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Re: Updating my website from my iPad

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Post by pmontra »

krimpenrik wrote: post #27
pmontra wrote: post #7

Well, I wrote some Ruby on Rails code on my Samsung tablet some years ago. I mean, I was running the editor and Rails on the tablet, inside Dex for Linux which is an Ubuntu 16.04 container (LXC?) sharing the kernel with Android. Samsung and Canonical worked together to port X11 to the tablet so I had a Unity desktop. I remember it came with VSCode preinstalled inside the container. It was a little slow but probably n…

I was yesterday researching options to use my tablet for upcoming extended trip and found that the Linux stuff Samsung had is sunsetted and couldn't find any alternative. Think I'll just bring a 13inch laptop.

Yes, Samsung killed Dex for Linux with the update to the next major Android version. I think they decided that the sales it added to their bottom line were not worth the maintenance cost. Too bad, because a local and almost real Linux environment is great.

Re: Updating my website from my iPad

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Post by justinclift »

tenderfault wrote: post #29
hunter2_ wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Presumably this isn't about things people are stuck with (skin color, etc.) but things they choose (laws, etc.) and while discriminating on the former should be illegal, discriminating on the latter generally shouldn't be. Although when scaled up to such a large group, I can understand the perception of being almost entirely stuck in a situation (because it's not an individual choice for practical purposes) even when…

i also feel offended by european union's take on protecting my privacy by invading it. i don't feel protected at all. i. just want to be left alone, goddammit. i feel offended A LOT on internet these days. member when internet was free? pepperidge farm remembers.

> i feel offended A LOT on internet these days.

American, yeah?

Re: Updating my website from my iPad

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Post by hunter2_ »

can16358p wrote: post #39
hunter2_ wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Presumably this isn't about things people are stuck with (skin color, etc.) but things they choose (laws, etc.) and while discriminating on the former should be illegal, discriminating on the latter generally shouldn't be. Although when scaled up to such a large group, I can understand the perception of being almost entirely stuck in a situation (because it's not an individual choice for practical purposes) even when…

I never chose the law, I never ever voted for the ones who chose laws of where I live in, which is where I'm born. I'm being discriminated based on where I'm born (and can't move from for many reasons): So it's the same.

If we were to draw a line in the sand between "impossible to choose" and "possible to choose" I think generally moving is possible. There could be a million reasons why you'd prefer not to (huge risks, desires to put your efforts elsewhere, etc.) but that doesn't make it impossible, and generally the concept of protected classes (i.e., things we don't discriminate by) applies to things that are impossible to change. Maybe you even need to break a law to move, but that's more readily possible than changing your skin color, gender, etc.

Re: Updating my website from my iPad

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Post by fmajid »

mattkevan wrote: post #6
jeroenhd wrote: post #4

I know VS Code is Electron anyway, but why would you need an online editor? Couldn't Microsoft (or anyone who's forked it) just release VS Code for tablets? Surely something as powerful as the iPad Pro can handle a fancy text editor.

There's already a bunch of good code editors for iOS, such as Textastic, Koder and Buffer. Working Copy is a fantastic combined Git client and text editor, which I've used extensively to edit my own website, and Secure ShellFish from the same developer is a great SSH client, file manager and editor.

And using Working Copy allows you to work offline. If your blog is based on Markdown, e.g. Hugo, then Working Copy will even give you a reasonably reliable preview of the article.

Re: Updating my website from my iPad

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Post by can16358p »

hunter2_ wrote: post #44
can16358p wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never chose the law, I never ever voted for the ones who chose laws of where I live in, which is where I'm born. I'm being discriminated based on where I'm born (and can't move from for many reasons): So it's the same.

If we were to draw a line in the sand between "impossible to choose" and "possible to choose" I think generally moving is possible. There could be a million reasons why you'd prefer not to (huge risks, desires to put your efforts elsewhere, etc.) but that doesn't make it impossible, and generally the concept of protected classes (i.e., things we don't discriminate by) applies to things that are impossible to change.…

I get the risks: for example probably there is more bot attacks from my IP range (and I'm behind CGNAT anyway) as I live in a less-developed country where people install everything (including pirated software) onto their (generally Windows and Android) devices blindly, with lots of malware.

Then again, the argument still applies: that kind of discrimination (IP-based geoblock because more attacks originate from that IP range) is not so different from skin color discrimination (prejudging, say, dark skin colored people because statistically more dark colored people involve in crime etc.).

I get it, perhaps I admit might even sometimes do it myself (not against skin color, but other factors) but I still think it's wrong.

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