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I wrote this with a tablet. Neat!

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I wrote this on a tablet. The title says it all, but I figured I would at least

document the details, as I find it to be personally interesting.

What kind of tablet?

This is a Xiaomi Redmi Pad, running LineageOS. I actually used an experimental

build of it when I installed it, which was exciting!

LineageOS image for

Redmi Pad

I keep this tablet on do not disturb/silent at all times, and disallowed all

notification popups. This is my answer to not wanting a smartphone with me at

all times, but wanting a little device I can mess around on at home, but without

it being useful enough to start doomscrolling as badly as I used to. I mostly

use it to browse fedi (sometimes too much tbh) and read chats when I'm at home,

and use it to watch videos and play a couple games when I'm traveling.

How did you connect to your gemini capsule?

In the world of Gemini, I had three major options:

Use Titan, the file transfer protocol explicitly made by and for geminispace
Write my files locally using a nice-to-use text editor, then upload to the

capsule, either via scp or some kind of FTP server

SSH into the capsule and write everything in nano

To use Titan, I would need to use server software compatible with it. I need to

double check, believe I believe the server I am using is static only with no

titan. Frankly, Titan felt like overkill when I am the only one accessing my

capsule.

I could have written everything out and then copied it over, but I wanted to

make sure there wouldn't be weird file artifacts from either android metadata or

doing the wrong type of transfer in an sFTP client.

That left SSH'ing in.

SSH'ing in

I installed Termux, a terminal for android (and its derivatives) that I found on

f-droid. It works and doesn't give a fuss, so consider that an endorsement.

Termux included a package manager called pkg. Neat!

I needed an SSH client, and pkg indicated either openssh or dropbear as an

option. Dropbear is an SSH implementation for use in embedded computers,

according to Wikipedia, and is apparently used in openwrt. I decided that, if

it's good enough for openwrt, it's good enough for me.

Dropbear wikipedia page (served through Gemipedia)

And now I'm here, writing this post in nano on my tablet while lying on the

couch.

It's kind of weird, but whatever works to get me writing more gemlogs right?