I am currently completing my bachelor’s degree in computer science. Once this is finished, I will begin a master’s program. I assume this information is not really helpful to you, sorry.

Well, let’s put it this way: I sleep in the same room :)

Yes

It’s nice not to have to fit everything into 1U or 2U enclosures, and yes, also a bit of future-proofing.

Top (my desktop)

• AMD Ryzen 5 8500G (no dGPU, because I do 90% of my work in the terminal)
• 1 TB NVME
• 32 GB DDR5
• NixOS

Bottom (server)

• AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
• 8 GB RAM DDR4
• in total 4 TB NVME
• NixOS

(nvme and noctua only)

Since I only watch YouTube on desktop I use https://yewtu.be/ to search for content and redirector to redirect the requested video to https://www.youtube.com/embed/<video-id> or https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/<video-id>. And I use uBlock and Improve Youtube, of course.

Edit: I also use FreshRSS to manage subscriptions.