Thinkpad P14s (work).
Aquaria. Ideapad 320s.
Picon. Athlon Ryzen 7 3800X, RTX 2070 Super.
LG 35WN65C.
Sharkoon PureWriter TKL RGB (Kailh Blue). Tenkeyless keyboard with “IBM layout” and no fancy extra keys. The RGB effects can of course be configured. I’ve set the lighting to a steady, unobtrusive blue tone. The main feature for me is the lack of a tenkey block (numeric keypad) which saves space on the desk. It’s surprisingly hard to find this in less expensive models. A good alternative option might be the CHERRY STREAM KEYBOARD TKL.
Razer DeathAdder Essential. Stupid name, but affordable optical cable mouse. I got fed up with bluetooth and batteries.
UGREEN 4 Ports USB 3.0 Switch. I use it to switch keyboard and mouse between work laptop and private desktop. To switch the video output, I use the built-in controls of the monitor and two HDMI cables. No need for a full KVM switch.
Samsung Galaxy A33 5G. I’ll expect to get about 5 years of usage out of it. Then the Android updates will stop and I’ll buy the next one (and look into Fairphones once more). Cell phones are purely secondary devices for me. I try to use them in a way that doesn’t make them critical for anything. For example, they don’t store my contacts, they’re just a client that my contacts are synced to.
Tolino Shine 3. It’s not a Kindle, so no vendor lock-in. It also has support for the EPUB format. Hardware-wise, it does it’s job without being particularly great. It works well enough for EPUB ebooks, but reading A4 PDFs or displaying images should be avoided. In Germany, you can use the device as a reader for rentable ebooks from public libraries (e.g. Onleihe). I did that two or three times. Sadly, renting the books is not a very polished experience. I’d rather recommend to use a smartphone for that. My biggest issue with the Shine 3 is that USB mounting stopped working for some reason. I am not entirely sure if the reason is a physical issue with my device or a firmware problem.
Garmin Instinct 2. A GPS fitness watch, optimzed for battery life. I wear it basically 24/7, and I absolutely love it. It’s simple and practical. It also shows the time.
Office furniture. IKEA BEKANT table (160x80 cm), height adjustable. The table can be set to my desired height of ~83 cm, but it is very wobbly. I don’t recommended that model at all. Net Motion Profi office chair. I bought it because of good test ratings. Nothing to write home about, but a solid choice, I guess.
Fedora 44 Workstation. A Linux based system offers me freedom, flexibility, and generally first-grade integration for the kind of software I work with (e.g. virtualization). I finally managed to install the same OS on all of my machines. I really like Flatpak as it helps keeping your base system rather clean and boring.
JetBrains All Products Pack. It’s expensive, but if you can’t beat ’em… This is probably another instance of “I don’t really have the time to fiddle around with stuff anymore”. Thanks to LSP, there are strong alternatives, though, and I do most of the additional stuff (VCS, testing, linting, syntax checks, …) in CLI anyway because I want automated workflows that can be used everywhere. I’m a big fan of make (or just) for organizing the involved commands.
Alacritty + tmux.
CLI applications: See my dotfiles repo.
Firefox. Nowadays, I find it really hard to recommend a browser because more or less all of the relevant ones are controlled by big corporations. Mozilla is no exception, but I’ll probably stick to Firefox as long as it’s competitive. Sadly, it’s a bit of a “pick your poison” situation.
Tuta. Mail, address book, calendar. (Disclaimer: I’m not a hardcore email user anymore.) You can use your own domain for email. At first glance, you might think the service is lacking in features, but it really is the answer to a lot of my “personal organization” requirements. It doesn’t support POP3 or IMAP or GPG (by design – that’s probably a good thing), but there are official clients for most platforms, including interfaces for address book and calendar. It syncs contacts with your phone’s address book which is a great feature. It means you can keep the source of truth for your contacts in Tuta and not on the phone itself. Basically the same goes for the calendar. It’s not as integrated as native solutions, but it really helps to keep your data in one central place that’s also your source of truth when working on your laptop or desktop.
Office stuff. LibreOffice and LaTeX. I don’t need this very often. This boy is LaTeX.
1Password. You should have a password manager. Hosted in Europe, so technically 1password.eu. Honourable mention: KeePassXC. But I’m too old for the additional inconvenience.
Dropbox. To transfer photos off of cell phones. I’m very careful not to have too much data on my phone. I should probably do this without involving Dropbox, but wireless is just so convenient.
VS Code. For most non-code writing. Error Lens, GitLens, PHP Intelephense (~12 €), probably some other nonsense.