I have put a moderate amount of work into putting together an enjoyable, functional electronic environment that reflects my unique interests and tastes. So, I am curious. Anyone else out there have their comfy, cozy personal electronic home?

My personal setup is a good, but old laptop running Linux tweaked to my liking, with a beefier gaming desktop also running Linux. I have the two configured so I can use the laptop and swap to a secondary workspace that is the gaming pc whenever I want to do something that could use a bit more power or if I just want to off load it to the other machine and have it do something in the background. Added to that nice compatibility, I also have my phone set up for the same functionality, so I can access the main computer there as well. Then I just recently added a Steam Deck to the mix that is currently my main gaming device. Anything it can run, I do there. If not, you guessed it, I moonlight into the gaming pc to run the latest AAA games on higher settings. Add to that a set of good wireless earbuds with smart assistant functionality and a home with smart lights and features and I kinda walk around a little electronic paradise.

So, what are y’all running with? What little personalized things have you done to make your world yours? Or are the computers in your life just tools and you are good with how they come?

  • BaŝtoEnglish
    1•1 month ago

    I had one once, but it turned into utter chaos. My local cloud is down for half a year or longer now. But the basic idea was to have linux desktop, linux laptop and lineageos phone synchronize with a nextcloud running on a raspi. With a upnp server running on the raspi to make my music available to all devices in my network and dyndns+vpn for access from outside. But I still had no solution for backing up games in a central place. I had attempts to organize and track grocery shopping an such with grozy but it’s down as well and already started decaying when the ALARM it’s running on dropped support for 32b raspi. I actually hope to get back to that at some point. It makes sopping easier if my phone can tell me which products need to be restocked, but tracking bought and consumed products is tedious. But it reduces costs since you only buy wha you need and notice when things are about to expire and consume them instead of having to throw them away at some point. My TV has a fireTV stick 4k running, which I mostly use for primevideo/netflix, but it’s the main reason why I set up the UPNP server … it can play my music that way without lag. I actually bought it for Steam Link, since 4k has stronger hardware, but initially had issues with it. By now moonlight+sunshine work fine there. But I have no actual need for it do to lack of friends/visitors.