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?

Vote people. There’s town and city votes everyday or often. Vote!

This seems like the way that and maybe an immutable. Mint is just so damn intuitive which is why I keep going back. Nothing else makes a machine work with you than mint. Others you have to work against.

I still believe my ask is on point. Some distros like Ubuntu based move system folder locations every few years. I don’t like a changing pc. I hate having to keep up with things. I’m a jump in and know how. I do wildly appreciate your XY link and think ultimately I do that often none the less. Thanks.

100 percent!

I see this view as true. Downstream shit sucks. I’ve tried them all. Debian 8s the only thing that keeps bugs out. Sometimes you need a work around for a game or whatever but atleast shit works everytime.

Question to users and distro hoppers. I’ve grown to love Mint used it for years. But sometimes it updates and moves my game folders, loses my saves and I have to hunt in my system and hope I find my precious years long game saves.

Is there such thing as a distro that never changes the structure where truly all my files, system files, games will all be the same over years?

I’ve tried NIX and liked it, I’ve tried LMDE and Stock Mint with Ubuntu bugs yay, I’ve tried base Debian 13, and lastly Fedora kinoite…

Whats a system that updates but doesn’t lose my shit when I just want to game and use my PC? I like having all my files never move, structure of system never change, but having the ability to run steam and heroic games of all types. I’m still back to Stock Mint Ubuntu but dammit if they don’t introduce bugs sometimes. Like suspend / resume audio doesn’t work after sleeping my desktop and back on without restarting.

Shotguns are cheap and it’s easy to reload shells. So many versatile DIY loads for all uses. Oh my bad wrong sublemmy. Whoops.

Genius as fuck!

How rare are these materials that are sending to space? Literally sending rare metals out of our planet. Even if they fall back down to earth. Is it even possible or viable money wise to recover them?

Best advice is can give you is to #DOCUMENT everything you do for what reason and how it works inside your config file. So you know what each code block does and how it executes making your entire config dummy proof also helps learn the syntax super fast!

I see how they differ now. Local vs self hosted. Niche use. But I get your idea especially helpful between partners I suppose. Keep it going! Let’s see where it lands in time. Personally I think the name is hard to remember and pronounce correctly which means it might not be super catchy and really take off. My opinion and in no way should deter you. Perhaps tweak the name. Overall though good job and keep going. This not a negative thing I say. Just to trying to help you refine the idea to success. Best of luck!

The shitty aspect is their actually not bad hardware. They last forever and seem to be held in high regards in the tech community but it’s as if people forgot a decade later than their still owned by Chinese. Still banned for security reasons for military use even currently after 20 years. Now the military still supplies them just not for mission critical purposes but for personal devices not govt use.

Wild. Every tech person at some point shills for Lenovo and they do have great things. Just screams Trojan horse to me still. IMO

Why not use drip or mensinator? Both FOSS.

Isnt lenovo the company that used to make the rugged military laptops that actually had Chinese or foreign backdoors installed?

Edit: for those interested https://www.investigativeeconomics.org/p/government-still-buying-lenovo-laptops

Edit 2 from a quick search. Lenovo laptops have faced allegations of containing backdoor vulnerabilities that could allow unauthorized access to data, particularly concerning military use. These concerns have led to bans on Lenovo products by various intelligence agencies due to potential cybersecurity risks.

 securityaffairs.com Wikipedia

Lenovo Laptops and Backdoor Concerns

Background on Lenovo’s Security Issues

Lenovo, a Chinese technology company, has faced multiple allegations regarding security vulnerabilities in its laptops. These concerns primarily revolve around potential backdoors that could allow unauthorized access to sensitive data.

Notable Incidents

Year Incident Description 2008 U.S. military investigators reported finding backdoored chips in Lenovo motherboards, which allegedly logged keystrokes and transmitted data.

2013Intelligence agencies in the U.S., UK, and Australia banned Lenovo PCs due to backdoor vulnerabilities discovered during testing.

2015The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charged Lenovo for pre-installing adware that created security vulnerabilities, leading to a settlement.

2016The Pentagon warned that Lenovo computers could introduce compromised hardware into the Defense Department.

This. Plus offline games. All the online micro transaction bullshit is pathetic.