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.

If you curious about reading more such lists you might get a kick out of App Defaults by Robb Knight and /uses by Wes Boy.

Last updated: 02. Dezember 2025

📠 Hardware

💻 Personal Laptop 1: Lenovo YOGA Slim 7 Pro X

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS Creator Edition
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
• RAM: 32GB
• Storage: 1TB NVMe-SSD
• OS: Debian 13 trixie
• Desktop Environment: Gnome
• Display: 14.5", 3072x1920, 120Hz

💻 Personal Laptop 2: Apple MacBook Air M2 13"

• CPU: Apple M2, 8 Core CPU, 10 Core CPU, 16 Core Neural Engine
• RAM: 24GB
• Storage: 1TB
• OS: MacOS
• Display: 13.6", 2560x1664

📷 Digital Cameras

• Fujifilm X-S10: a mirrorless camera for (nearly) everything with some lenses
• Ricoh GR IIIx: a point-and-shoot style camera with a fixed 40mm equivalent lens as a every day camera and for street photography

📷 Analogue Cameras

• Rolleicord Va Type 1: 6x6 medium format twin lens reflex camera from the late 50s
• Adox Polomat 1: Point-and-shoot 35mm camera with a fixed 45mm lens from the early 60s
• Minolta SRT-303: 35mm single lens reflex and interchangeable lens camera from the 70s

🎧 Audio

• USB-Audio-Interface: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (3rd Generation)
• Headphones (Over Ear, Wired): Audio-Technica ATH-M50x
• Headphones (Over Ear, Wireless): Audio-Technica ATH-S300BT
• Headphones (In Ear): Shure SE 215 Purple
• Earbuds: Sennheiser CX True Wireless
• Microphone: Marantz Pro MPM-1000
• Mobile Audio Player: SanDisk Clip Sport
• E-piano: Kawai CA-50
• Amplifier: Grundig V35 & Grundig V2000
• Turntable: Perpetuum Ebner 2020 L
• Speakers (Desk): Nubert nuBoxx A-125 pro

🎒 Portable

• Smartphone: Apple iPhone 13
• Tablet: Samsung Galaxy Tab S4
• Smart-/Sportswatch: Polar Vantage V3
• Photo-Printer: Canon Selphy CP 1500

🏠 Stationary

• Display: BENQ GW2765 (27", 16:9, 1440p)
• Keyboard: Ducky One2 Mini and Cherry MX-Board 3.0
• Mouse: Cherry MW 4500 (wireless, vertical)
• Home server: BananaPi M2 Ultra
• Printer/Scanner: Lexmark MC2425 (Duplex-Colour-Laser)

💾 Software

🖥️ Desktop

• Browser: Firefox Developer Edition with following extensions:
  • Privacy Badger
  • Want My RSS
  • Facebook Container
  • KeePassXC-Browser
• Calendar: Gnome Calendar
• E-Mail client: mu4e
• Contacts: Gnome Contacts
• Password Manager: KeePassXC / Gnome Secrets
• Task Management: org-mode
• Read it later service: Linkding
• 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)
  • eglot (Language Server Protocol integration)
  • ERC (Emacs IRC cient)
  • Elfeed with Elfeed Protocol (Emacs RSS Reader)
  • AucTeX (LaTeX editing environment)
  • Consult, Vertico, Embark, Marginalia, Orderless (completion system)
  • editorconfig (defined and shared code styles)
  • vterm (Emacs libvterm integration)
• Photo management and development: Digikam, Darktable, DxO PhotoLab
• Photo editing: GIMP, Affinity Studio
• Vector graphics: Inkscape, Affinity Studio
• Desktop publishing: Scribus, LaTeX (perhaps in the future also ConTeXt), Affinity Studio
• Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Presentations: LibreOffice (if not possible within Emacs & org-mode)
• Shopping List and Cookbook: Tandoor
• Video editing: kdenlive
• Digital audio workstation (DAW): Audacity
• Scorewriter: musescore
• Music listening: Deezer, Emacs
• Accounting software: hledger

📱 Android

My Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 does not have a mobile network modem and I currently don't own a Android smartphone. Therefore, the list of apps may be not as complete as expected.

• Browser: IronFox
• Calendar: aCalendar+ (synced with my Nextcloud)
• Email: Thunderbird (using mailbox.org as a mail service provider)
• Contacts: Samsung Contacts App (synced with my Nextcloud)
• Task Management: Orgzly Revived
• Read it later service: Linkding (as a web app)
• Shopping List and Cookbook: Tandoor (as a web app)
• Music listening: Deezer
• Social Networks: Mastodon Web App, Instagram, Pixelfed, Vero, Flickr
• Security: Keepass2Android
• Software centres: Google Play Store and F-Droid
• Maps: OsmAnd

📱 iOS

• Browser: Ecosia
• Calendar: Apple Calendar (synced with my Nextcloud)
• Email: Apple Mail (using mailbox.org as a mail service provider)
• Contacts: Apple Contacts (synced with my Nextcloud)
• Task Management: beorg
• Read it later service: Linkding (as a web app)
• Shopping List and Cookbook: Tandoor (as a web app)
• Messaging: Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp
• Social Networks: Mastodon Web App, Instagram, Pixelfed, Vero, Flickr, Threads
• Notes: Nextcloud Notes
• Security: FreeOTP, KeePassium (KeePass-compatible password store)
• RSS Reader: FreshRSS (as a web app)
• Maps: OsmAnd

⌨️ Self-hosted

Some services are hosted on a Hetzner VPS while 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: Forgejo
• IRC Bouncer: ZNC
• Web analytics: GoatCounter
• Cookbook and Shopping List: Tandoor
• Bookmark Manager / Reading List: Linkding

🌍 Other Services

• Mail Provider: Mailbox.org