it occurs to me that i love pushing small tech to do things that's hard without "full" systems enough that it almost doesn't matter how inconvenient it is, so long as it's "possible"

*proceeds to install an x86_64 qemu debian vm on my phone in termux to get docker running*

but seriously though, it feels so nice to be able to do basically everything you would ever need to from one very small piece of tech--even if it's in a limited capacity

like, if you were stranded somewhere and only had access to your phone, you wouldn't be limited to only doing standard "phone things"

i feel this strongly enough that i've actually put a lot of effort into polishing termux and tasker to let me do almost everything i would usually on my *nix systems easily

i have things like ffmpeg, imagemagick, and exiftool running natively on the thing
i have dev tools to let me write and compile Ruby and C, install libraries and gems, and my whole emacs configuration running natively

i even made a PR to termux-tasker to let me combine the two even more than usual so i could manage services

a few examples of things i've managed to do natively in termux:

• got a working metasploit framework set up and used it to gain access to a metasploitable VM
• developed a small ptrace wrapper to run the raspberry pi version of ADOM natively
• compiled several roguelikes and set up a custom keyboard to make playing them not nearly as annoying as you'd expect on a phone

...all without the help of a more "powerful" or "complete" desktop system

i've definitely learned a lot along the way too

mostly quirks in AOSP and ARM, but also how to do some legit android development and how the OS actually even works as a whole (it really is just a linux, but it's an unwieldy one with a few restrictions for security purposes that can mostly be bypassed in userspace)