Here is a comprehensive list of all the devices I own(ed). I’m only listing stuff where I actually starting doing “developement” (and not just being a script kiddie on Roblox or writing whatever in JokeScript)

List is from recent to oldest.

basement

My desktop computer. Bought in April 2025.

It’s story is that I won a hackathon about making a Linux-From-Scratch based distribution. (Algeria’s First actually, I’ll soon write a blog about this) The cash prize was pretty generous, it was my first time obtaining such a huge amount of money.

With a good budget on line, I shelled out quite well for the whole setup, which includes

• CPU: Ryzen 7 9700X (however I’m planning on upgrading to a 9900X perhaps)
• GPU: XFX Radeon 7900XT, 20GB
• RAM: 32GB Asguard 6000MHZ, with funny RGB on the heatsink
  • In hindsight of when I’m writing this (April 2026, one year later after the purchase) I’m glad I bought this ram kit. It costs 3x more now (thank you algeria for no shipping, so we resort to local vendors)
• Motherboard: Asus PRIME B650 M-K
• Storage: 2x 1TB GEN3 NVMEs from ADATA
• NIC: Intel AX200

I’ve also have some peripherals with it, however I do carry them around with my Thinkpad:

• Logitech G502X Lightspeed
  • Just an all-rounder mouse. Pretty heavy mouse for gaming, but I like the 502’s profile.
• HyperX Cloud III’s
  • Also an all-rounder, nice headset. Good for gaming, good for listening. With a bit of EQing is becomes quite nice, even though the default EQ has really bass. Also, it’s software is tied to the MicroSlop Store, so that’s also a minus
• Glorious Modular Mechanical Keyboard 2 (GMMK2)
• Attack Shark X68HE
  • I play rythm games, so does that surprise you?

thinkpad-t14s

A Generation 2 Thinkpad t14s. In hindsight picking the s model was quite a blunder, but it still serves me pretty well. In addition to the docking station that I have, it’s a really capable machine that I can do most (if not all) of my work on.

However, since I got it as a birthday gift (thanks Dad!), I cannot really complain, and it’s definitively an upgrade from my previous machine

• CPU: Ryzen 7 5850u, with integrated graphics
• RAM: 16GB DDR4 4400MHZ
  • It sucks that it’s soldered, but it’s stupid fast for DDR4 so that kinda makes up for it? Plus 16GB should be more than enough for running NixOS with my minimal setup.
• Storage: 512GB NVME, also soldered. Can’t bother to check the generation
• Screen: 1920x1080@60, 14“

I usually take the G502 Lightspeed with it when I go out and have to do something mouse-heavy. Otherwise I am a huge nipple shill, it’s really good and you are missing out if you don’t learn how to use it.

When it’s docked, I sometimes make use of the Monitor I use with basement, through the docking station, when I need to test multi-monitor features on fhtc

hp-da0018nk

My previous laptop that I sold to a friend. I’ve spent the longest with this machine (~4 years), and it’s the first machine I actually installed Linux on.

When I first got it, it only had a 5400RPM 1TB hard drive (abysmal by nowadays). I’ve saved up some money and bought a M.2 2280 sata drive, a WD blue one. I installed windows on it and thought to myself that getting Linux on that old HDD could be a fun experiment, and so I did.

This laptop holds a lot of my Linux history. I went from Ubuntu, fighting with the horrible Realtek drivers back on Linux 5.6, to Fedora, then fell into the Arch Memes, then Artix (because Luke Smith brainwashed me into thinking systemd is bad, it’s not.). It also suffered a lot of time compiling eBUILDs for Gentoo.

• CPU: I7-8550u
• RAM: 24GB (8GB + 16GB, thanks dad for that 16GB stick!)
• Screen: 1368x768@60, oh boy we love fake 16:9 ratios, do we.
• Storage:
  • 1TB 5400RPM HDD (I forgot which brand)
  • 512GB M.2 SATA, Western Digital Blue

I sold it to a friend for his father to use, he plays video games on it now!