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My Tech

This is a page where I maintain the status of my technology and workspaces.

Ryan (Me)

Home Office

A lamp lit wooden desk between two curtained windows with a red flower painting behind it. A large monitor, small split keyboard, and speakers are also on the desk. The desk and office chair are on a rug, with shelves to the right side of the room and a cozy arm chair to the left
My Home Office

Furniture

Sit/Stand Desk:
  - IKEA GERTON 61x29 1/2" Beech Wood Tabletop
  - Electronic Sit/Stand Desk Legs
Herman Miller Embody Chair
Autonomous ErgoStool
Amazon Anti-Fatigue Standing Mat

Desk Periphery Devices

LG 32" 4k IPS Ergo Monitor (LG 32UN880-B)
Ferris Sweep 34 key split keyboard w/ Kailh Choc Silver Switches
Logitech MX Ergo Trackball
Apple Magic Trackpad
Audioengine A2+ Speakers & Stands
Audio Technica M50x Headphones
Blue Yeti Microphone - Backout Edition
Logitech HD Pro Webcam c920 Widescreen
BenQ Screenbar

Other Periphery Devices

Apple Air Pods (gen 3)
UPERFECT 15.6" 3840x2160 IPS 100% sRGB, 350 nit Portable Monitor
Sony WH-1000xm4 Bluetooth Headphones
Aeropex AfterShokz Headphones
Various SSD/NVME drives in enclosures

Apple/Daily Driver Devices

A lamp lit wooden desk with a small macbook pro on a stand, split keyboard, and large monitor in portrait mode to the right of it
My Macbook

- Venusaur (MacBook/Main Computer)

2021 14" Macbook Pro
M1 Pro (8 CPU Cores [2 efficiency, 6 performance], 14 gpu cores)
16-core Neural Engine
Media engine
16 GB RAM
512 GB NVME SSD
14.2" 3024x1964 Liquid Retina XDR display
macOS Monterey
*Can Connect to Periphery devices via Monitor

- Ivysaur (Tablet/Portable Device)

An 11 inch ipad Pro in the magic keyboard on a table, with tmux and neovim opened, and a small pop out window of Critical Role playing in the corner.
My iPad Pro

2021 11" iPad Pro
M1 CPU
8GB RAM
128 GB Storage
11" ProMotion Retina (2388x1668-pixel) Display
w/ Apple Magic Pencil
w/ 11" Magic Keyboard Case
* Can be used as a secondary display for Venusaur
* Can Connect to Periphery devices via Monitor

- Bulbasaur (Phone)

iPhone 11
64 GB Storage

- Dexter (Watch)

Apple Watch Series 7
41mm, Green

Linux Workstations/Servers

- Raichu (Mini PC - Remote Linux ‘Dev’ Server)

The insides of a square mini PC, showing an nvme drive on the left and to sticks of laptop RAM on the right
My Linux minicomputer dev server

AMD Ryzen 5625u (6core/12thread, 2.3GHz, 4.2 GHz boost)
W/ AMD Radeon Graphics (7cu)
64GB 3200mHz DDR4 RAM (2x32GB)
500GB NVME SSD
2TB SATA SSD
2.5GB Ethernet
Fedora 36

- Charmeleon (Linux/Windows Workstation & Gaming Computer)

Ryzen 9 3900x [3.8 GHz (4.6GHz Boost), 12 Cores, 24 Threads)
Noctua NH-U14s CPU Cooler
Aorus Elite Wifi x570 Motherboard
32 GB - G.Skill 2x16GB DDR4-3200 Mhz CL 16 RAM
Sapphire Radeon Pulse RX 580 8GB GPU 
500 GB Samsung 970 EVO NVME SSD (Linux Host Install)
500 GB Samsung 850 EVO SATA SSD (Windows VM Install)
250 GB SSD (Test Linux Install)
EVGA SuperNOVA G4 650w 80+ Gold, fully modular PSU
Fractal Design Meshify C Dark TG ATX Mid Tower Case
2 x Noctua NF-A14 PWM 140mm Fans
1 x Noctua NF-F12 PWM 120mm Fan
Fedora 37 Workstation (Beta)
*Connected to Periphery devices

Pidgey (Gitlab Runner/Test Cloud Server)

Linode Instance 1 Core 1 GB RAM 25 GB SSD Fedora 35

Work Computer

- Tauros (Work-issued Laptop)

A small sit/stand desk in an office, with a mounted monitor, closed Thinkpad, split keyboard, and trackball below it
My in the office work setup.

x1 Carbon Thinkpad (gen7)
Intel i7-8665U [1.9 Ghz (4.8 Ghz Turbo), 2 cores, 8 threads]
16 GB RAM
250 GB NVME SSD
14" 1920x1080
Fedora 36 Workstation
*Connected Monitor USB-C Dock

Secondary Fold-able Workspace

A laptop on a small folding wall desk, with a giant monitor wall mounted above it
Working at the foldable secondary workspace

We moved my old 43" monitor to the bedroom to use as a TV, and configured with an adjustable arm that can pull down to a folding desk to double as a second workspace.

This is where Rebecca works if she wants something more than just her laptop.

Furniture

Foldable IKEA Table
Movable arm to move Monitor(LG-UD4379b) down to desk from TV height
SecretLab Titain Chair
Exercise Ball Chair

Tech

USB 3 Dock
LG UD4379-b 42.5" 3840x2160 IPS Monitor
Keyboard and Mouse
Apple TV

Rebecca (Wife)

Rebecca mostly works from her laptop, but when she needs a workspace she uses the secondary one.

Vileplume (Macbook)

2020 Macbook Air
M1 (8 CPU Cores [4 efficiency, 4 performance], 8 gpu cores)
16 GB RAM
512 GB NVME SSD
13.3" 2560x1600 400 nit IPS "Retina" Display
Fan-less
macOS Monterey
*Can Connect to Periphery devices via usb-c Dock

Gloom (Tablet)

iPad Mini 6 (6th Gen)
* Can be used as a secondary display for Vileplume

Oddish (Phone)

iPhone 8 Plus

Periphery Devices

Apple Air Pod Pros
Bose AE2 Headphones
Apple Watch 5

Family Servers & Networking

- Ninetales (Always on Home Server)

HP Micro Server Gen 10
AMD Opteron X3421 APU (4) @ 2.100GHz
24 GB ECC RAM
250 GB Samsung EVO SSD (OS + LVM Virtual Disk Drive)
2 x 1TB WD 7200 RPM HDD (ZFS Mirror, for Backups) (Hotswap)
2 x 3TB TOSHIBA 7200 RPM HDD (ZFS Mirror, for Storage) (Hotswap)
UnraidOS

- Networking

Netgear Orbi RBK50 Router (In Bedroom)
Netgear Orbi RBK50 Satellite (In Office)

- Living Room

55" Samsung 'Frame' TV (2021)
4k Fire TV Stick
Nintendo Switch