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Can you please explain why not solely Termux with nginx? I don't understand why Andronix or proot are needed. Actually for a static Website why not just https:

by utopiah 10mo ago

Can you please explain why not solely Termux with nginx? I don't understand why Andronix or proot are needed. Actually for a static Website why not just https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.basov.lws.fdroid/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.basov.lws.fdroid/ or more modern https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.example.flutter_http_server/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.example.flutter_http_ser... ? Anyway glad you had fun.

stets 10mo ago
Termux alone seems really quirky to me. Andronix fakes "having root" as I understand and I was able to get more of the services I wanted running on it. https://github.com/termux/proot-distro https://github.com/termux/proot-distro looks really interesting too and I intend to test it in the future!
M95D 10mo ago
> Can you please explain why [...] I can't read the site - it won't load - but there's one obvious answer to your question: "No. AI did it."
- stets 10mo ago
  I think your comment is meant to imply I don't know what I'm doing.
  - lytedev 10mo ago
    That seems to me to be one of the least generous interpretations, no? It could also imply that, for whatever reason, the LLM opted for those tools. Therefore there isn't necessarily "reason" in the asked sense.
  - shibapuppie 10mo ago
    I mean, you said it.
  - 101008 10mo ago
    Do you? If someone asks you to change anything in the configuration, do you think you can do it without the help of AI? That's the difference between knowing and understanding. I may read a Math proof and understanding. That doesn't mean I can replicate it or adapting to other proofs (and that's basically the Advanced Calculus tests I used to take when I was in college). I think that's what happened to you. Someone/something (Claude) provide you with instructions you copy and pasted. You underestood them. That's different from knowing.
    - stets 10mo ago
      Yep, I have worked in IT professionally for many years. I also didn't copy and paste, Claude ran the commands for me, so it was even easier than that. You are making a lot of assumptions.
    - Gud 10mo ago
      What makes you assume people who use LLMs don’t understand what’s going on?
  - M95D 10mo ago
    No, it meant to imply you don't know why AI did it. Don't fret - nobody does.
eleventyseven 10mo ago
> Can you please explain No, because they didn't program this or make these decisions, an LLM did.
- stets 10mo ago
  I had a vision for a fun project, made decisions, tried to understand why to make certain decisions or what was working or not. I didn't write the front page index.html and I don't want to. Sure, I prompted it how I wanted to look, though. tl;dr I had fun and learned stuff.
  - hugs 10mo ago
    ignore the haters. this is cool. (and i've been vibe coding with claude code and termux for months. it's good stuff.) i would highly recommend you add guidance on automated data backups, though. my pixel phone went "black screen of death" on me and one of my projects is trapped in there until i can replace the screen.
    - stets 10mo ago
      Thx! That's a good next step for sure. Rn git is my backup
forgotpwd16 10mo ago
Because it's cooler setting it up on your own than having an app do it for you. (Could even skip Termux really.) And most importantly, this sets up a full Linux environment, which can be used from hosting a simple site to programming (even the site itself; don't know if that's what author did here or site was copied from their main system) and more.
- stets 10mo ago
  The site was all "written" + configured on the device itself :-)

by utopiah 10mo ago

stets 10mo ago

Termux alone seems really quirky to me. Andronix fakes "having root" as I understand and I was able to get more of the services I wanted running on it. https://github.com/termux/proot-distro https://github.com/termux/proot-distro looks really interesting too and I intend to test it in the future!

M95D 10mo ago

> Can you please explain why [...] I can't read the site - it won't load - but there's one obvious answer to your question: "No. AI did it."

stets 10mo ago
I think your comment is meant to imply I don't know what I'm doing.
- lytedev 10mo ago
  That seems to me to be one of the least generous interpretations, no? It could also imply that, for whatever reason, the LLM opted for those tools. Therefore there isn't necessarily "reason" in the asked sense.
- shibapuppie 10mo ago
  I mean, you said it.
- 101008 10mo ago
  Do you? If someone asks you to change anything in the configuration, do you think you can do it without the help of AI? That's the difference between knowing and understanding. I may read a Math proof and understanding. That doesn't mean I can replicate it or adapting to other proofs (and that's basically the Advanced Calculus tests I used to take when I was in college). I think that's what happened to you. Someone/something (Claude) provide you with instructions you copy and pasted. You underestood them. That's different from knowing.
  - stets 10mo ago
    Yep, I have worked in IT professionally for many years. I also didn't copy and paste, Claude ran the commands for me, so it was even easier than that. You are making a lot of assumptions.
  - Gud 10mo ago
    What makes you assume people who use LLMs don’t understand what’s going on?
- M95D 10mo ago
  No, it meant to imply you don't know why AI did it. Don't fret - nobody does.

eleventyseven 10mo ago

> Can you please explain No, because they didn't program this or make these decisions, an LLM did.

stets 10mo ago
I had a vision for a fun project, made decisions, tried to understand why to make certain decisions or what was working or not. I didn't write the front page index.html and I don't want to. Sure, I prompted it how I wanted to look, though. tl;dr I had fun and learned stuff.
- hugs 10mo ago
  ignore the haters. this is cool. (and i've been vibe coding with claude code and termux for months. it's good stuff.) i would highly recommend you add guidance on automated data backups, though. my pixel phone went "black screen of death" on me and one of my projects is trapped in there until i can replace the screen.
  - stets 10mo ago
    Thx! That's a good next step for sure. Rn git is my backup

forgotpwd16 10mo ago

Because it's cooler setting it up on your own than having an app do it for you. (Could even skip Termux really.) And most importantly, this sets up a full Linux environment, which can be used from hosting a simple site to programming (even the site itself; don't know if that's what author did here or site was copied from their main system) and more.

stets 10mo ago
The site was all "written" + configured on the device itself :-)