Hardware

'A monkey attached to a machine.'

Work, physical work, from which the system is animated!

History

Old Computers
Macintosh Folklore
Early Computers

Sellers

MNT Research - yooooo what if you could, like, modify your laptop easier???
Raspberry Pi
Pine64
Star Labs
System76

My Current Devices

Eigengrau

A Thinkpad T490 I bought used from some school that didn't want it no more. I use it for most things, especially writing and programming.

OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Resolution: 1920x1080
WM: Sway (Wayland)
Disk Space: 463GB
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8365U (8) @ 4.10 GHz
GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 620 @ 1.10 GHz [Integrated]

Orrey

A desktop that my older brother built back in 2019, I think. It is the first computer I ever installed Linux on! It is primarily used for all of my music creation, half of my digital art, a bit of game development, most gaming, and assorted computationally "intense" tasks.

OS: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
Resolution: 1920x1080
WM: Xfwm4
Disk Space: 930G
CPU: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 8x 4GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
RAM: 7938MiB

Cosmogyral

A cheap Samsung Galaxy phone I have to use for all the bullshit in this world that now demands you own a phone with normal people apps on it. However, it now serves a dual purpose of being my main media-consumption/internet scrolling device, so that I may fully devote my other machines to creation.

Memories

Nov 24, 2020: "I have a weird little tradition that I do every time one of my computers breaks down or is hit with some serious error: I bake a pound cake, and fix the computer during the wait periods. I have no idea of how this tradition formed, but today is my younger brother's birthday, and he apparently loves my pound cake enough to ask me if I can make one for his birthday :D" (Source)

Computer Graveyard

Many computers have died on me over the years, from now on I will do my best to remember them.

Wingman

An ACER laptop that was originally purchased for my sister back when we lived in Germany. It survived 8 years over multiple moves between Germany, Macedonia, and the USA before it died of unfixable battery swelling issues in the first quarter of 2024. :(

OS: Manjaro 21.3.5 Ruah
Resolution: 1366x768
WM: i3
Disk Space: 460G
CPU: Intel Pentium N3540 @ 4x 2.6656GHz
GPU: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display (rev 0e)
RAM: 3810MiB

Older

A StarLabs LiteBook that, while very nice to use while it lasted, did not last long. After it died from issues similar to what Wingman would eventually die from, I took Wingman from being my sister's old computer that I occasionally fiddled with to being my main computer.
A dull black Dell that ran Windows 10, which I learned Javascript on, and which became so slow that it barely fuctioned. My family told me to replace it, but I wanted to keep it going, so I tried my first Arch installation on it. While I think I killed it in the process, hindsight leads me to believe that the specific errors I was getting indicate that it was already doomed from drive corruption.
A dull grey Toshiba laptop/brick with one of those nub mouses. I played Civilization 2 and other late 90's games on it in our old centipede-infested apartment in Istanbul when I was like 6, and decorating it's Windows XP for Christmas when we were back in the states for the holidays.
Probably at least one more that I'm drawing a blank on...