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<details>
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<summary>Peripherals</summary>
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<ul>
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<li>I use a <b>Logitech G610</b> keyboard with Cherry MX Red switches and a <b>Logitech G602</b> wireless
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<li>My mouse is a <b>Logitech G602</b> wireless
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mouse that I've had for god only knows how long. I don't normally go for wireless peripherals or
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proprietary dongles, but Logitech's wireless dongles are really good and the quality of their products
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makes it worth it.</li>
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<li>My keyboard is a <b><span title="One thing about Keychron, their products are good but don't buy from their website. When I tried, my order got marked as "fraudulent" by their system and I had to prove to them my 200 US dollars came from a real person to get my keyboards. Save yourself the trouble and just buy their stuff from Amazon.">Keychron</span>
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V3</b> (with knob) and accompanying <b>Keychron Q0</b> for a numpad, because
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the V3 is tenkeyless and I refuse to give up that numpad life. I got Keychron's in-house brown switches and
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they're quite nice, and I look forward to tricking out the QMK firmware with all sorts of crazy macros and
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bindings. My favorite part, though, is that it ships with both Windows and Mac alt/option and super/command
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keys, so I can swap them around in an unintended manner to <i>finally</i> rid the keyboard for my Linux
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computer of those wretched Windows logos!</li>
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<li>I also have a <a target="_blank"
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href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61sf29vWJ-L._AC_SL1000_.jpg">very large enter key</a>, just
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because.</li>
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<li>I have two 1080p monitors, a <b>24" 165Hz Gigabyte model</b> and a <b>21.5" 75Hz HP one</b>. Both are
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fine, but were I to replace them I would go for something larger at a slightly lower framerate, possibly
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at 1440p. I would not buy the HP monitor again.</li>
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at 1440p. I would not buy the HP monitor again - not that it's bad, but HP Eye Ease™ isn't something I want and I can't figure out how to turn it off.</li>
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<li>My webcam is a <b>Logitech C925e</b>. The picture quality is good, and the microphone quality is what
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you'd expect out of a webcam. I'm a huge fan of the built-in privacy shutter. I'm just that sort of
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paranoid.</li>
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<summary>More details</summary>
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<p>This is the laptop I upgraded from to my current PC. It's got an Intel i7-9750H, 16GB of RAM (upgraded from
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8GB stock), 256GB of SSD space, and a GTX 1660Ti Max-Q GPU. It's currently running Ubuntu server. Right now
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I'm using it to run a Minecraft server for some friends.</p>
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I'm using it to run a Minecraft server for some friends (in theory).</p>
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<li>
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My phone is a <b>128GB LG K61 LM-Q630</b>.
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My phone is a <b>Google Pixel 4a</b> running <a href="https://grapheneos.org/">Graphene</a>.
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<summary>More details</summary>
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<p>It's fairly mediocre, but it's not like I'm doing anything important on it. The standout feature for me is
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the headphone jack. That, above all else, remains non-negotiable for me. I intend to keep using it until it
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becomes unusable or breaks, then replace it with something I can install a custom ROM on.</p>
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<p>I said I was going to wait until my old LG K61 became unusable before replacing it. I thought I'd failed to do that right up until
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its replacement, a used flagship from nearly three years ago, arrived and blew it out of the water in almost every way. I never noticed
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up until now just how painfully unresponsive my old phone was. Mobile websites are, like, usable now!</p>
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<p>Performance was never a consideration in buying the phone, though. I'm not a huge fan of the idea of using a Google device, but the Pixel line are the only devices supported by
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Graphene OS, possibly the single most secure and private mobile OS currently on the market short of full fat Linux on something like a Pinephone.
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It's got a number of nice features: the OS has been fully stripped of all of Google's slimy little rootkit tentacles, and even if you do need
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to install Google Play Services for something like an app that relies on it for push notifications, it's as aggressively sandboxed as any other app.
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That's another thing - Graphene has powerful per-app permission settings, allowing you to turn off network and even hardware sensor access for apps you
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don't trust, and every app you download has almost no permissions by default. I'll stop gushing about it here now, Graphene's features page has its own comprehensive overview.</p>
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<p>So I kind of had to get a Pixel if I wanted Graphene, but why the 4a in particular? There are more recent, largely better models within my price range.
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Mainly, I chose to get the specific model I did because it was the last Pixel device to be released with two important attributes: the presence of a headphone jack,
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and the lack of 5G support. The headphone jack, I think, is self-explanatory. I <i>never</i> intend to purchase a phone without one if I can avoid it. As for the 5G, I don't trust it.
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Basically, much of the performance improvement 5G offers comes from a new transmission technique called beam forming, where instead of blasting every signal equally in all directions
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like a radio tower it specifically calibrates the signal for a given device such that it's effectively focused in a narrow cone directed at that device, and for this to work properly
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the tower needs to know where the phone is at a level of precision that is within inches. I feel like I shouldn't need to explain why that's scary.
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</p>
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<p>Yeah, so in summary, phone's good, installation process is easy, I recommend it if you can deal with the small amount of jank caused by the Android ecosystem's dependency on Google <s>Rootkit</s> Play Services.</p>
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<li>I have a <b>Nintendo Switch</b> that, admittedly, doesn't see much use. Kirby and the Forgotten Land was good,
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