I have been having a ton of fun messing with this, hooking up a dock and a kb/mouse, so funny using my phone this way. More of a party trick than actually useful, for me anyway. if one didn’t have laptops, i could see it being handy.
What have you guys been using termux for? The biggest value I saw from it was using ffmpeg on it, and ssh for fun. I can’t really figure out what other uses I may want it for. Backups maybe?
I’m not rooted, so I can’t do a lot on this crappy samsung, but it’s fun to play around.
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I use it to SSH into my server and mess around, when I’m feeling too lazy to grab a laptop.
Running a local Ollama model just to see if I could
I write scripts that I use at boot.
Or whenever.
Funny that some apps tell you root is needed to do some things.
A little persistent frustration and failure can produce desired results.
Eg. Shizuku can’t start on boot without root.
Need to enable wireless debugging.
I wrote a horrific script that nmaps for ports in the wireless adb range.
Attempts to connect. If success, great. If fail. Do until yay!
Then it restarts adb in tcpip mode with a custom port of my choosing so,its available to other apps.
And another script to start shizuku using the shizuku script to run in terminal.
And I put those scripts in another script and put it in the .termux/boot folder
And ouila!
Shizuku starts at boot and other apps that rely on wadb can use it.
Oh, and it doesnt need a wireless connection.
I also ssh, proxy, nmap, scan, sftp, samba, etc.
emacs and ssh and git
sometimes programming to test out an idea that I come up with on the bus
Mainly just sshing into my main desktop and doing side projects
Generated ssh keys so I can gitsync my notes to gitlab and use manual commits/pushes if necessary.
My main use is as an SSH client. My next most common use is pass (with the password store synchronized via a Syncthing app, outside of termux). And one more I enjoy is pdftk for basic PDF editing operations (e.g. split, merge, remove passwords); that’s been useful at work where it seems like no one’s got PDF editors installed on their computers already.
I use it to SSH into my home server (inside of tailscale) and use Claude code to do stuff on my lunch break at work.
Create an image with two pictures side by side using ffmpeg. Why bother install an app for that?
I intend to Install an agent and let it hack/root my Android mini-projector+ from both the outside and inside. No clue if it makes it more likely to happen, but I have a bunch of old locked devices laying around and no time/skills, so why not…
