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While my setup probably would make the average tech bro cringe, it has proven to fit the vast majority of my needs.
All of my devices, except for the HP Pavilion and my camera, are 10+ years old and at various stages of their lives.
This is my main device to manage this capsule and my gemtexts due to its nice keyboard. It gets hot when accessing heavy websites and outright melts when booting Windows 7. Its charging cable is slowly starting to break.
Despite being a rather old computer tailored towards multimedia, it's still doing a solid job at managing my photos and Lightroom. One USB and one AUX port are damanged and the WiFi card doesn't start after reboots. Both the original keyboard and the mouse died after a few years and currently dual-boots two operating systems, while also being the only device that offers a capture card (which i installed back in 2016 and is only recognized by Windows 10). It's also my secondary machine to manage gemtexts and my capsule due to its bigger and nicer monitor.
Pure torture. Probably the worst device I've ever used, right next to my cousin's completely misconfigured self-build. Awful keyboard, the display flickers horribly despite replacing its battery I accidentally killed by attempting to plug an AUX cord into into its USB 2.0 port, it barely lasts two hours on battery-only, no operating system prevents it from causing a kernel panic under high load (MX Linux even managed to get killed under load too low for this laptop), its screen is giving me strained eyes. Still, it's enough to browse the smol web with it and currently hosts my best rice and doesn't overheat, unlike my Acer Aspire.
My very first portable computer that wasn't a budget smartphone from the early years. Its charging port got loose and now is stuck in such a dumb way that I have to use my Acer's power cable with its bigger plug to reach it (and even then it still needs some external pressure like a table leg). It already was pathetic when I needed it for school and it still is covered in stickers that glow in the dark. It is now is used as a "tiny typewriter" that joins me on my field trips.
Technically owned by a family member of mine, I get to use it often enough to have my own OS on it. It's got the best keyboard out of all devices I use, though it relies on a small monitor that came shipped with my very first computer that ran (and still runs) on Windows Vista. I still don't feel like installing a WiFi adapter and the mouse wheel likes to squeak.
Mostly used to access my account on the fediverse and check my photos. Its Retina display doesn't give me strained eyes, no matter how long I use it. It still is an Apple device, though.
+------------------------------------+ |LENSES | |------------------------------------| |Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM | |Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II | |Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS STM | |Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 USM | +------------------------------------+
For most of my photos, I use my first-gen Canon EF 70-200mm. On days when I already carry too much equipment, the Canon EF-S 55-250mm is more than enough, similar to my Canon EF 50mm. The kit lens is being exclusively used for rare landscape shots, where wide-angle is more appropriate (but it mostly collects dust).
It took me a while to find something that at least installs and boots across all non-Apple devices.
Technically just plain Arch Linux with a rice I adjusted to my needs and desires by stripping it off the Archcraft repository and Archcraft-specific configs (which still is a WIP). It runs on all of my personal devices and each OS is mostly tailored to each device, respecitively. The only reason why I settled with Archcraft and customized it, instead of going with plain Arch, is due to the Asus tolerating only a handful of operating systems – and I honestly didn't want to stick with Ubuntu for the rest of its life. (I'm still surprised that this laptop tolerates such a clumsy hack.)
You may have already guessed that this is only powering my tiny eMachines. It is the only OS that, despite its own share of bugs, runs decently enough.
Only running on the HP alongside Windows 10. It's being kept rather vanilla and does its job well.
If it weren't for Lightroom and DOSBox-X, I would dump it in a heartbeat. At least it cannot phone home anymore because I make the extra effort to pull the ethernet plug the moment I boot this bloated mess that often instantly bluescreens due to... kernel panics. Oddly enough, it never panics on the bloody Asus, where I boot it maybe once every blue moon, but on the slightly-healthier Medion, where it crapped its EFI partition and now cannot install OS updates anymore. It sure will be the last Windows version I'll ever use
iPad only, of course.
It's not much but it's honest software. Except Adobe's Lightroom.
Both for WWW and the smol web.
A CLI browser for Gemini.
A graphical browser based on Rust and GTK for plaintext protocols such as Gemini, Gopher and Finger.
A Gemini browser for iOS.
Only using it on my iPad.
Perhaps the most advanced Gemini client currently available. It can be used as a regular GUI browser and in "CLI mode", thus making it my primary Gemini browser.
A hardened fork of Firefox I use as my main WWW browser.
A TUI-based web browser.
One of the oldest WWW browsers that still is being maintained today. It also (still) supports Gopher.
A smartphone app developed by the Technical University of Ilmenau to identify and document plants.
A smartphone app to identify birds developed by the Cornell University.
A graphical IDE. My fallback whenever I don't feel like using Vim and Leafpad.
A GTK+-based text editor.
A WYSIWYG Markdown editor but its last free (beta) version hosted on the AUR.
A text-based IDE and my preferred CLI text editor. You can exit it by entering ":q" in command mode.
An iOS client that still supports iOS 12. It's no longer being maintained.
A TUI client for Mastodon.
A DOS emulator that also lets users install any Windows 3x and Windows 9x within a virtual machine.
A cross-platform notetaking app that is pre-installed on UNE 10.10.
Lightroom 5.6
The last standalone version. Good luck finding a copy of it.
This is better than my local planetarium.
A GPU-accelerated Terminal emulator.
A stacking window manager for X and a fork of Blackbox. Similar to Openbox.
A CLI system monitor.
An interactive process viever.
A framework for the Z shell.
A lightweight display manager. Only used on HP running Endeavour OS.
Another lightweight display manager.
A stacking window manager for X and a fork of Blackbox. Similar to Fluxbox.
File manager for LXDE and standalone window managers.
A simple status bar.
A diagnostics tool to track power issues on Intel-powered machines. It can also be used on machines with other chips.
A CLI file manager inspired by Vim.
In case I need to chroot into any of my systems.
A lightweight desktop environment. Only used on HP running Endeavour OS.
An AUR wrapper.
The Z shell. It's partially compatible with bash.