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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
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.
play store build is broken because of its insecurities via sdk29 usage.
I use it for backing up all my photos and videos (the
DCIM
folder) to my B2 repo usingrclone
.It's genuinely amazing how useful it is.
There's a native foss android app called Round Sync that does this.
Oh, that client looks great.
Will check it out, cheers!
box64(droid) makes it possible to run x64 applications, even with wine - so you can have a mini graphically accelerated desktop