I want to deactivate my twitter accounts because I am sick of dealing with twitter. There has to be a way. The instructions for deactivating twitter accounts does not work from a mobile device. So ... wait... I can sign up for twitter using an iPad, but I can't leave? This isn't Hotel California, there has to be a way.
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WindSparrow - Jan 07, 2017 10:07:28 am PST #24997 of 25496
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Laura - Jan 07, 2017 10:18:12 am PST #24998 of 25496
Our wings are not tired.
Instructions says you can't do it on mobile. [link]
WindSparrow - Jan 07, 2017 12:56:18 pm PST #24999 of 25496
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
So it is Hotel California. Well then, add whoever's is responsible for that decision to the list of people I line up on the wall when the revolution comes.
This? This makes the kind of sense that Trump being president of anything other than the Hair Club for Men makes. If antivaxxers and Creationists and climate change deniers included this kind of shit as their proofs of why science isn't real, we would have nothing on them.
Gris - Jan 07, 2017 4:03:45 pm PST #25000 of 25496
Hey. New board.
Can you do it through the website? Does the iPad allow you to view websites in desktop mode?
Gris - Jan 07, 2017 4:05:32 pm PST #25001 of 25496
Hey. New board.
Cereal to say: if safari won't let you access the desktop version of Twitter.Com on your iPad, try installing Firefox. I've not used the iOS version but the Android version at least has consistently let me use the desktop version of sites from my phone.
WindSparrow - Jan 07, 2017 4:36:54 pm PST #25002 of 25496
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
So far the web browsers of Ecosia, LastPass, and Chrome will not allow me to view Twitter in desktop mode. I find myself unwilling to sign up for and/or download yet another thing to take care of problems with some other thing I signed up for. I flat out do not have any faith in that method. So far it only snowballs the problems. I do realize that at some point I will reach the critical mass of signing up for things, but I need some proof that that critical mass < all of the things that can be signed up for, eveywhere.
WindSparrow - Jan 07, 2017 6:12:32 pm PST #25003 of 25496
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
In case anyone else wants to know, here is the solution that Daniel found for me. Go to this website [link] click on the "direct removal link". You will get a "page not found" error. Using the thingy at the top of the Safari tool bar that is the square with the arrow pointing up, there is a "request desktop site". Click that while on the page not found, that should let you into where you can deactivate your account.
Jon B. - Jan 07, 2017 6:36:08 pm PST #25004 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I was able to request (and get to) the desktop site in Chrome on my iPhone.
Typo Boy - Jan 14, 2017 9:58:30 am PST #25005 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
In terms of the cheap laptop - how about Linux? Linux should run as well on cheap hardware as on a chromebook. You are not limited to browser baeed software. And you can run Firefox for most browser based software. Not a rece by me but I wonder what the experts on this stuff think.
Gudanov - Jan 16, 2017 6:36:52 am PST #25006 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
Linux can work pretty well. Chrome is also available for Linux and that lets you do stuff like stream Netflix and stuff (since it's not totally open source). Steam gives you access to games these days, and Libreoffice is finally pretty good.
When I replace my six year old laptop I intend to do so with an inexpensive Thinkpad from Lenovo's outlet website and replace the OS with Linux immediately.