Oh, I had an old Nokia. Windows based. These were times to use Windows, the best feature set of all (radio, files, bluetooth). Now everything Microsoft is filled with that AI crap of theirs, Copilot.
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Both my Windows smartphones were made by HTC, one was rebranded “O2” - the other was HTC Tityn II - and that was well before Microsoft tried to “converge” Windows 8 across mobile and desktop with “Metro” - i.e. both of them were essentially Windows CE - and the “killer app” on them IMHO was Microsoft Age of Empires!
Yeah - 100% - I copy some new album to my Music “share” in ResilioSync - and within minutes - over WiFi - the whole thing is there on my phone! Don’t need to bother trying to make USB connection or adb-sync work!
And just went out today for a ride around the river in my area - spotted a collared goshawk with its dinner in a tree - took some snaps - got closer - got some better shots… Then just got home now and ran my rsync to get my latest photos off my TermUX sshd - and success!!!
I installed termux-boot “add on” (from F-Droid) and created :
~/.termux/boot
then created : ssh-start
#!/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/sh
termux-wake-lock
sshd
sshd used to drop out if I left home and came back and rejoined my WiFi… doesn’t happen any more…
I’m not 100% sure what “termux-wake-lock” does… But SSH (and rsync over ssh) just works - all the time - so long as termux is running…
I reckon the only thing I might want USB (from Linux desktop) support for in future is to sideload blocked apps via adb (like I did earlier with SolitaireCG and F-Droid), and maybe scrcpy to look at my Android screen on my desktop - but I hardly ever do that…
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