What I Use

Since I find the lists of other people about what the use quite interesting and from time to time someone asks me 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've put it all together here and update it from time to time.

If you curious about reading more such lists you might get a kick out of App Defaults by Robb Knight and /uses by Wes Boy.

Last updated: 07. April 2026

📠 Hardware

💻 Personal Laptop 1 "Workstation": Lenovo YOGA Slim 7 Pro X

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS Creator Edition
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
• RAM: 32GB
• Storage: 1TB NVMe-SSD
• OS: Debian 13 trixie
• Desktop Environment: Gnome
• Display: 14.5", 3072x1920, 120Hz

💻 Personal Laptop 2 "Travel": Apple MacBook Air M2 13"

• CPU: Apple M2, 8 Core CPU, 10 Core CPU, 16 Core Neural Engine
• RAM: 24GB
• Storage: 1TB
• OS: Fedora Asahi Remix, MacOS
• Display: 13.6", 2560x1664

💻 Personal Laptop 3 "Playground": Lenovo ThinkPad X220

• CPU: Intel Core i5-2520M
• RAM: 8GB
• Storage: 250GB SSD
• OS: Debian 13 trixie
• Desktop Environment: Xfce
• Display: 12.5", 1366x768

📷 Digital Cameras

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

📷 Analogue Cameras

• Rolleicord Va Type 1: 6x6 medium format twin lens reflex camera from the late 50s
• Adox Polomat 1: Point-and-shoot 35mm camera with a fixed 45mm lens from the early 60s
• Minolta SRT-303: 35mm single lens reflex and interchangeable lens camera from the 70s

🎧 Audio

• USB-Audio-Interface: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (3rd Generation)
• Headphones (Over Ear, Wired): Audio-Technica ATH-M50x
• Headphones (Over Ear, Wireless): Audio-Technica ATH-S300BT
• Headphones (In Ear): Shure SE 215 Purple
• Earbuds: Sennheiser CX True Wireless
• Microphone: Marantz Pro MPM-1000
• Mobile Audio Player: SanDisk Clip Sport
• E-piano: Kawai CA-50
• Amplifier: Grundig V35 & Grundig V2000
• Turntable: Perpetuum Ebner 2020 L
• Speakers (Desk): Nubert nuBoxx A-125 pro

🎒 Portable

• Smartphone: Apple iPhone 13
• Tablet: Samsung Galaxy Tab S4
• Smart-/Sportswatch: Polar Vantage V3
• Photo-Printer: Canon Selphy CP 1500

🏠 Stationary

• Display: BENQ GW2765 (27", 16:9, 1440p)
• Keyboard: Ducky One2 Mini and Cherry MX-Board 3.0
• Mouse: Cherry MW 4500 (wireless, vertical)
• Home server: BananaPi M2 Ultra
• Printer/Scanner: Lexmark MC2425 (Duplex-Colour-Laser)

💾 Software

🖥️ Desktop

• Browser: Firefox with the following notable extensions:
  • Privacy Badger
  • KeePassXC-Browser
  • [Firefox Multi-Account Containers](Firefox Multi-Account Containers)
  • Want My RSS
  • linkding extension
• Calendar: Thunderbird and Gnome Calendar or macOS Calendar
• E-Mail client: Thunderbird and mu4e
• Contacts: Thunderbird and Gnome Contacts
• Password Manager: KeePassXC / Gnome Secrets
• Task Management: org-mode
• Read it later service: Linkding
• 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, Darktable, DxO PhotoLab
• Photo editing: GIMP, Affinity Studio
• Vector graphics: Inkscape, Affinity Studio
• Desktop publishing: Scribus, LaTeX (perhaps in the future also ConTeXt), Affinity Studio
• Spreadsheets: LibreOffice (if not possible within Emacs & org-mode)
• Shopping List and Cookbook: Tandoor
• Video editing: kdenlive
• Digital audio workstation (DAW): Audacity
• Scorewriter: musescore
• Music listening: Deezer, 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: Thunderbird (using mailbox.org as a mail service provider)
• Contacts: Samsung Contacts App (synced with my Nextcloud)
• Task Management: Orgzly Revived
• Read it later service: Linkding (as a web app)
• Shopping List and Cookbook: Tandoor (as a web app)
• Music listening: Deezer
• Social Networks: Mastodon Web App, Instagram, Pixelfed, Vero, Flickr
• Security: Keepass2Android
• Software centres: Google Play Store and F-Droid
• Maps: 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 (synced with my Nextcloud)
• Task Management: beorg
• Read it later service: Linkding (as a web app)
• Shopping List and Cookbook: Tandoor (as a web app)
• Messaging: Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp
• Social Networks: None installed
• Notes: Nextcloud Notes
• Security: FreeOTP, KeePassium (KeePass-compatible password store)
• RSS Reader: NetNewsWire
• Maps: OsmAnd

⌨️ Self-hosted

Some services are hosted on a Hetzner VPS while 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
• Cookbook and Shopping List: Tandoor
• Bookmark Manager / Reading List: Linkding

🌍 Other Services

• Mail Provider: Mailbox.org