Hi Everyone,

Today I want to walk you through my personal desk setup — not the type you’d see on Instagram or Pinterest, but the kind built from repurposed devices, old gadgets, DIY wooden frames, and pure hacker energy.
This is the environment I live in every day, and honestly, it’s perfectly me.

I will be showcasing my PC setup.

🖥️ Main Desk Setup

On the left side of my desk sits my custom-built desktop PC paired with a single monitor.

On the right side, I have a Raspberry Pi 5 connected to a 7-inch touchscreen mounted inside a roughly cut wooden frame — nothing polished, wires exposed, and the Pi hanging behind it with no case.

The displays and peripherals for info hub sit on a DIY wooden standing station which would make it look like a monitor fitting 7inch display in it. It’s super messy with tape holding them together and dangling wires. but its still functional and looks cool in a way.

My desktop PC is powered by:

• AMD Ryzen 7600
• 16GB RAM
• Radeon integrated GPU
• 1TB SSD

This machine handles my personal projects, development work, blogging, indie content creation, and classic & retro gaming.

🧪 Virtual Machines for Separation

My desktop runs multiple VirtualBox server VMs:

• Pentesting VM
• Development VM
• Proprietary-Services VM (LinkedIn, Naukri, Gmail, YouTube, etc.)

Each VM has its own purpose and keeps my workflow clean and separated.

🧩 Raspberry Pi 5 – My Info Hub

On the right next to my Desktop Monitor, my Pi 5 works as my personal information hub, controlled with a Bluetooth keyboard.

I use it for:

• RSS feeds
• YouTube channels
• Podcasts
• General internet browsing

Audio is routed to an old Android phone using SoundWire Server.

💻 Lenovo E40-80 — My Movie & Anime Library

On another standing station pod (right side of the desk), I keep my decade-old Lenovo E40-80 running Debian.
It stores all my movies, personal archives, and anime collection.

This is my offline entertainment machine — silent, separate, and reliable.

🧳 Portable Raspberry Pi 4 — My Hackbox

This is my portable Raspberry Pi 4 dev/pentest/server-maintenance machine.

It runs on a battery pack and creates its own hotspot.
I SSH into it from Termux on Android, then connect the Pi to available networks for:

• Basic scripting
• Pentesting
• Server maintenance
• Remote Linux work

It’s my pocket-sized work environment.

❌ No Social Media (Except One)

I only use LinkedIn, nothing else.

🧪 Multi-OS Desktop Setup

My desktop PC is dual-booted:

• A main Linux distro for daily use
• A Windows-7-like Linux distro for childhood games
• A Windows installation for retro games Wine can’t handle

🎮 Entertainment Routine

• Mostly retro & classic gaming
• Archived Movies/anime/series on weekends if time permits

🎙️ Podcast Setup

My podcast recording process is super minimal:

• A collar mic clipped to a pencil
• Plugged into an Android phone

No editing, no music, no transitions.
Just pure monologues about tech, conspiracies, society, and the world.

🔌 Chaos, Wires & Cozy Frugality

Yes, I have dangling wires everywhere.

I’m not a minimalist — I even keep DVDs as my archival medium.
Being “less minimal” means tinkering, breaking, redesigning, and enjoying tech deeply.

Inside my desk drawer:

• Archival media
• Books
• Personal items

💥 Past Experiments (Cyberdeck → Pi5 + Pi4)

I once attempted a full cyberdeck build — a portable Pi-powered workstation.
But it failed because the Pi overheated inside the enclosure, throttled constantly, and eventually corrupted the USB/SD card multiple times.

Instead of letting the project die completely, I salvaged everything:

• The Pi 5, display components, and wiring became my desk-mounted info hub.
• The Pi 4, battery wiring, and portable parts were rebuilt into my portable pentesting/dev/server-maintenance machine.

So the cyberdeck may have failed,
but its parts live on across my setup — stronger and more useful than before.

🧘 Final Thoughts

This setup isn’t aesthetic or trendy.
It won’t get likes or comments.
But it’s comfortable, functional, cozy, and completely me.

Extreme frugality + repurposing = freedom.

Peace!

The Linux Life