Links

Tech Choices

My laptops and servers are chrultrabooks running Fedora or running TAILS.

I use IceCat browser for general browsing, Mullvad Browser for secure browsing or, for private browsing, the Tor Browser which you can download from the Tor Project.

I use a Ubuntu Touch Fairphone 3+ as a PDA. The FP3 has a 3.5mm headphone jack. That’s important: wired headphones use less power and last forever unlinke bluetooth headphones with batteries which will last 2-3 years. Stop buying stuff with built in obsolesence! — there are only so many gigatonnes of toxic shit in landfill that planet Earth will take!!!

My watch is an unhackable Casio F-91W with a battery life of 8 to 10 years

Favourite editor: vim Favourite language: go Favoutite IDE: vim-go

Services

I provide software licensing and copy protection services at Nuvovis

I use Mullvad VPN on my devices

Disroot provide services such as internet search, XMPP, Jitsi, NextCloud and Git (Forgejo)

My email provider is currently mailbox.org

I sometimes use Jitsi video conferencing. You can also host it yourself behind a VPN for ultra secure comms.

Hover - DNS provider and so is OnlyDomains

Cyso - cloud service which sticks to open standards so that moving to self hosted or another provider is easy

Virtono - low cost VPS service

Andrews & Arnold L2TP service - handy for self-hosting if DDNS isn’t enough (this website uses DDNS)

Shops

PC Hardware shop QUZO

If you want to build a Ubuntu Touch, LineageOS or GrapheneOS desurveillanced phone, a good source for second hand Android phones in the UK is Back Market

Physical second-hand book shops are hard to find but you can order used books online at Abe Books

I like GL-iNet routers and they now have a UK online shop

Ebay UK where you can shop with suppliers directly without going through an enshittified filter

Vintage Roots sell low sulphite wine