- 1 Pixel 6a
- 1 personal desktop, 1 work desktop
- 1 personal laptop that I never use (9 years old)
- 1 HTPC in my living room
- 1 RPi5 (running home assistant)
- 2 Boox ereaders of different sizes
- 1 Lenovo Tablet that I never use (6 years old)
- 1 Steamdeck
- 1 Google TV stick (rarely used)
All except the work desktop run Linux or Android.
I use OpenSuSe on my desktop and laptop, and Nobara on my HTPC. Rasberry Pi OS on the RPi5.
My desktop is my own build, with a ryzen 7 and 3070 gpu, 64gb ram.
Aside from my phone, I use my HTPC the most, Desktop second (including often to stream games to the HTPC), and the larger boox ereader. Don’t use the laptop unless traveling and even then don’t always bother to take it; to the point I’ve decided not to replace it despite its age until it dies. I do take the tablet when travelling but most of the time its unused.
The HTPC I use to game, stream online and home libraries, and browse the internet. Its largely replaced my steamdeck, allowed me to game on my desktop PC from my sofa and largely made my Google TV device redundant.
I’m not against AI itself—it’s the hype and misinformation that frustrate me. LLMs aren’t true AI - or not AGI as the meaning of AI has drifted - but they’ve been branded that way to fuel tech and stock market bubbles. While LLMs can be useful, they’re still early-stage software, causing harm through misinformation and widespread copyright issues. They’re being misapplied to tasks like search, leading to poor results and damaging the reputation of AI.
Real AI lies in advanced neural networks, which are still a long way off. I wish tech companies would stop misleading the public, but the bubble will burst eventually—though not before doing considerable harm.