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: 07. October 2024
📠 Hardware
💻 Main Personal Laptop: Apple MacBook Air M2 13"
- CPU: Apple M2, 8 Core CPU, 10 Core CPU, 16 Core Neural Engine
- RAM: 24GB
- Storage: 1TB
- OS: MacOS Sequoia
- Display: 13.6", 2560x1664
💻 Spare 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: Debian 12 (currently testing some distros)
- Desktop Environment: KDE Plasma
- Display: 14.5", 3072x1920, 120Hz
💻 Work Laptop: Schenker Vision 14 (E22)
- CPU: Intel Core i7-12700H
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop
- RAM: 32GB
- Storage: 1GB NVMe-SSD
- OS: Tuxedo OS 3
- Desktop Environment: KDE Plasma
- Display: 14", 2880x1800, 90Hz
📷 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
🎧 Audio
- USB-Audio-Interface: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (3rd Generation)
- Headphones (Over Ear): Audio-Technica ATH-M50x
- 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
- Turntable: Perpetuum Ebner 2020 L
🎒 Portable
- Smartphone: Apple iPhone 13
- Tablet: Samsung Galaxy Tab S4
- Smart-/Sportswatch: Garmin vívoactive 3 (though nowadays I often wear a non-smart watch)
- 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 with following extensions:
- Calendar: Nextcloud web calendar app
- E-Mail client: mu4e, Thunderbird ( using mailbox.org as a mail service provider)
- Contacts: Nextcloud web contacts app
- Password Manager: KeePassXC
- Task Management: 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)
- 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, Adobe Lightroom Classic, Darktable
- Photo editing: Affinity Photo, GIMP
- Vector graphics: Affinity Designer, Inkscape
- Desktop publishing: Affinity Publisher, Scribus and LaTeX (perhaps in the future also ConTeXt)
- 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: Spotify, 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: Firefox
- Calendar: aCalendar+ (synced with my Nextcloud)
- Email: K-9 Mail (using mailbox.org as a mail service provider)
- Contacts: Samsung Contacts App (synced with my Nextcloud)
- Task Management: Orgzly
- Read it later service: Pocket
- Shopping List and Cookbook: Tandoor (as a web app)
- Music listening: Spotify
- Social Networks: Tusky (Mastodon), Instagram, Pixelfed, Vero, Flickr
- Security: Keepass2Android
- Software centres: Google Play Store and F-Droid
- Other notable apps: OsmAnd
📱 iOS
- Browser: Firefox or Safari
- 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: Pocket
- Shopping List and Cookbook: Tandoor (as a web app)
- Messaging: Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp
- Social Networks: Metatext (Mastodon), Instagram, Pixelfed, Vero, Flickr, Threads
- Notes: 1Writer
- Security: FreeOTP, KeePassium (KeePass-compatible password store)
- RSS Reader: Reeder
- Other notable apps: OsmAnd (Maps)
⌨️ 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
🌍 Other Services
- Mail Provider: Mailbox.org