Hardware
Software
These are my daily drivers.
- Bazzite
- My main OS for workstation and gaming. I use the GNOME edition.
- Bluefin
- I use this on my laptop only.
- Catgirl
- Terminal IRC client. I connect to it via my tilde.team pubnix account.
- Debian stable
- My go-to server OS. I use it extensively in my homelab and cloud servers. It is currently running on my NAS as well.
- Just
- Just a command runner. I use it extensively.
- Miniflux
- Self-hosted RSS aggregator. I use the BSD Cafe instance.
- Neovim
- My main text editor.
- Newsboat
- Terminal RSS feed client. It connects to my Miniflux account on BSD Cafe.
- Nushell
- A very useful shell that treats data as objects rather than streams of text.
- OpenBSD
- I rent an OpenBSD Amsterdam virtual machine which hosts my website and blog.
- Signal
- I don’t really use this every day, but my hope is that by being available on it I would be the change I want to see in the world. Unfortunately, nobody I send text messages to is willing to use anything but the default messaging app on their phone.
- Tailscale
- I use this extensively. It’s nothing short of revolutionary for self-hosting and homelab.
- Vivaldi
- My personal opinion: in light of Mozilla being terrible lately, and Vivaldi’s pledge to be an AI-free browser, Vivaldi is more ethical than Firefox despite its 5% proprietary code base (which can be soundly justified). Vivaldi is open source enough that being AI-free is the deal-maker, in addition to the myriad of neat features it offers.
- Z shell
- I use zsh as my default shell almost everywhere, but I write scripts mostly in Bash or Python for compatibility and portability reasons. Zsh is the most advanced POSIX-compliant shell, IMO.
- ZFS
- Advanced copy-on-write file system, used on my NAS.
- Zellij
- Terminal multiplexer with advanced features.
Debian, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Ubuntu are only used on homelab machines and VPSs.