Soft/Hardware That I Use
Here's a comprehensive list of software and hardware which I use, inspired by and for uses.tech. Check out uses.tech for similar /uses pages. orangc.net/uses redirects to this page.
Software
It is easy to discover in detail what software I use, and how they are configured, by examining my NixOS flake.
General
Internet Explorer-chan would be disappointed...
- Firefox as my primary web browser.
- Chromium as the web browser which I use for school.
- mpv for playing videos.
- Gwenview for viewing images.
- gpu-screen-recorder for screen recordings.
- Prism Launcher for launching and managing Minecraft instances.
Development
Speak to the machine.
- Python with uv for package management and ruff for code formatting and linting.
- I am learning Rust.
- Nix, the language.
- HTML and CSS with TailwindCSS as my go-to CSS framework.
- Git, for version control.
Editors
Just use nano.
- VSCodium as my code editor.
- Neovim with the nvf configuration framework as a base, also for use as a code editor.
- Micro for quick edits or random notes.
Operating System & Environment
Rice your machines declaratively!
- Android for all mobile hosts.
- NixOS as my operating system on all non-mobile hosts.
- Hyprland as my window manager on all non-mobile hosts.
- Thunar as the file manager.
- Walker as my app launcher.
- Waybar as my bar.
- SwayNotificationCenter as my notification daemon.
- Hyprlock as my lock screen.
- Hypridle for making the computer idle.
- wleave as my logout screen.
- Syshud for the volume/brightness OSD.
- swww for setting wallpapers.
CLI
- Kitty as my terminal emulator.
- Fish as my shell.
- Starship as my prompt.
- tar for file compression.
- diskus and dust for monitoring disk usage.
- imagemagick, ffmpeg, and yt-dlp for media manipulation.
- microfetch as my fetch, although I don't use it often.
- bat as a replacement for
cat, eza as a replacement forls, fd as a replacement forfind, sd as a replacement forsed, and ripgrep as a replacement forgrep. - fzf for fuzzy finding, although I don't use this often.
- zoxide for jumping between directories more easily.
Server / Selfhosting
Ishigami Senku would approve, surely.
- Caddy as my web server.
- Cloudflare Tunnels for protecting my IP address.
- ConvertX for quickly converting files from one filetype to another.
- Forgejo as my git server.
- Copyparty as my file server.
- Glance as my server dashboard.
- Immich as a Google Photos alternative.
- IT-Tools for handy utilities.
- Jellyfin for hosting and streaming media.
- Microbin as my pastebin.
- Ntfy for scripting notifications.
- SearXNG as my search engine.
- Speedtest Tracker for monitoring internet speeds.
- Technitium as my DNS server.
- Umami for analytics.
- Vaultwarden for password management.
- Zipline for uploading and sharing media.
Browser Extensions
- uBlock Origin for block ads.
- MAL-sync for syncing totally legal streaming sites to MyAnimeList.
- Stylus for custom stylesheets on any webpage.
- Bitwarden for password management. Hooks into my Vaultwarden instance.
- Simple Translate for on the fly translations.
- NightTab for an easily customisable newtab.
- Search with MyAnimeList, no, I'm not a weeb!
- Catppuccin GitHub File Explorer.
- Tampermonkey for custom userscripts. Like Stylus but for JavaScript.
- CanvasBlocker for blocking malicious canvas elements. No painting without my permission!
- ClearURLs keeps the URLs clear.
- Enhanced GitHub for some fun GitHub utilities.
- Refined GitHub for more of the above.
Hardware
Let's get physical.
Hosts
Retired devices will be in italics.
desktops
- komashi:
- Name: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
- Model: HP EliteDesk Mini PC
- CPU: Intel i5-6500T
- GPU: Intel integrated graphics
- RAM: 16GiB DDR4
- SSD: 512GiB NVMe
- OS: NixOS
servers
- gensokyo:
- Name: Touhou
- Model: HP EliteDesk Mini PC
- CPU: i7-6700T
- GPU: Intel integrated graphics
- RAM: 32GiB DDR4
- SSD: 1TiB NVMe
- OS: NixOS
phones
- babel:
- Name: Babel, or The Necessity of Violence
- Model: Motorola G Power
- OS: Android 11
- Used: 2024 Summer – 2025-09-20
- evergarden:
- Name: Violet Evergarden
- Model: Motorola G86 Power 5G
- OS: Android 16
- Colour: Pantone Spellbound
- Used: 2025-09-20 – Present
e-readers
- asperta:
- Name: Foundation
- Model: Kindle 11th generation
- Colour: Blue
peripherals
- Headset (wireless): Sony WH-CH520
- Mouse (wireless): Logitech G305
- Keyboard (wireless, silent): Logitech MK295