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[–] 53 points 16 hours ago (9 children)

The number of Gen Z students who write term papers on their phones (not even tablets!) is alarming to me. It's like 30% of them in my class. Their thoughts aren't necessarily bad, and I grade them seriously, but yikes-- the formatting!

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  • [–] 36 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

    Touch screens are just fundamentally a shit way to efficiently do any sort of text input. Not to mention the screen size and OS tooling is completely insufficient for any kind of research.

    Little screen for little info. Big screen for big info.

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  • [–] 9 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    OS tooling

    I was once writing an assignment last minute. On a full train. Where I could only use my phone while standing.
    Not the best experience, but using Vim and LaTeX in Termux is pretty doable.
    Although in that case I didn't have LaTeX directly on my phone, instead I SSHd into my computer, and then rsynced PDFs to preview the document. But TeX Live is even in the Termux repository, if you want. After all, you can SSH into your phone just the same.

    Termux is awesome. I sometimes even use it to off-load stuff I don't want my computer to be choking with, such as large downloads, video encoding or compressing large files with high xz settings.
    It's just a battery-powered highly portable passively cooled computer.
    But of course, a full-fledged Linux phone would be even better.

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