🔍About Me

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mcgillij

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atiya.jpg

Like other blogs, I guess I’ll put up an about page. I’m a old school hacker living in Halifax. I’ve been using Linux primarily for work and at home for close to 25 years now.

Here’s a few things that I’m interested in:

• Hikes with my dog pictured above (Atiya)

• Playing guitar and bass, collecting old Sunn amplifiers

• Going to heavy metal concerts

• Playing games like DND or video games (especially dwarf fortress)

• Writing small video game demo’s (mainly dwarf fortress clones)

• Security and Privacy

Uses:

The hardware and software I use everyday.

Workstation

My primary workstation, equipped with 2 GPU’s mainly used for VFIO / GPU pass-through with Virtual Machines. Most used application: Vim

[image: neofetch of my workstation]

Software

+--------------------+----------------------------+
| Type               | Name                       |
|====================|============================|
| OS                 | Arch Linux                 |
+--------------------+----------------------------+
| Browser            | Firefox                    |
+--------------------+----------------------------+
| Email              | Thunderbird                |
+--------------------+----------------------------+
| Editor             | vim                        |
+--------------------+----------------------------+
| WM                 | i3 / rofi / py3status      |
+--------------------+----------------------------+
| Term               | alacritty                  |
+--------------------+----------------------------+
| Music              | strawberry                 |
+--------------------+----------------------------+
| Mastodon           | whalebird                  |
+--------------------+----------------------------+
| Video              | VLC                        |
+--------------------+----------------------------+
| Virtual Machines   | virt-manager               |
+--------------------+----------------------------+
| Display            | Looking Glass              |
+--------------------+----------------------------+
| Games              | Steam                      |
+--------------------+----------------------------+
| Images             | Gimp                       |
+--------------------+----------------------------+

Hardware

+-------------+-----------------------+
| Type        | Part                  |
|=============|=======================|
| Motherboard | Aorus Master x570     |
+-------------+-----------------------+
| CPU         | AMD 5900x             |
+-------------+-----------------------+
| Cooler      | Noctua NH-U14S        |
+-------------+-----------------------+
| GPU         | 6800xt                |
+-------------+-----------------------+
| GPU2        | Vega64                |
+-------------+-----------------------+
| Memory      | 64gb GSkill           |
+-------------+-----------------------+
| Power       | 850w Antec HCG850     |
+-------------+-----------------------+
| Storage M.2 | 2x XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB |
+-------------+-----------------------+
| Case        | Antec A400            |
+-------------+-----------------------+

Server

My old primary workstation, but I scavenged the Vega64 and replaced it with a 50$ nvidia card so it would boot. Mainly used to run VM and a few odds and ends and container box.

[image: neofetch of the server]

Hardware

+----------------+----------------------+
| Type           | Part                 |
|================|======================|
| Motherboard    | Asus X370 Pro        |
+----------------+----------------------+
| CPU            | AMD 1800x            |
+----------------+----------------------+
| Cooler         | Noctua NH-D15        |
+----------------+----------------------+
| GPU            | Nvidia G710          |
+----------------+----------------------+
| Memory         | 32g GSkill           |
+----------------+----------------------+
| Power          | 650w                 |
+----------------+----------------------+
| Storage Disks  | WD 4Tb, 2Tb          |
+----------------+----------------------+
| Storage SSD    | Intel 140g, 500g     |
+----------------+----------------------+
| Storage M.2    | 500g Samsung Evo 970 |
+----------------+----------------------+
| Case           | Antec A400           |
+----------------+----------------------+

Software

+--------------------+------------------------+
| Type               | Name                   |
|====================|========================|
| OS                 | Debian bullseye        |
+--------------------+------------------------+
| Containers         | docker                 |
+--------------------+------------------------+
| Media Video        | plex                   |
+--------------------+------------------------+
| Media Music        | airsonic               |
+--------------------+------------------------+
| Virtual Machines   | VirtualBox             |
+--------------------+------------------------+
| RPG stuff          | Foundtry VTT           |
+--------------------+------------------------+
| Torrent            | Deluged                |
+--------------------+------------------------+
| Snatcher           | Medusa                 |
+--------------------+------------------------+
| Cloud              | NextCloud              |
+--------------------+------------------------+
| Dashboard          | Cockpit                |
+--------------------+------------------------+
| DNS                | pihole                 |
+--------------------+------------------------+
| Casting            | Owncast                |
+--------------------+------------------------+