Every once in a while, I am in the position where I am tethering my computer to my phone and lazy me doesn't like to interface with the phone when my fingers are on a real keyboard. I can't say exactly why I am so anti-mobile at times but it's just how it is sometimes. … Continue reading Scrcpy on openSUSE | Display and Control Android devices over USB
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Restoring my Nexus 6P To Working Order
As a kind of Christmas gift to myself, I spent the 5th day of Christmas disassembling and installing a new battery into this "shelved" phone of mine. It is something I have wanted to do since the battery started fading and I finally got to it. I bought a battery replacement kit on eBay for … Continue reading Restoring my Nexus 6P To Working Order
VirtScreen on openSUSE | Turn a Tablet into a Second Monitor
When I take my laptop and I go into a mobile mode, I'm often missing a second or third screen. Frequently, my need isn't having full motion video or anything of that sort, it's just the ability to have text displayed in some form, be it PDF or web page, beside my main screen. Most … Continue reading VirtScreen on openSUSE | Turn a Tablet into a Second Monitor
HP TouchPad in 2018.1 Update
Earlier this year, I repaired and updated my HP TouchPad with the latest firmware I could find. I have used it regularly since for numerous tasks and even tried to shoe horn it into other tasks to see if it would improve my workflow. Was all that effort worth it? Did I really need to … Continue reading HP TouchPad in 2018.1 Update
HP Touchpad with Plasma Mobile and openSUSE — Fall Time Blathering
After working with Plasma Mobile on the Nexus 5X and although it is not quite ready for prime time, it is nearly there. It is so close, I can taste it and I am very ready to see Plasma Mobile as all I see on my mobile. I am also continually seeing interest on the … Continue reading HP Touchpad with Plasma Mobile and openSUSE — Fall Time Blathering
Plasma Mobile installation on Nexus 5X
I have been watching Plasma Mobile for a little while and have tested it in a virtual machine but haven't made it a priority to get some real hardware to test it on until now. I recently broke my Samsung Galaxy 5S... again... but in many ways it was falling apart. I could not unlock … Continue reading Plasma Mobile installation on Nexus 5X
HP TouchPad in 2018
I purchased two HP TouchPads a few years ago when they were fairly inexpensive. I wanted a larger tablet that wasn't built cheaply. They worked great for a while but started to act up. I used them less and less until they just stopped working all together. I put them on a shelf and forgot … Continue reading HP TouchPad in 2018
KDE Connect Remote Keyboard
I recently stumbled into this cool little feature with KDE Conenct, the ability to use your desktop Linux machine as your keyboard input to your Android device. I tested this on my Samsung Galaxy S5, Moto X and HP TouchPad running Android. Assuming you have given KDE Connect a try, you may or may not … Continue reading KDE Connect Remote Keyboard