Wishlist
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Introduction
This small page is my wishlist. So if you want to gift me something... Note some devices are pretty expensive and I don't expect anyone to buy them for me. This list is also for myself, so maybe I will gift one of these to myself at some point (e.g. for my Birthday) :-)
Don't take the ordering too seriously — it shifts depending on what I'm currently fiddling with. Items move up when a project of mine suddenly needs them, and down again once the urge passes.
For the gadgets I already have (including ones that used to be on this list), see:
My gadgets
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Productivity
NVidia DGX Spark
Official product page
... or a-like device so I can run local models like Qwen, Gemma, etc. Right now I only rent cloud GPUs when I need one or simply use Cloud API providers. A dedicated box with a sane amount of VRAM (e.g. 128GB) would let me stop renting for experiments that go nowhere and just leave something running at home.
What I'd do with it:
- Agentic coding with the smaller models — Claude Code / Codex --oss / OpenCode talking to Ollama or GPT-OSS 120b, in-editor completion via Hexai, and the odd multi-agent run where Nemotron orchestrates and another model codes. Qwen 3.6 and Gemma 4 would do most of the heavy lifting.
- Bulgarian — BG-GPT for learning, BG-TTS for voice, generating stories from my own vocab lists, and translating foo.zone articles to my level.
- Overnight creative batch jobs — ComfyUI / Flux for images and comics, continuing novel stories, Gemma 4 for OCR on scanned bills.
- A private RAG over my notes, blog and handwritten journals — RSS fetcher plus a Kagi-search summariser, summarising whole books, and spell-checking my writing.
- Background code review on every commit (SOLID, QA, Go best practices) and a nightly audit that files Taskwarrior tasks for whatever it finds.
- Letting a slow model just chew on batch jobs overnight, with two Pi agents keeping each other alive.
ThinkPad P1
Official product page
For a large display and good CPU performance for photo editing, coding and media content consumption. My current ThinkPad X1 Gen 9 is slowly showing its age, especially when editing RAW photos. A 16-inch workstation with a proper HX-class CPU would be a noticeable step up for the heavier stuff — and a big, colour-accurate panel doesn't hurt for culling photos either. If I spec it with an RTX GPU (or a Ryzen AI part) and it behaves on Linux, it could double as a local-LLM host too.
Gadgets
Mecha Comet
Official product page
I've pre-ordered this already on Kickstarter. It's one of those small handheld Linux gadgets that probably won't change my life but I'm a sucker for a well-made keyboard and a pocketable terminal.
What I'd actually use it for:
- A travel Linux station — external DisplayPort monitor, mobile VPN hotspot, WireGuard tunnel straight into my home LAN.
- Music player with an external USB DAC, ideally a Navidrome client with EQ and a visualizer.
- Retro gaming — Duke Nukem 1/2, console emulators, Pico-8, and Steam (it ran on a Pi3, so why not here).
- Podcast player fed by my own podcast downloader, unless a native one already does the job.
- Quicklog / jotting down ideas on the go, plus a Pomodoro timer and Taskwarrior (Task Samurai) when I'm away from the desk.
- The boring-but-useful bits: weather forecast, Wi-Fi analyser, document & password store, and a small Umhängetasche to carry it in.
TRMNL
Official product page
An always-on e-ink info screen for the home office, and the whole thing is open-source software driven — I can self-host the backend and point it at whatever I want. I'm leaning towards the 4-color (BWRY) one.
What I'd put on it:
- Gogios status — a glance at whether the homelab is happy.
- A Taskwarrior dashboard, so the current task is always sitting there on the desk.
- A habit reminder, because apparently I need one.
- Etc...
Fairphone 6
Official product page
A repairable, long-lived phone — and the one I keep coming back to is running Ubuntu Touch. So this is conditional: I only want it once Ubuntu Touch is fully supported on the Fairphone 6. The draw is the desktop mode (plug in a monitor and it's a little Linux box), plus the usual Ubuntu Touch app wishlist — KOReader, Navidrome/Subsonic client, Syncthing, WireGuard, Wallabag, a markdown notes app, that sort of thing. Until the port is properly done, I'll keep what I have.
Not that I'm in a rush — my current phone is a Pixel 7 Pro on GrapheneOS, going on almost five years now, and it's been great. But it runs out of software updates next year, so there's a natural deadline approaching. That's really the timing: if Ubuntu Touch on the Fairphone 6 lands around then, it'd be a clean swap.
Then again, I'm not fully decided on Ubuntu Touch yet. There's meant to be a Motorola + GrapheneOS announcement around this year or next about officially supporting Motorola devices — and if that lands, a Razr Fold on GrapheneOS might be also a good pick. So really it's wait-and-see between the two: Ubuntu Touch on the Fairphone 6 (or another newer device if it comes along), or GrapheneOS on a Motorola foldable.
Casio MRG-B5000
Official product page
The MR-G is Casio's top-tier line, and the B5000 is the square one — Super Titanium take on the classic G-SHOCK 5000 shape. I generally like any watch in the MR-G series, but this square model is the one I actually want, ideally in this silver finish.
Neo Geo AES+
Official product page
SNK and Plaion REPLAI are bringing the AES back as a proper hardware reissue — real ASIC silicon, not emulation, not FPGA. Original cardiges and new ones both work, HDMI for a modern TV.
Flipper One
Official docs / developer portal
Announcement post
Not the Flipper Zero — it's Flipper's open Linux networking gadget / pocket cyberdeck. Dual Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6E, M.2 for modems or SSDs, HDMI out, the whole "plug it into the homelab and poke at things" fantasy.
Photography
Fujifilm X100VI
Official product page
I've the X100V already, that's why I hesitate to upgrade, really. The V still takes the same photos; the VI mostly tempts me with the nicer film simulations and a bit more resolution I don't strictly need. If I ever find a good trade-in deal I'll probably cave, but it's hard to justify at full price or I will simply wait for a future X100VII or I will wait until my X100V breaks down! And if I do get one, it has to be the silver — the black one is too stealthy for my taste.
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