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Re: Termux

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Post by dhoe »

r17n wrote: post #38

Everyone posting seems to love this. Can folks provide some of their use-cases?

It's my primary environment for anything code related (I'm not a developer by profession). Cheap tablet in vertical model, cheap keyboard, termux, tmux, Claude Code with instructions to offload anything more resource intensive to a 5$ VPS. I'll not claim it's perfect - occasionally Claude does try to run something that crashes termux, and the keyboard mappings are not ideal - but it's good enough that I haven't needed a laptop in over a year.

Re: Termux

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Post by cess11 »

ErenayDev wrote: post #18
mystifyingpoi wrote: post #10

Termux is also an excellent solution for downloading videos from YouTube and similar sites, due to the fact that yt-dlp works really well (and using mobile data makes it easier to avoid IP bans, most of the time anyway).

You can use an easier way for yt-dlp: https://github.com/deniscerri/ytdlnis

How do I share the files back to Termux from this 'app'?

Re: Termux

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Post by nasretdinov »

dudewhocodes wrote: post #47
nasretdinov wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

UTM can't be installed from the App Store unfortunately, and without a developer license you are limited to 7 days for each successful on-device reinstall

Apple somewhat lifted the emulator restrictions on the App Store which means you can install UTM from here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/utm-se-retro-pc-emulator/id156...

Nice, I must've missed that. Downloading it right away :)

Edit: well, it's also very slow unfortunately. I believe iPhone CPUs either don't support virtualisation or they don't expose it (edit #2: it's the latter). Either way, QEMU is struggling quite a bit, and due to it being a GUI it's even slower than what iSH could do

Re: Termux

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Post by mjmas »

bluebarbet wrote: post #26

Honest question, as a heavy desktop TUI user who has had Termux installed for years. A terminal (emulator) is a keyboard-based environment. How on earth are all you fans making it work with a tiny touchscreen?

I have Unexpected Keyboard which gives me most keys including Alt, Ctrl and Esc as well as F-keys.

https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard

Re: Termux

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Post by cess11 »

r17n wrote: post #38

Everyone posting seems to love this. Can folks provide some of their use-cases?

To me it allows me to interface with my phone as if it was an actual computer and not just a locked down entertainment autoscroller.

I take notes, do programming, remote into computers, investigate networks, download and play back music/podcasts/web radio, surf the web with w3m, run background services, pretty much anything I'd use a terminal emulator for on a laptop computer.

Eventually I expect more people to move off Discord and the like so I can easily have them in terminal chat software instead.

Re: Termux

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Post by bluebarbet »

dhoe wrote: post #61
r17n wrote: post #38

Everyone posting seems to love this. Can folks provide some of their use-cases?

It's my primary environment for anything code related (I'm not a developer by profession). Cheap tablet in vertical model, cheap keyboard, termux, tmux, Claude Code with instructions to offload anything more resource intensive to a 5$ VPS. I'll not claim it's perfect - occasionally Claude does try to run something that crashes termux, and the keyboard mappings are not ideal - but it's good enough that I haven't neede…

>it's good enough that I haven't needed a laptop in over a year

Not to single you out but I worry about this trend. As things stand, free (FLOSS) privacy-respecting computing remains all but impossible on the mobile platform. If now Termux is encouraging even geeks to abandon the desktop, that seems like a net negative.

Re: Termux

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Post by meatjuice »

Being able to use openclaw or github copilot remotely through ssh would be nice. I think there should be a dedicated interface though, typing into termux using on-screen keyboard is a real pain.

Re: Termux

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Post by twism »

I've tried Termux but use the old irssiconnectbot (https://github.com/irssiconnectbot/irssiconnectbot) but with slight modifications over the years since its open source... along with an also modified hackerkeyboard (https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard) to support my workflow which is heavy on emacs and GNU Screen.

The colors/graphics seem to be better on irssi and can also handle all the emacs and gnu screen keyboard chords and escape sequences.

I try every android terminal but nobody is really thinking about running more than simple commands.

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