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what do people use this for? While I was really excited when i encountered it, I didn't find any practical uses.
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Just a few days ago I thought about using termux-api to do a quick poc for a monitoring application. Namely, I wanted to send an SMS when an event occurred. Termux-api used to offer this [0], but apparently some time ago google decided to make it impossible: > Usage of this API is no longer allowed by Google and we had to disable it to prevent delisting of Termux:API application from the Google Play. It's my device,…
Termux:API is available on F-Droid. Maybe the functionality exists in that version?
Termux is a great piece of software; I'd love if they would keep supporting older OS versions as well, since it's the kind of software one would keep on that old tablet to be used as a terminal or generally as a Swiss army knife.
It's much more convenient to use a native terminal on a GNU/Linux phone. Everything you would do on a desktop, you can do with it.
I see the benefit, but the phone isn’t anywhere near the quality of a high end android or iOS device in terms of hardware or general app availability.
Termux is clearly provide the opposite to what you’re suggesting - having a terminal available without sacrificing everything else.
It's much more convenient to use a native terminal on a GNU/Linux phone. Everything you would do on a desktop, you can do with it.
Out of curiosity, what GNU/Linux phone would you recommend? Most of the ones I have read about are still fairly alpha-level products, particularly for the phone software and app ecosystem. I would love to have a fully-functional phone running GNU/Linux that I can use as a phone and carry around in my pocket and then plug in a keyboard, mouse, and monitor and have a "good enough" computer for basic office and programm…
As much as I like the idea of 100% FOSS in my pocket, it's simply not practical because I need to use Android apps to hail rides and contact friends who often use only closed-source messenger apps.
If you're in the same boat, a very realistic alternative would be to just carry around a Raspberry Pi.
Termux has recently run into issues with Android 10 and the more recent APIs, which break its form of package management. Their workaround is fairly clever (although not yet implemented) but means that updates to the Play Store version have been temporarily put on hold. https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Termux-and-An...
Even the people not fighting against people in the War on General Purpose Computing keep seceding our sovereign systems away from us. The need for security is real, but I don't see that we are approaching it with balance. We seem to be growing ever more heavyhanded, permitting users less & less, and I don't see a reciprocal respect & empowerment being considered, furthered or advanced.
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Out of curiosity, what GNU/Linux phone would you recommend? Most of the ones I have read about are still fairly alpha-level products, particularly for the phone software and app ecosystem. I would love to have a fully-functional phone running GNU/Linux that I can use as a phone and carry around in my pocket and then plug in a keyboard, mouse, and monitor and have a "good enough" computer for basic office and programm…
I recommend Librem 5: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5 . The company develops both hardware and software respecting the users. Upd: Video showing Librem 5 used as desktop: https://puri.sm/posts/a-librem-5-video-made-on-a-librem-5/
I think it's important to stick to things that exist today. The Librem 5 is cool, but it's still vaporware. Hopefully that changes.
Termux has recently run into issues with Android 10 and the more recent APIs, which break its form of package management. Their workaround is fairly clever (although not yet implemented) but means that updates to the Play Store version have been temporarily put on hold. https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Termux-and-An...
what do people use this for? While I was really excited when i encountered it, I didn't find any practical uses.
Emacs, org-mode, git and ssh. That's pretty much it, but allows me to have access to my org-mode files anywhere, just like on desktop.
But I'm also one of those weirdos who runs his own email server and sshes in to read mail in mutt.