The Tools I Use

This page will be updated occasionally with whatever I’m currently using.

Productivity Tools

Desktop OS: Linux Mint Cinnamon

It was my first Linux distro when I made the switch in high school and it’s stuck with me ever since. Highly recommend it to anyone switching from Windows. It’s reliable for the most part and quite easy to set up and get going. I installed it on a (for lack of a better term) normie friend’s old laptop, and she used it perfectly fine for school with no oversight or assistance.

My desktop

Credit: I think the wallpaper is background art from some older SNK or Capcom fighter? I don't really remember tho

Laptop: Framework 13

I got this laptop for exactly the reasons everyone else got it. The price-to-performance is honestly a little shit, but it was my graduation present, and the prospect of being able to repair every aspect of my own laptop was too good to pass up as a soon-to-be broke college student. It has served me quite well.

Specs:

My laptop

Text Editors: vim / vscodium

Vim is rly nice. I actually don't use it for coding, it's essentially just a vimwiki machine for my note taking. It works very well for that purpose. VSCodium is my go-to for code editing when I'm not using a Jetbrains IDE (like when making this website!). It's a quite solid package for what it is. I use the telemetry-free fork cause fuck microsoft. I'm still quite content with it, although I have gone and enabled vim motions. They just feel neccesary to me now.

Fighting Games

Brawl / Melee

For Brawl (my main game) and Melee, I use an indigo OEM that’s older than me. It’s far from perfect, but I’m so used to it that it feels more like an extension of Livy than a controller (plus it’s got sentimental value :3).

Specs:

My Brawl/Melee GCC

Street Fighter 6

I use a Sehawei Haute42 S16. Small enough for my hands, enough buttons for SF6, very cheap. I reccomend.
Haute42 S16

Credit: thearcadestick.com

Ultimate

Yay I finally have my new ult controller! :D

If you’re wondering why I don’t just use my Brawl controller, it’s cause the plug in the trigger doesn’t register digital presses properly in Ultimate.

Specs:

My Ultimate GCC

Audio

In-Ear: AirPods Pro 3

Very embarrassingly I ended up leaving one of my Pro 2s at a mall >-< so I bit the bullet and just got the new ones. It took me a bit to get used to the new fit and sound, but once I did, I loved these things. At this point I get these primarily for the noise canceling and loud-sound reduction in transparency mode because they help me with situations that would normally be too overstimulating, and these are as good as i think i could hope for from an IEM in those regards.

Over-Ear: Philips SPH9600

Picked these up on Black Friday. They're my first pair of open-backs. Very comfortable, sound amazing, awesome for listening just around my dorm. Big fan.

Misc.

Backpack: Pelican MBP20

I got this backpack on a crazy sale before starting uni, like almost 50% off. I think it was on such crazy sale cause they were discontinuing it, which is a shame, because this backpack is a beast. Super durable, super water-resistant, and just big enough for my use case. The giant front pocket with the vertical zipper confused me at first, but I’ve come to love it.

Credit: pelican.com

Credit: pelican.com

Watch: Fitbit Inspire 3

I know, I know, I can't beleive it either. Using any google product willingly, let alone one that's giving them this much personal data, goes against basically everything I'm about.

I got pretty into running this summer, and desperately wanted a cheap runnning watch. I honestly haven't been on a run since school started back up, but I still like it for sleep and step tracking. IDK how long I'll keep it as a daily driver though.

Credit: bestbuy.com