u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)

I like computers, trains, space, radio-related everything and a bunch of other tech related stuff. User of GNU+Linux.
I am also dumb and worthless.
My laptop is ThinkPad L390y running Arch.
I own RTL-SDRv3 and RSP1 clone.

SDF Unix shell username: user224

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  • I am probably not the right person to answer, but to me it seems decent.
    Hell, under current conditions, half the price is in that RAM.

    Anyway, for the use case, definitely seems fine.

    Now, for me the minimum requirements for such use case, if Windows isn’t required, are simply a 64 bit CPU, 4GB of RAM, and an SSD. SSD makes a really huge difference.
    It’s now been maybe 2 years that it died, but I’ve been doing fine with a Core 2 Duo T7500, 4GB of RAM, Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT and random 128GB SSD powered laptop. It only struggled when I tried to use it for YouTube… and when I tried Gentoo on it. The compilation took 3 days just for me to realize I screwed up something in the config and had no network.









  • For quick graphical management I use FX File Explorer because it keeps the timestamps when moving files.

    For something more I use… Termux. I like to sort things based on timestamps as well, but often I like to set some custom modification time, or copy modification time of a file being replaced (e.g. replacing old 128kbps MP3 for FLAC), and I don’t know of any other way than touch.
    Similarly I don’t know what else to use for syncing directories other than rsync.
    Plus, I can run SSH in Termux, that means Rsync-ing between PC and my phone is pretty easy.
    And it also means I can mount the phone over SSHFS (granted KDE Connect already takes care of this).
    I can also use GPG for encryption and decryption of files.
    And Vim works fine for me for text editing too.
    And now since I already have that, say I want to access some files on any computer. It probably has a browser, and Termux has NGINX, coupled with FancyIndex it gets pretty nice for file access. I like the Material theme.

    Now, a bit of a disclaimer: BE CAREFUL WHAT ADDRESSES THE PHONE IS LISTENING ON
    I set them manually rather than the typical default of all interfaces. Unfortunately, Android seems to have no firewall. I can easily reach things on my phone connected to mobile data thanks to IPv6. This may or may not be desired. Oh, and NAT isn’t for security either, so don’t think you’re safe because you only use IPv4. Perhaps devices behind same NAT aren’t isolated.

    Edit: Example of the WebUI with Material theme (sorted by date because I was able to set the file timestamps):