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29 November 2024
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arch running 6.12 kernel

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Hardware

Desktop

PC:^[1] Dell Precision T5500
CPU:^[1:1] Intel Xeon X5570 (4) @ 3.175GHz
RAM:^[1:2] 32 GB RAM
SSD:^[1:3] 2 TB
GPU: AMD ATI FirePro V5900
Display: Dell 17 inch LCD
Keyboard¹: Lenovo Preferred Pro, wired USB
Mouse: Logitech B110, wired USB

VPS (running this site)

1 virtual core, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB SSD

Software

Desktop software

Operating system: arch linux

Window manager: i3

Terminal: alacritty

Shell: zsh (with ohmyzsh)

Editor: Code OSS^[2] with the following extensions:

Bookmarks
Graphviz Preview
IntelliJ IDEA Keybindings
Markdown Footnote
Markdown yaml Preamble
markdownlint
rust-analyzer

Browser: Firefox with extensions: uBlock origin, Hypothes.is, Bitwarden

Programming language: Rust

Configuration: dotfiles

Notable utilities:

ack - file search
dropbox - cloud storage
fuzz - Z specification type checker
git - version control
graphviz - diagramming
hexchat - IRC client
jq - JSON manipulation
neofetch - system information display
restic - backup
scrot - screenshots
SmartGit - git GUI
texinfo - documentation system (LaTeX)
textstudio - LaTeX editor

Issues (not experienced since installing arch again):

GPU suspend/resume sometimes fails (see distro-hopping history)
Occasionally need to re-plug mouse and keyboard after resume

VPS software (running this site)

Operating system: Debian

Servers:

diagram showing nginx fronting various servers on local porgts or a unix socket

Notable utilities:

git - version control
rclone - file synchronisation to cloud storage
restic - backup

Refurbished, total cost less than £300 in 2020, including NVIDIA GPU and SSD (both of which eventually failed and needed replacing). ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
Yeah, I know. But I tried and failed to get anywhere near as good a setup with emacs. ↩︎

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