About Me

If you've somehow come across this, then g'day.

I decided to start this blog out of wanting to share information I've learnt in a detail that I hope others can pick up and find it useful, even the more obscure things not found often.

About Me

I've tinkered with pretty much anything I was able to get my hands onto since I was a kid, although most of those things would end up broken or not working afterwards. The first proper device I got was a 2012 Nexus 7, and kid me absolutely loved it. I unlocked the bootloader, rooted it, put custom kernels and custom ROMs on it. Of course things broke on it inevitably, but it's what I enjoyed doing: tinkering with it, breaking it, repeat. That spirit is still with me to this day, but less of the breaking stuff.

I discovered Linux around 2015-2016, and first installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Although I didn't use it properly until 2018 when I started dual booting it, I explored other distributions until I settled on Manjaro Linux. Sadly Manjaro wasn't stable enough and kept breaking, and so I eventually bit the bullet and moved to Arch Linux, which I currently still use. I've been full-time with Arch Linux since 2020, which taught me a lot about how it works, and to maintain my own system along with any services I run.

About my PCs and my server

Main PC Specifications

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (Primary)
NVIDIA GTX 1070 (Used for video encoding and KVM)
48GB Memory
27" 1440p@144Hz Monitor (Primary)
21.5" 1080p@60Hz Monitor (Secondary)
2TB Samsung EVO 980 Pro
1TB Samsung EVO 870
2TB Samsung QVO 870
Arch Linux

Server Specifications

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
Intel Arc A750
48GB Memory
2x8TB WD Red Plus Drives
2x4TB WD Red Plus Drives
Arch Linux

Tablet Specifications

Microsoft Surface Pro 5
Intel Core i5 7300U
8GB Memory
256GB SSD
Arch Linux

Laptop Specifications

Intel Core i5 13500H
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile
15" 1440p@165Hz Display
32GB Memory
2TB SSD
Arch Linux