• zolax@programming.dev
    43·
    1 year ago

    you could use Termux::API to get stats (battery percentage, notifications, calls, some other stuff) of your phone from your PC.

    this video gives good examples

  • ooterness@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    1 year ago

    Cowsay is a vital program. I’ve never understood why it isn’t installed by default in every distro.

  • acec@lemmy.world
    241·
    1 year ago

    Compile llama.cpp, download a small GGML LLM model and you will have a quite intelligent assiatant running into your phone.

    • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Would that actually be decent? Even 6b models feel way too rudimentary after experiencing 33+b models and/or chatgpt. I haven’t tried those really scaled down and optimized models, though!

      • gibson@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        1 year ago

        They’re decent for text completion purposes, e.g. generating some corpspeak for an email, or generating some “wikipedia”-like text. You have to know how to write good prompts, don’t try to treat it like ChatGPT.

        For example if i want to know about the history of Puerto Rico I would put:

        “The history of puerto rico starts in about 480BC when”

  • Kevin@lemmy.ca
    21·
    1 year ago

    Termux is awesome! I use it for a bunch of things:

    • sshing into servers and my home when I’m out and about
    • using croc to transfer files
    • making videos I’m going to send people smaller with ffmpeg
    • downloading stuff with yt-dlp
    • giving myself access to the sandbox + /sdcard from other computers by running an ssh server
    • scripting phone stuff (like taking photos) with the api
    • running weechat locally, which I can then connect to with weechat android
    • using vim
    • probably a bunch of other things I’m forgetting
        • Kevin@lemmy.ca
          1·
          1 year ago

          That’s pretty much where I’m at too, and I find it easier to get to the file(s) I want to send through the cli. No judgement to anyone who prefers the gui though!

    • noddy@beehaw.org
      3·
      1 year ago

      Using termux for SSH as well. Haven’t heard about croc before. Are there advantages over copying files with ssh (scp) for example?

      • Kevin@lemmy.ca
        2·
        1 year ago

        The main advantages for me are:

        1. You don’t need to swap ssh keys, which makes it great for setting up new systems I haven’t connected to everything else yet (or don’t plan to)
        2. It’s cross platform
        3. The devices don’t need to be on the same network (it NAT busts too)
    • ouch@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      Does croc relay pass only metadata about the client addresses, or is the data itself sent via the relay?

      • Kevin@lemmy.ca
        2·
        1 year ago

        As far as I know the relay just NAT busts, after that it’s encrypted p2p.

  • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    Termux yeah. I use it everyday. So here is a (long) list

    • Use ffmpeg to convert videos or even edit it(with current 6.x version, mediacoded hwaccel is availiable)

    • yt-dlp

    • Use vim and emacs, maybe code something

    • Integrate it with other plugin apps like Termux:API(lots of system apis), Termux:Boot, Termux:Float(floating terminal), Termux:Widget, even Termux:X11 For running gui apps

    • You can run gui apps with other X servers like XSDL

    • Compile and run programs that is not availiable for arm(Worst thing, but i still does it. Much hassle and error prone, but fine for smaller programs)

    • Use ssh to connect to other devices

    • Install x11-repo and thus install xfce and firefox desktop(for fun)

    • Install proot-distro and use distros like debian, arch, ubuntu, manjaro, void, fedora, etc. which is cli only by default but you can install any DE.(You can combine display server from XSDL)

    • Use git, clone a repo, make changes, use it or push commit, whatever you do with git

    • Use your normal standard linux commands to browse thru your filesystem and make changes

    • neofetch, cpufetch, rxfetch, htop, gotop, cmatrix and hollywood for lolz

    • tmux, byobu or gnu screen

    • Tar, gzip and all coreutils

    • cryptomining(DON’T do that)

    • Test your webpage locally (php -S localhost:port)

    Ahem I wasted a lot of time making this list i think i have to go now lol

    • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I actually am currently trying to ssh into my main pc and hopefully in the future into my server i started to setup today but i am struggling with the use of keys. Got any good tutorials you can recommend?

      • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I found this from a search.

        I don’t usually use manual keys but uses password to connect to ssh servers. Like ssh -p port user@ip and it promts to trust it then you have to enter your password. I have barely set up ssh servers but have connected ssh servers many times

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    I am thinking about setting up a local HTTP web server with something and HTTP proxy to share my VPN connection easily. But to be honest I am also kinda lazy. Ok, alot.
    Maybe NGINX for web server and Privoxy for the proxy server. Or tinyproxy. I don’t know to be honest. When I’ll have too much extra time at school I can look into that.

    Anyway, there’s also ffmpeg. Pretty useful.
    And since you can run GUI in it, noaa-apt for decoding APT imagery from the last NOAA satellites still broadcasting APT at 137MHz. (NOAA-15, 18 and 19. NOAA-15 currently has broken AVHRR scan motor, but it’s not the first time.)

    Lame screenshot from Termux desktop:

    • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.mlOP
      18·
      1 year ago

      If you mean the ascii text that is just figlet piped into lolcat

      figlet GrapheneOS | lolcat

      And the other is just cowsay piped into lolcat

      cowsay i did something | lolcat

      You can pipe pretty much any terminal output into lolcat (although some things don’t really play well with it)

  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzM
    13·
    1 year ago

    Definitely try running a full Linux distro with it, it’s pretty fun and a self-rewarding task, even if you don’t end up actually doing anything with it. But you may still find it useful in some ways, for instance, you could run a full fledged desktop Firefox with support for ALL addons, use it to inspect and debug web pages etc.

    And if you feel like it you could take it a step further and install Zink and Box86 to play Windows games.

    • mineapple@feddit.de
      4·
      1 year ago

      Just as a tip: you can run every Add-on on Firefox nightly. You can add your own add-on collection and select from that. You have to go into dev mode though. Yo do taht by tapping the Firefox logo in the about section like 5-10 times. You have to have a Firefox account though. Or you could use my fairly small add-on list:

      Username: 16700479 Name of the list: cookies

    • MarcDW@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      Been awhile since I did that but it was really cool. An Xfce desktop from the phone onto my TV. Time to revisit that and play around some.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
    9·
    1 year ago

    I ssh into my desktop and do a watch sensors while I’m gaming, sometimes. Then I can make sure temps are good without taking screen real estate with mangohud or similar.