<li>I use a <b>Logitech G610</b> keyboard with Cherry MX Red switches and a <b>Logitech G602</b> wireless
<li>My mouse is a <b>Logitech G602</b> wireless
mouse that I've had for god only knows how long. I don't normally go for wireless peripherals or
proprietary dongles, but Logitech's wireless dongles are really good and the quality of their products
makes it worth it.</li>
<li>My keyboard is a <b><spantitle="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>
V3</b> (with knob) and accompanying <b>Keychron Q0</b> for a numpad, because
the V3 is tenkeyless and I refuse to give up that numpad life. I got Keychron's in-house brown switches and
they're quite nice, and I look forward to tricking out the QMK firmware with all sorts of crazy macros and
bindings. My favorite part, though, is that it ships with both Windows and Mac alt/option and super/command
keys, so I can swap them around in an unintended manner to <i>finally</i> rid the keyboard for my Linux
computer of those wretched Windows logos!</li>
<li>I also have a <atarget="_blank"
href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61sf29vWJ-L._AC_SL1000_.jpg">very large enter key</a>, just
because.</li>
<li>I have two 1080p monitors, a <b>24" 165Hz Gigabyte model</b> and a <b>21.5" 75Hz HP one</b>. Both are
fine, but were I to replace them I would go for something larger at a slightly lower framerate, possibly
at 1440p. I would not buy the HP monitor again.</li>
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>
<li>My webcam is a <b>Logitech C925e</b>. The picture quality is good, and the microphone quality is what
you'd expect out of a webcam. I'm a huge fan of the built-in privacy shutter. I'm just that sort of
paranoid.</li>
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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
8GB stock), 256GB of SSD space, and a GTX 1660Ti Max-Q GPU. It's currently running Ubuntu server. Right now
I'm using it to run a Minecraft server for some friends.</p>
I'm using it to run a Minecraft server for some friends (in theory).</p>
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My phone is a <b>128GB LG K61 LM-Q630</b>.
My phone is a <b>Google Pixel 4a</b> running <ahref="https://grapheneos.org/">Graphene</a>.
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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
the headphone jack. That, above all else, remains non-negotiable for me. I intend to keep using it until it
becomes unusable or breaks, then replace it with something I can install a custom ROM on.</p>
<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
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
up until now just how painfully unresponsive my old phone was. Mobile websites are, like, usable now!</p>
<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
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.
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
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.
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
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>
<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.
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,
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.
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
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
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>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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