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What have you been doing on Termux lately? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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I have been having a ton of fun messing with this, hooking up a dock and a kb/mouse, so funny using my phone this way. More of a party trick than actually useful, for me anyway. if one didn't have laptops, i could see it being handy.

What have you guys been using termux for? The biggest value I saw from it was using ffmpeg on it, and ssh for fun. I can't really figure out what other uses I may want it for. Backups maybe?

I'm not rooted, so I can't do a lot on this crappy samsung, but it's fun to play around.

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[–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I do the same too. I even made my own very adaptable rsync based tool. The biggest feature is that it can automatically swap source and destination paths to quickly reverse the transfer direction. That makes syncing in either direction far less annoying than having an endless list of aliases.

    Syncthing, nextcloud and any other bidirectional transfer service has been an awful experience. What I lose in bi-directinal transfers, I gain in stability and consistency by just using rsync commands directly. I don't have to deal with the headache of troubleshooting every time syncthing or nextcloud decides to stop working because I sat down to relax.

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