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I'm curious about what's compelling about having a native terminal. When I first started with Android, I really enjoyed using the terminal, creating chroots, in
by ewzimm 10y ago
I'm curious about what's compelling about having a native terminal. When I first started with Android, I really enjoyed using the terminal, creating chroots, installing and configuring things. I learned a lot. But now that I have several cheap servers on DigitalOcean, I have almost no interest in native terminal. The interface is the same, everything works properly with no quirks, I can scale up the power as much as I want, and I can access it from a desktop to pick up where I left off.
The only use case I can think of would be wanting to access a terminal on the phone when I don't have a network connection, but so far that has never come up.
I'm not saying it isn't nice to have a native terminal, just that renting a VPS to me is so much better to mein every way. I can definitely see the case for people on a very tight budget or with poor connectivity, but is there any other reason? Not trying to contradict you, just really can't think of a reason why I'd want to go back.
- fractallyte 10y agoA smartphone is a pocket computer with a suite of communications and networking tools. Imagine being able to use something like Rebol - which makes it easy to send emails with simple commands - but updated for GSM/SMS/etc. There are immense possibilities for useful software, all starting with a terminal, but which can be built into full graphical applications. A hacker's delight! (BTW, this post is being written on a Jolla phone)