Get a large Fresnel magnifier, stick it in a transparent document holder and recreate that Terry Gilliam Brazil aesthetic!

https://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5ff7iGSyf1r4zoaco1_500.g...

you can zoom in / out with pinch like other apps

You can fit 5 fairly large-font lines or 4 huge-font lines with the phone sideways (for the big keyboard).

I like hackin' on it with a bluetooth keyboard so the whole phone display is my terminal -- if I could just find my ideal folding keyboard, or perhaps one of those recent sliding-keyboard revival phones

I like the iClever Wireless Folding Keyboard - mini version. It's tiny and easy to carry with a phone. You need to be a little more careful with where some keys are.

Right!

I tried

SPC z x

in Spacemacs and got nowhere.

This was some years ago.

I run sshd on termux, and log in from my laptop.