My Everyday Carry / Tech I Use

This is something I got few mails regarding what I carry and use on day to day basis + somethings I really like about my work setup.

NOTE

I dont endorse any company neither am I saying what I use is superior, I dont get paid from these companies, use something else if you want to. But this is what I use daily.

The Laptop

I use the Thinkpad E14 Gen2 (AMD). I use it for everything, I dont have any other “computer” other than this laptop and it has served me well so far. I pretty much abuse the shit out of this.

IK the banged up corners looks shit and I assure you those are held together by medical tape (not electrical tape) but anyway here are the specs for this laptop

1. CPU: Ryzen 7 4700U with Radeon Graphics
2. RAM: 16G
3. Disk: 1.5T Internal + 2T External Drive (Attached)

The system is pretty scuffed but I holds strong for my work.

For OS I have VoidLinux as my main daily and I have been using the same instance for over 3 years now. No fresh install no extra distro hopping. Its great, stable while also being “almost” bleeding edge.

I use an External Drive which is encrypted by luks for storing my essential stuffs. It is not mounted by default. But I dont want to loose it in my pile or drives. I cant track which one is which. It loops cursed but once I get a good enough environment where I can have more data on my NAS I will be removing this from here, but for now its pretty important.

For any future laptop, I would like to get one of the Framework or System76 Laptops. Those seem to be good and powerfull + framework have upgradability that just works which is a plus.

Keyboard and Mouse

Keyboard is the Keychron Q1 V2 (knob) I think its a good quality keyboard, I have a hybrid key-switch layout that works for me. I use the gateron browns (i think) for the mod key and any other key except for the charecter keys. For character keys I use gateron milky yellows. IDK why but I like the feel of this kind of layout for most of me work. Rest of the stuffs are default. Tho I have mapped most of the keys in this keyboard using via.

Here is my configuration for my mappings

For the mouse its Logitech G304, its pretty decent mice and its the second one I bought, previous one lasted over 5 years I think, and I dont really use mouse that much since all my workflow runs in my Window Manager and everything has vim bindings. I use it mostly for playing games if I get the time and GIMP / other task that require mouse.

Remarkable 2

I recently heard that this one got discontinued for a new model called pure, I dont know about that but this thing really works well with my workflow for tracking and reading books for my study and work. I love the paper like feel it has and the design. I dont like how strict it is with its hardware and software, end of the day its also a spyware, even tho they are running linux the hardware feels a bit slow now.

I have tried multiple hacks but my favorite is the Appload and xovi apps, I can load syncthing and load my ebooks on KOReader since the default pdf viewer feels slugish to me. Anyway for notes its good, for everything else its not even a choice. But I guess thats what they pitch it to be.

Anyway you can download the suspended wallpaper and also if you want I have this poweroff wallpaper. Welcome.

Notebook

Just a normal notebook that I write on, it has journal, gratitude and other stuff, this is the first thing I grab in the morning and the last thing I touch before going back to sleep.

Complete Setup

I did not mention the monitor on a seperate section but I use a generic lenovo monitor and I bought it form a store so I dont recall the model tbh. It just works and has been working for over 6-7 years if i recall correctly. I dont own a vesa mount since I dont care about that, I can just put some books under it and call it a day.

At the end of the day, I hope you understand you dont need any of these except for a laptop to work on. Thats basically it, rest is just fluff. Anyway bie.