I’m ridiculously excited. After being held up in customs for a few days, my FW16 DIY Edition (no GPU) has finally arrived. Unfortunately, I’ve got the rest of the workday to finish before I can get started.
For “vitamins”, I grabbed a 1TB SK Hynix P31 Gold m.2 2280 (still deciding what 2230 to get) and 32GB (2x16GB) of G.Skill Ripjaws DDR5 CL40@5600. I haven’t had anything so modern in decades and am incredibly excited to see what fun I can get up to with so much RAM.
First order of business, after doing hardware tests to ensure that nothing needs an RMA, and updating any firmware, is to install my NixOS base system and get it setup as a QEMU/KVM hypervisor so that the real fun of trying out the list of recommended and esoteric distros that the Linux community suggested can start. Once I get bored of that, it’ll be time to start designing the parts to transform the machine into a hardware hacking/tinkering cyberdeck.
What are you folks doing or planning to do with yours?
Got my email, batch 15! I plan on using it as a laptop and repairing/upgrading parts as needed! I know that sounds stupid, but seriously I am just excited to actually feel respected by a goddamn company!
Also gonna try and figure out this whole “VMs” thing, my current laptop with 8gb ddr3 doesn’t seem to really be able to do it, but I’d like to be able to use them for distrotrying (not really “hopping,” is it? Lol) and maybe have a windows one, with the watermark because I’m not paying, for the rare 15-60min per year I need windows.