Blockchain Security Engineer | Penetration Testing | Educational Technologies | MSc in Blockchain && Digital Currencies at University Of Nicosia 🇨🇾🇪🇺 | Founder of TuxHouseEdu | The creator of Blockchain Camera | Linux-User.gr

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  • Personally I am using a netbook like this as a headless server with Ubuntu.

    You can try to run Lubuntu, or even TinyCore and Puppy Linux on this for simple tasks.

    Generally speaking, with 1GB of ram and Intel atom, as you stay away from video streaming platforms and use simple tools for writing text or run simple code in python, you would be fine. However with less than 100€ you can find laptops with core i5 4rd generation with 8gb ram. I am not sure if it worths it.



















  • Personally I have set up my own Nextcloud with wireguard to be able to see my files worldwide. Also, I bought a USB flash drive of 256gb from Samsung which is extremely small and I have also my data there, on my keys (encrypted with veracrypt).

    The real problem about Android is that we have an extremely limited support for mounting encrypted devices. Veracrypt volumes for example can be mounted from a specific application and they are difficult to use.

    SD cards on Android with encryption is almost useless, as you cannot easily mount the android encrypted SDs in your PC. If your device dies, you lose your data from your SD… (if you are rootless).





  • Google Play Security updates can only update a few things on your device. Also, they are available only on devices that have been released tha last 4 years. Only Android 11,12,13 are getting monthly security patches, but then, the vendors must build a new version for your device. Most of vendors are upgrading for 2-3 years their devices and then they stop getting security updates. With a small serch on exploitdb you can see how safe is to still using Android Kitkat in 2023.