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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
Migadu
Email service
$19
Mullvad
Privacy focused VPN
$60
NearlyFreeSpeech
Web hosting
~$50

Work Laptop

  • M2 MacBook Air (Daily Driver)
    • CPU: Apple M2
    • RAM: 16GB
    • Storage: 256GB
    • OS: MacOS Sonoma

Personal Laptops

  • ThinkPad X201

    • CPU: Intel Core i5-520M @ 2.9 GHz
    • RAM: 8GB
    • Storage: 128GB SSD
    • OS: Alpine Suck (see build)
  • ThinkPad X220

    • CPU: Intel Core i5 2540M @ 2.6 GHz
    • RAM: 16GB
    • Storage: 128GB SSD
    • OS: FreeBSD (see build)
  • ThinkPad X260

    • CPU: Intel i5-6300U (4) @ 3.000GHz
    • RAM: 32GB
    • Storage: 128GB SSD
    • OS: Ubuntu

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