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Re: Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

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Post by junto » Fri, Aug 14, 2026, 8:44 PM UTC

preek wrote: post #56

TekMol wrote: post #54

Does this mean it is possible to talk to Codex from ChatGPT on a mobile phone now? When I tried that with the Codex CLI version on a Linux VM, I did not get it to work. Possibly because OpenAI only supports connecting ChatGPT to a desktop installation of Codex?

I have a codex cli instance on a Debian VM connected to ChatGPT on iOS via SSH. That works since.. about a month and has pretty good UX. Before, I used the shellfish terminal and tmux which also worked really good, but to be honest (even though I'm a big terminal fan), ChatGPT on iOS sometimes has a smoother UX than a terminal.

Are you using something like Tailscale, or are you running an open SSH server?

Re: Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

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Post by tonixx » Sat, Aug 15, 2026, 9:20 AM UTC

p-e-w wrote: post #129

cloudie78 wrote: post #121

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You always have a choice to use/learn/make a different tool. It’s a prison of your own making. I’ve personally adopted a process where I structure my projects to ALWAYS keep credentials and sensitive information in a separate directory. The working copy gets rsynced to and from a dedicated VM with whatever $HARNESS.

Many official, high-quality language support plugins are only available for VSCode. For some languages, you have a “choice” to use another IDE in the same sense that you have a choice to do programming with a hex editor. Lean being an example, where every alternative is in its infancy.

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Re: Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

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Post by OroPla » Sat, Aug 15, 2026, 8:05 PM UTC

onraglanroad wrote: post #288

OroPla wrote: post #199

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Microsoft used to ship a Linux binary for Teams, but they stopped doing that. Guess the tech was lost.

It sucked. Download Edge for Linux and use the PWA. It's still crap but at least it kind of works mostly.

I'm using teams-for-linux which is basically the browser version put in a wrapper so you get the notification are icon with the unread messages showing.

Keeps breaking in strange ways, though. Just like it always has. For example, it will randomly switch to light mode and the only way to recover dark mode is by selecting dark mode (which doesn't change anything) and then restarting. Restarting alone also doesn't do anything, mind you.

Re: Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

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Post by nduwork » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 3:22 PM UTC

TekMol wrote: post #54

Does this mean it is possible to talk to Codex from ChatGPT on a mobile phone now? When I tried that with the Codex CLI version on a Linux VM, I did not get it to work. Possibly because OpenAI only supports connecting ChatGPT to a desktop installation of Codex?

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