trying to use a terminal on android makes it wish that it had a linux phone instead
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trying to use a terminal on android makes it wish that it had a linux phone instead
@awoo@gts.apicrim.es android is much better than linux on a phone
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seriously, android's built-in shell sucks ass and because it's in a non-rooted environment, it can't just say "hey, it wants
fishinstead, as well as some form of a pakidge manager" :neobot_shocked: -
@awoo@gts.apicrim.es android is much better than linux on a phone
@hypha but it sucks ass when it comes to terminal things.
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@hypha but it sucks ass when it comes to terminal things.
@awoo@gts.apicrim.es yeah, but what would that one needs to do with a terminal in a phone?
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@awoo I mean one can also just use
adb shell
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@awoo@gts.apicrim.es yeah, but what would that one needs to do with a terminal in a phone?
@hypha using ssh to get into its servers, looking at funny graphs
in resource monitors (which is especially fascinating to look at in its opinion), using more lightweight programs that still get the job done (unlike apps with their clunky user interfaces sometimes) etc. -
@awoo@gts.apicrim.es yeah, but what would that one needs to do with a terminal in a phone?
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@awoo I mean one can also just use
adb shell@MagicLike nah that would be too easy + that would involve a second computer.
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@MagicLike nah that would be too easy + that would involve a second computer.
@awoo what if that second computer is another android phone
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@MagicLike nah that would be too easy + that would involve a second computer.
@MagicLike termux and shizuku are the easiest when one wants to keep stuff on the same device (all one needs to do is temporarily expose wireless debugging but that can be en- and disabled within 5 seconds basically since that's how fast shizuku typically is with enabling itself via wireless debugging)
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@awoo what if that second computer is another android phone
@MagicLike doesn't work, at least in its experience.
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@MagicLike doesn't work, at least in its experience.
@awoo nawww would have been a nice cursed experiment
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@awoo @sophie @hypha there's a termux fork that just bootstraps a chroot with nix lol
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@awoo @sophie @hypha there's a termux fork that just bootstraps a chroot with nix lol
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@sophie @49016 @hypha on one hand, it would really love to
on the other, it still has ptsd from trying to use nix for a year and effectively torturing itself with configs that broke pretty quickly because they suddenly decided to remove a package from nixpkgs while technically still not even having anything reproducible (it couldn't just take its nix config and throw it onto another computer and have everything the same way)
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@awoo well termux (the terminal + "distro") provides a package manager and a manageable environment. or you can use the new vm stuff
