I like #CLI and #TUI tools. I use them everyday to read my emails, edit code, manage my agenda and todo list, access some websites and gemini capsules, even chat with my local LLM...
I miss these tools when I use my phone. I sometimes use ConnectBot to access them on one of my machines via ssh, but the phone keyboard and the screen size don't give me the same satisfaction.
Have you tried to use an external #keyboard with your Android phone to play with CLI/TUI software? Is it a solution? Which keyboard?
bacardi55
in reply to Adële • • •I've tried many small or foldable bluetooth keyboard, but I never managed to actively used them, because a/ their layout is too small for my fingers/hands and I do too many mistakes and b/ the phone screen is not big enough to put the phone away and type without tiring my eyes. I wish I could though.
That's why I'm trying things like portable cyberdeck that are more usable than a phone, hopefully that will demote my phone to just being a phone and these cyberdeck being more portable micro computers
Moritz Poldrack
in reply to Adële • • •PulkoMandy
in reply to Adële • • •what would be your setup? Sitting at a desk, or holding the device in your hand?
For the latter, something like the frogpad (unfortunately not on sale anymore) seems good: a keyboard you wear on your wrist and use with one hand, while the other hand holds the phone.
Otherwise, a keyboard with less keys but keys of standard size could bo a good compromise (similar to a laptop keyboard, no keypad, maybe slightly different layout)
sm4llth1ng
in reply to Adële • • •