Tech I use for work and daily survival

Remember I'm a lawyer, not a technologist or creative. I crave certainty, privacy, and security. My uses.tech setup.

Hardware

Main device: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon

eReader: Pocketbook Verse Pro Color

Watch: Garmin Instinct® 2 Solar Tactical

Phone: Google Pixel 6 Pro

Earbuds: JBL Live Pro 2

Camera: Ricoh GR IIIx

Software

Distro: Fedora Workstation / Kali / Tails.

Browser: Firefox.

Browser extensions: Firefox Multi-Account Containers, Mullvad Browser Extension, Proton Pass, SimpleLogin, Standard Notes Clipper, uBlock Origin, Wallabagger.

AppImages: Nextcloud, Standard Notes, Wire

Flatpaks: Amberol, Audacity, BleachBit, Brave, calibre, cozy, Discord, Ente Auth, Extension Manager, File Shredder, Flatseal, Foliate, FreeFileSync, Gear Lever, Ignition, Libreoffice, LocalSend, MusicBrainz Picard, Mullvad Browser, Newsflash, Obfuscate, OnionShare, ONLYOFFICE, Organic Maps, Paper Clip, PDF Arranger, Refine, Signal, Thincast Remote Desktop Client, Thunderbird, Tor Browser Launcher, Video Trimmer, VLC, Warehouse.

The rest: dangerzone, Ente Photos, espanso, eza, fish shell, Gnome Tweaks, mpv, Mullvad VPN, NextDNS, Starship, Virtualbox, yt-dlp.

Gnome Extensions: Alphabetical App Grid, AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support, Caffeine, Clipboard History, Dash to Dock, Media Controls, Status Area Horizontal Spacing, Toggle Headphone.

Phone apps: ente Photos, Image Toolbox, Lawnchair, LocalSend, Miniflutt, Mullvad VPN, MuPDF viewer, Nextcloud, Organic Maps, Obtainium, Pocket Casts, Pocketbook, Poweramp, Proton Calendar, Proton Drive, Proton Mail, Signal, Standard Notes, TOR Browser, Tuta, wallabag.

Services

Cryptpad - Documents.

Ente - Photos.

Mullvad - VPN.

NextDNS — Manage my own DNS.

omg.lol — Alternative profile page.

Portknox - Nextcloud provider.

Proton — Calendar, email, files & alternative VPN.

Simplelogin — Email.

Standard Notes — Blog & Notes.

Wallabag - Read-it-later service.