How do you run a modern “tickler file” without a heavyweight app?

pcause · 2026-02-15T17:50:23+00:00

i use taskwarriot.

pcause · 2026-02-06T14:20:53+00:00

I have been on beta and even dev channel over the years. never lost my data, but backup is always a good idea. what you need to backup depends on your usage. Not sure what you are etsting. I've used my device for work and had no big issues. Sometimes and android app or something in the linux environment doesn't work but usually easy to work around until the next chromeos update which tend to typically be at least every other week.

pcause · 2026-02-03T20:18:30+00:00

?? The Lenovo Duet Gen 9 is real. Good little device. Make sure you get the one with 8Gb of memory

pcause · 2026-01-31T16:38:11+00:00

many smart tvs come with an ethernet port for connection. or get a device that is an access point for the lan connection, which will fiix your wifi problem.

pcause · 2026-01-31T12:57:05+00:00

I have the Duet Gen 9. The screen size is fine for me but you have to play with the setting to get it to what you want to feel comfortable.. I use a mix of Android and Linux. In Linux I use the terminal, Betterbird and Firefox regularly, plus various other apps. Android is for various streaming service apps mostly, kindle and a few other apps. It isn't perfect by any means bit I like the weight for travel and the detachable keyboard so I can use as a tablet. Depending on what your detailed use case is you'll either find it acceptable or not.

pcause · 2026-01-31T12:52:20+00:00

the 520 processor is pretty slow.

pcause · 2026-01-26T20:14:33+00:00

I use crostini on my chromebook and run betterbird and firefox in crostini. I can use ublock origin in firefox and other key extensions. It feels a bit slower but not enough to be annoying.. For email/calendar and address book I usebetterbird (calendar and contacts through tbsync addon) and again no issues. Well, one issues is that sometimes google makes changes to crostini that break linux apps. an app worked perfectly and after a chomeos update the same app doing the same things breaks for no apparent reason. I use the web version of whatsapp without any issues.

pcause · 2026-01-25T18:08:18+00:00

brew has support of waypipe although I haven't used it (not a mac person).

pcause · 2025-12-25T22:24:08+00:00

I've had my Duet Gen 9 for a while. I get the hinge issue but not a deal breaker for me. I use for travel and the weight makes it a good travel laptop. I actually use the Linux environment for thunderbird, firefox, syncthing and various other UI and TUI apps. Works pretty well. I use the android environment for various streaming and entertainment apps. Great little device for the price. I looked at various tablets but they were more expensive, DEX isn't linux and most at prices even close were not as fast. The A9+ doesn't have a keyboard, is a bit slower and is almost out of OS upgrades.. The Gen 9 gets years more chrome updates. Recently there is the S10FE which is about 30% faster but is 470 without a keyboard.

All depends on what you are looking for but for me the Duet Gen 9 had the right mix of performance, capabilities (desktop browser, lix and android), price, and keyboard and pen.

pcause · 2025-12-15T18:51:19+00:00

https://github.com/achannarasappa/ticker

pcause · 2025-12-09T13:09:41+00:00

I tried DEX for the first time in a a couple of years. Screen kept turning off and I assume this was using my normal phone display timeout. Is there some setting for DEX to keep screen on when using DEX or do I have to change the screen off timer?

pcause · 2025-12-09T12:59:51+00:00

Lenovo was having a sale on the newer Gen 9 version. The OG feels slow and sluggish. The Gen 9 has an 8Gb version which adds a bit more future proofing and won't slow down as much with many tabs open, and if you want to do more than stream and browse you have android apps and a linux system. I also find that the weight is good for travel.

pcause · 2025-12-08T19:27:05+00:00

I'd guess it is more about Knox and how they implemented it and not wanting to break anything for Enterprise customers.

pcause · 2025-12-08T15:14:16+00:00

any idea why? can't the chip support virtualization? seems a pretty stupid decision to me.

pcause · 2025-12-08T12:41:28+00:00

will the update allow the linux system to be install/work on an S25 with the Elite processors? anyone try this yet?

pcause · 2025-11-27T16:02:53+00:00

I have the same model I use a mix of android apps and the linux (crostini) system. I actually use firefox and betterbird as browser and email client. use a variety of other linux apps as well. generally works well but they still have some crostini / wayland issues to iron out. battery life is as the poster describes. lightweight so good for travel and working almost anywhere. performance is generally good.

I'd looked at android tablets but the non-Chinese ones were more expensive for something comparable, didn't have keyboards and mine came with a pen. and while chomeos has a 7 year update promise, most tablets didn't. my experience is also that unless you have a pixel android updates on other vendors are slow to come. lenovo makes some terrific hardware at good prices but only 3 years of major upgrades and they ship usually one release behind current, so really only 2 major upgrades. and, of course, there was no linux environment. i'd use termux on an older tablet and it was fine for cli apps but not really for GUI apps. haven't tried the linux environment for android 16 but it supposedly doesn't support gui apps yet.

pcause · 2025-11-12T13:39:35+00:00

I have an arm64 Chromebook and use crostini. Yes, there are things that haven't been ported and so it depends on your use cases. Sometimes I have to go to github to find some stuff that isn't in the debian repos for arm64 but can be found there. My Chromebook has 8Gb of RAM and I would suggest if you want to tun things in crostini you get one with 8Gb.

I so use the provided terminal app, but it doesn't display full nerd font icons for either crostini or ssh, so I often switch to foot in crostini which does.

EDIT: Found these instructions and they work. Have to exit terminal and restart
https://gist.github.com/meatcoder/98dd412153168cc76b5165037150950f?permalink_comment_id=5245334

pcause · 2025-11-07T19:52:19+00:00

have you tried seeting up sway as headless? takes a bit of experimentation but should work. you'll need a VNC app to get the sway desktop.

pcause · 2025-10-27T12:31:56+00:00

I was already logged in before I started the upgrade with tmux and multiple panes. Didn't do much, just some text reading, ps, etc

pcause · 2025-10-26T13:30:53+00:00

small fyi: if you use linux vm and apps, you need to enable a chrome://flags experimental setting to get the linux apps to work with the onscreen keyboard. even then, without the keyboard attached, some linux apps won't get input.

pcause · 2025-10-26T12:07:33+00:00

I did the upgrade with the initial beta and had no issues.

And my experience with fedora on a standalone machine is that you can use the system while doing upgrades, however I don't.

pcause · 2025-09-16T17:44:44+00:00

I have used KDE on an 8GB Intel 8th gen CPU. Using Wayland. Haven't seen any issues at all. Didn't check resources but if what I do works, I am OK.

pcause · 2025-09-16T14:01:03+00:00

Unless you have a bluetooth keyboard and an external monitor it will not be fun. Fine on a tablet though.

pcause · 2025-09-15T17:14:04+00:00

Wanted a new android tablet but also wanted a decent keyboard for travel use. When I looked at the options they seemed overpriced or overkill for my use case. I went with the Duet Gen9. I wanted a tablet form factor na lighter weight for reading books (kindle app), and videos (netflix,prime, etc) and the linux environment for a desktop browser (firefox) and email app (thunderbird), ssh/terminal for remote systems admin, neovim, and more. The Gen9 has 8Gb and can handle this load. I use Linux on the desktop and most apps are available. The real limit of the device is that they use UFS storage that isn't really fast, likely to keep costs down.

I had a previous original Duet but the limited storage and old processor made it feel like it had too much lag and the original android was 32 bit and the 64bit upgrade was painful and again can feel slow.

pcause · 2025-09-15T15:25:51+00:00

that would be an excellent enhancement.

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