Monday, April 29th, 2024

My hardware setup for 2024
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Some things change, some don't.

It's been more than three years since I wrote about my hardware setup
and even if  a significant part  of my daily driver hardware changed,
the core remains stable.

My desktop:

* Raptor Blackbird with 8-core / 32-thread POWER9 CPU (2166-3800 MHz)
* RAM: 64 GB DDR4 ECC registered (2666 MHz)
* SSD: 1 TB NVMe + PCIe/NVMe adapter
* PSU: Seasonic Focus GX-650 Gold
* GPU: Sapphire Radeon R7 250
* LCD:
1. Dell U2412M (24" 1920x1200)
2. Philips 243V7QJABF (24" 1920x1080)
* Keyboard: Durgod Taurus K320
* Trackball: Kensington Orbit with ScrollRing
* Devuan GNU/Linux + Xfce desktop

Since  the last time[1], I doubled the amount  of RAM on  my desktop,
replaced the GPU,  because the last one is not supported anymore, and
instead of one 16:10 and one 4:3 LCD side by side, I now have a 16:10
and 16:9 one on top of the other. Probably the most interesting thing
about this is,  that I found the wide Philips LCD  on the street near
a garbage bin on Christmas day. I brought it home and discovered that
it works  without any  issues whatsoever,  so I  made it  part of  my
setup.

My laptop:

* Lenovo E14 G5 with 8-core / 16-thread Ryzen 7 7730U (400-4546 MHz)
* RAM: 16 GB DDR3
* SSD: 1 TB NVMe
* LCD: 1920x120
* Devuan GNU/Linux + Xfce desktop

On my 40th birthday,   I bought myself a nice present - a new laptop.
My only new laptop before this  was the iBook G4  in 2005 and I think
that I can spoil myself every 18 years.

My phone:

* iPhone 12 mini 
* Storage: 256 GB

I don't know the rest of the specs and I couldn't care less about it.
I use iPhone not because of my love for Apple products,  but in spite
of my hate  for  them.  But I discovered  over the years  that I hate
Android even more.  iPhone 12 mini is also my first phone since 2005,
that will reach 36 months (3 years)  of use.  It's probably because I 
lost any passion for new technologies long time ago.

Apart from these,  I also use  now  quite  old Kindle 5  for reading,
several HAM transceivers and in recent weeks also an old RDP terminal
Wyse Cx0 converted to a mini PC using 8GB CompactFlash card as a main
storage (the original DOM had the capacity of 512 MB,  just enough to
boot Windows CE  with RDP client)  and OpenBSD 7.5  with FVWM  as the 
main system.

It's quite funny -  the POWER9  machine  is off  and yet  it probably
consumes more energy  than this mini PC  when on.  On  the other hand
when the POWER9 machine is on,  it's probably 50 or more times faster.
And still I'm more productive  on the Wyse Cx0 (which is why I use it
every day).

And that's about it. I also use several vintage machines,  but that's
a different topic.

[1] gopher://i-logout.cz/0/phlog/posts/2021-01-10_my_desktop_setup_for_2021.txt
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