Open Sourcing Xavier

PC Specs:

I also use an old Microsoft Surface 2 Laptop!

Other Hardware:

Desk: This standing desk on Amazon (I got it on sale for $130)
Mic: an Old Blue Yeti Snowball
Drawing Tablet: Huion Pro 12 (amazon accidentaly refunded it for some reason so I got it for free lol)
3D Printer: Bambu Lab A1 Mini (Honestly probably the best budget one out there right now)
Piano: I got a used Roland Keyboard from Long & McQuade, they're such a good music store

Operating System:

Music: "Legit" FL Studio
Drawing/Animation: "Legit" Clip Studio Paint, Libresprite (pixel art), paint.net for simple stuff
3D modelling: OnShape for Percise models, and Blender for Artistic Models
Gamedev: Godot (I haven't really learned how to use it yet lol)
Recording: OBS (really useful for indirectly downloading videos you normally can't)
Music & Video: VLC Player

Youtube Downloader:

If you use Youtube music, or just Regular Youtube, but you want to download all your files as mp4s, you can use yt-dlp, which you can install with a simple download commend on linux.
The best way that I found to download stuff in bulk is to download videos/music 200 at a time. you can use this command, which will also generate a txt file that keeps track of every downloaded file from a playlist. You can also change stuff like the resolution, file destination, etc.
yt-dlp --playlist-items 1-200 --download-archive "/home/xavier/Music/PlaylistFiles/YOUR_PLAYLIST_NAME_archive.txt" \ -f "bestvideo[height<=720][ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[height<=720][ext=mp4]" \ --merge-output-format mp4 \ -o "/home/xavier/Music/PlaylistFiles/%(playlist_title)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" \ "PLAYLIST_URL"
Tip: you can also make a playlist inside VLC by doing file > Save as playlist, then put that file in an easy to access spot, then you just click on it and it opens VLC and instantly plays your playlist!

Laptop touchscreen (Microsoft Surface)

If you happen to have linux on a Microsoft surface that has a touchscreen, you may notice that it doesn't work when you install linux on there. the fic for this is a project called Linux Surface. If you're able to follow the slightly confusing setup instructions, then touchscreen should work perfectly, which is just so cool!

HARDWARE & SOFTWARE