Uber had trouble with their app being hard to manage deployments for large for sanctioned downloads over cellular. I suggested they opt for a thin client approach. It can't work they said because it requires the internet to work. I'm unemployable in tech because of good reasons.
Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal
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#142The Remarkable 2 runs Android and has a USB-C port so it might support a wired keyboard. Although I’m not sure if the screen refresh and cpu are fast enough for comfortable typing. I already get frustrated using the onscreen keyboard for typing a 10 character notebook name.
You can SSH into it in order to add software to enable an external keyboard. But that's not the point of the device, which is that it's a digital pad of paper, and all the freedom from trying to draw perfect drawings in Powerpoint/Visio/Whimsical.com using a mouse.
The problem with the device is that, entirely unsuprisingly, it turns out I can type way faster than I can write with a stylus after years of typing. But I really like my Remarkable2, I just haven't figured out how to fit it into my life - I've spent so long wanting a device like that, that I've got all these other things in place that I don't seem to need it. I journal using google docs, and the Remarkable2 doesn't have any integration there. I use it for quick notes, drawing diagrams and also learning to draw still life.
I'm very happy with my purchase, but it is very much a niche product. I didn't buy one to get an eink terminal, so I haven't tried it out as such, and can't report on how well it does as one, but I don't think it would do well at scrolling pages like you would a terminal. (But I'm a fan of Alacritty on OS X, so my demands on a terminal are also niche.)
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#143Similar to what I’ve been doing lately. Bought an M1 iPad (different story…) and have been using MOSH and Blink Shell to access my computer at home running emacs. Has been a blast doing journaling, logging my time in org-mode, writing notes in org-roam for uni subjects. Has been a game-changer for me. I know it’s just a ‘dumb terminal’ but the experience is so seamless it’s incredible. MOSH makes sure the connection…
I also use Blink with Mosh, but what’s your physical setup? You mentioned using it on the train, so are you using an attachable keyboard like the Magic Keyboard? At that point, isn’t the iPad just bigger and heavier than a laptop? I don’t ask to refute your experience; I’m honestly curious since I like the idea of just using the iPad, but the ergonomics just seem inherently inferior regardless of software concerns.
Not the person you were asking, but I have a Smart Keyboard Folio which is super thin and light, and that folds back and out of the way so I can use my iPad like a normal, bare iPad when I want to.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
>phone desktop >cloud desktop Please kill me. :)
Cloud desktops are going to be mainstream long before phone desktops will be a thing, at least at the rate Apple is moving.
Microsoft appear to be moving this way as well with the recent Windows 365 announcement [1]. I tried self-hosting my own cloud desktop a few years ago on a raspi, and was blown away by how much work I could get done remoting in from my phone or old laptop, not to mention the seamless transition when switching clients.
[1] https://news.microsoft.com/2021/07/14/microsoft-unveils-wind...
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#145> I'm typing this post on my iPhone in the Obsidian iOS app using a Logitech K380 Bluetooth keyboard and I feel like a 90s computer hacker. 90's computer hacker ? I don't know, this sounds nearly as consumer as it gets.
This article should have been a tweet: "Hey guys I bought a Bluetooth keyboard and it lets me type stuff! #hacktheplanet"
I mean, at least open it and void the warranty, common man.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cloud desktops are going to be mainstream long before phone desktops will be a thing, at least at the rate Apple is moving.
Yeah, if you perform a migration to a newly bought iPhone, you'll see they have this nailed down. Just needs to be an instant thing now.
Do iPhone migrations give you access to a secret desktop mode, or did you perhaps misread my comment?
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
On which, the Cosmo or the MicroPC? I was never brave enough to tinker with GNU/Linux on the Cosmo while it was my daily driver. I'm pretty sure that using the device that way comes with some pretty sever compromises. On the Micro PC, I run Void Linux with KDE Plasma. I didn't do anything special, everything's mainline, so I'm sure at a technical level Ubuntu MATE would work perfectly well. The only interface tweaks…
Did you try other configurations? Like i3wm? I get over 15 hours with some tweaking with a modern Ubuntu and i3wm + optimizations.
You get 15 hours of actual screen-on usage on a GPD Micro PC? Color me impressed if that's the case. Mind sharing those optimizations?
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
N4120 model. Quad core and 8gb of RAM is underpowered? It's not the best gaming machine to be sure, and I have to be a little more careful with my browser tabs than on my 64GB workstation... but there's not really anything glaring it outright can't do. Hard to answer what I do on it, since the answer is "everything". I run Plasma 5 on mine. Right now I have a lot of firefox windows open, Quassel (IRC), Qalculate, som…
How many browser tabs do you usually have open?
I have a hundred open right now and that's on the low side. They just get away from me!
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#150Similar to what I’ve been doing lately. Bought an M1 iPad (different story…) and have been using MOSH and Blink Shell to access my computer at home running emacs. Has been a blast doing journaling, logging my time in org-mode, writing notes in org-roam for uni subjects. Has been a game-changer for me. I know it’s just a ‘dumb terminal’ but the experience is so seamless it’s incredible. MOSH makes sure the connection…
I also use Blink with Mosh, but what’s your physical setup? You mentioned using it on the train, so are you using an attachable keyboard like the Magic Keyboard? At that point, isn’t the iPad just bigger and heavier than a laptop? I don’t ask to refute your experience; I’m honestly curious since I like the idea of just using the iPad, but the ergonomics just seem inherently inferior regardless of software concerns.
It’s heavier but not bigger. It’s not ideal but I like that it is more versatile (for me). I can do some coding/org stuff, then detach from the magic kb and start doing practice problems from a textbook (engineering drawings etc). Laptop will always be better if I know I won’t want to do any pencil stuff. Otherwise, iPad is compact and modular, and I feel more like bringing it with me places. I like to leave my laptop ‘docked’ and use it as a desktop often.
I sometimes sit my HHKB on top of the magic keyboard, but not often. If I’m going out I just use the magic kb and trackpad.