In 2103 or so I wanted my cellphone to track satellites in real time.
It was a budget phone in 2013 and I had no money to pay for an app.
I downloaded a free windows executable to my Linux server (a dumpster laptop) and got it to run in W.I.N.E.
Then I ran a Linux distro on my budget phone in a chroot jail
Then tunneled the X window manager via an SSH connection from my cellphone to the server
Then I tracked satellites with my phone… in real… time in class… in 2013.
“But Tony, what if you got in trouble for playing on your phone?”
In 2013 I was going to a for-profit (yuck) university for computer networking. The class was about client/server networking. When I got “caught playing on my phone”, I showed the teacher with a big dumb grin on my face. Then he gave me extra credit.
A while later, one of the students got called out by the teacher because one by one he was distracting all the other students with whatever was on his laptop screen.
The teacher said “alright, turn your laptop around. Let’s see what’s on the screen.”
It was the Doritos Locos taco on Taco Bell’s “coming soon” wesbite.
“Holy shit!” yelled the teacher and he immediately pulled the website up on his laptop, projecting it on the wall where the slide deck had been, and the whole class analyzed the future taco