’s hard.

My last Android phone was a moto e2 LTE running lineageos and I was running around with an unlocked bootloader. I was a teenager so no banking apps and nothing was really looking for root or bootloader state. This was a $40 smartphone in 2015 with 1 gb of ram. Anything was an improvement.

¹: Documented phones that had self signed copies of LineageOS are the Pixel 4, OnePlus 7 pro and OnePlus 8t. https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-re-locking-the-bootloader-on-the-oneplus-8t-with-a-self-signed-build-of-los-18-1.4259409/

²: Im used to old Lenovo owned Motorola with ill supported phones. The aforementioned moto e2 lost support less than a year after launch (but that was more due the handover to Lenovo and that was a Google designed phone). A lot of their E line phones would get one version and then a new phone would drop with basically the same hardware. E4 and E5 were like that. The more expensive ones had a bit of improvement but not much more. Supposedly they want to get better with support but I won’t be surprised if that promise falls short.

I’m not sure if I’m going full Luddite but phones are getting way too damn big.

6.7" is insane. My own phone is a 6 in 18:9 screen and it’s too big. (I did not get a choice in my phone purchase at the time).

I use bunsenlabs Linux and it reports as the version type, which in this case is boron. There’s a lot of scripts that see boron and not oslike which is debian. I have to manually edit a lot of install scripts for them to work as boron isn’t a valid debian version.

5825u laptops are like $300 for the same amount of ram and storage as a T480. They are much faster and quite efficient.

T480s are around the $200-300 range. I will be honest, it’s not worth it at that point.

Also true. It’s currently my media ripping machine. If I find a cheap 2 GHz pentium m I might put it in.

What’s your budget? T480/580 are still good but they’re getting expensive.

Some of those atoms use weird powervr graphics that aren’t supported by anything. Mine has an ati gpu which is helpful.

For HP laptops you can just a flash drive now. You can extract the bios file and signature file from the bios updater.

You can just extract the bios.files now. As long as you have a flash drive you can update the bios on HP.laptops.

And can’t be replaced. Sister has a t580 with a mangled USB c poet. Only one left to charge.

T480 but I’m wondering 7th or 8th gen Intel. Both options were offered.

More like 2005

Pentium m laptops are almost useable. The biggest issue is the lack of 32 bit software.

Guided access on ios.