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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

What's the difference to "Linux deploy"?

[-] [email protected] 79 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yo dawg, I heard you like Linux. So I built a Linux container for your Linux phone. Now you can enjoy Linux while enjoying your Linux phone.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

We definitely living in a simulation.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Not that I don't disagree with you, but how did you come down to this conclusion?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

We're so many levels of abstraction and emulation deep, that the natural conclusion is that there's no reason to believe we're at the top of the abstraction, but somewhere in the middle.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Wonder if it's running on Linux

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

You can call it GNU/Linux if the same name for OS and kernel turns out to be confusing for you.

[-] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You need a phone, tablet, or other device that’s been rooted.

Damit

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Rule of thumb for android users, all of the interesting shit is shit you can't do unless you're rooted.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I remember when it used to be all the REALLY interesting stuff was root only, yet a lot of normal interesting stuff was non-root. Now even with root, modern Android can be a pain and the interesting stuff just pales in comparison with true Linux

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

yeah, linux has me spoiled, just being able to do whatever i want as i please is truly a modern art.

Android made me realize how incredible linux was by being so utterly painful.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Me in this thread: revolvingdoor.gif

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

look into proot+termux-x11 if you don't have a rooted device, it's still very good.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

It's just quite a bit slower. Everything else other than messing with /sys and android processes works the same.

HDMI, mouse and keyboard and you have an office pc.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yup, I used it all the time with samsung dex, works great

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I looked on the play store and fdroid, haven't found anything. I'd love to have a Linux chroot with CLI linux software, don't want to root my phone. Halp.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

For the lazy, in termux:

$ pkg install proot
$ pkg install proot-distro
$ proot-distro install debian
$ proot-distro login debian

Profit??

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[-] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago

TLDR: Easy installation of something like Termux, GUI, Kwin and KDE, and a graphical display.

This is really good!

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Not really. It seems to use a very different technology from termux.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

it's actually not that far off a chroot, it uses LXC, the really cool thing thats going on is this wayland integration, I was waiting for termux-gui + wlroots to come along, but this might just land first

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

However, it also uses halium and libhybris. That means you can't just install your favourite distro and upstream tools. Everything that needs GPU acceleration needs to be patched for libhybris. For example, that means no upstream wlroots - and the latest patched version I think is 0.12 or so.

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago

You could emulate Android on Linux before, now you can also emulate Linux on Android

The circle of libe is compleet

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Now the only question is: How deep can you go?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

We can also emulate windows on android and WSL obviously on windows.

So we can use Linux to emulate Android, which in turn emulates windows to run WSL

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

@lemmyreader @cafuneandchill PostmarketOS in chroot in termux in waydroid on PostmarketOS 🤘

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

well it's not really emulation, if you are familiar with LXC it's that, it's pretty much a super chroot

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[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I recall using an app way back when I used to root and haxor all the mobiles that would do this. Kind of a virtualbox for the Nexus phones/tablets, but it needed root to do it. Will have to look into this, would be interesting if it can do so in user space somehow.

Edit: Damn, still needs root. Was a longshot to be able to hook into system resources without it but was hoping for some bridge function.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That bridge function would still need root (or critical level security holes) to be installed, if the ROM doesn't ship it.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

if you want a non root solution, termux proot + termux-x11, or eventually termux proot + termux-gui + wayland compositor

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Does this mean I could install and run Blender on my phone???

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

You can try

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

you can already try that with chroot/proot, this just gives far better integration for input handling and stuff

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

If someone could build a preconfigured image that has Phosh and basic phone apps, I would consider using this full time.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Would be even better if it can be registered as the default launcher too

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Could we uninstall almost all non system apps, make it autostart and prevent any other app from getting in the way?

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I would as well

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So I could use this to run PostmarketOS inside Android?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

@lemmyreader @electricprism There is someone who managed to convert a proot-distro version of #alpine into a #pmos one. It's not as great as it may sound though.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

there are massive limitations to termux proot/chroot that don't apply here. proper touch support is one of them.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

this is the most useful thing android will ever do.

Once rooted.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

So basically it's UserLAnd with accelerated graphics instead of VNC.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Actually, no, this seems to work on a very different principle.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

*is going to be.

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