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My phone is basically just Termux at this point. I still use the gui for making and receiving calls and for web browsing but for all other purposes it is just a portable TTY.

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lmao is this satire? how would you accurately type commands with such a tiny keyboard without tactile feedback? and how would that be faster than tapping on an icon?

I am slowly emulating the parent poster. I don't make typos anymore. Termux always pubished me for them so I learned to be precise.

I still work mostly with gui because I do not have autism but easily a quarter of my time is spent in Termux.

You mean "punished"?

what commands do you regularly use on your phone?

ssh to some machine and then do whatever I need to do. Whether it is to patch something while on the move or whatever else I need to do.

> Termux always pubished me for them so I learned to be precise.

I don't think it worked.

That was written on my laptop. Ironically enough I type better on my phone at this point.

Touch keyboards are quite good? I don't see what's even surprising about this. Yes, "tapping on an icon" is faster when the icon exists, but Android/iOS does not favor doing things nearly as powerful as a full Unix. Dumb example: file transfer. I have photos on my phone and don't want to go through a cloud service just to get them onto my laptop. I have yet to find an app that even comes close to rsync over SSH. Could that app exist? Sure. But until somebody writes it I'm going to keep using the last 20 years worth of good tools.

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