Christian NeukirchenInterview
Software developer (Rack, bacon)
Adapted from Christian Neukirchen's interview on Uses This, published 8 August 2013. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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I use a Lenovo X220i called juno.
I use an IBM ScrollPoint mouse for pointing.
I often wear Superlux HD-668 B headphones which I pimped with AKG K 240/270/271 Velour Pads for comfort.
I also own a Sony PlayStation Eye for video chat.
My phone is a Desire Z.
I run a headless Raspberry Pi when I want to test code on ARM.
I follow many mailing lists, and try to use Gmane to read them with Gnus over NNTP.
I keep a daily backup of my whole system using a rsync-driving script, which has saved my butt more than once.
I occasionally surf using w3m over SSH because I forget I have a native browser (and sometimes because it's quicker).
Communication
I write most of my text as plain text, and everything that ends up as HTML using Markdown.
Productivity
I spend most of the time in a bare-bones X11 session either running my port of the OpenBSD window manager cwm or FVWM.
I don't have LibreOffice installed, and don't intent to.
Browser
Usually, I run Firefox and Emacs as well as various IM clients all the time.
Notes
Security
Coding & Development
I often run Git versions of new tools and sometimes help development.
Almost all other windows are urxvt terminals.
Media
Storage
Other
In particular, I love the keyboard (both the feel and the layout), the fact that it has three real mouse buttons (I use X11 heavily), and the dual-disk setup.
It was of the few Android half-recent devices with a physical (slide-out) keyboard which was available in Europe.