At the end of my last post about boxd.sh and Codex, I mentioned that next time I might just SSH into the machine and use Codex in the console, rather than connecting it to the desktop app. I ended up on an unexpected train journey today, and realized that not only could I do that direct SSH from a desktop environment, but likely it would also work from a phone!
If you haven’t come across it yet, Android now has a Linux terminal available on some devices / versions of Android, enabled through Developer options. Its Terminal app gives you a Debian Linux VM? running locally on your phone, using the Android Virtualization Framework.
So you can install packages and run fairly ordinary Linux command-line tools, which is rather convenient considering boxd access is a simply little binary and has authentication built in for its SSH command.
But first, a 600MB update on UK train internet… I’m pretty sure that too 30 minutes…
