With talk of Android 16 having a Linux terminal, I’m curious what people have already hosted from Android with emulators like Termux or rooted terminal, and/or ideas of things that make sense (or would at least be cool) to run or host from a tablet or phone if/when it’s officially supported.

Myself, I mostly got Grist to run on Termux. However, not everything worked when importing a project and I wasn’t willing to rebuild mine from scratch. So I just kept it on the free cloud Grist has. Would’ve been cool to self host it though.

Edit to add: I bought a $35 Walmart tablet on a whim to try and host Grist on it and it was fun. I feel like there probably are some cool and resourceful/relevant things to be ran on a cheap tablet like that. Just not sure what they are lol.

    • geogeogeo@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      In terms of my personal curiosities, I would say no BUT if you then went on to self host something from there I’d be interested in hearing about that.

      • Jumuta@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        17 hours ago

        i use my old postmarketos phone as a server for a bunch of stuff on my local network because it can run docker and is really power efficient

        • geogeogeo@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          12 hours ago

          That’s awesome. What stuff did you host, and did any stick out as being particularly well suited for running on a tablet? By that I mean especially efficient for the hardware, or if any were well suited for localhost access from the tablet (e.g. having an web UI well suited for tablet use).

          • Jumuta@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            9 hours ago

            i just run normal stuff like immich and a dns server and use it as a headless server, though I do have a backup terminal on the touchscreen in case I need it (fbkeyboard).

            I don’t think it has any real benefits except the touchscreen, very low power consumption and the built-in battery, I just use it because it’s free and interesting.

            I guess compared to other devices like the rpi it has pretty good performance and resources, though one big drawback is that I have to use wifi for networking.

            It’s just the use I found for my old phone that was sitting in the cupboard doing nothing.