Hardware.
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Acer Nitro V 16S AI (ANV16S-41)
- AMD Ryzen 7 260 w/ Radeon 780M
- 32 GB DDR5 RAM
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060
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Razer DeathAdder V3 PRO
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Nothing Ear 2024
List of my privacy-focused/FOSS software.
| Category | Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| OS | Nobara (Official-NV KDE) | Started with Linux Mint and then Pop!_OS. Pop!_OS Cosmic desktop is in beta, unfortunately buggier and less polished compared to Nobara's custom KDE. Although both support Nvidia drivers, Nobara has additional gaming features like Proton-GE. Currently dualbooting Nobara with Win11 EDU. | Nobara |
| Browser | Vivaldi | My favorite Chromium-based browser that's privacy friendly + customizable. Would like to try Brave Origin once in stable release. Chromium has less compatibility issues compared to Gecko. Favorite Gecko-based browser is Librewolf. | Vivaldi |
| Google Extensions | uBlock Origin | 2nd choice would be AdGuard. I disable Vivaldi's built-in adblocking to minimize redundancy. Enable uBlock filters, EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Online Malicious URL Blocklist, Peter Lowe's, EasyList/uBO Cookie, uBlock filters annoyance. | uBO |
| Private Grammar Checker - Harper | Used to use LanguageTool before they ended free tier. | Harper | |
| Proton Pass | Proton ecosystem. | Proton | |
| SponsorBlock | QOL. | SponsorBlock | |
| Violentmonkey | Userscript manager. I've used it for Undiscord. | Violentmonkey | |
| Enhancer for Youtube | QOL. | Enhancer for Youtube | |
| English-to-English Definitions | Generated API key from Merriam-Webster Dictionary. | Store | |
| Privacy | Windscribe | Yearly Pro subscription $29/yr. I use NextDNS as DNS filtering alongside. | Windscribe |
| NextDNS | DNS filtering + lots of privacy customization options. 2nd choice would be ControlD (Windscribe sister company). | NextDNS | |
| Ecosystems | Proton | Mail, Drive, Calendar, & Docs. | Proton |
| Disroot | Nextcloud (backup). | Disroot | |
| SimpleLogin | Email aliasing. Acquired by Proton. | SimpleLogin | |
| Storage | FolderFort | $40 on StackSocial. 1TB Lifetime cloud storage. Sync in beta. Hosted on BackBlaze. | FolderFort |
| Ente | Photos. | Ente | |
| Productivity | Kate | KDE Text editor. Used to use Notepad++ on Win11. Notepad++ was also compromised. | Kate |
| Anki | Flashcards. | Anki | |
| LibreOffice | Office suite. | LibreOffice | |
| Qalculate! | Calculator. GTK UI. | Qalculate! | |
| TI Connect CE | Texas Instruments connectivity. | TI | |
| Creative | OBS Studio | Screen recording. | OBS |
| Shotcut | Video editor. | Shotcut | |
| VLC | Media player. | VLC | |
| Horizon | Image hosting for sending media on Discord. | Horizon | |
| Utility | Steam | Gaming. | Steam |
| VirusTotal | File analyzer. | VirusTotal | |
| Otto | Orange accent KDE plasma global theme. Widgets: Binary clock, RAM, CPU | Otto |
