Things I Use

By Artyom Bologov

I am aiming to produce less e-waste, so I don't use much hardware. And I stick with whatever I have until it's unusable and I need to replace it. Software-wise, I'm constantly looking for more resilient and minimal platforms. Thus my interest in C, Lambda Calculus, ed(1), Lisp, and HTML.

Laptop: Lenovo Thinkpad L13 Yoga

Photo of a laptop lid with lots of stickers with text in Russian and English. A ginger cat is also visible in the photo. — The Stickers and The Cat

A gift from Atlas Engineer folks, so thanks to them!

OS: Arch Linux. (Used to be Guix System, but I was irritated with outdated package situation there.)
Shell/DE/WM: Heavily-configured StumpWM.
Browser: LibreWolf; Ungoogled Chromium for Chromium-reliant sites; Surf (segfaults right now, but I am working on it!)
Programming Languages/Environments: Common Lisp (SBCL, ECL) with Graven Ima... ahem, Trivial libs! then Clojure/Scheme, C+POSIX, HTML/CSS 3-5+, ed(1).
Writing/Website/PDF/Gemini Generator: C Preprocessor.
Games: Dead Cells, TIS-100 (and other Zachtronics titles), Trine (except part 3, we don't talk about it here).
Everything else: Heavily-configured Emacs. I'm trying to get off this drug, but the thing is strong.

Smartphone: OnePlus 5T

I have an ISP-locked iPhone and KaiOS Nokia 2720 laying around. But neither was powerful enough for daily-driving.

I had a OnePlus 1 before, but it fell from quite a height and didn't sustain the damage.
So I got a (used, of course) OnePlus 5T. It has fallen from moderate heights and is damaged too.
I'm currently waiting for OnePlus 9 to arrive, and will reproduce my current setup there. And, hopefully, I will neither drop nor damage it anytime soon.

The setup is:

OS: LineageOS, No Gapps, Rooted.
Browser: Firefox Beta/Nightly; Brave for Chromium-reliant sites.
Socials: Telegram FOSS or P-Telegram; Mastodon via Fedilab; LinkedIn (hire me!).
Games: Shattered Pixel Dungeon, GTA Chinatown Wars.

Cyberdeck/Blindeck

Photo of a mechanical keyboard with a circuitry and wires sticking out of the back, standing on a wooden table. The keyboard is beige with some light-red keys (one of them reads 'Vortex'.) the circuit in the back has several USB ports, Ethernet port, GPIO pins, HDMI and Type C ports. There are several cables plugged into USB ports. The place the circuit is plugged in looks janky and cut out by hand. — It looks slightly better now, but here is an older photo

I have this project: no-screen cyberdeck with audio interface only. Preferably with Lisp OS. And it's not even a project idea—I built it!

Hardware: Raspberry PI 400.
Case/keyboard: Vortex PC66 ANSI, 68 Cherry MX Clear keys.
OS: Debian/Raspbian/Raspberry PI OS.
Shell: Embeddable Common Lisp. Yes, I'm booting right into ECL REPL and using it as a way to interact with the system. And it is fully speech-enabled too!

And that's roughly it for the tech I use. Should I tell you about my Tarot deck? No, not today.