My Equipment

In this page, I am going to show the equipment that I use in my everyday life.

Desktop computer

This is my main computer since July 2026. Before this, my main machine was my ThinkPad T530, which I owned and mained since March 2023, but as a cybersecurity student it was getting a little long in the tooth for the work I do. 16GB of RAM was starting to get pretty tight and the integrated GPU was severely bottlenecking the system, especially with my triple monitor setup and online classes with webcam turned on. I originally wanted to get this tower to use as my server, since it was a pretty good deal, but I'll get another Z230 for that instead.

Laptop computers

This was my main computer from March 2023 to July 2026. Right now, it's my travel machine and therefore my main laptop, it's still good enough for that.

This laptop has been given to me by my kind friend arf20. Very kind thanks to them!

This is my second machine, and I got it in pretty rough condition but working. I installed the original chiclet-style keyboard from my ThinkPad T530 in it, performed a clean-up inside/outside and applied a carbon fiber film on the lid as I am a fan of the look. It still needs some more part replacements, such as the palmrest which is pretty smashed up and the fan which doesn't run well and sometimes even gets stuck, leading to the machine overheating. It also needs a new battery as the original one is shot (doesn't hold a charge).

My “beater machine” if you will. My family has owned this laptop since ~2015, and I’ve been its only owner since late 2020. It originally had a Core Duo T2400 that was 32-bit only, and 2.50GB of RAM, and I upgraded that to a Core 2 Duo T7200, along with 4GB of RAM. I just use this for messing around with operating systems, or as a useful, smaller computer in some cases.

A machine that I got for free, that I use for playing old PC games. Surprisingly enough, the dedicated GPU is removable, and it’s pretty good for playing 90s and 2000s games. This machine has an Intel CPU from the Penryn era, so sadly it is one of the first machines to have the Intel Management Engine backdoor. I tried to disable it using me_cleaner, but my hardware programmers (Pi Pico and Pi 3B) can never make a good backup (or a backup at all). Until then, this machine will NEVER dial into the Internets ever again.

Android Smartphone

My main cell phone since January 2024. I bought it brand new because my phone broke and I wanted my next smartphone to be something that could run a secure and private free software mobile OS, so I spent quite a bit of money on this new phone, and it was worth it.

The Server

This is the computer that is hosting this website, along with many other personal and public web services. It's old, but it does the job. Should this machine break beyond repair, I am probably getting something like a Dell Optiplex 3020 SFF to replace it or maybe something more powerful.

Single-Board Computers

I got this Raspberry Pi to host my web services a good while ago now, but now I'm hosting my web services in an x86 PC so this is going to be used for other projects.

Audio Gear

Most of the time, I use the headphones and the Kay Zeds, and barely ever use the portable speaker.

Digital Audio Player

My portable media player. It can play FLAC audio with no issues at all and it has an excellent DAC. I spent quite a lot of money buying a broken iPod, buying the parts (even a new motherboard unfortunately) to restore it and even mod it with flash storage, and it was worth it, as someone who has no way of locally storing every song because modern smartphones suck and have no expandable storage, uses a phone with no headphone jack, doesn't want to be interrupted by notifications and drives a car with no Bluetooth or USB.

Portable FM Radio

A neat little accessory to listen to radio in my iPod. I wish it were built-in, but I'm glad there's at least one way to listen to FM Radio in an iPod.

DSLR Camera

My amateur photography gear. This camera was cheap and I am pretty satisfied with it.

Digital Camera

I went back to using a smartphone, but I still use this to take extreme close-ups before I get a macro adapter for my DSLR.

Tablet Computer

A device you wouldn't expect to see in this page as a hardcore Free Software endorser. I got it only to run old mobile games, like the various versions of Angry Birds, an old version of Asphalt 8, Peggle HD, JellyCar, Fruit Ninja HD, running some emulators, etc. I almost NEVER let it connect to the Internet. I also use it to take handwritten notes using a very old version of the GoodNotes app (3.10) in the very few times I have in-person math classes and won't use my ThinkPad as we go to a classroom with no power outlets nearby and the battery of the laptop drains in under 3 hours, especially after the 45W CPU upgrade. If you're wondering, when I'm working from home I use Xournal++ and a digitizer table to take handwritten notes in my computer, and for handwriting on the iPad I use an Adonit Pro 4 stylus.

It is also running iOS 6.1.3, but via Coolbooter. I cannot do a "real" iOS 6 downgrade since I don't have the SHSH for such version (fuck you Apple) or iOS 7.x.x SHSH for that matter (powdersn0w exploit) so my best bet was doing an OTA downgrade to iOS 8.4.1 as it is available for such device, installing an untethered jailbreak, using CoolBooterCLI to give as much of the storage available as possible to the iOS 6 partition and installing the Coolbooter Untetherer, so that it reboots into iOS 6 immediately after iOS 8.4.1 finishes booting up. The two downsides of Coolbooter are really just the fact that it takes quite a bit of space (about 6 GB) and takes a lot longer to complete booting up, but my unit has 128GB, so it's negligible, and I don't mind the longer boot up times. iOS 8.4.1 runs pretty well on this iPad (unlike its predecessor, iPad 3rd gen), but I much prefer the skeuomorphic design of iOS 6 and it undeniably performs better. From my knowledge, the iPad 4 is the most powerful device that is capable of running iOS 6.

Tools

My neat little multi-tool pocket knife.

iFixit Pro Tech Toolkit

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