Find out how smartphone ownership has reached 4.3 billion people worldwide. Dive into the GSMA's Mobile Internet Connectivity 2023 Report.

4.3 Billion People Now Own Smartphones::Find out how smartphone ownership has reached 4.3 billion people worldwide. Dive into the GSMA’s Mobile Internet Connectivity 2023 Report.

    • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Termux uses a hack that was already patched, so if Termux ever update to newer API level it won’t work.

      I got a brand new phone and installed Termux a few weeks ago.

      I cannot mount a drive, access app’s files and their configs,

      That is a problem on normal Android. But with Termux and certain other programs that have the right permissions, like the “File” app that came with my Samsung, you can access the entire OS and network drives.

      I cannot update beyond manufacturer support and swap OSes like on PC and the list goes on…

      If you root your phone you can do anything.

        • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I see you haven’t used Linux for longer, but it has a concept of mounting.

          Dude I’ve used Unix for 40 years since before Linux existed. I had an Android tablet, in which I installed termux on, and mounted my shared network drives using Samba on termux. I literally used the Linux “mount” command to mount it to my termux linux filesystem.

          You can see how short is the list of supported phones, it needs to be ported for every device separately and takes huge amount of work

          And it was a huge amount of work to port Unix to various hardware back in the day.