Since I started using Android devices 15 months ago, I've been wishing I had a good, usable SSH and terminal window. (I'm sure there are, I just haven't found them yet.) Why: I post on numerous forums, and when I post pics (screenshots of issues, or watch glamor pics on watch enthusiast sites), I prefer to link to images on my domain vice attaching them in the forum site's dB. On a desktop, this is trivially easy, just ssh to the domain, get the full link to the image, and preface with http. On a tablet (an increasingly useful way of consuming and participating in community discussions), I have to do various kinds of tap-hold, copy, paste, edit, fudge it, rinse, repeat ... taking three to four minutes longer. "Patience is a virtue," some say. So's a keyboard, I say.
Touch screens and handhelds are marvelous until you hit the brick wall of something you want to do which actually involves more than 140 characters. (sigh)
I'm actuallly the owner of a phone that has had a core feature/functionality removed this year (via over-the-air software update) due to an antagonistic suit by a competitor. Walking around with a device that no longer does something all my previous devices accomplished, as a result of one corporation's greed and practice of legal aggression, is infuriating to say the least.
Makes me want to go punch a wall. Trouble is, I can't decide which wall, because I like walls (in general, but not on my electronic devices).
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Since I started using Android devices 15 months ago, I've been wishing I had a good, usable SSH and terminal window. (I'm sure there are, I just haven't found them yet.) Why: I post on numerous forums, and when I post pics (screenshots of issues, or watch glamor pics on watch enthusiast sites), I prefer to link to images on my domain vice attaching them in the forum site's dB. On a desktop, this is trivially easy, just ssh to the domain, get the full link to the image, and preface with http. On a tablet (an increasingly useful way of consuming and participating in community discussions), I have to do various kinds of tap-hold, copy, paste, edit, fudge it, rinse, repeat ... taking three to four minutes longer. "Patience is a virtue," some say. So's a keyboard, I say.
Touch screens and handhelds are marvelous until you hit the brick wall of something you want to do which actually involves more than 140 characters. (sigh)
I'm actuallly the owner of a phone that has had a core feature/functionality removed this year (via over-the-air software update) due to an antagonistic suit by a competitor. Walking around with a device that no longer does something all my previous devices accomplished, as a result of one corporation's greed and practice of legal aggression, is infuriating to say the least.
Makes me want to go punch a wall. Trouble is, I can't decide which wall, because I like walls (in general, but not on my electronic devices).