With the Termux + PyPi repositories you can do basically the same as you would do in a normal Linux terminal and it’s great.

I’m not a fan of having many apps on my phone and with Termux I can have yt-dlp, ffmpeg and even magick to do almost anything I want, it’s just great and I don’t know how Termux is not more popular, I hope more people will find sense in it and use it too if they see a use for it.

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    1 year ago

    Main hassle for me is the special on screen keyboard plus the limited screen space. I may try a Bluetooth keyboard sometime. Also I’m a bit reluctant to have my servers’ ssh credentials on my phone, but I have some thoughts about securing them.

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      1 year ago

      What do you mean by special on screen keyboard? I usually just zoom out the screen (making a pinching gesture with the fingers) and that works for me.

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        1 year ago

        It doesn’t use the regular android keyboard, it has its own that is harder to operate.

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          1 year ago

          Mine uses the normal Android keyboard with an extra row of modifier keys (ie: Esc, Ctrl, etc) added by Termux above it that you often need in CLI.

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            1 year ago

            Mine shows the standard keyboard bitmap, but swipe typing and predictive text don’t work. I have to tap each character. It’s tolerable for some things I guess. I should use it more.

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      1 year ago

      I exclusively use keyfile auth, so I’m not too worried about having that on my phone to access my home server.