I haven’t done a check in for my current work/school/play setup in a while, so I thought it was about time.

Core Devices

Tachyon

Tachyon is an ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (2022) with a Ryzen 9 6900HS, Radeon RX 6700S, and 16 GB of RAM. It is my daily driver machine (after the forfeiting of Photon - my old DELL G3 - to my younger brother), and I haven’t had any problems with it. It’s given my the flexibility of 10+ hours of battery life (with reasonable performance) while still being graphically sound for gaming purposes. Having the option to disable the dGPU is something I wish more laptops had.

At the time of writing this, Tachyon currently runs Windows 11, Kali and Ubuntu in WSL2 (for testing and development respectively), and Ubuntu as a dual boot. Making Tachyon dual boot Ubuntu was an attempt to get me to shift all of my development work to Linux, but the convenience of WSL2 + Windows has been keeping me there. After all, I don’t need much else than a terminal for what I work on.

Positron

Positron is my 3rd Gen M1 iPad Pro (11 inch) with 128 GB of storage. I use this with a Logitech Folio Combo Touch (for when I want a keyboard but don’t want to use/bring Tachyon) and an Apple Pen Gen 2 to write Math notes and do practice questions. To make the writing experience nicer, I use a generic matte screen protector I brought of off Amazon.

Positron had more use when I was using Photon, as I would leave Photon at home because of it’s abysmal battery life and do all my work on campus with Positron. Since getting Tachyon, I tend to only use Positron for things I want to write instead of type.

Ion

Ion is my iPhone X. I’ve had Ion since 9th grade, and it hasn’t failed me yet. However, I think it’s about time to upgrade since Ion can heat up sometimes and it’ll stop getting software updates next year. As much as I would like to swap to android, having and iPad and having my family all use Apple devices makes buying another iPhone be the most convenience decision.

Typhoon

Typhoon is an old Dell Optiplex 360 my family had used as a home computer. It has a Pentium 35200 and 4 GB of RAM. Over the summer, I turned it into a small homelab/server. Since then, I haven’t done much with, mostly due to a lack of inspiration and time. As of right now, the plan is to play with hosting a personal music service or my personal site on it. Maybe using it for GitHub Actions that I use. We will see.

Other Devices and Accessories

The other devices and accessories I use are pretty self explanatory:

  • A Sony ZV-E10 with a Gorilla Pod 3K for Photos/Videos.
  • The Sony WH-1000XM4 for audio.
  • A Razer Basilisk mouse and SteelSeries mousepad.
  • Liberty - My current keyboard. The base is an ROG Falchion Ace in white with custom blank black key caps and a Glorious coiled cable in black (shown below for reference, and because I’m happy about it 😀). Liberty was put together from the guts of Graviton, which used a white RK64 as a base.
  • A Timex Expedition Field Chronograph for my watch. I had the brown bands replaced with black bands because the brown ones broke 😔.