Because you won’t determine the type of NAT during hole punching. This requires the client sending two UDP packets to two different IP addresses, then comparing their source addresses on the server.
Normally yes, you can just assume that two clients you are trying to connect both have port restricted cone NAT, and run the hole punching algorithm, and if the connection fails after ten seconds, show message to the users ‘Error 418: your router is a teapot’.
The one use case is running STUN/TURN server for NAT hole punching, that requires two separate servers, or one server with two IP addresses. You will only need that to run masterserver for games that support hole punching, or to run VoIP telephony / teleconference server.
Another use case is reliability, when your server is connected to several network providers, it will keep working if one of them has an outage, and will naturally have a different IP address for each network link. But your VPS does not have several network links, otherwise they would advertize that in bold red letters.
It’s supposed to be available on Android 15, but only on ‘select devices’, so probably only on Pixel.
Thanks for trying it.
You need to enter these commands in the Linux terminal app, not in the X server app. Once the two apps connect, it should be possible to launch another terminal inside the X server.
Go to your phone Settings > About Phone and tap “Build number” seven times. You will receive notification that your phone now has developer options enabled.
Settings > System > Developer Options > Linux development environment. On that page, tap the On/Off slider.
You will find an icon for the new Terminal app on your home screen. It’s going to download 500 MB of data when you open it.
Long-press the Terminal app icon, tap Info > Mobile data, and enable Unrestricted data usage.
Now you can download more packages inside your Linux virtual machine using apt-get command, as described in my previous post.
Yup, Android is Linux, but you can’t run desktop apps on it like Gimp or LibreOffice or VS Code, that’s what Linux terminal is capable of.
Google’s bullshit strikes again! All apps must be built for Android 13 or they are removed from Play Store, apparently because Google could not do the Android security correctly for the first 12 versions. Now they can emulate Linux on Android, but cannot emulate an older version of Android on Android. And I last updated my app in 2021, during Android 11 era.
Here’s the link to sideload the app:
I’ll try to update it on Play Store tomorrow, if my crusty build scrips will work with the new Android SDK.
Someone who owns a fancy new phone with Android 15 or 16, could you please test if you can run GUI Linux apps on it using my X server app?
Supposedly it should work like this:
sudo apt-get install task-xfce-desktop
export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0
xfce4-session
Open XSDL app again, you should see XFCE desktop environment with mouse cursor, and you should be able to launch Synaptic and install other Linux packages.
Just look at those nested parentheses. A true sign of (pedantic) greatness, when a person needs to clarify something in their earlier clarification.
The update from Debian 12 took me four hours. It works. Plasma did not load so I had to clear old configuration files and configure it anew. Plasma on Wayland is actually usable now, and looks stable so far. And I’ve got new wallpapers I’ve so desired.
And now it’s time to forget about OS updates for another two years.