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After 3 months of daily-driving PineTab 2, I love but also hate it

2023.10.4 Smartphone/Linux phone

中文版 WARNING: This article is full of rants, from a normal user perspective. In the end I will try to list some advantages of PineTab 2.

ReDroid. Playing Android games in containers on Linux PC, with GPU Acclelration

2023.8.4 Linux/Virtual machine and container

中文版 ReDroid (Remote anDroid) is an open source and self-hosting “cloud phone” solution. By running Android in containers on Linux PC, we could access Android desktop by using Scrcpy.

How to use Termux X11 - The X server on Android phone

2023.8.2 Smartphone/Termux tutorial

🇹🇼 中文版 Termux X11 is a Termux add-on app providing Android frontend for X. The performance is better than VNC server.

virglrenderer: Termux GPU hardware acceleration tutorial

2023.7.26 Smartphone/Termux tutorial

🇹🇼 中文版 This article is about how to enable GPU hardware acceleration in Termux proot-distro by installing and running virgl server in Termux.

How to install Arch Linux ARM on Android phone (Termux Proot-distro)

2023.7.25 Smartphone/Termux tutorial

🇹🇼 中文版 Proot-distro of Termux allows you to install Linux distributions on your Android phone. No root required. Proot-distros are containers, which are limited but still possible to run some dekstop appliations in it.

A simple Termux tutorial for beginners

2023.7.23 Smartphone/Termux tutorial

🇹🇼 中文版 Termux is an open-source terminal emulator for Android devices. It has its own package manager so you can download and run commandline tools in Termux.

How to install proot Debian in Termux on Android phone (XFCE desktop + Audio + One-click starter)

2023.7.15 Smartphone/Termux tutorial

🇹🇼 中文版 In this article I will tell you how to install proot Debian manually. This tutorial might also works for proot Ubuntu.

Pine64 PineTab 2 unboxing and review by Ivon Huang

2023.6.6 Smartphone/Linux phone

中文版 My personal review of Pine64’s PineTab 2, ARM variant. TD;DR. What’s a good e-book reader…. In recent years, I always want to buy a Linx tablet to play with, also read e-books and academic papers.

Running Alpaca.cpp (LLaMA) on Android phone using Termux

2023.4.7 Smartphone/Termux tutorial

中文版 Running LLaMA, a ChapGPT-like large language model released by Meta on Android phone locally. I use antimatter15/alpaca.cpp, which is forked from ggerganov/llama.

Example code of installing minimal Stable Diffusion WebUI on Google Colab

2023.4.3 FOSS AI/Stable Diffusion tutorial

中文版 We can run AUTOMATIC1111’s Stable Diffusion WebUI (SD WebUI) on Google Colab for free. This allows us to generate 512x512 pixels of AI art in 10 seonds.

Install multiple desktop environments on postmarketOS

2023.4.3 Smartphone/Linux phone

🇹🇼 中文版 Say you already installed Phosh on your postmarketOS, now you wanna try Plasma Mobile or the real GNOME. Well, there is no need to reflash the OS.

[Root] Install Ubuntu in chroot on Android without Linux Deploy

2023.3.11 Smartphone/Termux tutorial

🇹🇼 中文版 Termux, a temrminal emulator, could be an good Linux Deploy alternative. You can manually install Ubuntu chroot environment on Android phone without using Linux Deploy .

Installing Anaconda on Android (aarch64) devices

2023.2.21 Smartphone/Termux tutorial

🇹🇼 中文版 This tutorial is for those who want to install Anaconda on Android phone. The benefit of Anaconda is that you could have multiple Python versions installed on the same device.

How to run Stable Diffusion on Termux on Android phone

2023.2.18 FOSS AI/Stable Diffusion tutorial

🇹🇼 中文版 Stable Diffusion is an open-source deep-learning model. It can generate (paint) images conditioned on text descriptions. I tried to run Stable Diffusion on my Android phone and it worked.

[Root] Running Docker containers and Flatpak apps on Android phone with Termux

2023.2.8 Smartphone/Root and custom rom

🇹🇼 中文版 There are various ways of running Docker containers on Android. First, Docker will not work in proot. And because Android kernel lacks the features which are required by dockers to run, even with root permission you still cannot run docker in chroot environment.

10+ Windows galgames that you can play on Linux (And native Linux galgames!)

2023.1.31 Linux/Gaming on Linux

🇹🇼 中文版 Recently I tested more than ten popular Windows galgames (Japanese visaul novel games) on Arch Linux. Some of them worked, some of them just crashed.

How to run Windows programs on Android with Box86 + Wine in Termux Proot

2023.1.29 Smartphone/Termux tutorial

🇹🇼 中文版 We can run Windows programs (.exe) with Box86 and Wine in Termux proot on Android. No root required. Wine is a translation layer for running x86/x64 Windows programs on Linux.

Analyzing the Elements in Children’s Books: The Wind in the Willows. References

2023.1.25 Liberal arts/Personal thoughts

Student: Ivon Huang National Pingtung University June 2022 References Anderson, Nancy A. (2005). Elementary Children’s Literature: The Basics for Teachers and Parents (2nd Edition).

Analyzing the Elements in Children’s Books: The Wind in the Willows. Chapter Five

2023.1.25 Liberal arts/Personal thoughts

Student: Ivon Huang National Pingtung University June 2022 Chapter 5 Conclusion In conclusion, the researcher found out that The Wind in The Willows (Grahame, 1908) did have the elements of qualified literature based on several children’s literature theories suggested by the experts (Lukens, 2007; Peter, 1999; Crippen, 2012; Norton, 1993).

Analyzing the Elements in Children’s Books: The Wind in the Willows. Chapter Four

2023.1.25 Liberal arts/Personal thoughts

Student: Ivon Huang National Pingtung University June 2022 Chapter Four Results and Discussions We have discussed the functions of children’s literature and the definitions in Chapter 2.