Incredible things are happening with termux.
we really need a user friendly gui app tgat can finish tge whole setup into a linux environment quickly and easily. think of it like carlimaries installer for linux on Android
Very cool ! Finally something to do with my old phones lying around
(but who commits their .DS_Store file tho ? 🙈)
I’m convinced Mac users just become blind to the file. I see it all over repos at work.
What I ask myself here is why I should have unused phones lying around in the first place?
If I somehow think constantly wasting money on a new model just because there is a new number written on its packaging is worth it, I would not actually think in terms of reusing old hardware.
If I am however thinking about using hardware instead of just throwing it away while still functional why wouldn’t I use a phone as anyone else as a phone?
Could be a number of things. Battery life has significantly decreased. Can’t run recent Android versions, no longer getting security updates, or even software not running because the Android version is no longer supported. I’ve had 3 phones in the last 15 years or so (still on the 3rd) and I still have the other two and they run, but not for long without being plugged in.
I still have my previous phone… S5 that I used for seven years until it couldn’t get updates and I “needed” some apps that wouldn’t run on the old android version (I don’t remember what they were at this point or if there was a way around it).
It’s been sitting on my desk for the past 5 years waiting for a purpose. The battery is shot but it still “works”. Maybe this is that purpose because I was specifically looking for something like this a few months back …because I thought it would be funny to have that phone as a server.
Just an FYI, changing a battery in a phone with a glued back cover is fairly trivial. A hair dryer Is usually enough, tons of youtube tutorials, and you can get plastic back covers to replace the shitty glass ones from aliexpress for peanuts
This one is old enough that the back is easily removable and battery easily replaceable. I went through three in it’s life of daily usage. It was the lack of updates that made it unusable day to day. It was crazy “slow” too but a factory reset helped a lot.
I popped fdroid on it yesterday but there was no version of termux there that will run on Android 5.0.1.
I found another terminal emulator that seems to work. Don’t recall the name offhand but I’d never heard of it.
…fdroid wasn’t trivial because the phone has certs so old that it couldn’t communicate with the repos until I manually downloaded and installed a newer cert.
