Thank you @neil for being such a really patient facilitator for the web dev workshop today. Shame my plan to carry less weight by using an Android device didn't work, but my experience today is going into my hippocampus for sure.

What went wrong:

- I had a tested Debian installed via UserLAnd, an app that creates an instance of Linux distro within Android devices. I said tested as in I logged into Debian on it before coming to the workshop. It worked then. When I got to the workshop, it decided to reject my password since. No idea why.

- I just need to ssh into my AWS instance so I grabbed a terminal app as an alternative. Spent an hour wrestling with storage permission just so I can use the ssh key file provided by Amazon.

- Finally gave up when Amazon didn't like my browsers enough to even give me the key file download, complaining that Javascript isn't enabled.

So yeah, lots of lessons learned. If I can't get linux working on my tablet this week, I'll just have to haul my gaming laptop for the next meetup.