Uses

The current machine, bought when the previous one could not run a screen recorder and a fleet of agents against the big display at once.

It is the couch machine. Unplugging the desk setup was enough friction to keep me at the desk, so a light machine fixed that.

Four years as the main machine, then handed down.

Ten cores, 125 GB of memory, an RTX 3090, on around the clock. Every scheduled job runs here, because a laptop sleeps and a job that dies silently looks like a quiet day.

It is increasingly where I drive the agents from.

Three years of handwritten brain dumps, now scanned and searchable. The habit lapsed in 2024.

One journal written on it. Impressive, and unused since.

Moved next to the Linux box in August 2026.

It is the chair, and has been for years.

Twenty-five minutes standing was an achievement at first. It is normal now.

The microphone. A podcast-cleanup model now makes a phone recording sound nearly as good.

I never wrote the model down.

Work starts by setting it. With the screen recorder, it is the backbone of getting anything done.

Bought in 2020. A camera pointed at it turned thinking into presenting, so the recorded-whiteboard habit was retired in August 2026.

A Korea-era rabbit hole: a Leopold with Cherry MX Clears, a Realforce that taught me I do not like Topre for code, and a Drop CTRL built by hand for about $400 in parts. Nothing about keyboards in the record since 2020.

Bought on a whim. It taught me I could learn something I had decided I could not. Looking for a teacher as of August 2026.

Makes exertion count, including the stairs. The health organ in my system reads from it.

WHOOP replaced it for training. Apple Health still holds steps and resting heart rate.

A voice recorder worn on walks. It works as a commitment device: with it on, a day is forty to fifty thousand steps and hours of talking.

A physical block for the phone. Its weakness is that I can disable it anywhere.

The phone goes in and the lid stays shut until the timer says otherwise.

Replaced Alfred for a faster path to a model and easier extensions. My own extensions live in it now.

One long-lived agent tab per goal, not per persona.

The agent-native browser, and the app I have used most since it arrived. The browser is already basically you.

It is what Aside drives under the hood.

It crashed too often on my machine.

Its persistent chat was enough to make me leave VS Code in 2024. The editor use faded; the cloud agents came back into my week in August 2026.

This is where everything that needs doing gets recorded, including what agents surface.

Five years as the task app, replaced by a small database of my own, which was itself retired. The queue is Linear.

Vaults are split by how much damage an agent could do with each one.

Three years of its filenames sit in my journals.

Every working session is recorded, over 1,500 hours on a private channel. Knowing nothing is lost is most of why I can start.

A hundred-plus meetings transcribed. I keep the transcript and skip the summary.

Two accounts, read and cleared by a command rather than a client.

I paid for it and did not use it.

It held a daily build log through 2025, and nothing in 2026.

A folder of plain text files with a search index over them replaced it.

The bot I built to feed it got too ambitious, and the habit did not survive 2025.

Books come from physical bookstores now.

A launcher command generated playlists from it once.