This is a page that lists things I use regularly.

Hardware

Desktop

• PC: System76 Thelio Mira with a 16-core AMD CPU and plenty of RAM
• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6600 - great compatibility with Steam on Linux because of drivers, not expensive, gets the job done
• Keyboard: NuPhy Air 75. Mech, low profile, slightly clicky.
• Display: Lenovo ThinkVision T32p-20 (32", 4K, IPS). Nothing special about this one, it's just OK for lots of text.
• Headset: Shokz OpenComm 2. Bone conduction, quality microphone, good for lots of meetings.
• Camera: Sony Alpha 6500, with RM-VPR1 wired remote control, and a no-name dummy battery. I use it as "webcam" and to record "talking head" videos.
• HDMI capture card: AVerMedia Live Streamer CAP 4K to present the Sony camera as a "webcam" in Linux. Plug-and-play, no drivers required.
• Pen tablet: Wacom Intuos M for drawing diagrams and signing documents.

Laptop

• Framework 13 - light, fast, aluminum body, great Linux compatibility, repairable

Mobile

• Phone: Pixel 9 Pro with GrapheneOS. Completely de-Googled, great security and privacy defaults.

Software

Operating System

• Linux distro of choice for both desktop and personal servers: NixOS. Config.
• Desktop environment: Sway. Like i3, but for Wayland. Fast and super stable.

Text Editor

• On servers: Vim
• On the desktop: Emacs with Vim keybindings and a bespoke config

Emacs plugins:

• Theme: modus-operandi. Highly readable.
• Note taking: org-mode together with org-roam to keep a personal knowledge base.
• Git UI: magit
• Completion and fuzzy matching: corfu, cape and vertico
• Language Server client: eglot
• Using LLMs: gptel

Browser

• Browser itself: Firefox
• Plugins: uBlock Origin, Sidebery

AI

• Local LLM: Ollama with various models, e.g. codellama

Other software

• Hand-drawing diagrams and signing PDFs: xournal++

Self-hosting

• Chat: Dendrite Matrix server.
• Git forge: Forgejo. Libre fork of Gitea. Easy to setup, low maintenance.
• VPN to home PC: Headscale. An OSS implementation of Tailscale server. Compatible with regular Tailscale apps.
• Hosting videos: Peertube. I'm not an active video creator, but occasionally upload to my own instance.

Security

• YubiKey for authentication and signing
• Pass with YubiKey to store passwords
• GPG with YubiKey for signing git commits and packages

Paid services

Most of these are paid, monthly or yearly subscription.

• E-Mail: FastMail
• Search Engine: Kagi
• Domain Registrar: Gandi
• VPS: Vultr for most things, and BuyVM for video
• Music: Bandcamp. I usually just buy full albums from there.
• VPN: Mullvad

Free services

• Social - Mastodon. Instance: mas.to