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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn't everything a webapp these days?

[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I can say that practically every "program" my employer forces us to use is in fact a webapp, and thus I have to refresh or back out and reclick a minimum of 100 times a day (I do teleservice).

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, no. It's a full-blown Debian VM running on your portable Linux-based device, with its own virtual network adapter that accesses the internet via NAT through your phone's physical network adapter. Just like a VM on a normal server.

The terminal program used to access said VM happens to be a web app. Very much like Spice, NoMachine, and others. You can even SSH into it from Termux if you forward the port.

[–] s08nlql9@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Yeap, i was talking about the terminal app not the VM

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago

Well not just. It's a web app that connects to a shell running on a VM, running on your phone.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

lol

Is that the builtin thingy?

[–] s08nlql9@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago

It is. That app from Developer options

[–] DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

why learn C when your can learn CSS

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Probably a VNC window to the console or something lile that.

[–] 18107@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

I had a basic terminal app 10 years ago that was built better than that. It could barely do anything without root access, but at least it want a web app.

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 1 points 2 months ago

I went back to termux after trying this since I like to use VPN for both external and internal communication to my servers.

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

So Linux is just Android?

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Depends. Looked today into why there's no ready-made DuckDuckGo browser for Linux (but there is for Mac,Windows,Android). There's source code for LInux in a .deb. Rahtha confusing methinks.

[–] Pro@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago

Always has been