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What's your favourite open source app and why?
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Termux is staple for power user
What kind of scenarios do you pull out a terminal on your phone for?
While Termux doesn't require root, my device is rooted which allows for a lot more.
A few examples:
mitmproxyto capture and analyze app traffic from phone apps (automated w/ a widget shortcut to configure android proxy settings on launch and then reset back when I'm finished).moshis useful to keep connections alive if network cuts out). I have my own homescreen widgets to automatically launch for specific nodes. Also usetmuxeverywhere to handle multiple sessions.manpages about a commandThis is great, thanks!
I certainly love it! It's one of the first things I install