Generated ssh keys so I can gitsync my notes to gitlab and use manual commits/pushes if necessary.

I use it to SSH into my server and mess around, when I'm feeling too lazy to grab a laptop.

Ping and traceroute to test my VPN

Running a local Ollama model just to see if I could

I recently installed qemu and used it to install ms dos in a vm so I could play a few old games during a train ride. I had to use an android vnc client to connect to the vm and a bt travel keyboard to control it. The dos install took a while but once I got it set, it ran well enough to play old dos games.

There are probably better ways to play old dos games on an android phone but I had fun setting it up.

One fun thing I use it for is semi-automated photo/video backups to my storage servers: a grapheneos storage scope makes the media directory available to termux, and then I have a termux shortcut to run a shell script with a bunch of rsync jobs. Works far more reliably than the godawful nextcloud app, and it's far more fun to watch.

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.

I recently got a Pixel Fold so I've been using Termux to run Plasma Desktop on it and Qt Creator, Visual Studio Code for development work. The larger screen is great. I prefer using Linux phones for development (postmarketOS) but unfortunately pmOS isn't available on any foldables and the screen size is really significant.

SSH-ing into my servers when i don't have a laptop, vim for text documents, some quick file management when I feel like doing it through the cli or programmatically, ffmpeg whenever I need it, I've also got yt-dlp for when i need it.

Not much tbf. My workflow's stabilized enough and my queues got shrunk enough I can focus on UI instead workflow instead.

Mainly downloading videos via yt-dlp

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..

Mainly just sshing into my main desktop and doing side projects

Create an image with two pictures side by side using ffmpeg. Why bother install an app for that?

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.

emacs and ssh and git

sometimes programming to test out an idea that I come up with on the bus

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.