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Freedom in Mobile Computing

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/c/LibreMobile is a community for discussion of Free (Libre) Software in the mobile space, including Android and non-Android Linux-based OS’s.

Please don’t discuss, promote, advocate, advertise, or ask for help with proprietary software in this community. This includes using libre software with the purpose of enabling proprietary software (such as microG, Aurora Store, sandboxes, etc).

Proprietary apps are still proprietary even if they have no trackers or a nice-sounding privacy policy.

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Need to OTG-attach USB to an Android phone to store large bittorrent downloads (linkage.ds8.zone)
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I do not have unlimited Internet at home and sometimes need to fetch something big like a linux ISO image. I can walk into a library or cafe with an Android phone, but my old phone is pegged on internal storage and SD card space.

In principle, I should be able to use an OTG adapter to attach a USB drive to the phone, correct? From there, I have a couple questions:

  • is root access needed to mount the USB drive to a mount point of some kind on AOS 5?
  • can any FOSS torrent clients be configured to use an arbitrary mount point?
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