On the Inadequacy of Mobile

These days all we hear about is the convergence of desktop and mobile, and we are made to suffer those ugly and cumbersome interfaces like Unity and Metro (or most of you are; I stick to a traditional desktop), where actions you used to take for granted are no longer possible, and someone else has decided what your computing experience will be like.
So on the recent Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Ride, I decided to take only a Nexus 7 and my phone (still using my trusty Galaxy Nexus after all these years). In any case, with most nights being spent at camp sites without power points, it seemed unlikely that I would be able to make my laptop battery last the whole trip, while the tablet and phone could be charged in the support van, either directly or via external battery packs. All we needed to do was take plenty of photos, update the team Facebook page (that was one of the students' job), check e-mail, and write blog posts. My reflections on the experience follow.