My computing experience

These are the things I use in my day-to-day computing experience both at home and work. As I enjoy working from my computer and tweaking it, I recommend them all.

My configuration files for some of these softwares can be found on my dotfiles repo on GitJoe. My wallapers can be found on this page.

Software

• Text editing

  Custom configured GNU Emacs to be used with vim key bindings. It is not the most lightweight editor out there but I love my config for all kind of coding or text editing. I use the GUI version.

• OS

  FreeBSD 13 is my OS of choice. I left GNU/Linux for BSD about 1 year ago and I never felt the need to go back!

• Window manager

  dwm is my favorite tiling window manager and the only one I use for it is very light and highly extensible.

• Terminal emulator

  st is my favorite terminal emulator. Just like dwm, it's very light and highly extensible.

• Shell

  I use zsh as my only interactive shell.

• Other software

  Here is a small list of programs I use frequently. Most are terminal-based.
  • web browser: Mozilla Firefox for most web browsing. I also use w3m and lynx quite a lot.
  • file manager: lf
  • image viewer: nsxiv
  • video player: mpv
  • music player: mpd + ncmpc
  • pdf viewer: zathura
  • RSS feed reader: newsboat
  • email client: neomutt running with isync and msmtp
  • address book: abook
  • calendar: calcurse
  • IRC client: irssi

• Games

  I haven't played much video games in recent times but here's what I used to play a lot:
  • Kerbal Space Program on my Linux machine, I loved this game!
  • Classic DOOM and Hexen through gzdoom, it runs very smooth on BSD.

Hardware

My computer is a ThinkPad T530 and I love it. Here is the hardware config:

• Intel i5-3320M 2.60GHz, 4 threads
• 8GB RAM
• 500GB SSD
• 1TB HDD

I know it's not crazy good but I can do all my work and my media consumption with it so I consider myself a tech-happy guy.

Other notable hardware

I have a RaspberryPi 4 I received from a friend as a christmas gift. It runs FreeBSD of course. I use it to learn I2C/GPIO programming with a bit of electronics. I am looking for some projects for it.
I have a Casio F-91W watch gifted by a friend too so I never loose time.
Last piece of hardware worth noting is my keyboard: a Leopold FC900R PD with Cherry MX Brown switches. It is so good I plan on buying maybe 5 of them in the future so I don't need to worry and I can just use it the same model for all my life. I might check some of the Unicomp Model M remake when they are available again.