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jackos1998 08605ab422 docs/boxes: Prioritize hardware details

Place physical hardware inventories and VPS resource allocations near
the top of each box page, while leaving broader platform details in
their topical sections.

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tower

Portable workstation — a Framework Laptop 13 (Intel), running the full GUI environment.

Source: nixos/boxes/tower/default.nix
Host: physical (laptop)
nixpkgs: mine

Hardware / platform

Component	Inventory
Platform	Framework Laptop 13 (12th Gen Intel Core)
CPU	Intel Core i5-1240P (12 cores / 16 threads)
Memory	32 GiB
Storage	2 TB WD Black SN850 NVMe SSD
Graphics	Integrated Intel Iris Xe
Connectivity	Intel AX210 Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth and Thunderbolt 4

The configuration enables Intel microcode updates, kvm-intel, intel_iommu=on, intel-media-driver and the latest kernel (lib.my.c.kernel.latest). Thunderbolt security (bolt), the fingerprint reader (fprintd) and tlp power management are also enabled.

Role

Personal portable workstation: my.gui.enable, with Sway managed by home-manager.
Joins the tailnet through the headscale on britway (fish abbr tsup = doas tailscale up --login-server=https://hs.nul.ie --accept-routes).

Network assignments

tower has no static assignment; it uses DHCP through NetworkManager and reaches the other boxes over Tailscale.

Storage

Two LUKS-encrypted partitions, persist and home (both allowDiscards); /nix is a separate ext4 filesystem, /boot is vfat.
Persistent /home (my.user.tmphome = false) with a size-limited tmpfs root (my.tmproot.size).

Networking / services

NetworkManager (wpa_supplicant backend) with systemd-resolved; networkd wait-online is disabled. The Wi-Fi interface is renamed to wifi by MAC.
Steam and Wireshark enabled; fstrim, LVM thin provisioning.
nix.gc.automatic = false — GC is run manually on the laptop.

Notable config files

nixos/boxes/tower/default.nix — the whole box (single file).

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