If you want to write things like words and sentences, doing it on mobile phones or tablets sucks. Bluetooth keyboards and mice and their intermittent connections to phones and tablets also suck.

The same holds true for programming. Writing code on phones and tablets suck. What sucks even more is that Android's primary programming language is Java, yet it's harder to develop and run Java code in Android than it is to write Perl, Python, JavaScript and Ruby.

I even wrote C++ on an Android tablet. It was a pain in the ass, but I did it. Those languages that aren't Java are "easier," but the experience remains poor.

Even though I use a few Google Chrome "apps" for programming-like tasks (Secure Shell, which is pretty good; and Text, which is super-rudimentary), even a Chromebook is better than a tablet or phone.

Right now my laptop is so nice, I hate using my desktop computer at the office. Now it's screen seems blurry (because it is), and I hate the standard-issue Lenovo keyboard. That's a backwards way of saying that I like a nice laptop keyboard. It has to "click" a bit, meaning it can't be too mushy.

I can certainly see (and am seeing) laptops that incorporate tablet/phone hardware and software. I would absolutely welcome the "intents" present in Android apps that allow you to easily share content from one app to another. Windows now has an app store, though most of what's in it is shit. (I do like the Fitbit app for Windows, though.)

Tangents be dammed. To make things with words, you need a proper keyboard.

I just installed the Java Development (aka the JDK) and was trying to test Java in the browser by going to the WebSDR page to listen to software-defined radios over the Internet.

The last time I listened to WebSDR, you needed Java in the browser to make it happen.

I had no idea that Java in the browser is no longer a thing.

I confirmed my JDK was working via the Windows command line, and I also learned that WebSDR now uses HTML5 in place of Java.

I also learned from the KFS WebSDR site's About page that the inexpensive Softrock radios that are behind most SDR sites are available for purchase both pre-built and in kit form from Five Dash Inc..

I've also seen SDR radios in the range on eBay.

I'm tempted ...

Learn more about SDR in these two subreddits:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/sdr/

But the big thing I learned: no more Java in the browser.