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Adding to the many other great uses of termux already here, the most useful lately for me is running Syncthing. After the "drama" with the Syncthing android cli

Adding to the many other great uses of termux already here, the most useful lately for me is running Syncthing. After the "drama" with the Syncthing android client (my understanding: official development stopped due to onerous requirements from the Google, then the most popular fork was transferred to a new owner in a less-than-fully-trustworthy manner), being able to just run syncthing from the command line is a breath of fresh air. I highly recommend using Unexpected Keyboard along with termux (a recommendation I myself almost certainly got from HN).

kid64 8mo ago
I remember hearing something about the circumstances of that transfer, do you have a link/reference. Also, when you run Syncthing (the normal build I assume, without the Android wrapper), are you able to reliably prevent Android from killing it?
- ratrocket 8mo ago
  Last things first: on my phone I only run syncthing "on demand", so I can't actually answer your question. Maybe someone else can chime in? From the little I've brushed up against the issue you're referring to, I think there's a way to have it not get killed, but it seems like it might be a little bit of a hassle. On the transfer, here is what I could dig up: The github issue about it was deleted, but archive.org has copies: https://web.archive.org/web/20251215062049/https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android/issues/16 https://web.archive.org/web/20251215062049/https://github.co... HN discussion of same (with another link to the syncthing forum): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46184730 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46184730 Lobsters discussion: https://lobste.rs/s/urbcpw/potential_security_breach_syncthing https://lobste.rs/s/urbcpw/potential_security_breach_syncthi... (and here is the announcement that the official android syncthing app was being discontinued: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-android/23002 https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-androi...) No shortage of reading if you have the time! I'm quite happy to be running just the "standard" package (although, yeah, I should've pointed out that I don't run in continuously on my phone...)

kid64 8mo ago

I remember hearing something about the circumstances of that transfer, do you have a link/reference. Also, when you run Syncthing (the normal build I assume, without the Android wrapper), are you able to reliably prevent Android from killing it?

ratrocket 8mo ago
Last things first: on my phone I only run syncthing "on demand", so I can't actually answer your question. Maybe someone else can chime in? From the little I've brushed up against the issue you're referring to, I think there's a way to have it not get killed, but it seems like it might be a little bit of a hassle. On the transfer, here is what I could dig up: The github issue about it was deleted, but archive.org has copies: https://web.archive.org/web/20251215062049/https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android/issues/16 https://web.archive.org/web/20251215062049/https://github.co... HN discussion of same (with another link to the syncthing forum): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46184730 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46184730 Lobsters discussion: https://lobste.rs/s/urbcpw/potential_security_breach_syncthing https://lobste.rs/s/urbcpw/potential_security_breach_syncthi... (and here is the announcement that the official android syncthing app was being discontinued: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-android/23002 https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-androi...) No shortage of reading if you have the time! I'm quite happy to be running just the "standard" package (although, yeah, I should've pointed out that I don't run in continuously on my phone...)