Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app

Termux is a great project, may it be for cli lovers, hackers, road warriors ... However, I have little trust in mobile devices nowadays and I don't feel safe copying private ssh/gpg/vpn/credentials data on them anymore. Planned obsolescence, theft risk, vendor/hardware/firmware issues, general feel of lack of control, ... As a consequence, I tend to use my smartphone as anonymously as possible, mostly as a camera, an actual phone and 4G modem, tethering via usb/wifi to my laptop. It's simple…

Termux has recently run into issues with Android 10 and the more recent APIs, which break its form of package management. Their workaround is fairly clever (although not yet implemented) but means that updates to the Play Store version have been temporarily put on hold. https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Termux-and-An...

This package is very useful. I use it to run youtube-dl and attach to my irssi container. I do lots from irssi/termux; tweet slack irc. The termux-url handler is great as well. You can process shared urls from your browser based on their domain name. For some urls I pass them to youtube-dl for others I push to getpocket and a couple of other special cases I have as well. My tablet wouldn't be the same without it.