Stuff Tom /uses
Desktop - Custom Built Ship of Theseus
- BitFenix Prodigy M 2014
- Micro-ATX Case, spray-painted red and covered in stickers over 11 years.
- Asus Prime B350M-A
- Getting a bit long in the tooth, but still doing the job just fine
- AMD Ryzen 5800X3D
- The most CPU that will still fit an AM4 slot
- nVidia RTX 4070 16GB
- A reasonable tradeoff between cost and performance
- Looking even more reasonable with how everything is now
- Ray Tracing, DLSS & FrameGen
- 48GB (2x16GB, 2x8GB) DDR4 RAM
- Got a good deal on a pair of 16GB sticks
- This deal is looking better and better over time
- 5.5TB Storage (500GB NVMe, 2TB SSD, 3TB HDD)
- Mostly full of games
Software
- Arch Linux
- I use arch btw
- Niri
- Scrolling-Tiling Wayland WM
- Waybar
- Status bar, easily configurable. Considering writing my own in Quickshell at some point
- Zsh + oh-my-zsh
- Shell with plugins, autocomplete & theming
- Ghostty
- GPU Accelerated Terminal Emulator
- Firefox
- For almost all browsing. I use Thorium as Chrome for work
- NeoVim
- Recently took the plunge, enjoying it so far
- YADM
- Yet Another Dotfiles Manager
- Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher 2
- Alternatives to Adobe CC, single payment, no subscription
- VSCodium
- VS Code with the Microsoft parts stripped out
- Sunshine/Moonlight
- Streams my PC to anywhere I need it
Laptop - 2012 ThinkPad X230
- i5, 16GB RAM, 250GB SSD
- Still blazing fast, 14 years on. Basically indestructible
Software
- Arch Linux
- I use arch btw
- Niri
- Scrolling-Tiling Wayland WM
- Waybar
- Status bar, easily configurable
- Zsh + oh-my-zsh
- Login shell with plugins, autocomplete & theming
- Ghostty
- GPU Accelerated Terminal Emulator
- Firefox
- For almost all browsing. I use Thorium as Chrome for work
- NeoVim
- Recently took the plunge, enjoying it so far
- YADM
- Yet Another Dotfiles Manager
Phone - iPhone 15
- 128GB Storage
- In hindsight, should have shelled out for 256GB
- iOS 26.1 Beta
- Still not sure how I feel about Liquid Glass, but iOS just works™
Software
- Todoist
- Very easy to manage tasks, useful widget
- Unread
- A great way to replace social media doomscrolling with reading articles
- PocketCasts
- Podcast player with playback speed adjustment, silence removal, and a webplayer with sync
- Waze
- Somehow has better traffic data than Google, despite being owned by Google?
Server - 2014 HP ProLiant Microserver Gen8
- Intel Xeon 1265v2
- Drop in replacement for the original CPU
- 16GB DDR3 RAM
- I'd like more, but it's maxed out
- 12TB zRAID Storage (9TB usable)
- ZFS Software RAID
Software
- Arch Linux
- Because of course I do
- Docker & Compose
- Running ~30 containers for different things
- Caddy 2
- Serves this site, and reverse proxies the docker containers I want on the internet
- Postfix
- Handles the email serving for my alias domain
Other Bits
Hardware
- Splitkb.com Aurora Lily58 Keyboard (Hand-built)
- Gazzew U4Tx Switches, Blank White DSA Keycaps, Colemak Layout
- Steam Deck LCD
- So much easier to play games in bed or on the TV
- SecretLab Titan Chair
- Black, very comfy and easy to adjust
- Ikea Sit-Stand Desk
- Manual winding, solid wood kitchen countertop
Software
- Syncthing
- Keeps everything in sync between Desktop, Laptop & Server
- Obsidian
- My preferred notes app, with syncing handled through Syncthing and "Self-hosted LiveSync" plugin
- Firefox
- For almost all browsing, I use Thorium if I really need something Chromium Based