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Tech Choices

I use a Ubuntu Touch Fairphone 3+ mostly as a PDA and camera. The FP3+ has a decent camera which only takes direct photos, unadulterated by “AI”, and has a 3.5mm headphone jack so I can use wired headphones which use less power and last forever.

To do anything online I use chrultrabook laptops and servers running Fedora or running TAILS.

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

My watch is an unhackable Casio F-91W with a battery life of 10 years or more and a woven nylon watch strap.

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

Services

I provide software licensing and copy protection services at Nuvovis

I use Proton 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