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Last updated: April 5, 2026
Desk
- Desk UPLIFT V2 Bamboo Standing Desk
- Chair Herman Miller Aeron
- Light BenQ ScreenBar Pro
- Keyboard Keychron V1 Max
- Trackball Logitech MX Ergo S
- Gaming Keyboard Wooting 60HE
- Gaming Mouse Razer DeathAdder V2 Pro
- Dock CalDigit TS3 Plus
- Microphone Elgato Wave:3
- Webcam Logitech C920
- Monitors
- Primary Samsung Odyssey CRG9 49" Dual QHD
- Secondary / Gaming Samsung Odyssey Neo G7 32" 4K
- Arms Ergotron HX + LX
Software
- Browser Helium
- Code Editor Visual Studio Code
- Terminal Ghostty
- Dotfiles jovalle/jsh
- Music Streaming
Hardware
- Mobile Workstation MacBook Pro 16" M1 Max 32 GB / 1 TB ("Archon")
- Lightweight Laptop MacBook Air 13" M1 16 GB / 256GB ("Zealot")
- WFH/Gaming Desktop Custom PC Build ("Colossus")
- Tablet Apple iPad Pro 11" M4 ("Templar")
Networking
- Gateway UniFi UCG Max
- Access Point UniFi Swiss Army Knife Ultra
- Managed Switch Linksys LGS328C
Homelab
- Server (Main) Custom 4U Server Build ("rs-01" AKA "nexus")
- Chassis Rosewill RSV-L4412U
- CPU Intel i5-14500
- Motherboard ASUS Pro WS W680-ACE IPMI
- Memory 64GB DDR5 ECC 🤑
- Storage
- HBA LSI 9400-16i
- ZFS Pools
- Data 1 x MIRROR | 2 Wide | 3.64 TiB SSD (3.77 TiB Usable)
- Media 1 x RAIDZ2 | 8 Wide | 14.55 TiB HDD (82.62 TiB Usable)
- GPU Intel A310 Eco 4GB
- NIC 10Gtek 10GbE PCI-E w/Intel 82599EN
- OS TrueNAS SCALE
- Application NAS and 80+ containers
- Mini Servers Minisforum MS-01 (x3) ("ms-0{1,2,3}")
- CPU Intel i5-12600H
- Memory 32GB DDR4 ECC
- OS Proxmox VE
- Storage
- OS Silicon Power 128GB NVMe
- Data (Ceph) Silicon Power 2TB NVMe x2
- Application 40+ services running on a Talos Kubernetes cluster
EDC / Commute
- Backpack Aer City Pack Pro 2 (Navy)
- Tablet Apple iPad Pro 11" M4 ("Templar")
- Headset Jabra Evolve2 85
- Earbuds Jabra Elite 7 Pro
- Watch Apple Watch Series 9 ("Oracle")
- Smartphones
- Primary Apple iPhone 14 Pro ("Tempest")
- Secondary / Backup Google Pixel 10 Pro XL ("Dragoon")
- My car only works with Android Auto 😕
- Doubles as the perfect backup and companion for travel 📸
- Retro Handheld Console TRIMUI Brick ("Nientiendo")
- Currently replaying Chrono Trigger
- Running NextUI with custom "Nientiendo" boot animation 😄
- Wallet Hot Topic Black Tri-Fold
- Rocking this since 2006 (without the chain 🤭)
- Sneakers Patrick Pamir
Audio
- Headphones
- Open-Back Sennheiser HD 560S
- Wireless HT / Gaming Audeze Maxwell
- Office Jabra Evolve2 85
- Earbuds / IEMs
- Wired / Critical Listening Sony IER-M9 + SpinFit W1
- Much love to e-Earphones in Tokyo 🇯🇵 for the holy trinity XP ("bueno, bonito, y barato")
- Commuting Jabra Elite 7 Pro
- Calls / Multitasking / Workouts AirPods Pro 3
- Wired / Critical Listening Sony IER-M9 + SpinFit W1
- DACs / Amps
- Desktop Topping DX5II
- Portable Moondrop Dawn Pro 2
- Retired