Portable Device Specifications.md

Ideal production device specifications

commands to know

pacman -Qe > /home/loomhigh/Documents/SurfaceFiles/packages.txt

Device requirements:

• Long battery life
  • Use an ARM CPU
    • Cons: Less support, might not do more advanced things like emulation
    • pros: Limited capacity limits distractions.
• Enough RAM to handle google services
  • ideally 16gb or more, 8 minimum.
• VsCodium for development
  • connected directly to github
• QGIS or similar to handle map management
• Qbittorrent for torrenting
• easily reproducable.
• Zotero for research and study
• GSconnect
• capable of OS emulation to test flakes

Device Preferences

• SD card storage
• SIM capable of calling
• running nixOS instead of Arch Linux

Current Device: Microsoft Surface Pro 4

• X Battery Life 4-5 hours
• X RAM 8 GB
• Y VsCodium for development.
• X QGIS not set up
• X Qbittorrent not set up
• ? Check SD card storage
• X no calling SIM
• X Not backed up
  • Create github repo that syncs all useful config files.
• Y Zotero set up
• X GSconnect not setup
• X NixOS Flake not working.