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I just need sudo and a package manager

The promise of the smart phone was a mini computer in your pocket. I think we got it, but then the vendor locked the user out of admin on their own bought and paid hardware 🤷‍♂️

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Try Termux, it’s great.

While it doesn’t get you sudo, it does get you a package manager and a decent amount of programs.

I use it and rclone to sync my cell phone’s photos to a S3 bucket.

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You can totally use sudo if you’re rooted. Using su also allows you to acces your native shell instead of Termuxs

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You’re totally right, but I wasn’t assuming they had a rooted phone.

Is there any difference between the native shell and Termux’s? I just installed fish and chsh’ed it to default: after syncing over all my dotfiles it looks and acts as expected.

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what package manager?
edit: nvm its apt

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Last I looked you could pretty easily get root on many phones, just if you did you couldn’t use stuff that checks the device security

If you want to carry two phones you could use one for banks and 2 factor authentication, and have root on the other

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Banking is pretty significant

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Yeah, that’s why you’d want two phones

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