Keyboard: Womier RD75 keyboard - I've changed keyboards a lot over the years. I don't like this one as much as I should. Probably gonna change eventually.
Mouse: Glorious Model O3 Wireless mouse - Personally I love the hot-swappable batteries.
Gaming headset: Audeze Maxwell headphones - I'm not crazy about these either. They give me neck pain after a couple hours. Sound quality is great, though I do miss my Steelseries Arctis Pro Wireless.
Work headset: Shokz OpenFit Pro - Comfortable, open-ear, great sound quality. Bad Bluetooth latency.
Microphone: Blue Yeti mic - Have had this for over a decade, no issues, fantastic quality.
Controller: Steam Controller - Just got this :) love the trackpads. Great with my Steam Deck.
Other devices/PCs
Raspberry Pi 5 with Pironman 5 case
The case comes with a NVMe SSD hat, which I put a 256GB SSD in when the ram prices weren't crazy. It acts as my personal cloud server. I used to run a vanilla Minecraft server with okay performance on it, but I since shut it down.
Now it hosts my personal landing page website as well as being my synced cloud storage for both emulation game saves and my personal Obsidian vault. This thing is awesome and I'm glad I found a great use case for it.
Steam Deck, 512TB OLED
I love this thing to death. It was pretty much an instant buy when I heard it was running off of an Arch-based OS. It's an absolute dream.
This allowed me to play games I never would've played before, like Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey.
It also emulates Gamecube and Wii U like a dream.
Lenovo Legion 5 laptop
This is my personal laptop, I don't have anything crazy. I got this for use at ASU, I didn't want to bring my whole gaming setup so I brought this laptop.
It has a GTX 1660 Ti mobile… which in 2020 was okay but is meh now. The 5.0Ghz (when boosted), 6-core Intel i7-10750H is great for gaming though. I don't game at all on this thing anymore though.
Have it dual booted the same way my Gaming PC is… dual boot Windows 11 & EndeavorOS Hyprland.
Google Pixel 10 Pro XL
Switched to this after over 8 years with the iPhone 8 Plus. I like it.
It does allow me to do Android-specific stuff like Syncthing with Obsidian, and Gemini seems to be more useful than Siri.
Not completely convinced of Android just yet.
Software
General productivity
Firefox - I've used all of the main browsers, Edge, Chromium, Opera GX, Brave, and Arc. Firefox has been my favorite, not for any particular reasons, just feels nice to use and I have used it all my life. Chromium is a close 2nd.
1Password - Just started using this, and it is honestly worth it for $5 a month. Saves so much time logging in and gives me peace of mind knowing my passwords are secure as possible, and all different from one another. I hate subscriptions but I don't mind paying for this one.
Obsidian - I have a personal vault synced between my PCs, with my Raspberry Pi 5 acting as the cloud server. Its beautiful, local, quick and useful. I have a whole repo about my Obsidian setup you can find here.
Cursor/VSCode setup
Theme: Dark Modern - Yeah I know. It's a default theme. I like it though. No community theme has ever impressed me. Dark Modern "just works".
Font: CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font. - This allows me to see all the icons in my custom WSL2 Terminal. It's also the mono font for my personal design system
Product Icon Theme: Fluent Icons - These go nicely with Bearded Icons.
Extensions:
Error Lens - This is pretty nice, coworker had it and I liked the instant feedback from it.
VSCode Pets - Also saw this on one of my coworker's IDE. It's cute.
vscode-pdf - I don't use this often, but when I don't have it I notice it. It's a feature I wish vanilla VSCode had.
Markdown Editor - Nice to preview what something looks like in Markdown. I don't use the WYSIWYG editor all that much.
Development
Neovim - I use this all the time for editing local files on my EndeavorOS systems. Makes vim feel actually usable lol. I pair it with NvChad, which makes it look even better! Makes editing local files something I look forward to.
WSL2 - I use this at work and on my Windows machines when I code there. Nice to have a zsh terminal while in Windows.
Kitty - This is the terminal I use on my EndeavorOS systems.
oh-my-zsh - I use this for completions, syntax highlighting, auto-suggestions and more.
Starship.rs - I use this for terminal styling. I have a personal Starship config file that I use, you can find it here.
Everyday stuff
Owala FreeSip 40oz - Yes I am probably outing myself with this one. But a 40oz bottle of cold, sealed water is amazing and I use it everyday
Optimum Nutrition 2.5g Creatine pills - I take 2 of these a day, it's easier then scooping powder and putting it in a drink.
Sports Research Triple-Strength Omega-3 pills - I don't eat a lot of fish so I assume my Omega 3 levels are lacking.
Magnesium glynicate - Honestly love this stuff, I'm a rough sleeper so this helps me have really deep sleep. I always dream like crazy on this stuff.
Below Zero cooling comforter - Got this for $40 at Costco, honestly a game changer for sleeping. Especially during hot AZ summer nights.
Robinhood Gold Card - 3% cash back across the board is crazy. Also the card is metal and golden so it is cool. All cash back goes into my Roth IRA, which gets 3% match. Nice to have another passive way to increase Roth contributions.
Fitbit Charge 6 - Got this from my dad. Don't have a strong opinion about this, it just works.