Sup, my name’s Max. I’m an avid lover of the outdoors and in my free time I go kayaking, sailing, and bouldering with my friends. I’m also a certified kayaking and sailing instructor. I post a handful of updates and personal projects here, so welcome to my corner of the internet!
What I’m Doing Now
- Reading “The Life of Moses” by St. Gregory of Nyssa
What I Use
Here is a fairly up to date list of the things I use on a daily basis. I’m only putting things here that I have found to be reliable, but obviously this list is subject to change.
- Computing
- For most of my graduate work I used old ThinkPads running OpenBSD — I even used a Macbook for a bit. I have since sold them and have been using a (to-be-librebooted) ThinkPad T480s with Artix Linux and LARBS.
- Phone
- I own a GrapheneOS Pixel 7a, but I generally leave it at home or in my car. I have most notifications disabled which helps make it as boring to use as possible. You’d be surprised how little you need a phone (and music, podcasts, videos, &c. for that matter) when you use a pared down device.
- Tablet
- I have a Pixel Tablet for the sole purpose of pulling up pdfs in church. Like the Pixel phone it also accepts GrapheneOS, which is a major plus. As far as I know, this is really the only reliable libre option for doing something like this.