I never imagined I’d like playing Tetris on the command line, on a terminal on my phone (termux), but here I am!

I couldn’t find any Tetris app on fdroid, and just checked if pkgs had one. Lo and behold! It asked me to run pkgs install vitetris, and when I did, the tetris command was there to launch the game.

It’s a two step process, as opposed to just launching an app, but it is very lightweight, no tracking, and FOSS.

For anyone with termux already installed and feeling a bit nostalgic, might be worth trying it out.

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    1 year ago

    out of curiosity, what do you use it for? I’ve never been able to find a useful function of it beyond a niche party trick

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      1 year ago

      I use it for YouTube-dl, and it’s probably useful for programming too. There is a command to let it access shared storage, use that before anything else. Download it from f-droid. Play store build is broken.

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      1 year ago

      I use it for backing up all my photos and videos (the DCIM folder) to my B2 repo using rclone.

      It’s genuinely amazing how useful it is.

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      1 year ago

      box64(droid) makes it possible to run x64 applications, even with wine - so you can have a mini graphically accelerated desktop