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> *Last update: July 22, 2024*
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## What do I use?
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> This page was inspired by [Uses This](https://usesthis.com/), and you can see more pages like this there.
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The following is a list of the different technologies that I use on a daily basis. This includes my computers, the software I run on them, how I host stuff and other miscellaneous stuff.
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I've also added the names of my machines as I think these are fun to show. The naming convention I went for was different arcs/sagas from One Piece.
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[](/img/term.webp)
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> For more details about my [dotfiles click here](https://github.com/SindreKjelsrud/dotfiles).
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## 🐧 Hardware (+ OS)
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#### personal laptop (water7)
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My primary laptop that I use for all schoolwork and personal stuff is my **14" Acer Swift 3** . Its got an i5 processor, a 1TB SSD and 8GB of RAM. I bought this back in 2020 when I managed to spill some juice over my MacBook Air which sadly "died".
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[](/img/water7.webp)
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Recently moved over to Linux Mint from Arch. The laptop is okay, and looks very nice with the Minecraft GRUB!
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#### gaming pc (skypiea)
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For gaming and just mindless browsing at home I use a prebuilt **HP Omen 30L** . I bought this back in 2021, because my first gaming pc was kinda slowing down and I wanted the new 3080 graphics card hehe. On the OS side it's running Windows 11 because some of the games I play unfortunately won't work on Linux, but I might do the switch anyways some time in the future.
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[](/img/lougetown.webp)
Here is a list over some of the peripherals I use for it:
- **HyperX Alloy Origins 60.** Keyboard of choice, love the 60%.
- **Razor Ourobous.** My trustworthy mouse of 10 years!
- **Logitech C920.** Webcam for Discord and school meetings.
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- **AOC 27" Curved gaming monitor**. I like this monitor, it's pretty good.
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#### home server (eastblue)
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Actually my latest addition! I bought this **HP Prodesk 600 G3 SFF** from [bergenbruktpc.no ](https://bergenbruktpc.no/ ) on sale for around 1300NOK with an additional 16GBs of RAM. I installed ProxMox on it after quite a lot of BIOS hassle. In short, the specs are an Intel Core i7-6700, 256GB NVME SSD, 500GB HDD & 32GB RAM.
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[](/img/eastblue.webp)
> By the way, all the VMs on this have been named after the arcs from the East Blue saga!
I'm in the process of starting to selfhost stuff I use and different kinda services. Currently I run the following stuff on it:
- **Minecraft server:** Always gotta have one up & running.
- **PiVPN:** The simplest way to setup and manage a VPN.
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- **sidBot:** My own Discord bot ** ([source code ](https://github.com/SindreKjelsrud/sidBot ))**.
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- **This website:** Finally I can selfhost this myself!
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#### other technology
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- **AirPods 2nd gen:** Earbuds for training, works good.
- **iPhone 13:** Works pretty good.
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- Some gaming consoles:
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- **GameBoy Color:** My first mod-project, check out the [post ](/blog/breathing-new-life-into-my-old-gameboy-color/ ) I wrote on it.
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- **Nintendo DS Lite:** Gotta have some Mario Kart on the go!
- **Nintendo Switch:** Animal Crossing has never been cozier.
- **Nintendo Wii:** Easily the best console for playing at home with friends.
- **Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB:** Gonna be used for my homebuilt arcade machine.
- **Sony WH-1000XM4:** Absolutely love this headset, I use it everyday.
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## 🧑💻 Software
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- [Alacritty ](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty ). A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
- [Discord ](https://discord.com/ ). For communication while gaming/coding.
- [Firefox ](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ ). Browser of choice.
- [Bitwarden ](https://bitwarden.com/ ). Open source password manager, want to start selfhosting it.
- [Invidious ](https://invidious.io/ ). Open source front-end for YouTube.
- [uBlock Origin ](https://ublockorigin.com/ ) Free, open-source ad content blocker.
- [GitHub ](https://github.com/ ). For storing my Git-repos.
- [Migadu ](https://migadu.com ). Email provider.
- [LocalSend ](https://localsend.org/#/ ). For sharing files to nearby devices.
- [NetNewsWire ](https://netnewswire.com/ ). RSS Reader.
- [Signal ](https://signal.org/ ). Chat service, trying to get more people to use it!
- [Spotify ](https://spotify.com/ ). Current music-service of choice.
- [Squoosh ](https://squoosh.app/ ). Image compression web-app.
- [VSCodium ](https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium ) (or [neovim ](https://neovim.io/ )). Text editor, switching between between them depending on task.
