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Uses (last updated: 2026-05-05)

A list of the hardware, software, and everyday-carry items I currently use, most are sustainable, repairable, and free-software-friendly.

Since I work from home, I keep my work and personal setups separate. My personal setup is centered around my MNT Pocket Reform, while my work setup lives in a small dedicated office room.

Personal Desk

MNT Pocket Reform (Guix System)

Since 2025 my main computer is a purple RK3588 Pocket Reform.

2012-2025: ThinkPad x230

2009-2014: Asus EEE-PC 1005HA

2003-2010: Toshiba Tecra 8000

Beelink SER 6 Pro Max (Guix System)

A tiny desktop computer I sometimes use. Bought in 2024.

2014-2024: Mac Mini (Debian)

2006-2014: Self-build desktop (AMD Athlon 3200+, Nvidia GeForce 7300GT, 4GB RAM)

Microsoft Surface Go 2 (Guix System)

I use this exclusively as a drawing tablet (way cheaper than a wacom).

OnePlus 6T (LineageOS)

Bought in 2018. My personal phone, currently running LineageOS. I would love to move it to postmarketOS eventually.

2014-2018: iPhone 5s

2011-2014: HTC HD2

2006-2011: Motorola Razr v3

Steam Deck

Bought in 2022. Having spent far too many hours in Elden Ring, Hollow Knight, and Celeste on it.

Eizo FlexScan EV2450

External monitor (FHD).

Logitech Marble Mouse

Trackball.

OLKB Planck

Keyboard. Akko Fairy Silent Switches. Stock Keycaps.

Desktronic HomePro

A height adjustable desk.

Work Desk

Dell XPS 13 9370 (Guix System)

My work-issued laptop. I have been using it since 2020.

iPhone 15

My work-issued phone.

Kensington Orbit Wireless

Trackball.

Glorious GMMK Pro

Keyboard. Cherry MX Northern Light Switches. GMK Matcha Keycaps.

Lenovo Y32p

32-inch monitor.

SteelSeries Arctis 7

Headset.

Razer Kiyo X

Webcam.

Desktronic HomePro

Another height-adjustable desk.

Programming

C

My preferred systems programming language.

PHP

All things web/backend at work.

Perl

Scripting and text processing at work.

Julia

Number crunching and data visualization.

Guile Scheme

Free-software hacking, clay and glue alike for all my personal projects.

Emacs Lisp

Lots of Emacs hacking.

Services

Codeberg

Git forge for my public free software projects and hosting for this page.

Mastodon (@theesm@social.tchncs.de) and Lemmy (@theesm@slrpnk.net)

The only two social media sites I use. I don't use corporate social media (Instagram, Reddit etc.).

Local Library Subscription

My local library offers digital access to a variety of newspapers subscriptions. It's pretty convenient.

Hetzner Storagebox

Backup storage for off-site backups using borg and file storage.

Servers

Netcup nano VPS (Guix System)

Mail (opensmtp and cyrus-imapd)

A simple mailserver for personal use.

Wireguard

VPN.

Soju

IRC bouncer connected to Libera.

Gitolite

Git for my private personal projects. I use Codeberg for the public ones.

Dell OptiPlex 7050 (Guix System)

Borg Backup

Backup storage for on-site backups using borg.

Nextcloud

Groupware and file storage.

Jellyfin

Media System.

Navidrome

Music Library.

Software

GNU Guix

I exclusively use Guix System on all my systems since 2022, after having been on Debian from 2005 to 2017 and briefly on NixOS from 2017 to 2022. Guix is the first free software project I found myself regularly contributing to, after many one-off contributions to other projects over the previous decade. It's great fun, has an awesome community, and is probably as close to a modern lisp machine as one could get.

Emacs

My computing environment. Some of my favorite packages are:

modus-operandi

Theme.

lsp-mode

Language servers (intelephense etc.).

org-mode

Organization, planning, notes, and making ADHD manageable for me.

eshell / term

My main terminal emulator/shell.

denote

PKM and Zettelkasten.

dired

File manager.

gnus

Mail client.

elfeed

Feed reader.

GUD

Interfacing with several debuggers.

pass / password-store / pass-otp

Password management.

magit

Makes git much more tolerable and even fun to use.

org-clock and org-arbeitszeit

Time tracking.

org-agenda

Calendar and task overview, with diary integration.

ERC

IRC client.

jabber.el

Jabber/XMPP client.

ement.el

Matrix client I use for work.

eww

Occasional web browser for sites that work well enough without a full graphical browser.

Sway

Tiling window manager.

greetd/gtkgreet

Session management.

wlsunset

Day/night gamma adjustments.

wl-clipboard

Copy/paste utils.

ddcutil

Brightness control for my monitor.

fuzzel

Application launcher.

foot

Backup terminal emulator.

Utilities & Fonts

GnuPG & OpenSSH

Using GnuPG as my ssh-agent.

Guile Haunt

The static site generator powering this page.

git

The only VCS I use.

Borg Backup

My machines are backed up with borg to my Hetzner Storagebox and to my local server.

JuliaMono

Typeface I use in Sway, Emacs and everywhere else.

Krita

Pixelart and digital drawing.

LibreWolf

Firefox fork, my browser of choice.

Android (private phone)

Fennec

Browser.

Emacs

Emacs on Android is surprisingly good. Mainly use it to access my Zettelkasten and Mails.

Conversation

XMPP.

Stock Calendar & Contacts

Use those with Nextcloud as a DAV-Provider.

Gitnex

Reading Codeberg Issues.

Nextcloud & Nextcloud News

File storage & RSS Reader.

Organic Maps

Not getting lost.

Ultrasonic

Navidrome Client for music that isn't on my MP3 player.

Tusky

Mastodon client.

Goguma

IRC client.

iOS (work phone)

Firefox

Browser.

Element

Work messenger.

Working Copy

Git client to access my Zettelkasten.

Duo

MFA I use for work.

Notes

Stock application I use with IMAP.

Mail

Stock application.

Coffee & Bread

Gaggia Classic

My trusty espresso machine.

Sage Smart Grinder Pro

The electrical grinder next to it. Would love to use a manual grinder, but that would be tedious considering my coffee consumption.

Tefal Pain & delices

Breadmaker. Self-made bread is awesome, especially when the machine does most of the work.

Everyday Carry