VeraCrypt solves this issue. I leave my main OS unencrypted then simply store veracrypt partitions to the size I need and put files inside that as needed. I’ve dealt with resizing luks partitions and its not worth it. Especially if you build, maintain, or otherwise tinker with you system.

I’ve done it on a dell xps and and surface 7 or 9 pro. Everything runs good if you use it as traditional. Once you go full touchscreen and do away with the folio keyboard. Typing is not worth doing. Touch input is ok on Mint or others but the in screen keyboard pop up almost never works. I went back to a laptop after 1500 plus dollars wasted. Battery life was subpar 3 hours or so. Seems great in theory and I almost used it to ditch the phone. Just isn’t ready fully. Laptop, all in one mini pc or desktop. Unless your truly browsing light or doing easy light things and want a bigger screen. It made me realize that 2 in 1s seem great on paper but practice they suck to hold, travel even in the house, generally just not what I was hoping. I used surface kernel and tried different distros. Returned both devices as it just wasn’t ready. Not having a full touch keyboard pop up in web, or OS use killed it entirely. I tried openboard and mints pre installed keyboard but nothing was fast and fluid. It was pecking slow and annoyed.

Argggh! Sweet

Not perfect but possible. There is pros and cons to going thus route.

How does the documentation and community support differ? Sometimes I can get lost in nix or any OS. But forums and troubleshooting matters a lot to me.

How does this compare to nix, vs lix? I didn’t know of guixos.

I believe nixos is superior. Especially on the package manager side. NixOS supports almost all packages for linux and far surpasses even the AUR on arch Linux.

Can I chime in for NixOS? Give it a shot. Truly next level.

So many times my dual boot SSD has borked itself from malicious window updates killing off my Linux bootloader and attempting to make windows primary. Causes so much fstab and hassle to fix when Linux boots into crashed grub shell. Only for windows to BSOD and not boot anyway requiring reinstall of windows over and over again. Windows is truly hemorrhoids.

Arggg matey. Yarr harr harr. You don’t need internet outside of downloading the game.

Source. I’ve tried 2 of 3 of your games offline Civ. And multiple AoE chapters.

Was more of a joke lol. Just something funny I thought after looking at all these server setups. They all look good. Keep it up

Let’s be real here.

Pictures like these could make the news and people would have no idea what this stuff is used for but it looks menacing, news could be label it as wild rogue this or that and the common person would know no different and totally believe it. Feels like swatter bait for the posters. Definitely on a list atleast. Nice setups. Keep it jank. Keep it secure!

This guy home labs 😂

Let me rephrase. I could call on a dumb phone flip phone and use the pc nuc or pi for everything else. Similar to a GPD type device even. It doesn’t have to be fully touch based but sometimes the way you interact with a device it changes the speed and workflow. My main reason is backups honestly. I can’t stand phones and prefer device to device backups. It be a do it all device. I am just tired of phones. Even graphene lacks so many options, software, And most importantly good backups. Its truly only a security OS. That’s it. I was thinking like a NUC box with a screen attached to the side and be able to attach it to any size display on the go use the small built in. But at home I could watch media on a large TV. Think of a pc in a bag. I don’t like clamshell laptops. 2 in 1s are meh they really don’t deploy good, wobbly, shit battery, ive tried several.

It would be nice to transition from a built in small screen to say a mounted large Tv or screen. Because doing intricate content or PDF files for like schematics say on a car engine is difficult on a phone but a laptop is not so portable. I’m really eyeing a GPD type device. Next issue is portable power. I was planning to use a 30k mah usbc battery pack. I’m unsure if I’m explaining my idea right. English isn’t the best.

Edit: think of it as a pc that’s versatile. A laptop on the go doesn’t sit good, travel, its not a working mans device. I do mechanic work for cars. I need a portable mini work horse. I can keep the keyboard and things are no issue. Just worried that ARM based devices might not have the processing power to say watch movies, sail the high seas, internet research on engines, you see some tasks can be more in depth than others. I want my gaming rig to just be my gaming rig. I tried a Dell laptop but the battery running mint only lasts 3 or 4 hours. This is poor. I need 12 to 24 hours of use capable. Which is why I would rather use Power packs. I am looking at the intel N100 series device. Then keyboard and mouse and small car radio type double din display you see? When I need a larger screen I use an 86 inch TV at home. Versatile you see. The phone is poor is many aspects.

Thank you very much. Honestly very eye opening. I’d look for a ARM based device to replace my phone touchscreen type and use it for all uses aside from gaming clearly. Do you think there’s sufficient OS support and usage for a daily driver phone replacement type product? Or stick with the x86 based systems I know and use. Backups are a major point as well. Ease of backups on a cell phone is a nightmare. On x86 a simple clonezilla or Mints backup manager and your good to go.

You really were detailed and helped a total novice of ARM to understand. Thanks I greatly appreciate the write up. I just want a low power general use device. Then to have my gaming rig be solely a gaming rig. I have phones due to poor backup solutions and nothing truly offers device to device backup level support. So I’m hunting for a new device type.

Makes sense yeah. I use free search engines but your right, they almost never give the result I’m looking for.

How’s software in arm devices? Could you generally compute and web browser? Documents, notes, basic apps?

6 months to a year ago it was all people were recommending, Kagi and searxng. Maybe another paid one I forget the name. Now Kagi is bad?

Are there any skins or graphics changes for factorio? I love the game but the graphics colors hurt my eyes and cause strain. Any mods for making it looks different?

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