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Termux is awesome (yiffit.net)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Xirup@yiffit.net to c/android@lemmy.world

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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[-] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 6 months ago

I love Termux too,
but honestly I have little use-cases for it.

Back when I ran a server,
it was nice to be able to SSH into it through Termux from time to time to do some maintenance on the go.

Nowadays I still use Termux to ping/telnet devices sometimes, to see if they're reachable, also on the go.

But other then that,
I don't know what I'd use it for.

Since imo, most CLI stuff is way easier behind a laptop/desktop, due to having a larger screen available to you, for easier:

  • Copy/pasting/dialing in long commands
  • Reading of long/large command outputs
[-] Xirup@yiffit.net 7 points 6 months ago

I think the same, I doubt that Termux will ever replace the comfort of a terminal on a laptop or desktop PC, but for certain occasions it is very useful, like avoiding downloading full apps when I can install only one package that does the same thing, in the case of yt-dlp.

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

I use it to download stuff using yt-dlp on the go with predefined output settings. I'll share my setup soon, it generates a notification with the file preview when downloading, and update the notification when the download is completed.

[-] ggnoredo@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago
[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 6 months ago

I use Vim in Termux, btw.

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