{"id":279824,"date":"2026-06-23T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/i-gave-my-android-a-terminal-and-it-became-my-most-capable-computer\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:35:10","slug":"i-gave-my-android-a-terminal-and-it-became-my-most-capable-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/i-gave-my-android-a-terminal-and-it-became-my-most-capable-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"I gave my Android a terminal, and it became my most capable computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/gave-android-terminal-it-became-most-capable-computer\/\">I gave my Android a terminal, and it became my most capable computer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/gave-android-terminal-it-became-most-capable-computer\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/gave-android-terminal-it-became-most-capable-computer\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-23 15:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My phone has been living a double life for the last couple of months. It looks and functions like any other Android phone, but once I fire up Termux or Google&#8217;s native Linux terminal, and that same rectangle becomes something that most people have never seen a smartphone do \u2014 it stops being a consumer device and starts acting like a computer.<\/p>\n<p>Android&#8217;s Linux terminal has been giving me new reasons not to open my PC, and after spending some time with it, I can easily say it&#8217;s one of my most capable computers at the moment. It might not be the most powerful, but it lets me do what none of my devices can, and that versatility can come in extremely handy for those who need it.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tI turned my Pixel into a desktop computer without buying anything extra<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Google&#8217;s desktop mode is free, surprisingly capable, and not quite done yet<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"a-terminal-turns-android-into-something-entirely-different\">\n                        A terminal turns Android into something entirely different<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"ssh-scripting-servers-and-the-linux-tools-hiding-behind-your-touchscreen\">\n            SSH, scripting, servers, and the Linux tools hiding behind your&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/gave-android-terminal-it-became-most-capable-computer\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave my Android a terminal, and it became my most capable computer https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/gave-android-terminal-it-became-most-capable-computer\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/03\/desktop-linux-running-with-terminal-running-on-pixel-9a.JPG?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72],"class_list":["post-279824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279830,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279824\/revisions\/279830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}