Play a clone of Tetris
Tetris has suggested efficacy in attenuating development or severity of trauma and it seems to have a beneficial ongoing cognitive effect also.
Don’t get Tetris™️, get a good paid version that lets you buy it and doesn’t show ads or track you after buying.
PhyPhox app. Let’s you access every physical sensor your android device SoC has access to (at least for most major manufacturers). Especially on high end phones, they include a huge array of sensors from accelerometers to magnetometers to high accuracy air pressure barometers. Plus it includes a lot of processed sensor outputs, like rudimentary range finding sonar, audio frequency spectrums, etc… And it’s free!
Thanks for the awesome suggestion mate
A lot of the base sensor values can also be accessed in debug mode - albeit without much of a UI, but it works in a pinch.
This looks amazing for the pointless tinkering I love!
I assume this is pretty basic for people on Lemmy, where you can’t throw a rock without hitting a couple of programmers and Linux nerds, but I always feel so cool using Termux to SSH into my laptop that I use to self-host a couple of things. Makes me feel like a 1337hax0r person.
I’ve been doing that sort of thing for about 20 years and I still feel that way
I use ConnectBot I’ve had it installed for ages and ages.
Can confirm, did that within the last hour. Not the laptop, but a school server
I went with Shelly. Worth it!
You make me wonder why I even bother with SSH apps when I do have Termux…
I suppose you can use aliases with Termux too?
That is what I use in my Mac/Linux environment to quick access stuff.
I suppose you can use aliases with Termux too?
Yup!
As a flight computer/logger when paramotoring. Shout out [email protected] 😊
Here’s a screenshot of flight playback from this evening!
Neat
Very cool!
Or get gameboy. No tracking at all
I find it cumbersome to ensure they stay charged. I already have to manage that with my phone and this way I can use it whenever the occasion arises. It does feel nicer tactile-wise tho with a gameboy
Edit: have a DS
MyBoy is a good GameBoy emulator, best of both worlds.
If you want the best of all three worlds, Lemuroid is an emulator based on Libretro, it can emulate a ton of different platforms including Gameboy. It’s free & open-source, unlike MyBoy.
have a DS
Then you have everything, even the good battery life to don’t make this an issue at all.
(I’m very biased for this handheld, which I use even more than my Switch and PS4).
I like JustWatch because it lets you search all your streaming services at once. If you set up a (free) account, you can limit it to just the streaming services you have personally. Handy as hell.
I use the desktop mode of my phone when I want to multitask my laziness in multiple windows simultaneously. I can YouTube using vanced, scroll through Lemmy and read manga.
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I use Admin Hands for ssh and sftp access to my NAS.
I’ve been playing around with Super Image more and more. Recently I used it to upscale some Ghibli stills so I could use them as wallpapers. It’s so neat to me that I can do it all offline, with the power of my own device.
Can you link to the app’s repo?
Not off hand but here’s the fdroid page: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.zhenxiang.superimage/
You can turn an old phone or laptop into a wifi extender.
You can use an old iPhone to get iMessage working on an android.
If you attach a lens to it you can use your phone as a binocular
You can use your phone to scan a document and turn it into a digital file.
You can use it to make a signature, upload to computer to make a legally binding e-signature (the security of this is ambiguous, do at your own risk).
Theres probably an app somewhere to use it as a trackpad (if not can somebody please do this).
I’m pretty sure there’s an app to use it as a secondary monitor for your PC or laptop
If you ever repair or fix things, take pictures at various points to have a reference to how it comes back together.
It you ever need to remember anything just take a picture. (Use this all the time at work for stocking things, take a picture of its location address, walk down the warehouse etc)
I think there’s an app to use it as an angle gauge by tilting it. Used for hanging pictures and stuff.
Probably a pair of calipers with the right app and calibration.
You can get a “remote controlled button presser and switch flicker”. You attach it to a light switch or anything else to remotely activate it. Great for turning on and off a space heater or computer.
Use an old one as a remotely viewable security camera, with battery.
Pierce the battery to make a fire (can only be used once)
That’s about all I can think of right now
kde connect allows you to use the phone as a trackpad
I haven’t done much with it yet but I have Termux installed on my phone. Termux is a free and open source app that, while it’s very limited, allows you to run Linux applications on an android phone/tablet. So far the only things I’ve done with it was that I ran neofetch and I used ciso to compress some iso files into cso files, both of which were just to test it out and get used to using it. I do plan on enabling and trying out X11 at some point but android prevents Termux from having hardware acceleration and the amount of software available for non-android Linux distros is very minimal, so I have no idea how useful it would be.
kore over wireguard to control kodi in a relatives house.
Kde connect is just awesome too and also works over wireguard
Voice recorder for meetings to recap later.
You can also use WiFi and Bluetooth to see what devices are nearby.
All sorts but less so now I use a hardened ROM apposed to a rootable ROM. I mostly use it for media consumption, like spotube, invidious.
rensim! (I tried to share the app, not sure if the link will work) it’s puyo puyo.
Chinese space station tracker with iss detector
A remote when watching films from my PC with kdeconnect
I once considered using my phone as a VR tracking point for full body tracking with slimeVR
