What's Running on the Laptops
A day ago "bubi" reached 400 days of uptime and my main laptop is at over 468 days already.
A year ago my wife and I participated in the 'Default Applications' 'chain' (bloggers online sharing a list of what they're using).
12 months have passed and this is the up-to-date list:
📨 Mail Client: Mozilla Thunderbird
📮 Mail Server: CentOS/Exim
📝 Notes: Kate
✅ To-Do: Also Kate
🟦 Photo Management: Gwenview
📆 Calendar: Kate and Plasma
📁 Cloud File Storage: None, as clown computing is a sham and a trap
📖 RSS: R.R.R.R.R.R. and feedlist, developed for Techrights' curation and reading
🙍🏻♂️ Contacts: Thunderbird and Kate (or text files)
🌐 Browser: Falkon and Firefox ESR
💬 Chat: Mumble, utalk, Thunderbird, and IRC (ergo, xchat, konversation, and quassel)
🔖 Bookmarks: Falkon and sometimes Firefox
📑 Read It Later: No need, Kate is fine
📜 Word Processing: LibreOffice Writer
📈 Spreadsheets: Only LibreOffice Calc, sometimes text files in text editors
📊 Presentations: Hardly doing them anymore
🛒 Shopping Lists: Pen and paper
🍴 Meal Planning: Verbal
💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: LibreOffice Calc
📰 News: Mostly Kate
🎵 Music: Invidious (https://invidious.nerdvpn.de is quite reliable these days)
🎙️ Podcasts: Browser
🔐 Password Management: KWallet and secured text files, Palm PDA (still working in 2025)
Also…
🔎 Search: https://search.inetol.net/ (SearX)
🌤️ Weather: wttr.in, Gemini, and weather.com
🧭 Navigation: OSM when possible
🩺 Health Tracking: Proper medical equipment, not "apps"
🦣 Mastodon: It's dying, no point
🏠 Smart Home: Almost all analogue
💻 Launcher: xbindkeys and Plasma
🧑💻 Code Editor: Kate and nano
🤖 Source Control: Git
⌨️ Terminal: Konsole (see screenshot above)
That's all for now. █