My computers

I own more than the average amount of computers per person^{[citation needed]}.

Mainline

falcon

My main Linux desktop computer. The beefiest and most expensive computer I have.

I got most of its parts second-hand from two internet friends who crossed the country to meet me and help me build the computer, and it first booted on 2019-05-11.

starhopper

A Windows 7 system, dual-booted on falcon, that I occasionally use for gaming.

tank

My first, most used, and most loved ThinkPad.

forest

My Linux server, hosting my French blog

Morgue

The Morgue is where I, the Necromancer, revive some older Windows systems to play with them.

DEEPWATER

An Asus EeeBox EB1012P running Windows Server 2003, acting as the Active Directory domain controller for the Morgue.

Document Deepwater’s setup and services

LUBRIZOL

An Acer Aspire 7220 that used to be my main Linux server before replacing a dying ThinkPad as my Windows XP setup. It may soon be retired once again.

AZF

A Samsung N150-JP04FR netbook that will soon join the family, with a triple-boot:

AZF-XP: The Windows XP system running on LUBRIZOL, transferred here.
AZF-7: A Windows 7 Ultimate setup, here to allow exploring Windows 7’s features, some of Vista’s, and assist the XP system by providing more modern tools and 64-bit support.
azf-alpine: An Alpine Linux partition, here to act as a backup portable Linux system, and assist both of the Windows setups.

WARRIOR

A failed attempt at getting Windows 98SE on a ThinkPad, which might turn into a Windows 2000 setup instead.

Retired

BINTJE4: An MSI laptop that ran Windows 7, the first laptop I owned. Died due to mysterious GPU issues that two RMAs did not resolve.
msi: An unexpected revival of BINTJE4 as a Xubuntu system, after I transitioned to Linux, which miraculously fixed the GPU issues.
carthage: Replaced by mountain when I wanted to downsize. Sold to a friend.
mountain: Replaced by forest when I wanted to downsize even more. It later got a new life in the Morgue as LUBRIZOL.
bunker: A ThinkPad R50e that ran Windows XP Home SP3. The first ever computer I dedicated to retrocomputing. A precursor of the Morgue.

Other noteworthy devices

thermal: An SII RP-D10 thermal printer, so I can print the digital equivalent of a sticky note, plugged into forest.
enchilada: A OnePlus 6 phone running LineageOS.
curvy: A BlackBerry Curve 9320, my first ever phone, that I still use as an alarm clock.
nevsky: A Magellan eXplorist 110 hiking GPS that I used for geocaching before getting a GPS-enabled phone.
grenade: A Mikrotik mAP lite router that sometimes assists the Morgue.

Wishlist

A Windows CE device, and the knowledge to actually do something useful with it
A Windows Mobile device with an AZERTY keyboard
A Windows 2000 setup

Naming conventions

For a rather long time, my devices just had random names and were quite inconsistent, but this trend has been changing.

Smartphones are boring and get named after their model name or codename.
Devices that run Windows systems are named after industrial or technological disasters. If I run out, I might switch to major trainwrecks.
Non-Windows ThinkPads instead get names of very strong, sturdy, military-grade stuff.
Linux servers get named after Code Lyoko references, particularly sectors.

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