Can you do it through the website? Does the iPad allow you to view websites in desktop mode?
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Gris - Jan 07, 2017 4:03:45 pm PST #25000 of 25496
Hey. New board.
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.
beekaytee - Jan 16, 2017 11:25:42 am PST #25007 of 25496
Compassionately intolerant
amych suggested I move my Business question over here. (Cheers, amych)
Question of the day, for web types:
Is there a preference these days for joomla over wordpress?
Liese S. - Jan 19, 2017 11:04:29 am PST #25008 of 25496
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I use wordpress.
beekaytee - Jan 20, 2017 6:06:01 am PST #25009 of 25496
Compassionately intolerant
Thanks, Liese. I did decide to stick with wordpress.
I bought the template I like and then spent an hour on the phone with a very nice tech for a company I don't love.
Now, the site doesn't look anything like the preview. I'm so bummed. I just want the thing to look like the preview so that I can just change the text and graphics. I'm proficient at that...sort of. The set up? NSM.