I am currently completing my bachelor’s degree in computer science. Once this is finished, I will begin a master’s program. I assume this information is not really helpful to you, sorry.

Well, let’s put it this way: I sleep in the same room :)

Yes

It’s nice not to have to fit everything into 1U or 2U enclosures, and yes, also a bit of future-proofing.

Top (my desktop)

• AMD Ryzen 5 8500G (no dGPU, because I do 90% of my work in the terminal)
• 1 TB NVME
• 32 GB DDR5
• NixOS

Bottom (server)

• AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
• 8 GB RAM DDR4
• in total 4 TB NVME
• NixOS

(nvme and noctua only)

Since I only watch YouTube on desktop I use https://yewtu.be/ to search for content and redirector to redirect the requested video to https://www.youtube.com/embed/<video-id> or https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/<video-id>. And I use uBlock and Improve Youtube, of course.

Edit: I also use FreshRSS to manage subscriptions.

I am trying to reduce my dependency on phones/android since years and try to use Linux (NixOS) for everything and I would say I’ve been quite successfully. The only application that is holding me back from abandoning phones entirely at this point is Signal, because it requires a primary device and only the official mobile apps are currently suited for this task. Flare looks promising, and the PR has already been merged, but it is not enabled by default due to other issues. For online banking, my bank supports SmartTAN that requires a scanner, but this allows me to do everything via a browser.

I just bought the openwrt one a couple of minutes ago after using networkd+hostapd+nixos as my router for more than 2 years.