Things I Use
This page contains a somewhat up-to-date listing of all hardware and software that I currently use. Seeing similar pages on other people’s personal websites have proved quite valuable to me, so I figured I would do the same!
Services
I’m proud to support open source products and privacy-respecting communities. The list is limited right now, but the plan is to expand this over time. All prices are in CDN.
| Service | Cost/year |
|---|---|
| NearlyFreeSpeech Domains (5 total) |
~$75 |
| NearlyFreeSpeech Web hosting |
~$20 |
| Migadu Email service |
$19 |
| Mullvad Privacy focused VPN |
$60 |
| sourcehut Git mirrors & mailing lists |
$20 |
Work Laptop
- M2 MacBook Air (Daily Driver)
- CPU: Apple M2
- RAM: 16GB
- Storage: 256GB
- OS: MacOS Sequoia
Personal Laptops
- ThinkPad X220
- CPU: Intel Core i5 2540M @ 2.6 GHz
- RAM: 16GB
- Storage: 128GB SSD
- OS: OpenBSD (see build)
- ThinkPad X201
- CPU: Intel Core i5-520M @ 2.9 GHz
- RAM: 8GB
- Storage: 128GB SSD
- OS: Alpine Suck (see build)
As you can tell: I really like ThinkPads…
Accessories
- Logitech Pebble Mouse
- Cheap USB microphone
- Samsung 27” 4K Monitor
“Mobile” Devices
- iPhone SE (2020)
- ZTE Cymbal 2
- Casio F-91W
- RPi Zero
- RPi Zero W
- RPi 400
Gaming / Entertainment
- Xbox Series S
- Nintendo Switch Lite
- Playstation 2
Software
I try my best to use only free and open source software. Unfortunately, some circumstances require me to use proprietary applications.
Open Source
- aerc-mail
- Bitwarden
- dmenu
- dwm
- Firefox
- pass
- qutebrowser
- slstatus
- st
- surf
- Thunderbird
- vim
- VSCodium
Proprietary
- Figma
- Gmail
- Slack
- Sublime Text
- Sublime Merge
- Zoom