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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago (3 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!

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago

Yikes the back pain and eye sore...

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago (2 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.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

VIM ON TERMUX?? This person is totally nuts idk if i should pay deep respect or suggest to go in a psychiatric hospital

[–] Seralth@piefed.seralth.com 1 points 12 hours ago

It can be both I believe in you

[–] qqq@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I have to do it occasionally when SSHing home and I can confirm anyone willingly doing it should go to a psychiatric hospital

[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

Blue tooth keyboards are a wonder with phones, the apps are still a headache, but I’ve made due when finals were coming up and my computer shit the bed.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I assume the students in my class are all gen z, they all have laptops as far as I can tell.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be honest, so do mine. The giveaway is when the formatting is horrible and it's a . notes file, plus I've asked them about it. My current guess is a lack of typing skill, but that's concerning none the less.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're going to have raging carpal tunnel in a few years

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Come to think of it, voice-to-text would be a reasonable excuse to use your phone.