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Quick update: Open Source TAK Ecosystem

I have the intention of clarifying what is open source and what is not in the TAK ecosystem.

In that path, today I hit a milestone as I was able to deploy my own FreeTAKServer using the FreeTakHub easy_install script mentioned here: https://freetakteam.github.io/FreeTAKServer-User-Docs/#cloud-digitalocean

After that, I also accomplished installing ATAK (the Android TAK EUD) on Linux through Waydroid using waydroid_script to allow cross-platform compatibility: https://github.com/casualsnek/waydroid_script
The ATAK binary only comes compiled for ARM64, and my Android setup on Linux through Waydroid is x86-64, so by using libhoudini installed through waydroid_script I am able tu install and run ARM64 native code on top of x86-64 at native speed.

By the way, I couldn't install ATAK through the Play Store as it only shows x86-64 apps, so I had to sideload it using ```adb install atak.apk```.

I then connected both my phone and Linux's ATAK to the FreeTAKServer and got them to talk to each other.

Last but not least, I took a snapshot of my server and destroyed the server afterwards, keeping the snapshot for future tests. This way I only have to pay for the storage of the snapshot and not for a running server, and it would only take 2 mins to start a new server.

That was it for today.