all of my computing devices

macbook pro 15-inch 2018: personal laptop, main driver. i fucking hate this keyboard, and i dislike the touchbar, and i miss having standard usb ports and an hdmi port. i can’t believe i’ve been angry about this computer for five years now..

pinebook pro 14-inch, 2020: my backup ARM/Linux laptop that i don’t use all that much. it’s fun for writing, some coding, and messing around with linux and i3.

freewrite traveler: a small e-ink digital typewriter gifted to me by vilm. kind of a novelty. sometimes i will draft a blog post or email on it.

nintendo switch: i’m not 100% they count as “computing devices” but i’m going to include handheld consoles here as well. i got the switch for my birthday in 2022 and have been jamming on some legend of zelda: breath of the wild, and some animal crossing.

playdate: the tiny 1-bit, bright yellow, handcrank, gaming device. the ‘a’ button got kind of stuck within a week of having it. currently waiting for them to ship a replacement. but it’s cute as hell and i love it. it’s 99% awesome. i wish it had some networking, and i wish you could load games on it without going through https://play.date. but i love the open development platform, and i love all the nifty weird little games that folks are making for it.

iphone xs: it’s a phone. i don’t love phones. in fact, i kind of hate phones. they do not spark joy, and just seem like a necessity. i’ve had this one for a long time, replaced a broken screen instead of replacing the phone. and i might do that again. (there’s a fine crack on the screen along the bottom.) the next phone i buy will likely not be an iphone. i’m just kind of over apple making crappy hardware these days. (see: “macbook pro” above. also see: i teach at a fitness studio, and i need a goddamn headphone jack please!) i’m definitely not interested in buying new. probably ever. and i am interested in hanging onto this one as long as i can mostly out of spite and to protest e-waste and consumerism.

ipad: i don’t even know what year or model. it’s a smaller one, and an older one. a hand-me-down after p upgraded. i use it to read pdfs from my digital ttrpg collection, and that’s pretty much it.

kindle: the basic touch model with a lit screen. an upgrate after i dropped my beloved 4way-No-Touch in water and bricked it. it’s pretty great! but my dream reader would be the 4-way-button with a light, no touchscreen. it’s too easy to accidentally activate the touchscreen with my large clumsy man hands.

mnt pocket reform: a tiny computer. it has been slow to ship! i purchased it probably over a year ago, and i still don’t have it yet. but i am looking forward to slinging it into a bag or a large pocket and doing some writing/coding on the go. we’ll see. the traveler hasn’t really gotten me to write on the go that much. but on the other hand, the traveler isn’t that super fantastic.