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Android 16 lets the Linux Terminal use your phone's entire storage

by sipofwater on 4/21/25, 10:19 AM with 24 comments

  • by saidinesh5 on 4/21/25, 11:51 AM

    This is about the size of virtual disk of the Linux VMs this app can create in the newer versions of Android - and has nothing to do with actually accessing all of Android's internal filesystem.
  • by skeptrune on 4/21/25, 11:09 AM

    I don't think this will be useful in the long run.

    Using termux to ssh into my dev box already gets me access to a full Linux machine. I also think it's preferable relative to what Google is doing here creating a VM under a VM with weird bugs.

  • by metalman on 4/21/25, 11:31 AM

    by "phone" they mean pixel, so the title should read "google lets other stuff use google, sometimes"
  • by thefroh on 4/21/25, 8:13 PM

    does this allow running applications which need FUSE? I know for termux that's only possible with root.
  • by imcritic on 4/21/25, 11:51 AM

    Maybe this could become a solution to the shitshow of a problem with Android APIs that make it impossible for any music player app to let user delete locally saved music files?