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 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.
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.
The kit lens is being exclusively used for rare landscape shots where wide-angle is more appropriate (but it mostly collects dust). Other than that, I rely on my Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS STM.
While I've been relying on my Canon EOS 700D since early December, 2014, I purchased a barely-used Canon EOS 60D in June, 2025. Both are in use and I choose between them depending on my mood and how much equipment I can carry.
Previous lenses: Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS II (poor cleaning regime by previous owner), Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 USM (aperture failure)
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.)
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
It's not much but it's honest software (minus 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.
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.
Runs like ass but better than Firefox's own mobile apps.
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 text-based IDE and my preferred CLI text editor. You can exit it by entering ":q" in command mode.
Exclusively used to manage my Nekoweb site. This is the telemetry-free version of VSCode.
A modified Android client of the official Mastodon app.
In case Moshidon breaks.
A TUI client for Mastodon.
A DOS emulator that also lets users install any Windows 3x and Windows 9x within a virtual machine.
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 TUI-based display manager that replaced LXDM on my Acer.
A lightweight display manager. Only used on HP running Endeavour OS.
Another lightweight display manager I use on my Medion and my Asus.
A stacking window manager for X and a fork of Blackbox. Similar to Fluxbox and my primary fallback in case I bork my Fluxbox config.
File manager for LXDE and standalone window managers.
A simple status bar. Currently only used on HP and my fallback Openbox configs.
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.