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Computers and Tablets going through my Hands

Ever since I taught myself to read, the personal computer was incredibly important to my life. Thus, I dedicate this page to the computers and tablets I used over the years...

The Family Computer

The first computer I ever interacted with had an account for my Mom and for me: it was the family computer! On the first one, of course I cracked the password and we got a bunch of viruses. Then we got another one. I played some games locally, wrote some little thingies here and there, browsed the Web... Until this computer too, an HP Compaq, no longer sufficed. Around my 9th(?) birthday my Mom replaced this with a Packard Bell iMedia S computer which lasted until 2020. I had my own 'PC' setup before that though.

The Tablets

Of course, my first own computer was a tablet, a Yarvik to be exact. I played Angry Birds, watched YouTube and browsed the Web on this thing. Then one day, its touchscreen failed and we replaced the whole thing. The second Yarvik Tablet had the same problem, combined with a sudden crack in the screen, just weeks or months after. We got an Acer Iconia B1, on which I installed an absolute lot of apps! From learning apps to Spotify to whatever I could find my hands on! Even a FireFox version with Flash installed for some old-fashioned PC games.
Then I had an account named 'vijfsnipper'. The tablet got overloaded, so we reset it. However, the apps reinstalled and so we reset again, this time using an account named 'Vijfsnippervijf' (VV5!). This worked... for a while.

A Gift from Perú

My Dad came from Peru. My Mom developed a relationship with him during her years as a travel leader, which were SO fun she kind of wanted to relive them recently. Beyond this, my Dad had a gift for me at around my 11th-12th birthday. It was a Samsung Galaxy Tab E, more powerful than any tablet I used before this one. I used it a fair share for Scratch programming (more on that later), games (including emulators), Android customization projects... It was, after all, a LOT of fun to use! I even distinctly remember the old leather case that came with it. It only fell in disuse when I got an iPad for school.

Raspberry Chronicles

One day, around my 14th birthday, my Mom got me a Raspberry Pi 3B+. This thing would help me with programming, and it did! Scratch? No problem. Python? Learnt a little here and there. Processing? Lots of fun! I even later got an Arduino starter kit as gift and programmed it on this Raspberry Pi. :) Only problem was that of the Web browser being kind-of slow and painful to use. Nowadays, this Pi is mainly in use as an Internet Radio, though with some Python code.

My first x86-64 PC

It's January 2020. Windows 7 is going out of support. My Mom got an offer for a BYO laptop from the municipality she worked for. So, at first, she planned to instead try to upgrade her PC to Windows 10. This failed, so she had to get a laptop. But as I wanted the old computer, my Mom instead decided to buy me a similar PC that could run Windows 10. Could being the keyword. It did for a couple years with a LOT of hiccups. Even one of the games I had lots of fun with on the family PC (the Sims 3) didn't always work perfectly. Let alone just browsing the web. Partly fault of the RAM, but mostly Windows 10 being bloated as [QUACK]. I even noted around 10% of CPU use at idle from the top of my head. Just 2 years after I got the PC, I thusly proceeded to install Linux Mint onto it. This was my first Linux experience on x86-64 and went VERY well. This was also the first PC I ever edited a YouTube video on. That was my first EAS scenario: 'The Innocent'. For a Wiki article, click HERE.

And then it was over!

What was over? Well, secondary school was over! After a long process I decided to study Data Science in Eindhoven/Tilburg, and so I had to of course get a laptop! This laptop was the HP zBook Power G9. I didn't intend to use this for private work as well, both because privacy, high efficiency of Linux, and storage restrictions. The laptop of course now runs Windows 11, but I did end up replacing my home computer as well. The RAM connections started to fail and 4GB wasn't too much: ShotCut (the editor I now use) often hung. It didn't crash as often as Windows/VSDC, but it did prevent me from using the PC during a render. So I got a Lenovo zBook Tiny, with a free optical drive connecting via USB. I threw Linux on the thing and it works like a charm! I actually made a video about the study laptop and about the new desktop computer! It also went to my room when I lived in a dorm room in Eindhoven for half a year. Unfortunately, that didn't go that well...

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