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especially when I'm on my phone or any other device that doesn't have a terminal Mine does, and in fact I have used the ping command from it before. I highly recommend having a terminal app.
Why do you highly recommend it? Don't think I've ever thought while using a phone "damn I wish I had a Linux terminal handy"
Sorry for being unappreciative but... is this... satire? I honestly don't know... 'easier way to test my ping than pulling up a terminal', ... so a non https website that needs javascript is better than terminal-shortcut + $ ping 8.8.8.8 (or whatever you want to ping, you also could set up an alias/function in your .bashrc to do something more complex)... can I hit that point home: "easier way than pulling up my term…
Fair enough. I think technical users probably don't need this site, but I think there is value to be had (even for those technical users!). For a bit of context: I found myself using this site via my xbox's web browser to make sure my wifi latency is acceptable where I put the xbox. Also, my spouse and I just moved to a new place, so I used this site on my phone to get a quick idea of the latency on wifi in my spouse…
Sure you did. But there's a whole category of phone apps called Wifi Heat maps, that would actually be "super simple" for a non-techie to use.
People are commenting on your use of javascript, where you are arguing that you built a super simple solution. As many already pointed out, the ping command is already there and is more "super simple" to use than to self host a website to get a skewed HTTP "ping" from some cloud service...
Sorry for being unappreciative but... is this... satire? I honestly don't know... 'easier way to test my ping than pulling up a terminal', ... so a non https website that needs javascript is better than terminal-shortcut + $ ping 8.8.8.8 (or whatever you want to ping, you also could set up an alias/function in your .bashrc to do something more complex)... can I hit that point home: "easier way than pulling up my term…
How was it possible to read "easier way to test my ping than pulling up a terminal" but not finish the sentence to "especially when I'm on my phone or any other device that doesn't have a terminal"?
On your phone you run for example Fing
Fing iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fing-network-scanner/id4309211...
Fing Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.overlook.a...
With Fing App’s free tools and utilities help you:
• Scan networks with Fing’s Wi-Fi & LAN network scanner and discover all devices connected to any network
• Get the most accurate device recognition of IP address, MAC address, device name, model, vendor and manufacturer
• Run WiFi and Cellular internet speed tests, download speed and upload speed analysis and latency
• Browse internet outages in your area, ISP ratings, reviews and speed statistics
• Advanced device analysis of NetBIOS, UPnP, SNMP and Bonjour names, properties and device types
• Includes port scanning, device ping, traceroute and DNS lookup
• Receive network security and device alerts to your phone and email
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I mean I know what my phone is. I just do not want to use that interface for those sort of tasks. Tiny little screen, virtual keyboard that tries to hard to be clever, etc. Even browsing the web to read wikis and documents and stuff is a complete pain half the time.
How I miss my galaxy S3! I'd hook it up to a proper display using an MHL cable then connect a Bluetooth keyboard. It was a sweet setup and the assorted tools (plus root shell) actually came in very handy. It could fill in for a laptop quite nicely. These days it seems there's no legitimate alternative to MHL... can any phones directly connect to a display anymore via wire? Or is the only option screencasting to a sma…
Samsung has "Dex", their android desktop interface.
Linux phones can generally offer a full DE, either the pinephone or Librem, or compatible phones that have a video out where you can install something likke postmarketos.
Most phones also support miracast, and you can plug in a mouse/keyboard. I think the Charging in + keyboard + mouse + video out is clearer with USB-C.
Sent from my Galaxy S4 ;)
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> Don't think I've ever thought while using a phone "damn I wish I had a Linux terminal handy" Then maybe it's not for you, but some of us absolutely have had that thought and find it incredibly useful.
Again, why is it "incredibly" useful?
You are on holidays, your need to help someone (or yourself) with some server issues. Use your teminal to ping them, ssh, etc. Later, no Internet at your rental house. No computers. Fire up the terminal,diagnose the issue. nmap the network if you need to find the IP of something (also, to check for cameras? IDK).
It's just a huge toolbox, batteries included. You might not need it. It can certainly come handy, especially if you have no Internet to download the corresponding app.
I don't use it often, but when I do, it's much better to have it than not having it.
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> Don't think I've ever thought while using a phone "damn I wish I had a Linux terminal handy" Then maybe it's not for you, but some of us absolutely have had that thought and find it incredibly useful.
Again, why is it "incredibly" useful?
To answer your question: I think your point of view need to change. The need we want to full fill is to do computer stuff, we have a pretty neat computer in our hand it is clear we want to use it as such.
Sorry for being unappreciative but... is this... satire? I honestly don't know... 'easier way to test my ping than pulling up a terminal', ... so a non https website that needs javascript is better than terminal-shortcut + $ ping 8.8.8.8 (or whatever you want to ping, you also could set up an alias/function in your .bashrc to do something more complex)... can I hit that point home: "easier way than pulling up my term…
Not sure if this is desired, but if at some point alerting was built into this, that would be awesome.
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On a related note, I currently use the following tools to monitor my network:
- bash-uptime[1] -- BASH script I wrote for simple (for me) icmp/http monitoring.
- iPerf3 server so I can test my bandwidth speeds over the LAN or Wireguard
- Nfcapd/nfdump to ingest netflow from my firewall and router and give me the ability to search that netflow with nfdump (I have a multi-arch Docker image for Nfcapd that I maintain[2])
- Syslog-ng to ingest logs and write them to my filesystem with some scripts I use to search the logs quickly via grep
- Gotify for all my network-related notifications
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I’m against slavery. I’m also against putting political messages into software
Why?