What I Use

A place to show off my attack surface.

Laptop

My laptop is a ThinkPad T495 with a Ryzen 5 and 16GB of RAM that I got off Ebay for $150. I run OpenBSD 7.9 on it. For the most part I just stick to the programs in base with the following exceptions:

 ~$ pkg_info -m | grep -v \\-firmware
ImageMagick-6.9.13.43 image processing tools
go-1.26.2           Go programming language
got-0.126           game of trees version control system
lowdown-3.0.1       simple markdown translator
mblaze-1.4          set of Maildir utilities
mpv-0.41.0p0        movie player based on MPlayer/mplayer2
mupdf-1.27.2        graphic library, pdf parser, viewer and utilities
nsxiv-33            neo simple X Image Viewer
quirks-7.194        exceptions to pkg_add rules
sfeed-2.4           RSS/Atom newsreader and formatting programs
ungoogled-chromium-147.0.7727.101p0 Chromium browser sans integration with Google

And a couple programs that are not yet packaged:

• webdump - HTML to plain-text converter for webpages
• drv - Read the Word of God from your terminal

Cell Phone

I use a Google Pixel 8a that I paid $400 for during a Black Friday sale. On it I run GrapheneOS along with the following apps:

• Web Browser: Brave
  Has built-in ad blocking (my block list) and supports swipe gestures to go both forward and backward in history, Firefox and Chromite could only go backward.
• Bible: De Fide
• App Store: Obtainium
  F-Droid lacks many popular apps like Brave, WireGuard, Firefox, and Signal.
• Maps: Organic Maps
  I like that it is offline but I miss out on live traffic updates and detours. The donation nagging can be a bit much, still better than Wikipedia’s.
• Media Player: VLC
  
• Messaging: Quik
  The default SMS app didn’t have the ability to search through old messages.
• Terminal Emulator: Termux
• Notes: Textpad
• VPN: WireGuard