Linux: Turning your garbage into useful shit
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Don't call it garbage! It's doing it's best okay ?!
Well it is now....
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
One man's trash is another man's server
One man’s trash is actually that same man’s server, now
Unless there is a raccoon involved. Then it's both.
Or are proprietary software the ones purposely generating trash?
The first step into the world of owning your tech is knowing what can actually run on it. It's not just Linux. Just not Windows or MacOS.
If you're super into what you've just accomplished, have a look at the ESP32 ecosystem and behold.
I had a similar experience with a "wow the Linux community is beautiful" feeling after booting into Debian on an old rockchip CPU TV box !
Have a look at the armbian community. Those guys are on another level 😁.
Edit
To my surprise, I even discovered that you can boot Armbian on these inexpensive boxes and use them as a lightweight desktop
Oupsi ! It's late here so I didn't read till the end ! Sorry about that 😅
I use old android phones for WiFi on some of my desktops.
Shizuku to be able to do privileged, shell, and hidden api stuff.
Termux to set up an sshd proxy/server to be able to access the machines.
InviziblePro for anonymized DNScrypt and tor socks proxy.
You don't technically need docker though. It's just a convenience layer.
Coreelec doesn't have a package manager.
You don't technically need a package manager though. It's just a convenience layer.
...and that is why I love Linux as well! Gotta love my little ~~potato~~ Orange pi zero 3.
i wish i can do the same i have a tv tuner running android 4 sadly its a huawei with a HISILICON CPU and i cannot find some adb option and i cannot find a project that supports HISILICON cpus its a old one i found it in my uncles house closet i even tried asking lemmy they said just get a new device mine is obescure i tried some chinese forums the system refused to see the files and download them is a pain i gave up