Using a PC to SSH into the UBPorts PinePhone makes things so much easier.

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@supernova
You can do that with regular android and termux, just don't know how far can you go with it

@nikolal You mean adb shell? I never really played with that much. Maybe its the same. But with a Debian based system I am familiar with it. And you can do ssh keys, is that possible with adb?

@supernova
No, I mean SSH. I use termux and SSH to connect to remote machines, but its possible to connect to Android phone from othet machine, see here for details.
wiki.termux.com/wiki/Remote_Ac

@nikolal OK I see, yeah I'm not surprised that you can setup an ssh server with Termux. I never really felt the need to do that with Android, installing packages just by downloading the apk worked well enough and I never ran across any situation in my use cases where a CLI would be necessary. Using a mainline derived distro on a phone though the CLI is just so much easier since many things are accomplished this way.

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@supernova
Yes, I've never had need to access my phone with CLI either, but I have need for termux only to maintain my remote machines, also I use termux to run pythin scripts from my raspberry pi for some calculation needs, so it does come in handy for me.

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