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Making Android work better on a large screen and with keyboard input

I've been given an Android-on-a-stick (MK808B; dualcore CPU, 1GB of RAM) that I'd like to use for general computing when I don't need my main box's power (it feels very inefficient to keep a desktop computer powered up for writing text and browsing Reddit). I loaded a 1080p-compatible ROM (which I later switched back to 720p, seen how the 1080p kernel was a useless lagfest), hooked it up to my 1080p screen and found myself looking at this.

Picture it on a 27" screen and it mostly reminds of those cell phones with huge buttons and two-line screens for senior people. I set fonts=small in the options and unzoomed as much as the browser would let me, and the whole thing went from utterly hilarious to merely ridiculous, but became no more usable.

How do I make it so it shows like a computer, without everything being hugely enlarged?

Additionally, being that Android is designed for touch input, the keyboard shortcuts I'm used to don't work (ctrl+t = new tab, end/shift+home = select whole line, ctrl+C/ctrl+V, etc). I'd like to restore those as well.

Before you tell me to just use Linux: I would, but it's not yet fully baked for the RK3066 CPU and accessory chips my stick has - wifi support in particular seems close to nonexistent.
 
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