What I Use
Since I find the lists of other people about what the use quite interesting and from time to time someone asks my about what software/hardware I use I decided to also set up one. After having a simple blog post listing software since around 2016 I now put it all together here and update it from time to time.
Last updated: 21. January 2023
Hardware
General
- Display
- Primary: BENQ GW2765 (27", 16:9, 1440p)
- Secondary: HP L1906 (19", 5:4, 1280x1024)
- USB-Audiointerface: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (3rd Generation)
- Headphones: Audio-Technica ATH-M50x
- Microphone: Marantz Pro MPM-1000
- Earbuds: Sennheiser CX True Wireless
- Keyboard: Ducky One2 Mini and Cherry MX-Board 3.0
- Mouse: Cherry MW4500 (wireless, vertical mouse)
Personal Laptop: Lenovo YOGA Slim 7 Pro X
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS Creator Edition
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
- RAM: 32GB
- Storage: 1TB M.2 SSD
- OS: Microsoft Windows 11 Education (Latest Fedora using WSL2)
- Display: 14.5", 3072x1920, 120Hz
Work Laptop: Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen. 6
- CPU: Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.4GHz
- GPU: Intel Xe Graphics G7 (80EUs)
- RAM: 32GB
- Storage: 500GB NVMe-SSD
- OS: Fedora Workstation 37
- Display: 14", 1920x1080
Other hardware
- Home server: BananaPi M2 Ultra with a 2TB HDD
- Smartphone: Apple iPhone 13
- Smart-/Sportswatch: Garmin vívoactive 3 (though nowadays I often wear a non-smart watch)
- Printer/Scanner: Lexmark MC2425 (Duplex-Colour-Laser)
- E-piano: Kawai CA-50
Software
Desktop
- Browser: Firefox with following extensions:
- E-Mail client: If possible mu4e, otherwise Evolution
- Planner: org-mode
- Read it later service: Pocket
- Text editor/IDE: Emacs and sometimes PhpStorm at work
- Notable Emacs extensions:
- Magit (the Git client)
- org-mode (notes, todo-lists, planning, …)
- org-roam (personal knowledge management)
- mu4e (Mail client)
- lsp-mode (Language Server Protocol integration)
- ERC (Emacs IRC cient)
- AucTeX (LaTeX editing environment)
- Consult, Vertico, Embark, Marginalia, Orderless (completion system)
- editorconfig (defined and shared code styles)
- vterm (Emacs libvterm integration)
- Photo management: Adobe Lightroom Classic
- Photo editing: Affinity Photo, Adobe Photoshop
- Vector graphics: Affinity Designer, Adobe Illustrator
- Desktop publishing: Affinity Publisher and LaTeX
- Video editing: DaVinci Resolve, kdenlive
- Digital audio workstation (DAW): Adobe Audition, Ableton Live Lite, Audacity
- Scorewriter: musescore
- Music listening: Spotify
- Accounting software: hledger
Android
At the moment I don’t use any Android devices, though I used the ecosystem in the past. Therefore, the following list only represents what I used a some point and may contain applications no longer developed/supported.
- Browser: Firefox
- Messaging: Conversation (XMPP), Discord, Linphone (softphone), Revolution IRC, Signal, Telegram, Threema, WhatsApp
- Organization: aCalendar+ (calendar), K-9 Mail (email), Orgzly (currently not), Todoist
- Music listening: Spotify and Transistor (radio)
- Social Networks: Tusky (Mastodon), Talon (Twitter), Instagram
- Privacy-tools: DNS66
- Security: andOTP, Keepass2Android
- Software centres: Google Play Store and F-Droid
- Other notable apps: OsmAnd, AccuBattery, c:geo, Pocket
iOS
- Browser: Firefox (most of the time, sometimes Safari)
- Messaging: Discord, Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp
- Social Networks: Metatext (Mastodon)
- Organizaton and Planning: beorg (Tasks), 1Writer (Notes)
- Security: FreeOTP, Strongbox (KeePass-compatible password store)
- Other notable apps: OsmAnd (Maps), Reeder (RSS Reader)
Self-hosted
Some services are publicly available and hosted on a Hetzner VPS others are running on my home server (see above in the hardware section).
- Wiki: MoinMoin (for uulmhack)
- RSS: FreshRSS with RSS-bridge
- Cloud: Nextcloud
- Git web interface: Gitea
- IRC Bouncer: ZNC
- Web analytics: Plausible
- Recipe management: Tandoor
- Online file browser: File Browser
- Photo gallery: PiGallery 2
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