Saturday mobile Linux-ing in the sun.

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@neil On and off i have been looking for a decent keyboard that i can hook up to my phone.
Looks good 😊😊

@joany @neil

Unfortunately, the company that made it (ThinkOutside) went out of business many years ago.

They were great devices. I bought one to use with my Nokia 770 (which I got at a massive discount for their open-source developer programme, yay 2006 Nokia!). It was a great pair of devices. Each fitted nicely in a jacket pocket and I could run vim in a full-screen xterm.

My routine for a while when I was writing articles was to stroll down to the café attached to the Swansea City Library, then order a big cup of tea and write on the little keyboard while looking out at the sea. The little screen didn't bother me because I generally didn't need to see more than the sentence I was working on while writing. I also wrote a few book chapters on the same setup. For a while, I went to a café that a friend opened by the marina instead, but unfortunately it went out of business.

Cambridge is a bit lacking in similar spaces. There are a few pubs that overlook the river, but they aren't great places to write.