Uses

The gear, software, and tech I use day to day. This page is inspired by the uses.tech community.

⚙️ Hardware

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• 💻 Laptop: Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 16IAH7 — my main machine for work and development.
  • CPU: Intel Core i7-12650H
  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3060 6 GB
  • RAM: 64 GB DDR4
  • SSD: 512 GB NVMe M.2
• 📱 Phone: Samsung Galaxy A55 — for calls, messaging, photos, and everyday essentials.
• 📱 Tablet: Samsung Galaxy A9 — for reading, media, and casual entertainment.
• ⌚ Smartwatch: Amazfit Active 2 — an elegant and lightweight smartwatch for daily wear, notifications, health monitoring, and fitness tracking.

🖥️ Software

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👨🏻‍💻 Development

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• ⚙️ Operating system: Pop!_OS — Ubuntu-based Linux and my daily driver for development, productivity, and gaming.
• 🪟 Desktop environment: COSMIC
• ⌨️ Terminal: COSMIC Terminal
• 🐟 Shell: fish — a friendly, interactive shell with syntax highlighting, autosuggestions, and tab completions out of the box, giving me a cleaner experience than zsh with plugins.
• 🧩 Shell plugins: Fisher — plugin manager for fish. I mainly use plugin-git for git aliases, fzf.fish for fuzzy finding, and nvm.fish for node version management.
• ✨ Prompt: Starship — a minimal, fast, customizable, and cross-shell prompt.
• 📝 Editor: VS Code — for code editing with extensions and AI agents.
• 🧠 Languages: C, C++, Java, Bash/Shell, and Windows Batch/CMD
• 🔄 Version control: Git
• ⚡ Static site generator: Hugo — a fast static site generator with a single binary and no runtime dependencies, powering my website.
• 🚀 Hosting & infrastructure: Cloudflare Pages and DigitalOcean
• 🟢 Status monitoring: Better Stack
• 📊 Analytics: Umami — privacy-first, cookieless analytics for my website.

🤖 AI

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• 💬 Assistant: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Ollama (local) — for brainstorming, research, learning, productivity, creative exploration, problem-solving, and feedback.
• 🛠️ Coding & agents: GitHub Copilot (primary coding assistant), Codex, Claude Code, and Antigravity — for coding, agentic development, and technical workflows.

📦 Applications

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• ✉️ Mail: Proton Mail — for private, secure, and encrypted mail with SimpleLogin for email aliases.
• 📅 Calendar: Proton Calendar
• 🔑 Password manager: Bitwarden and Proton Pass
• 🛡️ Authenticator: Ente Auth and Proton Authenticator
• 🌐 Browser: Firefox — I use a hardened configuration for privacy.
  • Main extensions:
    • uBlock Origin (ad and content blocker)
    • Violentmonkey (userscripts)
    • Stylus (userstyles) — I use the Catppuccin Mocha (Sapphire) theme for many websites.
    • Dark Reader (dark mode)
    • Firefox Multi-Account Containers (separating personal, work, and other browsing)
• 💬 Communication: Signal, WhatsApp, Discord, and Element
• 🗝️ VPN & network privacy: Cloudflare WARP and Proton VPN
• 📝 Notes: Obsidian and Standard Notes
• 🖼️ Photos: Ente Photos
• 💳 Wallet: Cake Wallet, Coinbase Wallet, and Proton Wallet
• 🎮 Game launchers: Steam (with Proton), Lutris, Heroic Games Launcher, and Prism Launcher
• 🔁 Windows compatibility: Bottles — for running Windows apps and games on Linux.
• 🖥️ Remote desktop: RustDesk
• 🎛️ Digital audio workstation: Bitwig Studio — for music production and mixing.
• 🔐 Encryption: Cryptomator (cloud) and VeraCrypt (disk)
• 💾 Backup: Kopia
• 🎨 Design & editing: GIMP and Kdenlive — for creative media editing and content creation.
• 📸 Screenshots: ShareX — the best screenshot tool I have ever used.
• ❤️ Health & fitness tracking: Zepp Health — for my Amazfit Active 2 watch.
• 🍎 Nutrition tracking: Cronometer
• 🌈 Theme: Catppuccin Mocha (Sapphire) — my favorite theme across many applications. I like its calm, colorful, and soothing aesthetic.
• 🅰️ Font: Inter and Fira Code — my main sans-serif and monospace typefaces for the site and code.

☁️ Services

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• 🔎 Search: DuckDuckGo, Brave Search, and Startpage — for private search and varied results.
• 📁 Cloud storage: Proton Drive, Tresorit, and Google Drive
• 🎵 Music: Spotify and Anghami
• 📺 Video: Netflix and Prime Video

🧰 Accessories

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• 🎧 Headphones: Anker soundcore Space One — I really like Anker audio products for casual, everyday listening and calls. They offer great quality, excellent value, and solid ANC, and I can connect and manage everything in the same polished, feature-rich Soundcore app. Check out the reviews on SoundGuys.
• 🔊 Portable speaker: Anker soundcore Select 4 Go — one of the best purchases I’ve made. It punches well above its weight and is surprisingly loud for its size, with much better sound and value, and nearly three times the battery life of the JBL Go models I previously owned.
• 🔋 Power & charging: Anker 336 Charger (67W), Anker 533 Power Bank (PowerCore 30W), and Anker USB-C Cables — Anker is hard to beat for charging essentials. Reliable, practical, and consistently excellent quality and value.
• 🎒 Bag: SWISSGEAR ScanSmart Backpack