If you know me, you know that I love computers. They've been an interest of mine ever since I was a small child. As for my first computer, the only things I remember about it are that the motherboard was an MSI motherboard (presumably an older one even at that time), I had to share it with my sister, and that it stopped being used because someone did something that fucked up the Windows 10 install. We then used a Lenovo ThinkCentre from 2012 for about a year, and then close to the start of the pandemic, my dad built me the computer I'm using right now. This page will show anything with a CPU I have, since a computer is a device with a CPU and can simulate a Turing machine, after all. Yes, even your phone can simulate a Turing machine.

The main devices (the ones most people would consider "computers")

My desktop computer (hostname == sonic)

This is my main desktop computer. I'm writing this webpage right now through this. Here are the specs:

• AMD Ryzen 7 2700X (Clocked @ 3.7GHz, 8 cores, 16 threads)
• AMD Radeon RX 490 (4GB GDDR5 RAM)
• 2TB Hitachi Ultrastar spinning rust
• 32GB DDR4 RAM

As I mentioned in the introduction of this page, this computer was built near the beginning of the pandemic. I do plan on getting a new case for this thing because this one looks like garbage, but I don't have the means of paying for it right now. For the operating system, I'm using Gentoo. For those who are out of touch, Gentoo is a Linux distribution that makes you compile everything. I mean EVERYTHING. Even the compiler has to be compiled. Yes, I am a masochist. The WM is i3, which I'm currently trying to figure out how I want to make it look. Tiling WM's are still a new thing to me; I occasionally switched between stacking and tiling mode in COSMIC back when it was just a modified version of GNOME on Pop!_OS, but ended up mostly using stacking mode in the end, and I've tried Hyprland before realizing that it just isn't my taste, and then tried i3, and now I'm on Hyprland again.


*picture of computer goes here*

My laptop (hostname == tails)

My ThinkPad T480. It's my most recently-acquired device, having bought it with Christmas money and recieving it on 2025-03-02. Here's the specs for this thing:

• Intel Core i5-8350U (Base clock @ 1.7GHz, 4 cores, 8 threads, Intel UHD Graphics 620)
• 512GB KingFast SATA SSD (the only SSD I have on an x86 device of mine)
• 16GB DDR4 RAM
• Integrated 1920x1080 IPS LCD touchscreen
• 1950mAh external battery + 2080mAh internal battery

This is my secondary computer. If you can't tell by the specs, this is one of the more midrange configurations of the ThinkPad T480 Lenovo offered at the time. Of course, you could've had these things optioned with Nvidia GPUs (thank god mine wasn't), and you could have an M.2 SSD through an adapter board and bracket. I chose this laptop model in particular because it's old enough that repairability wouldn't be much of an issue, while new enough that my dad would let me get it. Speaking of age, people consider 2018 to be old? Sure, 2018 was 7 years ago as of right now, but my desktop computer's processor is a model from 2018 and it's still a very performant CPU. Anyways, as for the operating system, I'm using the same OS as my desktop: Gentoo Linux with Hyprland. I'm just ticking every Linux stereotype checkbox, aren't I?

Server (hostname == knuckles)

The server that this website and my Minecraft server are being hosted on. It's a Lenovo IdeaCentre 510S-08ISH from 2016, specced with:

• Intel Core i5-6400 (Base clock @ 2.70GHz, 4 cores, Intel HD Graphics 530)
• 1TB Western Digital spinning rust
• 8GB DDR4 RAM

This thing used to be used by my grandmother, who mostly used it to do stuff in Excel and play Candy Crush. She now does that minus the Candy Crush playing on a different computer my aunt bought for her because the Lenovo was getting slow (although that may have been because of the bloat my grandmother was installing on it) and she wanted to upgrade to Windows 11, and that couldn't be done on the Lenovo. After upgrading to that computer, she gave me the Lenovo computer to do whatever I want with. I ended up turning it into a server. This thing is currently running Debian 13, and serves double duty, running the Minecraft server and the web server at the same time (with the addition of an IRC server once I get an actual domain name). The web server I run on this thing is Apache because I'm not going to touch Nginx (at least not right now...).

Embedded devices

iPhone SE (2022; last iPhone with a home button, "hostname" == charmy)

My distraction rectangle smartphone. I got this thing in 2023 after my dad got a replacement iPhone (he temporarily used this exact phone as a backup). I tried dumbing it down, but sheer willpower isn't enough to resist the urge to use it for anything other than text or talk. Thanks, enshittification. This is an iPhone (as mentioned before). None of my computers are Macs or Windows PCs. As a result, I have to use libimobiledevice to put photos on my computers. I also can't sync music to it. I can't show a file photo of it because this is my only usable camera.

Netgear R6400v2 (FreshTomato, hostname == shadow)

This is my Wi-Fi router. Well, it used to be the house's Wi-Fi router, but then my dad bought a Wi-Fi router with 802.11ax capabilities (the router I'm using by comparison uses 802.11ac), and he gave this thing to me to replace the D-Link router I used to use (a cylindrical sorta dealy that had already went out of support by the time I got it) so that I can network my room myself. I have my desktop computer, my server, and my TV plugged into it via ethernet, and anything with Wi-Fi that I have is also connected to it. I installed FreshTomato on this thing because I'm a pedantic Linux user who's 16 years old, a privacy absolutist, autistic, and was bored one day in early 2025 and was watching a YouTube video about setting up a fediverse instance when I spotted the port-forwarding screen of FreshTomato and found that the user was using the EXACT SAME MODEL ROUTER I WAS USING, did some research on FreshTomato, and decided to take a stab at it. It was worth it. It's much more advanced than the stock Netgear firmware, just as I like it. Everything also loads faster. I used to have my 2.4GHz network (the one for B, G, and N Wi-Fi) hidden so that I can use a WEP key for putting my Nintendo DS (more on that later) online, but then realized that online play wasn't worth it. I'm now just using WPA2. I'm not taking a picture of this thing (even though it's under my desk).

Video games!!!

PlayStation (model SCPH-7501, unmodded (for now))

Let's start with the oldest in physical age and get progressively newer. While this isn't my first video game console (I'm 16, and as a small child, I played on an Xbox 360), this IS my oldest one in terms of physical age, being manufactured in November of 1998. I have 2 games for this thing: Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, where you play as Crash Bandicoot, who gets tricked by Doctor N. Cortex into collecting crystals so that Cortex can power a sort of world-destruction contraption, and Final Fantasy VII, a game where you play as Cloud Strife, a member of an eco-terrorist organization called AVALANCHE, which fights against the SHINRA Corporation. After freeing Aeris and Red XIII, AVALANCHE gets captured. However, most top SHINRA officials get killed overnight by Sephiroth and SHINRA is taken over by the president's son. Your goal is to defeat Sephiroth and SHINRA. I used to use my modern smart TV to play my PlayStation, but in late August of 2025, I rescued a curbside CRT TV from going to a landfill. I'm using that CRT TV to display my PSX's output.

Nintendo DS (Phat model)

This is my second oldest video game console in terms of physical age, as well as one of my two portable video game consoles. It's a titanium colored phat model Nintendo DS I got for my 15th birthday (February 2024). I have three games for this thing: Sonic Rush, Sonic Rush Adventure (the sequel to Sonic Rush), and Mario Kart DS. Going back to the topic of wireless networking, most modern devices use some version of WPA. Before WPA, there was WEP. WEP is insecure. In fact, it was so insecure that 1 year into this very millenium we're living in right now, it was cracked. Regardless of whether you're using the regular text-based passwords or the 64-bit/128-bit hex passkeys, you're basically committing suicide. In response to WEP's compromise, the Wi-Fi alliance approved WPA. A year later, they approved WPA2. Here's the problem: Nintendo had a year to implement WPA support into the DS's firmware, and yet, the DS ended up only supporting WEP anyways. Sure, there were a lot of Wi-Fi routers that hadn't still hadn't implemented WPA being used in most homes by the time the DS released, but really, they could have implimented WPA support as a future-proofing measure. And then again, I'm not a Nintendo R&D member who was developing the DS in 2003, so what do I know?

Xbox 360 E (unmodded (for now))

Ah, my childhood. This thing was my main way of playing video games for a few years. This used to be my dad's, but he gave it to me. This had extensive use for literal years, so this thing is in pretty rough condition. This thing was manufactured in October 2013, so I can do an RGH mod if I wanted to (it would be rather difficult, as I opened this thing twice and ended up stripping a lot of the Torx screws somehow). This thing included a 250GB hard drive, which is basically just a SATA laptop hard drive in a fancy casing. My dad got a Kinect for it when he first bought this, but I can't use it because I only have so much room in my bedroom, and the way it's laid out doesn't allow the Kinect to be used. I have a few digital downloads on this thing, as well as a bunch of physical games (most of them for Kinect), but other than the Sonic games I got from the Xbox 360 storefront before it shut down almost a year ago, the Sega Vintage Collection Wonder Boy games, and my physical copy of Angry Birds Trilogy, there's barely anything interesting I have for this thing. I'm not all that into first-person shooters (wow, what a shocker, teenage boy doesn't like first-person shooters /s).