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: 28. February 2024

Hardware

General

• Display: BENQ GW2765 (27", 16:9, 1440p)
• 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
• Keyboard: Ducky One2 Mini and Cherry MX-Board 3.0
• Mouse: Cherry MW 3000 (wireless)

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 Sonoma
• 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: Fedora Workstation 39
• Desktop Environment: GNOME
• 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 2
• Desktop Environment: KDE Plasma
• Display: 14", 2880x1800, 90Hz

Cameras

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

Other hardware

• Home server: BananaPi M2 Ultra
• Smartphone: Apple iPhone 13
• Tablet: Samsung Galaxy Tab S4
• Smart-/Sportswatch: Garmin vívoactive 3 (though nowadays I often wear a non-smart watch)
• Mobile Audio Player: SanDisk Clip Sport
• Printer/Scanner: Lexmark MC2425 (Duplex-Colour-Laser)
• Photo-Printer: Canon Selphy CP 1500
• E-piano: Kawai CA-50
• Amplifier: Grundig V35
• Turntable: Perpetuum Ebner 2020 L

Software

Desktop

• Browser: Firefox with following extensions:
  • Privacy Badger
  • Want My RSS
  • Facebook Container
  • KeePassXC-Browser
  • Link Cleaner
• 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: Shared Nextcloud notes entry
• 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: Shared Nextcloud notes entry
• 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
• Calendar: Apple Calendar (synced with my Nextcloud)
• Email: Apple Mail (using mailbox.org as a mail service provider)
• Contacts: Apple Contacts App (synced with my Nextcloud)
• Task Management: beorg
• Read it later service: Pocket
• Shopping List: Shared Nextcloud notes entry
• Messaging: Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord
• Social Networks: Metatext (Mastodon), Instagram, Pixelfed, Vero, Flickr
• Notes: 1Writer
• Security: FreeOTP, Strongbox (KeePass-compatible password store)
• RSS Reader: Reeder
• Other notable apps: OsmAnd (Maps)

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: Forgejo
• IRC Bouncer: ZNC
• Web analytics: GoatCounter
• Recipe management: Tandoor
• Online file browser: File Browser
• Photo gallery: PiGallery 2

Other Services

• Mail Provider: Mailbox.org