Uses

My Daily Driver Setup

last updated 11th August, 2024

Not having a desktop computer or a laptop has not hampered my passion for tech in any way. Thankfully, I have a smartphone. As they say, what a computer can do, a smartphone can often do as well.

So, I pursued my passion with my smartphone.

In this post, I’ll document what I use as my daily driver.

Hardware

My daily driver is a Xiaomi Redmi 10C that boasts:

• A 5000 mAh battery with 18W fast charging.
• 4 GB RAM with up to 2.4 GHz octa-core CPU.
• An Adreno 610 GPU.
• Powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 4G (6 nm) chipset.
• 64 GB internal storage with a dedicated MicroSD slot (up to 8GB).

Software

The device comes with Android 11 running MIUI 13.

As with all smartphones, what you install makes all the difference—so I made it count.

Installed Apps

• Termux - My Linux environment.
• Unexpected Keyboard - A software keyboard with all the keys of a hardware keyboard.
• Acode - A code editor.
• Markor - A Markdown editor.
• Feeder - An RSS reader.
• Via - A lightweight browser.

Tech I Use

• Python - My programming language of choice.
• Git and GitHub - For version control and collaboration.
• Pelican - A static site generator.
• Beancount - Double-entry accounting from text files.