I love my Instinct Solar. I have never connected it to my phone though — I don’t want notifications or anything. I can manually take the workout results and plug them into my phone.

The solar part is really nice. I did a three hour hike in Colorado a few weeks ago (GPS off) and added like eight days of estimated battery.

(Disclaimer that I’m still new-ish to Linux)

I just went about a year between EndeavorOS updates on a laptop and uhh… it wasn’t happy. I just installed Kubuntu which hopefully will be more forgiving haha.

This is totally not the intent of buildapc, but if you’re willing to go ITX, I’ve been meaning to sell some “old” parts through the hardwareswap Discord. If you’re interested (and in USA :)) it may save you some money to go for a higher end GPU.

I have:

• Asrock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming ITX/ac. Works with up to 5000 series CPUs with a BIOS update
• Ryzen 3400G (about 10-15% slower in CPU benchmarks)
• 2 x 8 gb 3200 MHz Samsung B-die RAM

I have an AKLLA A5 with a 3700x, RX 6800, 2x16gb DDR4 @ 3600 MT/s, and an XPG SX8200 Pro 1 TB NVME. I have a Gigabyte 28” 144hz 4K monitor.

The A5 certainly isn’t the smallest case (10.3L) but I wasn’t happy with ITX GPUs topping out with the 5600xt.

I have a Minisforum EM680 mini PC on order which is TINY (0.8 L). I will use that as my travel PC that can handle light gaming. I am toying with the idea of using that as my only PC while turning my A5 into an eGPU enclosure. I would have to buy the logic board to make this work…