dammIT

A rantbox by Michiel Scholten

Uses


What I use for things and stuff.

What Software Do I Use?

Quite a lot actually. Let's see...

The Operating System

Linux, mostly the Ubuntu distribution. Yes, that sounds very boring, and that's mostly because it is, but It Just Works(tm) and I like tinkering with my own software better these days. (I do customise it a bit though).

Editors

  • vim
  • JetBrains PyCharm (with vim bindings and Material Darker theme)
  • Obsidian for notetaking and building out my second brain

The Browser

Firefox.

Other Software

A lot of terminal use.

  • syncthing: synchronisation of files not under version control
  • git: version control of notes, source code, correspondence, presentations and more
  • paperless: archive and find back all your invoices, important documents and manuals
  • navidrome: music server
  • plex: media server
  • (soon) Immich: photo collection software

Mobile

Android phone, Pixel because the software is pretty fine and the camera's are up my alley. I love taking pictures.

  • Obsidian
  • Termux
  • FairEmail for email
  • FluffyChat and Element-X for Matrix chat
  • weechat-android for IRC, makes connection to weechat on one of my servers
  • TickTick for todo
  • Symfonium and PlexAmp for music through Navidrome and Plex respectively
  • Poweramp for music stored locally on my phone (works great with high-quality audio dongles like those from Hidisz)
  • CoMaps for detailed maps derived from OpenStreetmap, for when I'm hiking or biking.

Photography

  • Trusty ol' Canon 70D digital SLR
  • Canon 15-55mm f2.8 lense
  • Sigma (Bigma) 150-500mm telelense

And what Hardware?

Desktop

Laptops

What would be your dream setup?

Linux-based mobile computing. I'm actually prototyping a bit already.