Simon Hofer

Tech enthusiast — Linux user — AGI/ASI enjoyer

Bartender

$ whoami

Emmm yea... Hi, my name is Simon aka SimSon. I love Tech, AI, Linux, Open Source and I like to selfhost things (mostly useless software, I will never use). AGI/ASI will eventually replace us all, so emm live your life, or don't I don't really care. I know, crazy motivation speech.

Tech Linux Open Source Self Hosting C# HTML

$ ls ~/life

Born
200*
School start
idk (too lazy to look it up)
Highschool start (big mistake)
IT highschool, mostly networking (I now hate networking)
~2022
Depression has been unlocked.
Highschool end
2025 (finally)
Job
Bartender (I've never done this in my life, but it's cool I guess)

$ cat ~/software

OS (Desktop)
PopOs (Pop!_OS) Uptime: A lot Packages: 3061 (dpkg), 86 (flatpak), 13 (snap) Shell: zsh Theme: Catppuccin-Dark GNOME + 30 extensions (super lightweight ik) Catppuccin theme (for the win)
other OS I use
Phone: Android (Nothing launcher) Server: Debian / Ubuntu Distro hopping roadway: ZorinOs, PopOs, Fedora, EndeavourOs, Debian, PopOs, Fedora, PopOs, Debian, Fedora, Fedora, PopOs, Fedora, PopOs (now)
Browser
Zen (for everything) Brave (when I need a chromium based browser)
Degoogle software
Proton Mail / Tuta Mail Proton Calendar (I'm always too lazy to use it) Proton VPN / Mullvad (actually better than Proton VPN (on Linux)) Proton Drive (where Linux app?) Proton Pass / Bitwarden (just for backup) Aegis / Proton Authenticator (isnt ready yet / misses a lot of features)
Backup software (/files) (6TB+)
Nextcloud (Hetzner Storage Share) Filen Mega Tresorit Filen
Backup software (/photos and /videos) (~200GB (compressed))
Google Photos Ente Photos Proton Drive
AI (soon AGI / ASI)
ChatGPT (started with this, as everyone else I guess) Perplexity (for search) Claude for Coding (cooked this page btw) Gemini (spyware but has actually good models)
Other software
Discord Spotify Warp

$ lshw --short (hardware)

💻
Laptop (vendetta) (HP ProBook 455 G7)
AMD Ryzen 5 4500U - AMD ATI Renoir - 32GB DDR4 - 1,5TB nvme
📱
Phone (pingu) (Nothing Phone 1)
Snapdragen 778G+ - 8GB - 128GB - 4500mAh
🖥️
Display (LG 27GQ50F)
27" - 1.920x1.080 - 165Hz
⌨️
Keyboard (SteelSeries Apex 3)
A keyboard.
🐭
Mouse (Razer Basilisk V3)
🐁
🎧
Audio (Nothing Ear) (Soundcore Space Q45)
I listen to music 24/7
Watch (CMF Watch 3 Pro)
Clean. Minimalist. Perfection.

$ (please don't) contact me