Can't wait to see GPL2 ZFS :-)

i think it's called EERAM, however having proper closed loop control with hand position feedback would be preferable in my opinion...

I beleive Android 16 now comes with termux-like Linux environment that can be enabled via developer settings menu.

Big difference! That's a full VM, while Termux is more like a Debian container. For most use cases you will have a better time with Termux, which also ships useful Android integrations such as clipboard and notifications.

Wait, isn't Termux based on Alipine?

Nope, it comes with apt. You might be referring to iSH on iOS, which does use Alpine in a VM.

Yeah but it sucks. There's a button in its settings to install a Debian chroot environment; gave it a go and it bricked itself, had to clear the app's storage and factory reset it.

Yeah, I can always use the Android Terminal once. If I re-open it, it says it's corrupted, and has to delete and re-install its minimal Debian environment.

Add to this list that it tends to not work while connected via a VPN. Not sure why but this makes me very skeptical of it.

Probably because their handling of VM networking isn't very robust.

Why should booting a Linux VM require network access right away.

Probably because it's trying to establish a network connection, and it might be running a networking setup that blocks until the network is up. Also, it's trying to run networking with the host so it can run things like the storage balloon driver and mounting the host filesystem.

that's sketch city. Why does it care? What are they looking for?

I'm thinking maybe they just want me to keep using termux over their sketchy shit

I don't understand this comment. Yes, absolutely. Alpha versions of software absolutely suck. The end goal is making it not suck, but if it's full of breaking bugs your can't just say it doesn't suck just because they're expected.

If it's not even a beta, then it can hardly be replacement for termux.

It's extremely flaky and unreliable, however:

https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/file...

Even more reason to keep supporting Termux.

(it's unreliable, see second edit)

Does it? I've looked at it only briefly (like enabled it, waited a while for it to download something big, then got a basic shell) but it seemed much less capable than Termux. Can you get cell tower info or copy to clipboard for example, or use other Android APIs?

Edit: looked into it a bit more, /etc/issue says it's a Debian 13 (latest stable), apt works with sudo (this is a locked-down device where I don't have root permission on, why does it need a fake sudo to use apt?) but of course programs like wavemon are useless because Android doesn't let you access the WiFi interface. There's no settings besides port forwarding and resetting the "partition". I don't see any documentation or info on how/whether you can interface with the rest of the system in any way. Looking on the web for Android terminal or "Linux developer environment" (as the system settings calls it) is predictably useless and only results in Google's unrelated Android SDK or other terminal emulator apps

Edit 2: okay, beware of it: I was curious if the same "you can't make the OS not kill your script" problem also happened in this OS terminal and.. it's worse. So I ran `while true; do date >> latest.txt; sleep 10; done` to see how long it'd stay alive and then did some other tasks like turning the screen off and on, opening a navigation app and zooming into a dense city, and loading a few websites. Locked the screen once more for good measure and then unlocked and opened the terminal. Guess what? It's broken. Not just crashed: I simply cannot start it anymore. The only "error handling" (Fehlerbehebung it says) step it offers is to delete all data and start with a clean system. The stack trace says there's a nullpointer in TerminalWebViewClient, with the next line being in Trichrome. It's a web browser apparently

> apt works with sudo (this is a locked-down device where I don't have root permission on, why does it need a fake sudo to use apt?)

It's a VM running normal Debian. Inside the VM, you do have root, and that sudo isn't fake.

YMMV, but I've had pretty good luck with just force closing it and launching again when getting errors like that. It doesn't necessarily mean the whole environment is corrupt, even though that is the recovery option that is presented.

It is very unreliable though. I hope Android 17 improves it, as other than the restart issues, I've generally found it to be very functional.

Even if you have Android 16 it's not guaranteed the terminal works. It's disabled by Samsung on my Galaxy A55 for some reason. Maybe the hardware doesn't support the feature.

I'm really looking forward to that being more usable, but it isn't quite there yet. The GUI especially.

Yes, it's good, but it doesn't have access to any sensor apis.

What about using PI/2 ? Seems close enough :-D

Gadget mode can do more things than just network. I beleive you can set up your raspberry pi zero to work as USB mass storage microsd card reader. That seems kinda lame, until you realize you can also run transparent encryption on the raspi and unlock your SD card using passphrase entered via USB serial (also possible in gadget mode).

At first it might seem that 6 is furthest to starting point and therefore it's quite likely it will be the last one reached. However whole process is chaotic enough, that once ladybug finally arrives to 4 and/or 8, the starting position has very little impact on overall outcome.

Well the starting position has no impact on the outcome. Each number other than the starting number has exactly 1/11 chance of being the last remaining number.

So basically a LLM from that brief time period back when communism felt like a good idea? what can go wrong? :-)

yes. and the websites require you to verify transactions with (unrooted?) phone.

on the other hand phone does not require you to verify with your pc, so there's no second factor unless there is some unacessible secure island within the phone itself.

funny enough, you can probably use that website directly on the phone that you use as 2F, which probably circumvents the 2F idea (at least as long as you use SMS 2F instead of app that checks for root)

This is much better than the stale-bot bs irreversibly closing perfectly valid issues just because the reporter have not replied for couple weeks.

The stale-bots are even worse than that. The reporter may have responded quickly, and the bug may be acknowledged as real. But if there's simply no activity in the issue for the month following, it will be closed.