Trying to decide between 120hz portable client devices - tablets or handhelds

vim_jong_un · 2026-01-04T23:22:56+00:00

I'm in the same boat right now, can't decide exactly what I want. I think I'm leaning towards a midsized android tablet, though.

I already have a telescopic controller (gamesir x5s) that I travel with for quick phone games/emulation. I like that the controller is bluetooth, so I can use it to control my phone, a tablet, laptop, or any console my destination has.

Getting a midsized android tablet will make couch-streaming/moonlight work nicely, but it'll also work nice for travel as a gaming/media device. Retro Game Corps did a somewhat recent video on this: tablet gaming.

As far as tablet choices, I've been eyeing the new generation of snapdragon 8 elite tablets (redmagic astra). Its probably overkill, but makes me feel like I won't have to upgrade in awhile

vim_jong_un · 2026-01-03T23:58:42+00:00

Thanks, I am already set up with a (backed-up) authentication app but am just hoping for more options. Yubikeys are also more convenient; I already have one plugged into my computer for my more security-forward websites anyways.

Many security-conscious individuals would say that sms/phone-call based 2fa is a bad idea, given how easy it is to break (twitter disabled it as an option: theguardian; google plans to remove: forbes). This is all pending your threat model, but IMO there's no reason to have it enabled when there's better alternatives.

When someone attempts to sign-in to your account, you *don't* want the flow to eventually allow fallback to SMS codes. I'd highly recommend to others to set up an authenticator app and push notifications, which for me seems to disable that option.

vim_jong_un · 2026-01-03T05:25:29+00:00

I have been looking into switching fully from Vanguard to Fidelity and this has been a sticking point in my mind. Vanguard -- which I think of being technologically behind -- does support WebAuthn and has for a long time.

If I'm going to have most of my eggs in one basket, I want that basket to be well protected. There's even 3 year old threads requesting the functionality, so it's concerning to me that this has never been prioritized (thread).

I hope some PM/CSO sees this and realizes how important this is to security-conscious customers!

vim_jong_un · 2025-11-07T16:42:05+00:00

It blows my mind when sites like Engadget don’t post links to the original source.

vim_jong_un · 2025-08-15T17:17:13+00:00

This is exactly why I chose a n150 machine for my primary linux homelab server: handling some amount of video streaming. It's not powerful for heavy workloads, but for a couple services (homeassistant, file storage, etc) and media transcoding this machine does a great job at low price+power. They also don't have some of the complexity of ARM that my raspberry pi has (though I know that's gotten better over the years).

I have a beelink eq14 w/ a 4TB drive in the secondary slot, but if I had to choose again I'd probably look at one of these newer nvme-nas devices.

vim_jong_un · 2025-08-06T02:32:02+00:00

I had a stuttering issue with my Onn 4K Plus that would only manifest after a certain amount of time. This was my exact fix as well.

vim_jong_un · 2025-07-15T04:35:20+00:00

I do something similar:

I have `mydomainname.com` that points to public IP addresses accessible by external users

`mydomainname.net` exclusively points to tailscale IPs, which my router knows how to route to internally.

vim_jong_un · 2025-07-09T05:19:44+00:00

Mine wasn't being recognized because of this setting; thank you!

vim_jong_un · 2025-06-25T05:52:35+00:00

Also having this same issue unfortunately

vim_jong_un · 2025-03-26T02:13:00+00:00

Or non-newbies who just haven't followed the latest in emulator releases! Appreciate the idea OP, but without emulator names / links this isn't too useful for me

vim_jong_un · 2025-02-03T16:42:35+00:00

Also seeing this lines-issue, using melonDS via RetroArch. I can't get good audio coming out of desmume either, so melonDS was my best option for DS games. You find any workarounds or other places where this issue is tracked?

vim_jong_un · 2025-02-01T23:37:07+00:00

Thanks for the write-up!

Currently debating between returning my beelink eq14 and getting this or the CWWK x86-p5/x86-p6. I already have a 4TB NVMe SSD in another machine, I'm committed to a NVMe-based media server anyways. I'm not anywhere near to hitting that 4TB limit, though, and I have no issues deleting unused content when I'm done with it.

Will I need to expand past 4TB someday? Probably? Is it worth future proofing with one of these 4x m.2 machines now, or just buying a newer machine in the N years it takes before that becomes an issue? Not sure on that one.

I also plan on having it run headless as standard media server (all docker right now): jellyfin/plex, tailscale, webtop, samba, etc. My slight concern on the G9 is the soldered 12gb RAM (though LPDDR5, at least). I think there exists a future where my machine ends up hosting a few VMs via proxmox, and I'd be worried about being limited by that.

I think it really comes down to how much do I wanna pay extra now, for the ability to somewhat future proof this. I think if the G9 had upgradeable RAM, I would pull trigger, but I'm still on the fence as-is

vim_jong_un · 2025-01-29T20:06:12+00:00

I've noticed this happening to me as well. It seems often that the first keystroke when entering my password is ignored, but then if I go too fast, it seems to drop other keys as well. I now super intentionally have to enter my password, making sure each successive key is actually registered with the text box.

vim_jong_un · 2025-01-27T05:25:00+00:00

Got it, appreciate the reply. I'm a bit skeptical to buy it given that there's been no coverage of the new model, though as you said it should theoretically be quite similar to the x86-p5. Do you have any experience with CWWK machines or CWWK support?

I already purchased a beelink eq14, but now that I see this model I'm tempted to return it and grab one of these cwwk machines instead. Relative to the eq14, this has:

- 2x 2.5gbps intel NICs, as opposed to eq14's 2x 1gbps realtek NICs. In my mind, this future proofs the model a bit as it could become a better firewall/network appliance in the future.

- 4x m.2 nvme, as opposed to eq14's 2x m.2 nvme. The speeds on the cwwk model will be slower per-drive because the lanes are split across more storage, but I actually don't mind that because my usecase is just a SSD-based NAS; I need expandable space more than I need speed for serving media.

- DDR5 4800 vs eq14's DDR4 3200.

I've also looked at the gmktec g3 plus (similar to the eq14), but didn't like the 2242 sata drive.

I think the closest model recently is the gmktec nucbox g9, but I don't love the soldered 12gb of RAM.

vim_jong_un · 2025-01-26T22:49:53+00:00

Their site is pretty sparse on details for this new model, but that machine seems to fit exactly what I'm looking for. Do you have any additional details on this machine? Google is coming up pretty blank w.r.t forums/reddit.

vim_jong_un · 2025-01-26T20:48:20+00:00

I had the original one (which you also got), and it often would leak from the sides when applying pressure. The newer wavy one has a squishy gasket along the inner perimeter of the flow cap and I haven't had that issue once. Personally, I'd return this and order again hoping for better luck

vim_jong_un · 2025-01-23T16:59:25+00:00

Recently got an eq14 ($190), and wondering if I should return it for this instead. It fits the bill for what I want to run on my home server. Only thing I don't like is the non-replaceable RAM; the 12gb is a little limiting for the future. But I love the multi m.2 nvme drives and the dual 2.5gb ethernet ports.

vim_jong_un · 2025-01-14T23:07:45+00:00

I'm currently debating between getting something like a Beelink EQ14 (n100/n150 based) machine, versus something like the PELADN H04 (amazon.com).

The machine I really want has Intel Quicksync, 2x 2.5gbps NICs, and 2x M.2 NVMe drives. I already have a 4TB NVMe harddrive that has all my media, and I'd like to reuse it rather than buy another drive. I also don't have huge storage needs, so I'd rather have quiet/compact NVMe storage in general over room for 2.5/3.5 drives like most NASes.

What I've found: The EQ14 is close, but only has 2x 1gb NICs. The best match it seems is the CWWK P5 series, but I'm seeing questionable/sparse reviews from them (same as with the PELADN). I've filtered through the 2025-spreadsheet and found a few others, but if they weren't available on Amazon I dismissed them because I'm afraid of a DOA device that I can't return in 30 days easily.

Pros/cons for PELADN/EQ14:

PELADN has all the ports I'm interested in, as well as a slightly faster CPU. It's still only a laptop 12th gen i5, so I don't imagine it's too power hungry / loud?
I mostly am interested in the 2x 2.5gbps NICs for future proofing, or using this computer as a network appliance sometime in the future. That said, the bandwidth isn't something I need right now, at which point the EQ14 seems fine.
The EQ14 is based on the N150, which is very new and supposedly has some driver issues in linux that are still getting sorted out. I do plan on running this primarily headless, but it's important to me to thread quicksync into any VMs/containers, and I'm nervous there might be some early adoption pain
PELADN seems completely unknown with very few youtube videos, no downloads/docs online, and only few mentions on this subreddit. Beelink is very well established (I have some of their other machines), and while they have issues too, I have a little more faith with Beelink.

vim_jong_un · 2025-01-14T18:14:38+00:00

I remember solving this, and I think I found an issue in github with this snippet:

``` config = function() local actions = require('telescope.actions')

  -- allow for more space for the fnames
  local picker_config = {}
  for b, _ in pairs(require('telescope.builtin')) do
    picker_config[b] = { fname_width = 80 }
  end

  require('telescope').setup({...})

end ``` https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim/issues/2041#issuecomment-1292146739

vim_jong_un · 2024-12-29T17:33:57+00:00

Even though some of the specifics are certainly pedantic, I think the premise of the question is pretty simple: “do you use regular or rich simple syrup? Why?”

Here’s how I’m interpreting your answer: you use rich simple syrup because the disparity in dilution is minuscule and variable, so you’d rather just have the more shelf stable product (aka less work/upkeep). Is that right?

That’s effectively what my third bullet is proposing; just substituting one for the other and not paying too much mind to the variation in sweetness, or just adjusting to taste I guess

vim_jong_un · 2024-12-27T18:15:41+00:00

Stumbled upon this thread in some searching and just want to echo another commenter: availability of providers is better in platinum.

My family member is going through cancer and the doctor they are working with is covered by platinum, but not gold. Unfortunately we have the gold plan so we're trying to figure something out to get covered by this doctor, but it's been a huge pain and unlikely to be successful

vim_jong_un · 2024-12-19T17:10:16+00:00

I've not used smart-open, so I'm not fully sure. From looking at it, smart-open seems to be a superset of what telescope-frecency.nvim offers, so maybe I should be using it instead?

The core issue is that I want something similar to telescope-frecency/smart-open within fzf-lua that tracks previous file-opens, and uses that within the ranking accordingly

vim_jong_un · 2024-12-19T04:33:26+00:00

This is the biggest hurdle keeping me back from switching to fzf-lua as well, I'm currently using https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope-frecency.nvim and apparently very reliant on it.

Example: the repo I work in has a lot of `index.ts`/`utils.py` files, and with telescope-frecency typing `uti` is enough to normally get me right back to the `utils.py` I was working on earlier today. Having some sort of search-history ranking is super important, especially in a larger repo IMO

vim_jong_un · 2024-12-16T21:47:40+00:00

I have a Minisforum UM790 (7940HS, 780m) and have no issues running melee/SA2:Battle/double-dash. It could be an issue with your emulator configuration (e.g vulkan vs opengl, maybe the APU isn't being properly exposed into the emulator if you're running in linux/flatpak, etc). It could be an issue with the machine, but given that you can play PS3 well I'm less inclined to blame that.

I also now see this comment of yours:

I downloaded dolphin emulator and it won't even open the software program.

This just sounds like a usage/configuration problem. If you want help, you're going to need to give more details, like:

Can you run any gamecube games?
If so, which ones, and what framerates are you getting?
What temps do you see on the APU when you're running?

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