You have an old Android phone in a drawer right now. Collecting dust. Worth nothing.
Someone built a script that turns it into a full Linux desktop. Or a smart home server. Or a development machine. For free.
It's called linux-android.
One script. No root required. No flashing. No risk of bricking your device. Run it in Termux and your old phone becomes a Linux computer.
Here's what it installs:
→ Full Linux desktop. XFCE4, LXQt, or MATE. Real windowed desktop on your phone. Connect a monitor and keyboard via USB and it looks like a PC.
→ Smart home server. Home Assistant runs on your phone. Control your WiFi lights, plugs, and smart devices from any browser on your network. No cloud needed.
→ GPU acceleration. Snapdragon phones get near-native GPU performance through Turnip Vulkan drivers. Mali GPUs use software fallback.
→ SSH server. Access your phone from any computer on your WiFi. Full terminal. Transfer files. Write code. All from your laptop keyboard.
→ Wine support. Run basic Windows applications on your Android phone through Box64 translation.
→ Audio support. PulseAudio configured automatically.
→ Works on any Android phone with Termux support.
Here's the wildest part:
A Raspberry Pi 4 costs $35 to $75. A used mini PC costs $100+. A VPS costs $5/month forever.
That old phone in your drawer? It has a faster processor, more RAM, a built-in battery backup, WiFi, and a touchscreen. All for $0. You already own it.
A Snapdragon 855 from a 2019 phone still outperforms most entry-level server chips. You're throwing away a computer every time you upgrade your phone.
Not anymore.
One command. One old phone. A full Linux machine.
100% Open Source. MIT License.
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Vaterpolist osreči vas kmalu po puberteti.
Vaterpolist, kam ga boš dal, tam bo ostal...
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A wife texts her husband. Hey bring home a loaf of bread. Oh, and your girlfriend Elizabeth says 'hello'.
Husband: Who's Elizabeth?
Wife: Nobody, just wanted to make sure you got my text.
Husband: Dang, I'm with Elizabeth now, I thought you caught us!
Wife: What!? Where are you!?
Husband: I'm at the bakery, why?
Wife: I'll be right there! (5 minutes later) Where are you?
Husband: I'm at work. Where are you?
Wife: I'm at the bakery!
Husband: Don't forget the bread.
A guy couldn't find a job anywhere, so he opened a small "miracle clinic."
Outside, he put up a big sign:
Treatment: $300. If it doesn't work, you get $1,000 back!
A local know-it-all thought, "Easy money."
He walked in and said, "Doc, I've completely lost my sense of taste."
The guy calmly said, "Nurse, bring Box #22. Three drops."
The nurse put three drops in the man's mouth.
The man immediately spat it out. "That's gasoline!"
The doctor smiled. "Congratulations! Your taste is back. That'll be $300."
The man stormed out, furious.
A week later, he returned. "Doc, my memory is getting really bad."
The doctor said, "Nurse, Box #22. Three drops."
The man yelled, "Wait! That's the gasoline one for taste!"
The doctor grinned. "Great! Your memory is back too. $300, please!"
Now the man was determined to win.
He came back again and said, "Doc, I'm losing my eyesight."
The doctor sighed. "I'm sorry. I don't have medicine for that. Here's your $1,000."
The man looked at the bills. "This is only $500!"
The doctor smiled. "And your vision is back. That'll be $300."
— Hitler was from your Germany.
— No, Hitler was from Austria.
— Then why isn’t there a single photo of him with a kangaroo?
— I’m telling you, from Austri…
— Or at least with a boomerang?
Ne pustimo, da laž postane resnica. Janez Janša želi ukiniti kritično civilno družbo. Širi neresnico, da Inštitut 8. marec prejema javna sredstva. Ne drži. Delimo preverjena dejstva.
Hkrati pa je zaskrbljujoče, da NSi in Demokrati Anžeta Logarja laži Janeza Janše niso obsodili.
Former President of Poland Lech Walesa wrote the following letter to Trump.
Your Excellency, Mr. President,
We watched the report of your conversation with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, with fear and distaste. We find it insulting that you expect Ukraine to show respect and gratitude for the material assistance provided by the United States in its fight against russia. Gratitude is owed to the heroic Ukrainian soldiers who shed their blood in defense of the values of the free world. They have been dying on the front lines for more than 11 years in the name of these values and the independence of their homeland, which was attacked by Putin’s russia.
We do not understand how the leader of a country that symbolizes the free world cannot recognize this.
Our alarm was also heightened by the atmosphere in the Oval Office during this conversation, which reminded us of the interrogations we endured at the hands of the Security Services and the debates in Communist courts. Prosecutors and judges, acting on behalf of the all-powerful communist political police, would explain to us that they held all the power while we held none. They demanded that we cease our activities, arguing that thousands of innocent people suffered because of us. They stripped us of our freedoms and civil rights because we refused to cooperate with the government or express gratitude for our oppression. We are shocked that President Volodymyr Zelensky was treated in the same manner.
The history of the 20th century shows that whenever the United States sought to distance itself from democratic values and its European allies, it ultimately became a threat to itself. President Woodrow Wilson understood this when he decided in 1917 that the United States must join World War I. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt understood this when, after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, he resolved that the war to defend America must be fought not only in the Pacific but also in Europe, in alliance with the nations under attack by the Third Reich.
We remember that without President Ronald Reagan and America’s financial commitment, the collapse of the Soviet empire would not have been possible. President Reagan recognized that millions of enslaved people suffered in Soviet russia and the countries it had subjugated, including thousands of political prisoners who paid for their defense of democratic values with their freedom. His greatness lay, among other things, in his unwavering decision to call the USSR an “Empire of Evil” and to fight it decisively. We won, and today, the statue of President Ronald Reagan stands in Warsaw, facing the U.S. Embassy.
Mr. President, material aid—military and financial—can never be equated with the blood shed in the name of Ukraine’s independence and the freedom of Europe and the entire free world. Human life is priceless; its value cannot be measured in money. Gratitude is due to those who sacrifice their blood and their freedom. This is self-evident to us, the people of Solidarity, former political prisoners of the communist regime under Soviet russia.
We call on the United States to uphold the guarantees made alongside Great Britain in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which established a direct obligation to defend Ukraine’s territorial integrity in exchange for its relinquishment of nuclear weapons. These guarantees are unconditional—there is no mention of treating such assistance as an economic transaction.
Signed,
Lech Wałęsa, former political prisoner, President of Poland