I am aiming to produce less e-waste, so I don't use much hardware. And I stick with whatever I have until it's unusable and I need to replace it. Software-wise, I'm constantly looking for more resilient and minimal platforms. Thus my interest in C, Lambda Calculus, ed(1), Lisp, and HTML.

Laptop: Lenovo Thinkpad L13 Yoga

A gift from Atlas Engineer folks, so thanks to them!

OS

Arch Linux. (Used to be Guix System, but I was irritated with outdated package situation there.)

Shell/DE/WM

Heavily-configured StumpWM.

Browser

LibreWolf; Ungoogled Chromium for Chromium-reliant sites; Surf (segfaults right now, but I am working on it!)

Programming Languages/Environments

Common Lisp (SBCL, ECL) with Graven Ima... ahem, Trivial libs! then Clojure/Scheme, C+POSIX, HTML/CSS 3-5+, A(sed-ed, ed(1)).

Writing/Website/PDF/Gemini Generator

A bunch of ed(1) scripts and a Makefile.

Games

Dead Cells, TIS-100 (and other Zachtronics titles), Hollow Knight (+ Silksong), Kandria and numerous games from Palestinian Relief Bundle, Queer Games Bundle 2025, and Play for Peace bundle.

Text editing

Heavily-customized ed. (No, just kidding, it’s Emacs!)

Everything else

Heavily-configured Emacs. I'm trying to get off this drug, but the thing is strong.

Macbook Air (previously The Work Machine)

I asked for a new laptop at one of my contract jobs. They got me a recent-ish Macbook Air. When I left, I decided to buy it out to be safe from the Rammageddon. Specs:

Processor

M4

RAM

24G

OS

OSX 15 (because fuck Liquid Glass)

Keyboard

ISO Kazakh Russian (I don’t even know such a layout existed and whether it actually is Kazakh!)

Software used

I mainly use this machine for games that don’t run on Linux; to move audio to my iPods; and to do some Mac-specific projects (none as of yet.) So the software is minimal: Common Lisp (ECL, SBCL) and ed(1)

Smartphone: iPhone SE2

Yeah, I know, not a power user smartphone. But, to me, it's not a smartphone, it's a dumbphone. So hear me out.

I had a OnePlus 1 before, but it fell from quite a height and didn't sustain the damage.
• So I got a (used, of course) OnePlus 5T and set up LineageOS there. It has fallen from moderate heights and is damaged too, though.
• I got OnePlus 9 recently and was unable to install LineageOS on it—it's unsupported. And the battery sucked. And it didn't really work with my newly acquired desire for minimalism and smartphone-less life. And using Android without root AND without Google Services is simply unsafe due to sideloading.
• I needed something minimal, safe, and reliable.

So I got myself a (smallest and feature-less-est) iPhone and dumbed it down:

OS

iOS 18, because it has Lockdown Mode already but has no Liquid Glass yet.

Settings

Disabled Siri and ads, Lockdown Mode, Orbot on by default, JavaScript off.

Accessibility

Monochrome filter, contrast utils, zoom, text scaling, and almost all Accessibility options really. I'll write on it sometime later.

Socials

Mastodon (Metatext -> official app -> Ice Cubes,) Telegram (I miss P-Telegram on iOS...) and email, of course.

With this setup, my experience is extremely minimalist. No colors, slow internet, minimal notifications, maximal vision aids. Perfect to get away from smartphones to Hipster PDA and other dedicated things.

Cyberdeck/Blindeck

I have this project: no-screen cyberdeck with audio interface only. Preferably with Lisp OS. And it's not even a project idea—I built it!

Hardware

Raspberry PI 400.

Case/keyboard

Vortex PC66 ANSI, 68 Cherry MX Clear keys.

OS

Debian/Raspbian/Raspberry PI OS.

Shell

Embeddable Common Lisp. Yes, I'm booting right into ECL REPL and using it as a way to interact with the system. And it is fully speech-enabled too!

And that's roughly it for the tech I use. Should I tell you about my Tarot deck? No, not today.