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.

    • @[email protected]
      6•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

      • Derin
        8•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.

        • @scarilog
          2•1 year ago

          There’s a native foss android app called Round Sync that does this.

      • jkozaka
        8•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.

      • @[email protected]
        3•1 year ago

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