Hardware
I have a Samsung Galaxy A50 phone and a Thinkpad T16 with a 12th Gen Intel i7 processor and 32GB of RAM. I also have a Rasberry Pi 1A+ that I use as a server.
Operating system
I use Windows 10 on my laptop, Android on my phone and DietPi linux on my server.
Social Media
I don’t use social media much but when I do it is Mastodon or occasionally Bluesky. I’m also on Instagram (because of network effects) but try to avoid it.
My website
I write the posts as markdown in Obsidian and use Jekyll to generate the website. I then serve it with lighttpd on my Rasberry Pi 1 A+.
Other software
- Web browsing: LibreWolf with a load of extensions:
- WAVE for improving the accessibility of this website.
- Unpaywall for open source science papers.
- Zotero connector for citations
- UBlock Origin for adblock.
- Ghostery to auto-reject cookies (I have everything else turned off) and also Cookie auto decline.
- Facebook container and Twitter container.
- Streetpass to find people on Mastodon.
- Mastdon4 redirect to always go to my home server.
- Stylebot to ‘fix’ things I don’t like.
- NoScript for anti-tracking and safer browsing.
- Dearrow and Sponsorblock for better youtube.
- Redirector to redirect x to xcancel, medium to freedium and yt shorts to normal youtube.
- Indiewikibuddy to find better wikis.
- HideW3Schools because I don’t like them.
- Notes: Obsidian.
- Coding: VSCode(ium)
- Version control: Git with Github, although I’m considering moving to self hosting.
- Writing documents: LibreOffice and Zotero (citations)
- Mail: I self host my email on the same Rasberry Pi that this site runs on using Postfix and Dovecot. I read it using Thunderbird on my PC and K-9 mail (soon to be Thunderbird as well) on my phone.
- Ebooks: Book Reader (?) on my phone and Thorium reader on PC.
- Music: Vinyl.
- Messaging: Signal, Whatsapp (because of other people), Snapchat (also because of other people).
Games
I play Fistful of Frags, DayZ, Stalker Gamma, Juno: New Origins and Ape Out right now. I like to buy games from Good Old Games when I can. I launch my games from Cartriges.