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See also: https://old.reddit.com/r/AnythingGoesNews/comments/1mpxd6w/h... (old.reddit.com/r/AnythingGoesNews/comments/1mpxd6w/handson_we_ran_full_desktop_linux_apps_on_an/n8mou5j/)

sipofwateron Hands-on: We ran full desktop Linux apps on an Android phone!

See also: https://old.reddit.com/r/AnythingGoesNews/comments/1mpxd6w/h... (old.reddit.com/r/AnythingGoesNews/comments/1mpxd6w/handson_we_ran_full_desktop_linux_apps_on_an/n8mou5j/)

sipofwateron Google Pixel 8 phone, Android 16 Canary build: Debian Linux, Graphical Interface [video]

"Motorola moto g play 2024 smartphone, Termux application, and QEMU running under Termux: Booting "Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" with debian-12-nocloud-amd64.qcow2": https://old.reddit.com/r/androidterminal/comments/1mc3pnz/go... (old.reddit.com/r/androidterminal/comments/1mc3pnz/googles_linux_terminal_plays_a_big_part_in/n5tjgu8/)

sipofwateron Linux on the Samsung Z Flip 7: How & Why? [video]

sipofwateron Android 16 "canary build running" on a Google Pixel 7a smartphone: Linux GUI [video]

sipofwateron You can finally run Doom and other graphical apps in Android's Linux Terminal

* "Android Virtualization Framework (AVF) overview": https://source.android.com/docs/core/virtualization

* "Android's Linux Terminal arrives on the Galaxy Z Flip 7, but Z Fold 7 users are left out": https://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-z-flip-7-linux-termi... (www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-z-flip-7-linux-terminal-3578675/)

sipofwateron Curtis Yarvin wants to replace American democracy with a monarchy led by a 'CEO'

Article Mirror: https://archive.is/EWTKx

sipofwateron UK IT Leaders to US Tech Firms: We Don't Trust You

Article Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/1kz14b2/poll_of_10... (old.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/1kz14b2/poll_of_1000_senior_techies_euro_execs_mull_use/)

sipofwateron 'I guess NASA doesn't need or care about my work anymore'

"Into the Memory Hole": https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/into-the-memory-h... (waynehale.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/into-the-memory-hole/)

sipofwateron Looming tariffs are making it extra hard to be a tech geek

* Mirror: https://archive.is/ygkOg

* See also: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1k53bal/fun_fact_cbp... (old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1k53bal/fun_fact_cbp_is_not_allowed_to_search_through/?sort=new)

sipofwateron EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fears

1. "Your Phone, Your Data: How to Safeguard Your Digital Life When Entering the U.S.": https://www.rnlawgroup.com/your-phone-your-data-how-to-safeg... (www.rnlawgroup.com/your-phone-your-data-how-to-safeguard-your-digital-life-when-entering-the-u-s/), https://web.archive.org/web/20250307234303/www.rnlawgroup.co... (web.archive.org/web/20250307234303/www.rnlawgroup.com/your-phone-your-data-how-to-safeguard-your-digital-life-when-entering-the-u-s/)

2. Is Your Password Secure? (IYPS) is a "password strength app that evaluates and rates your password's robustness, estimates crack time, and provides helpful warnings and suggestions for stronger passwords.": https://github.com/StellarSand/IYPS

3. Android KeePassDX can generate passwords and passphrases: https://github.com/Kunzisoft/KeePassDX

4. "Password Generator is a simple Android application which generates secure passwords.": https://gitlab.com/vecturagames/passwordgenerator

5. KeePassXC has a "Password Generator": https://keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_UserGuide , https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc , https://keepassxc.org/download , https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/tree/master/x11-pa... (github.com/termux/termux-packages/tree/master/x11-packages/keepassxc)

6. "keepassxc-cli is the command line interface for the KeePassXC password manager.": https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/blob/latest/docs... (github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/blob/latest/docs/man/keepassxc-cli.1.adoc), https://keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_UserGuide#_command_line... (keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_UserGuide#_command_line_tool), https://keepassxc.org

7. "Motorola moto g play 2024 Smartphone, Android 14 Operating System, Termux, And cryptsetup: Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) Encryption/Decryption And The ext4 Filesystem Without Using root Access, Without Using proot-distro, And Without Using QEMU": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_android_14/)

8. "Avoid US or Take Burner Devices, Canadian Executives Tell Staff": https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-15/avoid-us-... (www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-15/avoid-us-or-take-burner-devices-canadian-executives-tell-staff), https://archive.is/GvBLF

sipofwateron Your Phone, Your Data: How to Safeguard Your Digital Life When Entering the U.S.

Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20250307234303/www.rnlawgroup.co... (web.archive.org/web/20250307234303/www.rnlawgroup.com/your-phone-your-data-how-to-safeguard-your-digital-life-when-entering-the-u-s/)

sipofwateron Can Your Phone Ban You from the U.S. in 2025?

"Your Phone, Your Data: How to Safeguard Your Digital Life When Entering the U.S.": https://www.rnlawgroup.com/your-phone-your-data-how-to-safeg... (www.rnlawgroup.com/your-phone-your-data-how-to-safeguard-your-digital-life-when-entering-the-u-s/)

sipofwateron Can Your Phone Ban You from the U.S. in 2025?

1. Mirror: https://archive.is/PmHW3

2. "United States travel advice": https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/united-states

sipofwateron How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.

"One Tech Tip: Protecting your device privacy when crossing borders": https://apnews.com/article/internet-privacy-smartphones-trav... (apnews.com/article/internet-privacy-smartphones-travel-e0a3146ae7966ea0e4157dbfae1f6a81)

sipofwateron How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.

"With more than 300 student visas revoked, international scholars worry as the government expands reasons for deportation": https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/us/us-immigration-student-vis... (www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/us/us-immigration-student-visas-revoked/index.html)

sipofwateron How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.

"DHS to screen social media of visa applicants for 'antisemitic activity'": https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dhs-screen-social-media-visa... (abcnews.go.com/Politics/dhs-screen-social-media-visa-applicants-antisemitic-activity/story?id=120642944)

sipofwateron How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.

"‘It’s like our friend started a fist fight with us’: These Europeans are skipping US travel": https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/travel/european-travelers-ski... (www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/travel/european-travelers-skipping-us-trips/index.html)

sipofwateron How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.

"US expected a big travel year, but overseas visitors — angered by Trump — are heading elsewhere": https://apnews.com/article/tourism-us-travel-trump-visitors-... (apnews.com/article/tourism-us-travel-trump-visitors-international-14c31b490fd382d09ad5cae625ddc937)

sipofwateron How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.

"Motorola moto g play 2024 Smartphone, Android 14 Operating System, Termux, And cryptsetup: Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) Encryption/Decryption And The ext4 Filesystem Without Using root Access, Without Using proot-distro, And Without Using QEMU": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_android_14/)

sipofwateron How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.

Mirror: https://archive.is/rDbgD

sipofwateron "Disk re-encryption in Linux" by Stepan Yakimovich (2024, LUKS)

"cryptsetup reencrypt" is used in "Motorola moto g play 2024 Smartphone, Android 14 Operating System, Termux, And cryptsetup: Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) Encryption/Decryption And The ext4 Filesystem Without Using root Access, Without Using proot-distro, And Without Using QEMU": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_android_14/)

sipofwateron Here's how to access your Android phone's files from the new Linux Terminal

See also: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1jhqoz7/heres_how_to... (old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1jhqoz7/heres_how_to_access_your_android_phones_files/)

sipofwateron enhance(main/libusb): Add integration with termux-usb -E

1. "USB emulation": https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/devices/usb.html

2. "Motorola moto g play 2024 smartphone, Termux, termux-usb, usbredirect, QEMU running under Termux, and Alpine Linux: Disks with Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) Partition Table (GPT) partitioning": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_termux/)

sipofwateron "Termux + X11 on my Android tablet...feels pretty close to a real Linux setup."

1. Here's the complete description: https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/1jecn31/does... (old.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/1jecn31/does_it_count_as_linux_hardware_if_its_android_i/mihgxt8/)

2. See also: https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_termux/mgs67qz/)

sipofwateron Android's Linux Terminal app adds tabs so you can multitask more easily

See also: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1jbv7ej/androids_lin... (old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1jbv7ej/androids_linux_terminal_app_adds_tabs_so_you_can/)

sipofwateron SuperShell ADB + Shell Over Mobile Data

1. "Smartphone-1 to Smartphone-2: "adb tcpip 5555" using a Linux server, android-tools, Termux, termux-usb, usbredirect, and QEMU": https://gist.github.com/NoteAfterNote/ee883d5fd86c3b8ef0b0b8... (NoteAfterNote-8, gist.github.com/NoteAfterNote/ee883d5fd86c3b8ef0b0b84cac47b4d6) via https://gist.github.com/NoteAfterNote

2. See also: https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_termux/)

sipofwateron Android 16 may get a built-in Linux terminal

1. Termux application: https://github.com/termux/termux-app

2. See also: https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_termux/mgs67qz/)

3. "Debian Linux Terminal Now Built Inside Android 15+ - How to Enable it?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2JSlMfgCeg

4. "For our next release after 2025030800, we've added support for the Android 15 QPR2 Terminal for running other operating systems using hardware virtualization. It's currently only a terminal but Android is adding support for graphics and GPU acceleration for a future release.": https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114132940314692519

5. "Many users have asked me: What are the pros and cons of using Android's upcoming Terminal app to run Linux apps versus something like Termux?": https://www.threads.net/@mishaal_rahman/post/DCZorPpvv-C

6. "cloud-init: New user tutorial with QEMU": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43312296

sipofwateron GrapheneOS, Android Terminal: "at least one more desktop Linux" OS, Windows 11

1. Source: "For our next release after 2025030800, we've added support for the Android 15 QPR2 Terminal for running other operating systems using hardware virtualization. It's currently only a terminal but Android is adding support for graphics and GPU acceleration for a future release." at https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114132940314692519

2. "Debian Linux Terminal Now Built Inside Android 15+ - How to Enable it?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2JSlMfgCeg

3. See also: https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1j2g5gz/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_termux/mgs67qz/)

4. "Many users have asked me: What are the pros and cons of using Android's upcoming Terminal app to run Linux apps versus something like Termux?": https://www.threads.net/@mishaal_rahman/post/DCZorPpvv-C

5. "cloud-init: New user tutorial with QEMU": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43312296