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:
๐จ Mail Client: Mozilla Thunderbird
๐ฎ Mail Server: CentOS/Exim
๐ Notes: Kate
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To-Do: Also Kate
๐ฆ Photo Management: Gwenview
๐ Calendar: Kate and Plasma
๐ Cloud File Storage: None, as clown computing is a sham and a trap
๐ RSS: R.R.R.R.R.R. and feedlist, developed for Techrights' curation and reading
๐๐ปโโ๏ธ Contacts: Thunderbird and Kate (or text files)
๐ Browser: Falkon and Firefox ESR
๐ฌ Chat: Mumble, utalk, Thunderbird, and IRC (ergo, xchat, konversation, and quassel)
๐ Bookmarks: Falkon and sometimes Firefox
๐ Read It Later: No need, Kate is fine
๐ Word Processing: LibreOffice Writer
๐ Spreadsheets: Only LibreOffice Calc, sometimes text files in text editors
๐ Presentations: Hardly doing them anymore
๐ Shopping Lists: Pen and paper
๐ด Meal Planning: Verbal
๐ฐ Budgeting and Personal Finance: LibreOffice Calc
๐ฐ News: Mostly Kate
๐ต Music: Invidious (https://invidious.nerdvpn.de is quite reliable these days)
๐๏ธ Podcasts: Browser
๐ Password Management: KWallet and secured text files, Palm PDA (still working in 2025)
Alsoโฆ
๐ Search: https://search.inetol.net/ (SearX)
๐ค๏ธ Weather: wttr.in, Gemini, and weather.com
๐งญ Navigation: OSM when possible
๐ฉบ Health Tracking: Proper medical equipment, not "apps"
๐ฆฃ Mastodon: It's dying, no point
๐ Smart Home: Almost all analogue
๐ป Launcher: xbindkeys and Plasma
๐งโ๐ป Code Editor: Kate and nano
๐ค Source Control: Git
โจ๏ธ Terminal: Konsole (see screenshot above)
That's all for now. โ