Show HN: An ultra-light-weight tool to quickly test your ping

Post by userbinator » Sun, Oct 02, 2022, 10:01 PM UTC

the_only_law wrote: post #31

userbinator wrote: post #29

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I suppose if you don't think of your phone as the general-purpose computer that it really is, then it won't seem obvious. But otherwise, I also recall using dig, netcat, traceroute, and a few other network tools a few times. Having a shell, even a root one, is one of those things that you don't need often, but when you do, you really do.

I mean I know what my phone is. I just do not want to use that interface for those sort of tasks. Tiny little screen, virtual keyboard that tries to hard to be clever, etc. Even browsing the web to read wikis and documents and stuff is a complete pain half the time.

Post by e-clinton » Mon, Oct 03, 2022, 4:26 AM UTC

MayeulC wrote: post #54

dinom wrote: post #47

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How I miss my galaxy S3! I'd hook it up to a proper display using an MHL cable then connect a Bluetooth keyboard. It was a sweet setup and the assorted tools (plus root shell) actually came in very handy. It could fill in for a laptop quite nicely. These days it seems there's no legitimate alternative to MHL... can any phones directly connect to a display anymore via wire? Or is the only option screencasting to a sma…

A lot of phones can be connected to an external display via USB-C. Better supported than MHL (how many incompatible standards was MHL? 4?). Samsung has "Dex", their android desktop interface. Linux phones can generally offer a full DE, either the pinephone or Librem, or compatible phones that have a video out where you can install something likke postmarketos. Most phones also support miracast, and you can plug in a…