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Gear
Desk
Netease Yanxuan Standing Desk (Really cheap, <300$US, great stablity, quiet also, must recommend) (75cm to 123cm height)
Chair
Steelcase Personality Plus Chair (Its fine)
Monitor
I use a Lenovo Legion y27qf-30 display for gaming, 8bit 1440p@240Hz, won't recommend if you want crisp motion without smearing. Mounted on an cheap BRATECK monitor arm, works well.
Keyboard
I run an Drunkdeer G65 for gaming (Hall Effect)
- Case foam
- PBTFans BOW keycap set (simple-icons-base)
- Spacebar foam
For Code:
Tofu60v2 WK Spray-Coated Klein Blue + Brass Weight
- PC Plate
- Silicone Bowl Mount (60g)
- Gazzew Boba BLACK U4T 68g
- NEO x QK 1.2mm Milk White PCB stabs(205g0 housing, XHT-BDZ wires)
- PBTFans WOB keycap set (simple-base)
- Case foam
- KBDFans TOFU60 carrying case
Another board:
Keychron Q1V2 Knob Edition
- 3rd party POM plate
- C3 “Equalz” V3 Stabs 205g0 + XHT-BDZ
- Akko ASA profile keycap set
- Akko Piano Pro V3 switches
- 4 layer PCB tape + force break mod
- 3rd party Poron + plastic sheet in case
Mouse / Mousepad
- Logitech G Pro X Wireless (Gen 1) (scrollwheel kinda broken, blowing into the wheel fixes it for a while)
- Pulsar Superglides for the above mouse (white)
- Artisan ハヤテ 乙 (Hayate Otsu) MID XL
Audio
- DAC: MOONDROP Dawn Pro
- In-Ear: MOONDROP Kato Matte Steel (brass tube, stock foam tips)
- Over-Ear: Sony WH-1000XM5 (gifted)
- Mic: Cheap SmallRig Type-C Lavalier Mic from taobao (10$US)
- Mic: Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Dynamic Mic
Machines
A X99 platform workstation PC (runs Arch btw)
Specs:
- Xeon E5-2667 v4 8c16t@3.2Ghz from taobao
- Offbrand Chinese DDR4 X99 Motherboard with M.2 and gigabit ethernet from taobao
- 2x8GB Samsung ECC RAM from taobao
- RX590 GME (yes ik its a 580 rebrand but its cheap as hell <50$ on taobao)
- 5Gbps USB3.2G1 3xtype-A + 2xtype-C PCIe card from taobao
- 512GB M.2 Drive taken from acer laptop
- 512GB SATA SSD from Lenovo on JD
- 500GB HDD (unused)
- Offbrand Dual-fan CPU Cooler from taobao
- HKC Titan 600W PSU from taobao
- Built inside an Sun Microsystems Ultra 24 Workstation case (ofc the dvd drive and fp IO doesn't work, removed Disk Bays)
A M2 MacBook Air from 2022 (16+512)
Software
OS (Arch btw)
- Arch Linux 2024.01.01 btw
- Pipewire
- Hyprland
- dunst
- Hyprland Desktop Portal
- polkit-kde-agent
- SDDM
- hyprpaper
- pavucontrol
- wofi
- cliphist
- fcitx5 + Rime
- udiskie
- Waybar
- PcManFM
- Alacritty
- zsh
- lazyvim
- firefox (ffprofile)
- ...other_bloat
Editor
Visual Studio Code / Zed / LazyVim (depends on mood)
Font
I jump between two fonts: Monaspace Argon / Fantasque Sans Mono
Terminal
I use Alacritty
Apps (MacOS)
- Raycast (WM, Launcher)
- Dropover (Better Drag&Drop)
- In Your Face (Calendar alarms in your face) (Setapp)
- Orbstack (Docker desktop + VM replacement)
- Spark Mail (Only mail app that works with gmail without asking me to reauthenticate every so often, sync is nice) (Setapp)
- Notion
- Notion Calendar (I still call it Cron)
- Arc Browser
- Apple Music / TIDAL
- Shottr (Lightweight & featureful screenshot app, highly recommend)
- 1Password
- Bruno (HTTP Client)
- Proxyman (HTTP debug proxy) (Setapp)
- Gifski (GIFs from video)
- Bartender / iStat Menus / image2icon / TablePlus (Setapp)
- AltTab / AngryIPScanner / Keka / IINA / Hyperkey / Amphetamine
- rcmd (Quick app switcher) (MAS 4.99$)
- Loopback / Soundsource
- Rive / Figma / Blender / Fusion 360 / OpenSCAD / KiCad / PrusaSlicer
- Bunch of command line tools on brew