My personal website, in gleam+lustre!
What I use: 2026 edition
Signed-off-by: MLC Bloeiman <mar@strawmelonjuice.com>
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category: "Personal",
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title: "What I use: 2026 edition",
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summary: "And what changed recently, as I've never done these before.",
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published: Date(2026, April, 27)
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title: "What I use: 2026 edition",
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summary: "And what changed recently, as I've never done these before.",
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I felt like it was time for me to do this too sometime!
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## Software
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### OS
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I've before used either Arch or Fedora, but in 2026 I got Nixified! I'm now running Nix unstable on all
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devices I use regularly. If you've ever looked at my older dotfiles, you'll know it's always been a hassle for me
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to keep packages and libraries in sync across devices. That has been solved now!
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### Editor
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You'll mostly see me using Neovim, sometimes for specific codebases I'll pivot out to a Jetbrains editor and for school projects I sometimes use VSCodium, as professors can't navigate in my Neovim for some reason.
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### Window manager
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I like switching this based on my mood, but my most used ones are currently Gnome, COSMIC and Niri.
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I main Niri, which also has the best polished config.
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## Hardware
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### Servers
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I've stopped my multiple Hetzner servers I used to have at Hetzner and solidified things onto my Raspberry pi 5.
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#### `marpi5-1`
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16GB of ram and the great specs a Raspberry Pi 5B has proved more than enough for my needs. In fact, the fact
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that it's only for me, instead of shared like the Hetzner VPS feels like such a breeze! Yeah, for now definitely
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happy with this.
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### Workstations
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#### laptop: `Ponyta`
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| Model | CPU | GPU | RAM | Space | Build year |
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| ---------------- | ----------------- | ---------------------------------------- | ----- | ---------------- | -----------|
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| ASUS Vivobook 16 | Intel i5 13th gen | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 - 2GB (discrete) | 16GB | 2TB, 1.5TiB free | 2023 |
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Ponyta is my day-to-day device lately. It's an ASUS Vivobook 16 and though it's casing on the bottom side
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(plastic) is tearing down a bit over time, it's serving me well and with a bit of tape and felt stickering it's been sturdy enough to take to school as well.
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This laptop was bought as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 + 16GB RAM + 250GB SSD, but I shortly after bought the original 2TB variant's SSD (I had to call people for this 😅). So Asus recognises this laptop as original hardware, which it is... but slightly tweaked :3
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#### convertible: `Fennekin`
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| Model | CPU | GPU | RAM | Space | Build year |
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| HP Pavilion x14 | Intel i5 11th gen | Intel Iris (integrated) | 8GB | 130GB, 40GiB free | 2019 |
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My Pavilion was the first laptop I ever bought with more than 8GB RAM and will forever be in my heart. Back when I bought it, it set a new bar, it deprecated most of my x86-32bit devices and gave me new levels of smoothness. It nowadays still manages to keep up!
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I mainly use this laptop for conventions, as it's battery life outlasts most devices and it's casing is pretty shock resistant, as well as that with my HP Pen I can take notes very easily with it.
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This laptop usually lives somewhere in my bed, as I also write my late night blog posts on it or video call people awake from it 😄
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#### desktop: `Samurott`
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| Custom (MSI board) | AMD Ryzen 9 5950X | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 - 8 GB (discrete) | 64GB | 4 TB / ?? free | 2025 |
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This one is... clearly specced out quite a bit, this is the result of inheritance, a bit of savings and an extra income at the time...
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I dual boot this one with Windows to play games, or do heavy development tasks on NixOS. I try to use it a little less because I worry about it's power consumption now that I'm no longer that well-established 😭
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But it's there, and it's nice. Really sturdy and suitable for most anything!